BUBIACE^. 411 



'epigynous various ; style branches equal to number of cells. Ovules 

 &c. of Uragoga. Fruit drupaceous, 1-10-pyrenous ; flesh sometimes 

 scanty ; seeds ascending albuminous. — Shrubs or shrublets (often 

 foetid), glabrous or oftener scabrous, tomentose or oftener strigose ; 

 leaves opposite obliquely or transversely nerved ; stipules interpetiolar 

 various, often broad, deciduous or persistent ; flowers ^ cymose in axils 

 of leaves, shortly pedicellate or oftener glomerulate crowded.^ (Trop. 

 Asia, Oceania, Africa and America.^) 



40.-Saprosma Bl.* — Flowers nearly of Lasianihus ; calyx 4-6- 

 lobed or dentate. Lobes of funnel-shaped or subcampanulate corolla 

 oftener 4, valvate ; margins attenuate or crispate induplicate. Stamens 

 4, germen 2-ceUed, 2-ovulate, &c. of Lasianthus. Fruit ^ 2-pyrenous ; 

 seeds albuminous. — Glabrous or more rarely pubescent (foetid) shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite or rarely verticillate ; stipules interpetiolar, deciduous, 

 1-3-cuspidate ; flowers ° axillary and terminal, glomerate or cymose, 

 sohtary or 3-nate ; bracteoles generally connate in calycule.' (Trap. 

 Asia and Oceania.^) 



41 ? Myrmecodia Jack.® — Flowers (nearly of Uragoga) herma- 

 phrodite, 4-merous ; calyx often subentire truncate ; corolla funnel- 

 shaped, hypocrateriform or suburceolate, valvate. Stamens 4 J anthers 

 subsessile. Fruit drupaceous ; flesh oftener scanty ; pyrenes 2, 

 plano-convex (Hydnophytum *") or 3-5, 8-gonal. Other characters of 

 Uragoga}'^ — Glabrous epiphytal shrubs, slightly fleshy or coriaceous ; 



1 Small, wliite, yellow, greenish or pale purple. ^ Small, white or yeUow. 



2 A genus, by the interyention of Allceophania, 7 Often denticulate. A genus hence very near 

 closely allied to the Oldenlatidice (if not to the Xasianthus, thence to Serissa anillamiltonia. 

 axiUiflorous Uragogis). ' Spec. 7, 8. Wall. Eoxb. Fl.Ind. (ed. Oahey) 



3 Spec, about 75. Pom. Diet. iv. 315 {Morin- ii. 517 {Piederiaj.—MiQ.. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 302 ; 

 da).—'WiGWi, Icon. t. 1032.— Griseb. Cat. Fl. Suppl. 223.— Bedd. leori. Fl. Ind. Or. i. 1. 14-17, 

 Cub. 124 {Sabicea).—ML.iQ,. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 314; iv. (&m»a); Fl.Sylv.Madr.Q.-s.-%.TLYV-\\. — Korth. 

 Suppl. 648.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 425 ; Fl. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 224. — Thw. Enurrt. PI. 

 Bmgk. 160.— Bedd. le. Fl. Ind. Or. t. 9, 13, 21, Zeyl. 150 {Serissa).— S-Vsz, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. 

 22 ; Fl. Syhi. Madr. oxliv-10, t. 17, v. — Thw. ii. 28. — VP'alp. Bep. vi. 45 ; Ann. ii. 752. 

 Enum. PL Zeyl. 145 {^ep'hitidAa'). — KvRZ, For. ' Trans. Linn. Soo. xiv. 122. — Rich. Bub. 144. 

 Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 30. — Hieen, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. — DC. Prodr. iv. 450.— Endl. Oen. n. 3184. — 

 228.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 232.— W alp. Bep. B. H. Gen. ii. 132, n. 280.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 vi. 49 ; Ann. ii. 759. 194. — Lasiostoma Spreno. (part). 



*Bijdr. 966.— Rich. Bub. 98.— DC. Prodr. iv. '» Jack, loe. cit. 124.— DC. Prodr. iv. 450.— 



493.— JIndl. Gen. n. 3159.— B. H. Gen. ii. 131, Endl. Gen. n. 3185.— B. H. Gen. ii. 132, u. 280. 



n. 278.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 192. — Dysosmia — "Roo^. Fl. Ind. m. 194. 



Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 325. — Dysodidendron "Stigma sometimes more or less distinctly 



Gakdn. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 66. 2-lobed, but sometimes orbicular and ciliato- 



' Small, purplish. margiuate. 



