RUBIACÉES. 465 
costato. Galycis persistentis lobi #4, 5, obtust. Corollæ tubuloso-infun- 
dibularis lobi 4,5, valvati, nunc induplicati: fauce glabra v. pilosa. Sta- 
mina #, 5, tubo inserta Ab. Germen 2-loculare ; disco epigyno 
Réido, 2-4-lobo ; stylo gracili, apice stigmatoso capitato-2 16B6. Ovula 
in loculis (completis v. incompletis) æ , placentæ adscendenti stipitatæ 
inserta, Fructus capsularis, cylindraceus v. obovoideus, loculicidus ; 
valvis nune 2-partibilibus. Semina  , angulata reticulata; embryone 
parvo, dite albuminoso. —Herbæ annuæ, glabræ v. pubescentes; foliis 
oppositis !, lanceolatis membranaceis ; stipulis subulatis, utrimque so- 
Btariis ; floribus? in cymas racemiformes axillares v. terminales longe 
pedunculatas dispositis, -ateralibus. (Java, Asia trop. austr.*) 
137. Lerchea L.' — Flores (fere Oldenlandie) 4, 5-meri; rece- 
ptaculo subgloboso v. obconico. Calycis dentes v. lobi erecti, persis- 
tentes. Corolla tubuloso-infundibularis ; tubo nunce breviuseulo; fauce 
barbata v. glabra (Xanthophytum *) ; lobis valvatis, patentibus. Sta- 
mina 4, 5, fauei v. tubo corollæ plus minus alte inserta, inclusa; an- 
theris dorsifixis inelusis, nunce apice tenuiter penicillatis ; loculis basi 
v. et apice liberisf. Germen 2-loculare ; disco tumido, cylindrico v. ob- 
conico ; styli brevis lobis stigmatosis 2, brevibus crassis (Xanthophy- 
tum) v. rarius lineari-subulatis undique papillosis. Ovula in loculis  , 
placentæ subglobulosæ septo plus minus late affixæ inserta. Fructus 
globosus v. sub-2-dymus, in coccos 2 crustaceos v. cortaceos solutus. 
Semina œ , parva angulata; testa reticulata, punetata v. foveolata ; 
embryone parvo albuminoso. — Frutieuli v. suffrutices, glabri v. rufo- 
sericei ; foliis oppositis, petiolatis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis mem- 
branaceis : süpulis interpetiolaribus, persistentibus ; floribus? cymosis, 
breviter podicériätié v. glomerulatis ; eymis aut ad folia axillaribus 
sessilibus v. péduntulatis (Xanthoph ylum), aut ad bracteas ramuli 
elongati filiformis, axillaris v. sæpius terminalis, axillaribus, bra- 
cleolatis. (Java, Bornéo: ins. Viti®.) 
a n. 6215. — Selenocera Zigp., in Linnæa, 53, — Metabolos DC ha nec BL.). — 
rie ie rer som 
am dorsalem 
Vel spurie Mer 127% 
2. Minutis, albis v. flav 
3. Spec, 2. MrQ., F1 rt t., I, 160 
4. Mantiss., 155. in Horsf. PL. jav 
rar., 98, t. 23. — Exp , 0. 3251! 
B. H., Gen., I, 53, n. 72. — Codaria L., mss 
5. 
REIxW., in BI. Bijdr., 989. — Ricu., Rub., 
195. — DC., Prodr., IV, M3. — B.H., Gen. I, 
6. Connect 
parvam oblongo- suhathtan dilatato 
EE . ris minim 
8. BL., Bijdr. 
pC., 5 " 436, n. 10 (We 
FL. ind. “hat 
Suppl., 216; in Ann. Mus. lugd.-bat., . 198! 
993, — Eu in Proc. Amer. Acad. A 311, 
VIT, — 3Ù 
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