204 GENTIANES. [ Fagrea. 
the limb 5- (very rarely 6- or 7-) -cleft, the lobes oblique and almost 
twisted-imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5, inserted in the tube of 
the corolla; filaments filiform ; anthers incumbent. Ovary 2-celled 
or l-celled, with numerous anatropous ovules attached to the thick 
almost 2-lobed (the lobes involute) placentas ; style filiform, ex- 
serted or included; stigma peltate. Berry globular to ovoid and 
almost cylindrical, 2. or l-celled. Seeds numerous, minute, crusta- 
ceous, immersed in the pulpy-enlarged placentas. Embryo minute, — 
enclosed in the horny albumen, the cotyledons very short and blunt, 
the radicle long.—Trees or shrubs, often scandent or epiphytical, 
with opposite more or less coriaceous leaves, the petiole at the base 
dilated in an entire or auricle-like 2-lobed stipular sheath, Flowers 
white or yellowish, often large, solitary, or in terminal cymes, 
corymbs, racemes or panicles. 
* Flowers large, above an inch long, solitary or by 3 or 5 
in a@ short-peduncled terminal corymb.—Shrubs, often 
sea 
X Corolla-tube long-exserted, above the middle or at the 
summit dilated into the limb . . : > . F. carnosa. 
ef Corolla-tube short, or from the base funnel-shaped 
ated. 
Calyx about an inch long or longer ; the lateral nerves distinct, but 
thin and immersed on the under-surface of the leaves 3 . 
Calyx only about } in. long; the nerves of the leaves beneath not 
or almost not visible 3 : : j : . 
** Flowers small, up to an inch long or somewhat longer. 
rect trees. 
Flowers clustered or in small cymes, forming a terminal peduncled 
raceme ; leaves penninerved . . . : : ‘ . F. racemosa. 
Flowers in terminal or axillary, long-peduncled, many-flowered 
corymbs ; nerves of leaves beneath very obsolete and immersed F. fragrans. 
1. F, carnosa, Jack.—An evergreen parasitical (?) shrub with 
smooth greyish bark, all parts glabrous ; leaves almost rotundate- 
obovate, on a compressed petiole, with a short reflexed point, entire, 
3 COrolid- 
tube about 4 in. long, expanding into a 5-cleft limb; style abou 
half so long as the corolla-tube, with a 4-lobed stigma ; berry 
size of a small hen’s egg, ovate, seated on the persistent calyx, 
rather pointed, 2-celled, many-seeded. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim. 
2. F, auricularia, Jack.—An evergreen large shrub, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves obovate to obovate-lanceolate, blunt or shortly 
apiculate, tapering into the broad petiole sheathing at the base, a 
in. long, thiek-coriaceous and quite smooth, entire, the lateral 
nerves thin and immersed ; flowers very large and showy, white, 
