22 Lxxv. BUBiACEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sa/reocepJialus. 



I'ruit of 2 indehiscent at length separating cocci . . . » 86. Hydhophylax. 

 Fruit of 2 separable cocci, both or one only dehiscing 



ventrally 87. Spekmacocb. 



Fruit of 2 connate cocci, calyx-limb greatly enlarged . . .88. Gail,lonia. 



Teibe XVI. Cralieeae. Corolla-lobes valvate in bud. Ovari/ 2-celledj 

 style-arms 2 ; ovules attached to the base of the septum. Fi-uit of 2 small 

 coriaceous or fleshy indehiscent lobes. Seeds peltate, usually boUowed ventrally. 

 — Herbs ; leaves usually -whorled, -without stipules. 



Corolla rotate or shortly campanulate 5-merons . . . .89. Eubia. 



Corolla rotate 4-nieroiis 90. Galium. 



Corolla funnel-shaped . . 91. Aspeexila. 



Tribe I. NAUCXiEEH:. 

 1. SARCOCEFKAXiUS, Afze!. 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing. Leaves petioled; stipules large or 

 small. Flowers in axillary or terminal peduncled globose heads, without 

 bracteoles, united by theu' confluent calyx-tubes; bracts 3, stipular. Calyx 

 4-6-toothed with deciduous appendages. Corolla-tube long, funnel-shaped, 

 throat glabrous ; lobes 5-6, orbicular, imbricate. Stamens 5-6, on the corolla 

 mouth ; anthers sessile, acute. Ovary 2-ceIled ; style flliform, exserted, stigma 

 capitate, oblong or spindle-shaped ; ovules very many, imbricating upwards on 

 pendulous placentas. Fruits combined in a fleshy globose mass of 2-celled 

 pyrenes with very thin septa. Seeds few in each cell, minute, testa crustaceous, 

 albumen fleshy; embryo rather large, radicle inferior. — Disieib. Species 8, 

 tropical Asiatic, African, and Australian. 



1. S. cordatus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 133 ; leaves eUiptio ovate or 

 cordate obtuse, peduncles solitary stout 1-headed, heads of fruit smooth. Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 318 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 63. S. Horsfieldii, Miq. I. c. 134. Nauclea 

 cordata, Ro.vb, Hort. Beng. 14 ; Fl. Ind. i. 509. N. coadunata, Roxh. in Rees 

 Cyclop. N. Eoxburghii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 467, e.vcl. synon. N. Wal- 

 lichiana, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6098. N. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. 6093 B. Platano- 

 carpum cordatum, Korth. Naucl. Ind. 16. 



Malay Peninsula, from Pegu and Mergui to Malacca, Wallich, &c. Ceylon, 

 Walker, &c. — Disteib. Malay and Philippine Islands, N. Australia. 



A small tree. Leaves 5-12 by 4-8 in. ; petiole |-1 in. ; stipules oblong, elliptic or 

 obovate. Beads ^-1 in. diam., drooping; peduncle 1-1^ in.; stipular bracts broad, 

 almost basal. Mowers yeUow, fragrant ; calyx-lobes clavate. — A form with leaves 

 pubescent beneath, from the Malay Islands, is N. undulata, Wall. Cat. 6094 (not of 

 Boxb.). The true N. undulata, Eoxb., is not Indian, it is "Wallieh's N. purpurea, 

 6090 D. (N. stipulacea, Herb. Eoxb., not N. Eoxburghii, G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 467, 

 ■which from the description is S. cordatns itself). 



2._ S. subditus, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 134; leaves lanceolate obtusely 

 acuminate, peduncles solitary 1-headed, heads of fruit rough. Platanocarpum 

 subditum, KoHh. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. 133, t. 32. 



Malacca, Griffith. — Disteib. Sumatra, Java. 



Much more slender than S. cordatus. Leaves glabrous, 3-5 by 1 J-2 in., narrowed 

 into the slender petiole, black when dry. Peduncles slender, pubescent, bracteate 



