4 CAPRIFOLIACE®. [ Lonicera. 
base, on a 3-4 lin. long petiole, bluntish, almost coriaceous, 2-3 in. 
long, smooth and glabrous, glossy above; flowers large, 24-2 in. 
long, glabrous, sessile, on a strong, stiff, 3-4 lin. long peduncle aris- 
ing from the leaf-axils ; calyx-tube nearly 3 lin. long, smooth, the 
limb widely funnel-shaped, nearly a line long, shallowly 4-toothed. 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills.—Fl. Apr. 
SCYPHIPHORA, Gaertn. 
Calyx-limb truncate or minutely toothed. Corolla-tube ceylin- 
drical or slightly dilated upwards, 4- or 5-lobed, imbricate. t 
exserted. Ovary truly 2-celled with 2 ovules in each cell, but each 
cell divided by a spurious dissepiment into 2 superposed ones, with 
asingle ovule in each, the upper ovule apparently erect, the lower 
one pendulous; style filiform, with 2 short linear stigmatic lobes. 
Fruit a drupe, with a hard putamen hardly separable into pyrenes, 
with 4 spurious l-seeded cells superposed by pairs, or fewer by 
abortion. Albumen none.—Glabrous thick-leaved shrubs, with broad 
and short interpetiolar stipules. Flowers in small peduncled axil- 
lary cymes. | 
1. Sc. hydrophyllacea, Gaertn.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 134-3.— 
An evergreen (6—8 + 3—4+ 4—#) pygmean tree, with a spherical 
crown aud simple stem hardly exceeding 4 ft. in. height, all 
parts quite glabrous; leaves obversely oval or obovate, acute at the 
base, on a } to 3 in. long petiole, 14-2 in. long, rounded at the 
apex, entire, coriaceous and glossy, quite glabrous; flowers whitish 
or reddish white, almost sessile, forming a small, dichotomously 
branched, very short-peduncled glabrous cyme in the axils of the 
leaves ; calyx about 2 lin. long, the limb truncate or sinuate-trun- 
cate ; corolla villous inside, the tube as long as the calyx, the lobes 
half as long, oblong; drupes elliptically oblong, almost wingedly 
8-keeled (the keels more or less undulate), about } in. long, glab- 
rous, containing a spuriously 4- or by abortion fewer-celled corky- 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the mangrove swamps of the Andamans.—F., May. 
—s.—SS, = Sal. 
RUBIACE A. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb entire or lobed or 
toothed. Corolla gamopetalous, inserted round the epigynous disk, 
4-5- or sometimes more (rarely only 3-) -lobed, the lobes imbricate 
or valvate. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes and alternating with 
them, inserted in the tube; anthers versatile, the cells parallel, 
opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior, 2- or more-celled, with 1 
or more ovules in each cell, rarely 1-celled with parietal placentas 
