178 RUBIACE^E. (MADDER FAMILY.) 



anthers thick, cohering in an ovoid-oblong 5-angled tube. Style single, as long 

 as the anthers, villous ; stigma obtuse, 2-lobed. Ovary 2 - 4-celled with a single 

 ovule in each cell. Fruit a 2 -4-celled, 1 - 4-seeded drupe. A low maritime 

 shrub. Branches roughened by the persistent stipules, trichotomous. Leaves 

 ternate, very rigid, linear, obtuse, entire, the margins revolute. Flowers small, 

 in axillary racemes, shorter than the leaves. Corolla pubescent. Drupe small, 

 red. 



1. S. maritima, Jacq. South Florida, Dr. Blodyett. 



12. GUETTARDA, L. 



Calyx-tube ovoid, the limb tubular, scarcely toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 4 - 9-lobed, naked in the throat. Anthers 4-9, sessile in the throat of the co- 

 rolla. Style simple. Stigma mostly capitate. Fruit composed of 4 - 9 one-seeded 

 bony carpels, united. Trees or shrubs, with ovate or lanceolate leaves, and 

 lanceolate deciduous stipules. Peduncles axillary, forking. Flowers sessile. 



1 . G. Blodgettii, Shuttl. Leaves membranaceous, elliptical, slightly mu- 

 cronate, feather-veined, rough above, the lower surface, especially the veins, like 

 the branches and cymes, covered with appressed silky hairs ; cymes shorter than 

 the leaves, 5 - 10-nowered ; flowers silky, tetramerous (rarely trimerous) ; stigma 

 entire ; fruit globose, composed of 4 nutlets surrounded by 8 empty cells ; calyx- 

 limb truncate, cleft on one side. South Florida. Leaves !'-]' long. Fruit 

 as large as a pea. 



2. G. ambigua, DC. Leaves coriaceous, elliptical or somewhat obovate, 

 cordate at the base, rugose, muricate above, the lower surface, like the branches 

 and cymes, rusty-tomentose ; cymes longer than the leaves, several-flowered; 

 fruit globose, 4-seeded, without empty cells. South Florida. Leaves larger 

 than in No. 1. 



13. ERITHALIS, Browne. 



Calyx ovoid, obscurely 4 - 10-toothed. Corolla somewhat rotate, 4 - 10-parted, 

 with linear spreading lobes. Stamens 4-10, inserted on the base of the corolla : 

 anthers linear. Style simple. Stigma 2-lipped. Fruit globose, ribbed, com- 

 posed of 4-10 one-seeded bony carpels. Seeds suspended. Smooth shrubs, 

 with opposite petioled leaves, broad and short mucronate sheathing stipules, and 

 axillary panicled flowers. 



1. E. fruticosa, L. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, shining, narrowed 

 into a petiole ; panicles about as long as the leaves, many-flowered ; flowers 

 mostly tetramerous, small ; fruit 5-ribbed, 6 - 10-celled. South Florida. 

 Leaves 2' -3' long. Flowers small, white. 



14. HAMELIA, Jacq. 



Calyx oval, 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, somewhat 5-angled, 5-lobed. Sta- 

 mens 5, inserted into the tube of the corolla : anthers linear. Style simple. 

 Stigma obtuse. Berry ovoid, 5-furrowed, 5-celled, many-seeded. Seeds minute, 



