50 RUBIACEE. [ Diplospora. 
DIPLOSPORA, DC. 
Calyx-tube short, 4-toothed or truncate. Corolla-tube short, 
the 4 lobes spreading, imbricate. Anthers exserted. Ovary 2-celled, 
with 2-10 ovules in each cell attached to small peltate placentas ; 
style with 2 stigmatic lobes. Berry globular or elliptical. Seeds 
2-10, or by abortion solitary, imbricate, albuminous.—Trees or 
shrubs, with interpetiolar, broad, acuminate stipules. Flowers small 
in axillary clusters or close cymes, or in terminal racemose cymes. 
1. D, singularis, Korth.—An evergreen tree (50—60 + 20—25 
), the stem fluted, all parts glabrous; bark about 2 lin. thick, 
fibrous, longitudinally fissured, brownish grey; cut dry, pale-coloured ; 
stipules triangular, acuminate, glabrous; leaves from broadly to 
oblong- and elliptically-lanceolate, acute at the base, on a 3-5 lin. 
long petiole, 3-6 in. long, shortly acuminate, entire, thin-coriaceous, 
glabrous ; flowers small, greenish white, often polygamous, sessile 
on a very short, thick, broadly bracted, glabrous rachis, or more 
usually in dense clusters arising solitary from the axils of the leaves; 
calyx about a line long, glabrous, almost truncate, the teeth minute; 
corolla glabrous, the tube hardly a line long, bearded at the throat, 
the lobes elliptically oblong, a line long; berries more or less glo- 
bular, the size of a cherry or larger, fleshy, purplish black when 
fully ripe, glabrous, crowned by the short calyx-limb, containing 
8-10, flat, imbricated seeds in each cell. 
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RemaRxKs.—Wood pale brown. 
HYPOBATHRUM, Bi. 
Calyx-tube short, turbinate or ovoid, the limb 4-lobed or -toothed, 
persistent. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, with a short tube, 
2-8 pendulous ovules in each cell ; style filiform, with a 2-parted or 
: with few pendulous seeds 
in each cell. Albumen fleshy.—Trees or shrubs, wah persistent, 
interpetiolar, entire stipules. Flowers small, collected into small, 
dense, sessile clusters or spikes in the axils of the leaves. 
Flowers in dense clusters ; berri il : 
Flowers in uthe-like eee. Ge stalked : . - A Zz sea 
1. H. strictum (Ayptianthera stricta, W A.; Brand. For. Fl. 274). 
—An evergreen branched shrub, 3-6 ft. high, all parts quite glab- 
rous ; stipules triangular, acuminate, indistinctly appressed-pubes- 
