RUBIAGÉES. M7 
fovente. Calyx gamophyllus ; lobis forma magnitudineque valde variis ; 
1,9, v. rarius 3 in folium membranaceum venosum sæpius petiolatum 
coloratumque expansis ; cæteris v. rarilus omnibus (Oreopolus') brevio- 
ribus inæqualibus , integris v. dentatis. Corolla pi éaron nee om, 
tubo elongato; fauce glabra v. pubescente ; lobis #, 5, valvatis, dernum 
reflexis. Stamina #, 5, corollæ faucei inserta ; inileris inclusis v. semi- 
exsertis. Germen 2-loculare ; disco epigyno depresso ; styli®? gracilis ra- 
mis stigmatosis 2, brevibus revolutis. Ovula in loculis 2°, collateraliter 
adscendentia ; incomplete anatropa; micropyle extrorsum infera, de- 
mum laterali; septo spurio incompleto ‘inter ovulum utrumque nunc 
producto. Fructus capsularis, calyce accreto plus minus coronatus ; 
valvis 2-4, a septo membranaceo solutis. Semina ovoidea v. subco- 
chleata; hilo ventrali latiusculo; albumine carnoso v. duro; embryo- 
nis curvi cotyledonibus foliaceis ;radicula tereti mfera.—Herbæ v. suf- 
frutices humiles ramosi foliosi, erecti v. prostrati, glabri v.sæpius sericet 
tomentosive ; fois oppositis subcoriaceis ; stipulis persistentibus im va- 
ginam cum petiolis plus minus connais ; floribus? in cymas terminales 
umbelliformes v. corymbiformes disposilis; bracteis imvolucrantibus 
integris v. plus minus lobatis. (Ghili® 
52. Carphalen J.7— Flores(fere Cruckhsanksiæ) 4, 5-mert; calyeis 
gamophylli membranacei demum accreti subscariosi venosi (colorati®) 
lobis plus minus profundis, obtusis, sinuatis, v. altius subspathulatis”, 
æqualibus v. inwqualibus ; intermixtis nune denticulis angustis (Stipu- 
laribus ?), Corollæ longe v. longissime tubulosæ lobi #4, 5, valvati v. in- 
duplicato-valvati; fauce plus minus dilatata varie pilosa. Stamina 4, 5: 
filamentis gracilibus fauei insertis v. usque ad basin tubi liberis ( Silo- 
rumque ope cum eo coalitis) ; antheris inclusis v. exsertis introrsis dor- 
Sifixis, plerumque versatilibus. Germen 2-loculare ; diseo epigyno parvo 
V. 0; styli gracillimi ramis 2, exsertis, undique papillosis. Ovula in 
1. ScuLcntz, in Lechl. PL. exs., n. 2895. — 7. Gen., 198: in Mém. Mus., VI, 383. -— LANK, 
B.H., Gen., HI, 97, n. 191. IN: 1. 59, fig. 3.— Porn, Dict., Sup I, 119. 
2. Dimorphi. : — Ruicn., Rub., 195. — DC., Proûr. IN, 13.— 
3. Nunc rarius 3, subeollateralia; placentæ ‘Exoz., Gen, n. 3249. 1, 52, 
apice joie d leviter prominulo. 69. — H. Bx, in Pt c. L 
4. E placenta orta nunc et e pariele, raro “ piricheia KL., in Monet. Ah. 2 uR Bent. 
Yalde evoluta. (1853), 494 ; n Pet. Moss., Bot., , 48 
5. Fra v. flavis. B. H., Gen., , 56, n so. 
- 5, 6. Porrr. et ENDL., Nov. pm et 
SL, 31, t. 296. — CL., ia C. Gay FI. 
chi. 1, 193, 1. 33 — WaLr, Rep, ‘4 "169: 
» 1, 984. 
8. Sæpius rosei v. violac 
n C. madagascar ve} ble ustis subæqua- 
libus et ee at membranæ annularis ope 
ima basi connatis 
vu, — 27 
