Part 2, 1921] RUBIACEAE 91 



23. ELAEAGIA Wedd. Hist. Nat. Quinq. 94. 1849. 



Trees or shrubs, pubescent, the branches terete. Stipules interpetiolar, free or connate at 

 the base. Leaves opposite, petiolate, coriaceous, large, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers small, 

 in terminal racemes or panicles; hypanthium small, hemispheric, sulcate; calyx ampliate, 

 5-lobate, persistent; corolla short-funnelform, the throat villous, the limb 5-lobate, the lobes 

 oblong, recurved, contorted in bud. Stamens 5, inserted between the corolla-lobes; filaments 

 exserted, appendaged at the base; anthers dorsifixed, oblong. Disk orbicular. Ovary 2- 

 celled; style short, bifid, the branches short, obtuse; ovules numerous, crowded, the placentae 

 thick, peltately attached to the septum. Capsule very small, crustaceous, crowned by the per- 

 sistent calyx, 2-celled, loculicidally bivalvate, the valves finally bifid. Seeds numerous, minute 

 elongate; testa membranaceous. 



Type species, Elaeagia utilis Wedd. 



Leaf-blades 12.5-17.5 cm. long, auriculate at the base. 1. E. auriculala. 



Leaf-blades 5-7 cm. long, exauriculate at the base. 2. E. cubensis. 



1. Elaeagia auriculata Hemsl. Diag. PI. Nov. 32. 1879. 



Tree, the branches stout, obtuse-quadrangular, puberulent; stipules large; leaves very 

 short-petiolate, the blades ovate-elliptic or subobovate, 12.5-17.5 cm. long or smaller, auri- 

 culate at the base, subcoriaceous, puberulent, the lateral veins parallel, conspicuous; flowers 

 white, pedicellate, racemose-paniculate, the panicles large, lax, the branches divaricate; calyx 

 cupular, sublobate; corolla deeply 5-parted, the lobes oblong, recurved, squamulose-barbate 

 within; stamens exserted, the filaments barbate below. (Description compiled.) 



Type locality: Costa Rica, at an altitude of 1350 meters. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



2. Elaeagia cubensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39: 10. 1912. 



Shrub, 2.5-3.2 meters high, the branches stout, grayish, the branchlets stout, subangulate, 

 minutely puberulent when young, the internodes very short; stipules oblong, about 1 cm. long, 

 obtuse, finally deciduous; petioles stout, 4-9 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong-obovate, 5-7 cm. 

 long, 2.2-3 cm. wide, acute at the base, abruptly short-acuminate at the apex, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, green above, sublustrous, the costa prominent, pale-brownish beneath, the venation 

 prominent, the lateral veins mostly opposite, about 8 on each side, the margin plane or sub- 

 revolute; panicles sessile or short-pedunculate, 4.5-7.5 cm. wide, the branches minutely puberu- 

 lent, the pedicels 1-3 mm. long, the bractlets minute; hypanthium obconic, 2.5 mm. long, 

 glabrous; calyx obscurely 5-lobate; corolla white, 4 mm. long, the lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 about twice as long as the tube; filaments equaling the corolla-lobes, the scale near the base 

 of each bearing a dense tuft of white hairs ; stigma-lobes one fourth as long as the style. 



Type locality: Monte Juquareto, Sierra Maestra, Oriente, Cuba, at an altitude of 1 100 meters. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



24. OMILTEMIA Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 8: 427. 1918. 



Branched shrubs, more or less pubescent, the branchlets angulate. Leaves opposite and 

 ternate, petiolate, membranaceous. Stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers of medium size, 

 red, axillary, solitary, long-pedicellate, the pedicels bibracteolate at the base; hypanthium nar- 

 rowly turbinate; calyx 4-lobate, the lobes linear-subulate, subequal, persistent; corolla tubu- 

 lar, glabrous, the tube elongate, slender and constricted near the base, ampliate in the upper 

 three fourths, the limb 4-lobate, the lobes short, oblong-ovate, subulate-acuminate, erect or 

 ascending, contorted. Stamens 4, inserted at the base of the ampliate portion of the corolla- 

 tube; filaments filiform, exserted; anthers linear, dorsifixed, mucronate, bifid at the base. 

 Disk depressed. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, exserted, glabrous; stigma fusiform; ovules 

 numerous, imbricate, the placentae oblong, peltately affixed to the septum. Capsule 2-celled, 

 cylindric, elongate, subcoriaceous, costate, loculicidally bivalvate at the apex. Seeds numerous, 

 minute, subglobose, obtusely angulate, the testa lustrous, reticulate; endosperm fleshy. 



Type species, Omiltemia longipes Standley. 



