RUB I AC E^. 391 



2. Asperula L.' — Flowers^ nearly oi Bubia, asepalous; corolla 

 funuel-shaped or tubular-funnel-shaped/ Valvate. Style branches 2, 

 equal or subequal {Euasperula^), sometimes unequal (Gruciandla^), 

 capitate at apex (Sherardia^) or more rarely very short and approaching 

 a simple capitellate style (Phuopsis '). — Herbs, rarely frutescent at 

 base ; leaves, stipules &c. of Ruhia; ' flowers ebracteate or involucrate, 

 ebracteolate (Euasperula), sessile ; or bracteate and 2-bracteolate 

 (Crucianella) , or spuriously capitate '(in contracted cymes) involucrate, 

 2-bracteolate (Phuopsis), more rarely surrounded with bracts and 

 bracteoles connate in a spurious involucre (Sherardia) and spuriously 

 capitate. (All temp, regions of the Old J^orld.^) 



* II. SPEEMACOCE^. 



3. Spermacoce L. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely poly- 

 gamous ; receptacle concave, various in form. Calyx 2-merous, oftener 

 4-merous ; lobes dentiform equal ; 2 lateral often larger ; with few 

 or 00 denticules interposed. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped or hypo- 

 crateriform ; throat glabrous villose or pilose ; lobes 4, or more rarely 

 5, 6, valvate. Stamens as many, inserted in throat or tube ; anthers 

 dorsifixed, introrse, 2-rimose, enclosed or exserted, more or less 

 elongate. Germen 2-celled (rarely 3, 4-celled), crowned with short 

 or thick, entire or 2-lobed disk ; style slender more or less elongate, 

 entire or oftener more or less deeply 2-lobed at stigmatose apex. 

 Ovule in cells solitary, inserted at the middle of the septum or at 



1 Gen. n. 121.^JtiSB. Gen. 196. — G^rtn. r. Be&Jst 435 (not L.). 



Fruot iii. 89, t. 195.— Lamk. Diet. i. 297; ^ Guises. Spic. Fl. Stmel. ii. 67 .—B. S. Gen. 



Suppl.i. 483; III. t. 61.— Rich. Bub. 50, t. 1, ii. 151, n. 336. 



fig. 1. — DC. Prodr. iv. 581. — Endl. Gen. n. s phuopsis has ovule inserted at the base. 



3103.- Spach, Suit. d. Buffon, viii. 473. — B. H. » Spec, about 110. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 



Gen. ii. 150, n. 334. 1176 [Crucianella) 1177-1183,— Jaiir. et Spach, 



' Small, white, pink, yellow or azure. III. Fl. Or. t. 82, 83, 196.— Sibth. Fl. Grcee. t. 



' See p. 260, note 5. 117-124, 139, 140 (C)«OT«nc?/ffl).— Trin. Mem. 



* Asperula oi authora. Acad. Petersb. (1818) 485, t. U [Crucianella). — 



' L. ffeM. n. 126. — 'Rica. Rub. 51. — 1)0. Prodr. Ha. Fx. Fot. t. 109 [Grucia/nella). — Boiss. Toy. 



iv. 586.- Endl. Gen. n. 3102.— G^rtn. Fruet. Fsp. t. 83, 84 ; Fl. Or. iii, 19 [Sherardia, Crueia- 



i. Ill, t. 24.— B. H. Gen. ii. 150, n. 335.— Zax- nella), 25.— Bemth. Fl- Austral, iii. 443.— Hook. 



mannia Gmel. (ex ^ndl.) .—Fubeola Mcench. p. Fl- Tasm. t. 40; ffandb. N. Zeal. Fl. 121-^ 



Meth. 625 (ex Endl.). Willk. et Lang. Prodr. Fl. Bisp. ii. 300, 305 



' Dill. Gen. 3. — L. Gen. a. 120 (name having (Crucianella). — Gren. et Godr. Fl. deFr. ii, 47, 



priority).— Rich. JJm*. 49. — DC. Prodr. iv. 6.81. 49 [Sherardia), 60 [Crucianella).— WiLLf. Sep. 



—GMRnx. Fruc.t. i. 120, t. 24.— Endl. Gen. n. ii. 460; vi. 19 [Crucianella),'^^ ;- Ann. ii. 738 



3104.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 231.— B. H, [Crucianello), 739 ; V. 102. 

 Gen. ii. 151, n. 337 — Dillenia B[??st. Mort. 



