406 NA TUBAL HISTOR Y OF PLANTS. 



truncate. Corolla tubular at base ; throat glabrous ; lobes of limb 

 closely contorted. Stamens 6, 6, inserted in tube; filaments very 

 short ; anthers dorsifixed ; connective thick, convex on both sides ; 

 cells hnear submarginal adnate introrse. Grermen 2-ceUed (of Coffea) ; 

 disk epigynous broad ; style branches 2, at apex perceptibly dilated 

 shortly and obtusely conical. Fruit oblong-obconical coriaceous, 1, 

 2-ceUed ; seed adnate to septum oblong ; embryo . . . ? — ^A glabrous 

 shrub; ramules thick, resiniferous to apex; leaves opposite oblong 

 obtuse, petiolate coriaceous reticulately veined ; stipules interpetiolar 

 obtuse connate in sheath ; flowers ^ in axillary very shortly pedunculate 

 cymes ; pedicels short ; bracts obtuse resiniferous.^ {Madagascar. ') 



32 ? Psilanthus Hook, f.* — Flowers nearly of Coffea ; calycinal 

 teeth 5, persistent and accrete in a lanceolate foUole. Tube of 

 hypocrateriform corolla long slender; lobes 6, oblong, contorted. 

 Stamens 5, inserted at mouth of corolla ; anthers sessile dorsifixed 

 elongate, semi-exserted ; connective produced in a claw beyOnd cells. 

 Germen 2-celled ; disk thick ; branches of slender style 2, narrow 

 obtuse. Ovule &c. of Goffea. Fruit crowned with foliaceous calyx, 

 oblong, drupaceous ; fiesh scanty ; endocarp hard ; seeds . . . ? — ^A 

 glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite coriaceous oblong-acuminate ; petiole 

 short ; stipules intrapetiolar acute ; ramules to leaves ceraceo-resini- 

 ferous; flowers' axillary sohtary, calyculate.^ (Femando-Po.'') 



33. Ixora L.^ — Flowers generally 6-merous, more rarely 4-6- 

 merous (nearly of Coffea); calyx various, sometimes entire {Myonyma?), 

 or deciduous. {Butidea ^°). Corolla often hypocrateriform ; tube slender 

 or rather broad, short or more or less elongate, sometimes very long ; 

 lobes contorted ; throat bare or barbate. Stamens 4-6, inserted in 



' Very small ; fruit very small. Bakek, Fl. Mam-it. 151, — Hook. Fl, Ind. iii. 



2 Batter a sect, of Co/ua .' 137. — JEumaehia DC. loc. eit. 478. — ? Fanchezia 



• Spec. 1. L, resinoms HooE. j^', loc. eit. (erroneously for Fancheria) Montkouz. Mem, 



* loon. t. 1129 ; Qen. ii. 115, n. 23a. Acad. Lyon, x. 223 (ex B. B..) .—Charpentiera 

 ' Large (in 2 doubtful species terminal; co- Vieill. Fl. N.-Caled. (1866) 16. 



roUa (white f) about 2 inches long and broad. ' Commerb. ex J. Qen. 206. — Lamk. III. t. 68, 



« A sect, of Coffea ? Affinities with Belono- fig, 1, 2.— G^setn. f. Fruet. iii. t. 195.— Eich. 



phora jjidicated by one author. Fub. 131. — DO. Prodr. iv. 463. — Endl. Gen. n. 



'Spec.!. P. JKanm'j Hook. J?. 2 more doubt- 3203.— B. H. &eii. ii. 115, n. 240 (part).— H. 



ful (HiEKN, Fl, Trap. Afr. iii. 186). Bn. loc. eit. 214.— Bakkk, Fl. Mawrit. 150. 



» Qen. (ed, 1737) 55, n. 131.— J. Gen. 203 ; i° DC. Ann. Mm. ix. 219 ; Frodr. iv. 495.— 



M^m. Mm. vi, 375,— Gjeetn. Fruet. i. 117, t. Eich. Rvb. 99.— B.H. Gen. ii. 116, n. 24,2.— 



26. — DO. Frodr. iv. 485, — Tuep. iJic*. So. Nat. H. Bn. Adansouia, xii. 215.— Rytidea Spkeng. 



Atl. t. 100.— Endl. ff««. n. 3161.— B. H. Gen. Syst. i. 545.— Endl. Gob. u. 3166.— Bakbb, 



ji. 113, n, 235.— H. Bjf. Adamonia, xii, 213 Fl. Maurit. 149. 



