RUB I AC EM. 421 



superior. Fruit drupaceous 1, 2-pyrenous; albuminous seed &c. of 

 Chiococca.^ — Shrubs unarmed or with spinescent ramules ; leaves * 

 opposite, shortly petiolate, 'coriaceous, glossy above ; stipules small 

 interpetiolar ; flowers ' axillary pedunculate solitary or cymose few. 

 (^Antilles.*) 



59. Ceratopyxis Hook, f.' — Flowers 5-merous ; lobes of gamo- 

 sepalous calyx elongately subulate, persistent. Limb of funnel-shaped 

 corolla 5-gonal in the bud ;■ lobes lanceolate, incurved at apex, 

 imbricate, revolute. Stamens 5 ; filaments inserted at bottom of 

 corolla tube ; anthers exserted, affixed near base ; cells linear sub- 

 extrorse. Germen 2-celled ; style slender, 2-fid at stigmatose apex. 

 Ovules in cells solitary descending elongate ; micropyle introrsely 

 superior. Fruit short, crovraed with calyx, coriaceous, pubescent, 

 compressed contrary to septum ; seeds oblong albuminous ; radicle of 

 axile embryo superior. Other characters of C/?iococea.* — A"resim- 

 ferous " shrub ; leaves opposite petiolate oblong acuminate coriaceous 

 highly nervose ; stipules rather large subulate connate in a sheath, 

 finally solute ; flowers ^ in axillary and terminal pedunculate cylindrical 

 densely cymiferous bracteate and sometimes foliate racemes, bracteo- 

 late. (Cuba.^) 



60. Machaonia H. B.^ — Flowers 4, 5-merous; receptacle oftener 

 oblong, more or less compressed laterally. Calyx various, persistent ; 

 lobes 4, 6, oftener unequal, imbricate. Corolla longer or shorter 

 funnel-shaped or subcampanulate ; lobes equal or unequal, sometimes 

 very short, slightly or closely imbricate ; throat sometimes villose. 

 Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat; filaments often short; anthers 

 dorsifixed oblong, enclosed or exserted, sometimes short or sub-2- 

 dymous, introrse. Disk epigynous various, sometimes very small, 

 often 2-lobed.'° Style often incrassate from base to apex; lobes 

 generally 2," short acute slightly recurved. Germen inferior, some- 



' To which the genus is very near, as are also verhenaeea Gkiseb. 

 Chime, Urithalis and Machaonia. ' PL ^qum. i. 101, t. 29.— Rich. Rub. 82.— 



' Often very small. DC. Pi odr. iv. 574.— Endl. Gen. n. 3135.— B. H. 



3 Small or very small. Qeii. ii. 102, n. 202.— H. Bn. Bull. Soo.Linn. Pur. 



< Spec. 4, 6. Lamk. III. t. 67, fig. 2 (Catesbaa). 203.— Sckiedea A. Rich. Pub. 106 (not alior).— 



— GmsBB. PI. B,U. W.-Ind. 335 ; Cat. PI. Cub. TertreaDG. Prodr. iv. 481.— Endl. Gen. n. 3168. 



122 {Catesbfea). — B. H. Gen. ii. 108, n. 219.— H. Bn. Sull. Sec. 



» Icon. t. 1125 ; Gen. ii. IDS, n. 210. Zinn. Par. IQS.—Miciospleriium Hook. f. Gen. 



' To which the genus is very near, hence also ii. 4, n. 4.— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 203. 

 to some Maehamiaa. '° One lohe anterior, the other posterior. 



7 Small, yellow t?). 'i Very rarely 3; denticules sometimes 2, 



' Spec. 1. a vei benaceu nouK.i.—Sondelitia ? with true stigmatiferous hrauches alternating. 



