414 NATURAL SISTORY OJP PLANTS. 



46. Coussarea Aubl.' — Flowers generally 4-merous (nearly of 

 TJragoga) ; cells of germen 2, often incomplete above or nearly to 

 base; septum short or 0. Calyx short entire or dentate (Faramea^), 

 or cupular {Eucoussarea *), rarely larger membranous {Homaloclados '). 

 Lobes of corolla short or elongate ; margins more or less thick, valvate. 

 Ovules suberect, free Or dorsally more or less connate with base of 

 septum (Eucoussarea). Fruit fleshy or coriaceous &c. of Uragoga.* — 

 Trees, shrubs or undershrubs, sometimes subscandent; branches 

 sometimes compressed or 4-gonal ; leaves opposite, oftener glabrous 

 entire ; stipules intrapetiolar generally connate in a sheath ; flowers ' 

 terminal in ramose-compound, sometimes corymbiform or capituliform 

 cymes. {Trop. America.^) 



VI. MORINDE^. 



47. Morinda Vaill. — Flowers hermaphrodite or more rarely 

 polygamous ; receptacle sachke, enclosing adnate germen and exter- 

 nally connate with receptacles of adjacent flowers. Calyx superior 

 gamophyllous, entire, sometimes very short or more or less deeply 

 sinuate, dentate or lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped, hypocrateriform or 

 subcampanulate, sometimes almost quite dialypetalous (Chorimorinda); 

 folioles of stamens by means of filaments coalescent ; lobes of more 

 or less expanded limb 4, 5, more rarely more, rather thick, valvate. 

 Stamens as many alternate ; filaments short or elongate, inserted at 

 bottom of tube or on receptacle either free from throat or coadnate 



' Gttian. i. 98, t. 38 (not of others). — J. Gen.' distinct; the interlocular septum is certainly 



203. — Lamk. III. t. 65. — Uicu.Eub. 97, t. 8, fig. sometimes complete. / 



1, 2. — DO. Prodr. iv. 493. — Endl. Gen. n. 3168. ° Small or oftener rather large, not unhand- 



— ^B. H. Oen. ii. 120, 1229, n. 266. — Frxlichia some, white, often fragrant. 



Vahl, ^cZ. P»-«/. 3 (notMffiNca, norWuLF.). — ^ Spec, about 60. E. et FAy.M. Per. t.21i, 



milardieraYuii., Eel. i. 13, t. 10, fig. 3 (not 216 {Goffea). — H. B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. t. 



McEKCH. nor Sm.). — PeeTieya Scop. Introd. 143. 287 (Tetramerium). — PtEpp; et Endl. Mv. Gen. 



^ Aubl. Guian. 102, t. 40.— J. Gen. 209 ; Mem. et Sp. i. 231 ( Coussarea), 234, sinistr.— jAca. St. 



Mm. vi. 376.— Lamk. III. t. 63.— KiOH. Sui. 96, Amer. 67, t. 47.— Phebl, Symb. t. 40 {Faramea). 



t. 7, fig. 1-, 2.— DC. Prodr. iv. 496.— Endl. Gen. — Kabst. PI. Colom. 1. 107 ( Coussarea).— Gsis^b. 



n. 3154.— B. H. Gen. ii. 121, 1229, n. 257.— Fl. BrU. W.-Ind. 338.— M. Arg. Flora (1875), 



Tetramerium GiERTN. r. Fruct. iii. 90, t. 196.— 465, 468 {Faramea). — Benth. Zinntea, xxiii. 452 



Potima Pebs. Syn. i. 209.— ?Darluca Eafin. (,Faramea).—'WAi,r. Pep. ii. i7 8 {Faramea), iSO; 



Ann. G4n. Sc. Phys. vi. 87 (ex DC), vi. 43 {Faramea), 44 (?) ; Ann. ii. 760 {Faramea, 



3 Hook. f. Icon. t. 1128 {Omaloolados).~B. part). C. Frceliehia A. EicH. {Sub. 97), a plant 



H. Gen. ii. 122, n. 258. cultivated in bath-rooms many years ago, is an 



* From which the genus is too artificially Ixora. 



