Gynochthodes. | RUBIACER. 33 
1. G. macrophylla, Kz.—An evergreen scandent shrub, all 
parts glabrous, turning blackish in drying ; stipules broad and short, 
truncate, by pairs ; leaves elliptical to elliptically oblong, acute at 
the base, on a 3 an in. long petiole, more or less bluntish-apicu- 
late, 3-5 in. long, entire, pergamaceous, glabrous, beneath with 
hollow fringed glands in the nerve-axils; flowers small, on thick 
2-3 lin. long pedicels, forming by 4-5 a small cluster on a short 
bracted tubercle-like peduncle; calyx about a line long, glabrous, 
the tube almost globular; the limb cyathimorph, as long as the tube, 
truncate ; berries globose, the size of a cherry, smooth, sea-green, 
4.-pyrenous, 
‘ Has.—Amongst shrubbery along the sea-shores of South Andaman.—Fl. 
ay. 
VANGUERIA, Comm. 
Calyx-tube short, obovate, the limb spreading, ‘5-toothed, deci- 
duous, rarely persistent. Corolla globular bell-shaped, the throat 
villous ; limb 5-cleft, the lobes recurved. Stamens 5, with very 
short filaments. Ovary 5-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell 
attached to near the middle of the inner angle; style filiform; 
stigma exserted, mitre-shaped or 5-angular-capitate. Berry succu- 
lent, marked by the scar of the calyx-limb, containing 5 or by abor- 
tion fewer bony 1-seeded nuts. Seeds oblong. Albumen fleshy. 
Embryo large ; cotyledons long, plano-convex, about as long as the 
superior radicle.—Small trees or shrubs, with free interpetiolar stip- 
ules, Flowers small, in branched axillary cymes or cymose panicles. 
* Unarmed. Stigma mitre-shaped. All parts glabrous, — ; 
* * Armed with opposite sharp spines. .  . «  .« V. edulis, 
All parts glabrous ; berries about an inch in diameter; stigma dis- : 
coid-pe : - : i : : . é . V. spinosa. 
All softer parts (also the corolla) pubescent; berries up to }.an inch 
= wie ;Sagmacapitate 62 a we a Be pebenomn, 
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