RUB I ACE ^.. 495 



lobes of limb 4, 5, imbricate ; subglobose (black) glandules sometimes 

 inserted in hollows of lobes. Stamens and germen of Nauclea ; top 

 of style elongate exserted stigmatose clavellate or capitate. Ovules 

 in cells solitary, descending ; micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit 

 obconical or obpyramidal, coriaceous, crowned with calyx ; cocci 2, 

 seminiferous (sometimes 2 seedless interposed). Seeds oblong some- 

 times subangular ; funicle short increased to a thick fleshy aril ; coat 

 sometimes short-winged above ; albumen hard, sometimes thin ; 

 cotyledons of inverted embryo flat ; radicle conical superior. — Small 

 trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or 3, 4-nate, petiolate ; stipules 

 intra- or nearly interpetiolar simple, at apex and sometimes within 

 dark-glandulose ; flowers ^ in compound capituliform terminal and 

 axillary pedunculate glomerules, minutely bracteolate.^ {Warm and 

 temp, N. and S. America, temp. S. and E.Asia,^^suhtrop. south. Africa." ^) 

 190. Ourouparia Aubl.* — Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly of 

 Nauclea) ; recej)tacle tubular or fusiform. Calyx tubular, funnel- 

 shaped or campanulate. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped ; throat gla- 

 brous ; lobes of limb 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted in throat ; 

 filaments short orO; anthers elongate dorsifixed introrse ; cells rimose, 

 at base free pointed or produced to a seta. Germen &c. of Nauclea ; 

 top of style stigmatose capitate. Ovules oo, inserted on a placenta 

 aflixed to septum or descending, ascending. Fruit capsular elongate, 

 septicidal ; valves oftener 2-partible. Seeds oo, ascending, imbricate, 

 produced on both sides to a narrow wing ; wing on both sides entire, 

 or one oftener 2 -fid ; embryo albuminous. — Climbing shrubs, glabrous 

 or tomentose or hirsute ; leaves opposite, petiolate or subsessile ; 

 stipules interpetiolar various ; flow^ers ^ in compound contracted capi- 

 tuhform sometimes 1 -parous cymes ; pedicels very short or 0, or more 

 rarely rather long ; inflorescences in a raceme or oftener axillary 

 solitary ; peduncle most frequently sterile changed to a hard hooked 

 tendril. (Trap. Asia and Africa, Madagascar, trop. Oceania, south- 

 east. America.^) 



1 Small, white or yellow. "* Guian. i. 177, t. 68.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 



3 Affinity with the Guettardecc well indicated dlo.— Ui/caria Schreb. Gin. i. 125.— DC. Prodr. 



(Hook. f.). But a genus, by the intervention iv. 347.— B. H. Gen. ii. 31, n. 7. — Hook. Fi.Ind. 



of J/trra(ft7^a, very closely connected with iN"ae<- iii. 28, — Agylophora Neck. Elem. i. 145. — Po- 



clea. dtiiicaria H. Bn. Bull. Soc. linn. Far. n. 29. 



3 Spec. 5, 6. DuHAM. Arbr. t. 54. — H. B. PI. » Small, whitish or yellowish, sometimes pur- 



JEquin. t. 98. — BART.i^/. Med. t. 91. — A. Gray, plish, often villose or sericeous. 



Man. (ed. 2) 172.— Chapm. FL S. Unit. St. 176. « Spec, about 30. Wall. Ftxb. Fl. Fid. ii. 125 ; 



— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bnt. ii. 152, 344.--WALr. Rep Fl. As. Far. t. 170.— Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. t. 81.— 



ii. 469 ; vi. 700. Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 141, 343; Suppl. 21-1, 538; 



