MUBIACE^. 413 



drupaceous, ovoid or often obcordate ; pyrenes 1-5, 1-spermous ; 

 albumen of suberect seed thick sulcately ruminate ; radicle of small 

 embryo inferior. Other characters of Qoertnera} — Trees or shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite, entire penninerved, oftener coriaceous; secondary 

 nerves oblique little prominent ; flowers ^ in axillary or compound 

 cymiferous capituliform cymes; peduncles sometimes complanate. 

 {Guiana, north-east. Brazil.') 



44 ? Hymenocnemis Hook, f.* — Flowers (nearly of Uragoga) 

 hermaphrodite, 4-merous ; .cells of inferior germen 2, 1-ovulate (of 

 Uragoga). Calyx 4-phyllous ; folioles unequal various in form, obtuse 

 patent ; teeth ^ minute interposed. Corolla funnel-shaped-hypocra- 

 teriform; lobes 4, sublanceolate, valvate ; "margins subcrispate 

 indupUcate." Stamens 4, enclosed; connective shortly produced. 

 Disk epigynous crenulate. Style slender; branches 2, recurved. 

 Fruit . . . ? — A slender divaricately ramose pubescent shrub ; leaves 

 opposite (small) ovato-elliptical apiculate, very shortly petiolate ; 

 stipules connate in a membranous villose sheath covering the top of 

 the branchlet and finally opening above ; flowers * axillary solitary ; 

 peduncle short bracteolate.'' (Madagascar.^) 



45 ? Fergusonia Hook, f.' — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-merous 

 (nearly of Uragoga or Lasianthus) ; sepals ovato-lanceolate, ciliate, 

 persistent. Throat of funnel-shaped corolla glabrous and lobes 4, 

 ciUate at apex^ valvate. Stamens 4, inserted in throat ; filaments 

 short; anthers dorsifixed introrse. Germen inferior; cellules 4, 

 1-ovulate (of Uragoga) ; disk 4-lobed ; " style branches 2, linear, 

 hirsute, sometimes connate." Fruit 4-coccous; cocci subangular; 

 each crowned with a sepal ; seeds densely albuminous &c. of Uragoga. 

 — A procumbent ramose scabrid herb ; '" branches 4-gonal, radicant 

 below and ciliate at nodes ; leaves opposite lanceolate acuminate 

 venose ; stipules lanceolate connate, persistent ; flowers " axillary 

 subsessile, 2-bracteolate.^^ {East India.^^) 



' Of wHch perhaps rather an American sect. Fl. Iiid. iii. 48. 



' Small, white. '" With the hahit of Spermacoce, to which the 



' Sped, about 8. Piioo. Mart. Fl. Bras, vi. genus is certainly closely allied. 



285, t. 81. " Minute, greenish (?). 



* Gen. ii. 132, n. 283. ■'•' A genus very near to Hedyotis and espe- 



' Stipular (f). cially to Alleophania, heing similar in habit and 



' Rather large, white (?). in character of leaves. Germen cells perhaps 



1 A genus scarcely distinct from and perhaps 2-ovulate ; a spurious septum being interposed 



a sect, of Uragoga, from its solitary axilar flower between the 2 ovules of the same cell. 



analogous to some south-Caledonian species. '^ Spec. 1. F. tetraeocca. — F. ThwaifesWSooK. 



' Spec. 1. M. madagascariensis Hook. p. I. c. r. — Bomria tetraeocca Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 



9 Icon. t. 1124 ; Gen. ii. 133, u. 84.— Hook. 442.— Bedd. Ic. Pl.Ind. Or. t. 39. 



