30 RUBIACE.E. 



Guettarda. 



G soabra Lam. Arborescent: leaves obovate to oblong (4 or 5 inches long), mucronate, 

 "coriaceous at length rugose, liispidulous-papillose and s.abrous above, soft-pubescent be- 

 neath ; primary veins (9 to 1 1 pairs) very prominent beneath and veinlets between well reticu- 

 lated: peduncles elongated: corolla often inch long; tube retrorsely sill<y-villpus ; lobes 5, 

 rarely 6 or 7 : drupe quarter-inch in diameter, 4-0-celled. - 111. t. 154, t. 3 ; A ent^ Choix, 

 t. 1 ; DC. 1. c. 456 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 322. G. ambigua, Chapm. Fl. 1 78, not DC. Blalhwla 

 sciibra, L. Spec. ii. 1192. — S. Florida, Chapman, Gurba: (\V. Ind.) 



G elliptica, Swartz. Arborescent : leaves from broadly oval to elliptical-oblong (inch or 

 two long), thinnish, pilose-pubescent, often glabrate, at least aljove ; primary veins 4 to 6 

 pairs; transverse veinlets not prominent: peduncles and small cymes shorter than the 

 leaves flowers usually 4-merous . corolla quarter-inch long, externally canescent : drupe 

 size of a pea, 4-8-cened, 4-2-seetled. — Prodr. 59, & Fl. Ind. Ucc, i. 635 ; DC. 1. c. 457 ; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. ii. 35 ; Griseb. 1. c. G. Blodgettii, Shuttlew. distrib. coll. Rugel; Chapm. Fl. 

 178. — S. Florida, first coll. by Blodijelt. (W. Ind., Mex.) 



14. ERiTHALIS, P. Browne. (Ancient Greek name of some plant, from 

 €pt, very much, and 6aXK6i, green shoot. Pliny applied it to some green Sedum, 

 and P. Browne to this lucid green shrub.) — West Indian littoral shrubs or low 

 trees, very smooth and resiniferous : the following is the principal species. 



'E. fruticosa, L. Leaves mostly obovate, about 2 inches long, coriaceous: cymes pedun- 

 culate, many-flowered : border of the calyx repand-truucate : corolla white, quarter-inch 

 long ; lobes widely spreading : drupes not over 2 lines in diameter, purple. — Spec. ed. 2, 

 ii. 251 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 465 ; Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 242; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 35 ; Griseb. Fl. 

 W. Ind. 336. E. fruliculosn, &c., F. Browne, Jam. 165, t. 17, f. 3. E. odorifera, Jacq. Stirp. 

 Amer. 72, t. 173, f. 23. — Sliores and Keys of S. Florida. (All W. Ind.) 



15. CHI0C(5CCA, P. Browne. Snowberrt. (Xwov, snow, ko'kkos, berry.) 

 — Tropical American shrubs, commonly sarmentose or twining, glabrous ; with 

 coriaceous shining leaves on short petioles, and small yellowish-white flowers in 

 axillary racemes or panicles ; the small berry-like drupes at maturity white. — 

 P. Browne, Jam. 164 ; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 68 ; L. Gen. ed. 6, 1)2. — Some species 

 are obviously heterogone-dimorphous 1 



C. raoemosa, L. Usually twining and climbing : leaves from ovate or oval to lanceolate- 

 oblong, shining, about equalled by the racemiform panicles : corolla short-funnelform, at most 

 4 lines long : anthers included : mature drupe quarter-inch in diameter and globose ; only the 

 immature flattened and when dried didymous. — Spec. ed. 2, i. 246 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 284 ; 

 Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 93 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 482 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 32. Lonicera alba, L. Spec, 

 ed. 1, 175. — Var. pamfolia (C. paroijblia, Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 337) is a smaUer-leaved and 

 low form, mostly with simple and shorter racemes. — Coast and Keys of Florida. (W. Ind. 

 to S. Am.) 



16. PSYCHOTRIA, L. (Name changed by Linnajus from the original 

 Psychotropkum of P. Browne, which was formed of tpv^yj, soul, and Tpotprj, nour- 

 ishment : seeds used as a substitute for coffee.) — A large genus of shrubs, of most 

 tropical regions, commonly with membranaceous leaves, and small flowers in naked 

 terminal cymes ; in some heterogone-dimorphous. — Psychotropkum & Myrsti- 

 phyllum, P. Browne. 



» P. Undata, J-vcq. Shrub 8 to 18 feet high, with woody sjirciidiug branches, glabrous or 

 with some ferruginous pubescence : stipules rather large, broad, blunt, united and slieatliiug, 

 sphacelate-scarious, caducous (the sheath usually splitting down one side) : leaves from ovkl 

 to elliptical lanceolate, acuminate at both ends ; primary veins trans\erse or little ascending: 

 cyme sessile, of al)Out 3 primary rays and secon(U)vy divisions: corolla white or whitish, vil- 

 lous in the throat, with lobes shorter than tube : drupes red, ellipsoidal when dry (subrotund, 

 Jacquin), tlie nutlets striate-costate on the back. — Hort. Schtcnb. iii. 5, t. 260; DC. Prodr, 



