GvcttarJa. RUBIACEJE. 29 



inch long, subglobose, blue or black, not many-seeded. — P. Browne, Jam, t. S. f. 1 ; Gri.:eb, 

 Fl. W. Ind. 318; Cliapm. Fl. 179. B. aculmta & li. mitis, L. Spec. ii. 1192. the latter 

 nearly a, spinelc-^s form. /?. lalifolia. Lam. Diet. iii. 24, & 111. t. 156. Garrlenia Bandia. 

 SwaiT/.. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. .526: Sims, Bot. Ma^'. t. 1841, — Coast and Kevs of S.Florida. 

 (W. Ind.. &c.) 

 R. X.vLAPEx^i*. Mart. & Gal. occurs not very far beyond the ilexicau border. 



10. GENIPA, Plum. (Altered from an aboriginal name, i — Shrubs or 

 small trees of Tropical America : with ample coriaceous and mostly lucid leave-, 

 deciduous interpetiolar stipules, no spines, but rather lart;e white or whitish 

 flowers which are more or less pedunculate in a terminal cyme, and a larire 

 firm-rinded berry. — Plum. Cat. 20. it PL Amer. ed. Burm. 127. t. 136: Tourn. 

 Inst. Cos. t. 4o6. J:37; Gri.-eb. Fl. W. Ind. 316. 



_G. clusiSBfolia, Gkiseb. 1. c. Glabrous: plant blackening in drying: leaver obovate, very 

 obtuse or retuse, mucronulate. slightly petioled. 2 to 5 inclies long, nearly >tiai:;lit-veined, 

 fleshy-coriaceous, lucid : truncate calyx-limb bearing 5 distant and slender siilailace teeth: 

 coroUa inch long, fleshy, gial ircais within and without ; tube L mger than the oblong-lanceolate 

 lobes : acute tips of anthers exserted : stigmas 2, subulate : fruit 2 or 3 inclit- long, ovoid. — 

 Gardenia chisiiffolia, Jacq. Coll. App. 37, t. 4: DC. Prodr. iv. 381. Randia? i-lnsimr'i^'i'r, 

 Chapm. Fl. 179. ii.i-en-iienrs Apple, Catesb. Car, i, 59, t, 59. — Keys and shores of S, Florida, 

 first coll. by Blodgett. (Bahamas, Cuba.) 



G.iRDEXiA FLORiD-i, L., cult. a-^ C.iPE .Ji>s>.MiXE. belonging to the genus most allied to 

 Genipa, is planted out freely in the Southern Atlantic States. 



11. CEPHALANTHUS, L. BuxTox-iiusH. (Ke-^oATj, head, and Si-^oj, 

 flower, the blossoms densely aggregated in a round head.) — Two or three 

 American and as many Asiatic or African species. 



' C, OCCidentalis, L. Shrub 3 to 15 feet high, glabrous or pubescent : stipules one on each 

 side between the petiole-, triangular, sphacelate, at length deciduous . leaves ovate to lanceo- 

 late : flowers white: setiform l)ractlets between the flowers glandular-capitate: calyx not 

 glandular, a little hairy around the base. — Spec. i. 95; Lam. lU. t. 59; ^lichx. Fl. i. 87; 

 Sihk. Handb. t. 21 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. iii. t. 91 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 31 ; Gray, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 282. — Swamps and along streams, Canada to Florida and Te.xas, Arizona, and Cali- 

 fornia; ft. summer. Var. brachijpodus, DC, of Texas, and var. Cali/orniciis. Benth. PI. 

 Hartw.. are mere forms, with leaves sbort-petioled and often in threes. A'ar. salicifoJius 

 [C. salkifollus, Humb. & Bonpl. PI. .E juin. t. 98) is an unusually narrow-leaved ^Mexican 

 form. (Mex., Cuba.) 



— 12. MORINDA, Vaill. rXame contracted from Moms Indicus. the syn- 

 carp resemblini;' a mulberry.) — Tropical shrubs or small trees, mostly glabrous : 

 with oval to lanceolate leaves, their bases or petioles united by small scarious 

 stipules, terminal or axillary peduncles, and white flowers. — Roioc, Plum. Xov. 

 Gen. 11, t. 26. 



~~M. Roioc, L. Low shrub, or -sometimes climbing by twining: leaves oblong-lanceolate: 

 stipules subulate-pointed : peduncles solitary, bearing single or sometimes geminate small 

 heads — Spec. i. 176: .Jacq. Hort. Viud. t. 16; Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 129. — Coast and Keys of 

 S, Florida. (\V Ind.) 



13. G-UETTARDA, L. {Dr. J. E. Guettard:) — Tto^ksA and subtropi- 

 cal shrubs, chiefly American, and one widely diffused littoral species : lea-ves ovate 

 to oblong, petioled, with prominent primary veins beneath : flowers in axillary 

 pedunculate cymes ; the corollas sericeous-cnnescent outside. — L. Gen. ed. .5. 

 428 : Vent. Choix. t. 1 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 455, excl. § 4. Mathiola. Plum. Gen. 

 16; L. Gen. ed. 1, 49. 



