RUBIACEM. 423- 



Germen inferior, 5- 10-celled ; cells oppositipetalous, 1-ovulate ; disk 

 epigyaous depressed ; style narrowed at base within disk, at apex 

 rather thick entire sulcate. Ovules descending from top of cell angle ;• 

 micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit drupaceous; pyrenes 5-10. 

 Seeds descending; funicle sometimes incrassate; albumen fleshy; 

 radicle of small axile embryo superior. — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate coriaceous entire ; stipules intrapetiolar connate in 

 sheath; flowers in terminal pedunculate compound cymiferous 

 corymbs. [Antilles, Florida., Venezuela}) 



63. Chione DC.^ — Flowers (nearly of Erithalis) 4, 5-merous ; calyx 

 dentate or lobed. Corolla short funnel-shaped campanulate ; lobes 

 obtuse, sometimes subauriculate at base, closely imbricate. Stamens 

 4, 5 ; filaments rather thick inserted above base of corolla ; anthers 

 dorsifixed, introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled; disk epigynous 

 rather thick ; branches of thickish style 2, obtuse divaricate. Ovules 

 in cells solitary descending ; funicle rather thick ; raphe dorsal. Fruit 

 oblong drupaceous ; putamen very hard, 2-celled. Seeds cylindrical, 

 pointed below ; albumen oftener thin; cotyledons of fleshy macropod 

 embryo small inferior; radicle thick superior. — Glabrous trees or 

 shrubs; leaves opposite entire coriaceous petiolate; stipules ovate, 

 sometimes connate, caducous ; flowers ^ in terminal compound some- 

 times subcorymbose cymes, bracteolate. (Antilles.'^) 



64. Guettarda L.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or oftener polygaimo- 

 dicecious; calyx cupular, tubular or campanulate, entire or dentate, 

 persistent or deciduous; teeth equal or unequal. Corolla funnel- 



4, 5. P. Br. loe. ert.— Grisbb. Fl. Mm. vi. 377 {AntirJicea).— DC. Prodr. iv. 439. 



Brit.' TF.-Ind. 336; Cat. PI. Cub. 133 (Chione), — Kndl. Gen. n. 3194.— B. H. Gen. ii. 100, n. 



134._Ohapm. Fl. 8. Unit. St. 178. 197.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 144.— Utenostomum 



^ JProdr. iv. 461. B. H. Gen. ii. 107, n. 216. G^rtn. p. Fi-uot. iii. 69. — Sturmia GiEUTN. p. 



—Smeonia Endl. Gen. u. 5il.—Crusea Rich. loc. cit. t. 19'2.—Stenostemiim J. Mem. Mus. vi. 



Muh. 124, t. 9, fig. 1 (not DC). 317.— Dierobotryum W. ex Sch. Si/st. v. 221.— 



' Small, " whitish." Laugeria Vahl, Eel. 26, t. 10 (1796;.— B. H. 



* Spec. 3, 4. Vahl, Eel. iii. t. 21 {Psychotria). Gen. ii. 101, n. 198.— Sobea Gacdich. Freyoin. 



— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 335 ; Cat. Fl. Glib. Voy. Bot. 473, t. 93.— B. H. Gen. ii, 101, n. 200. 



133 (part). — Bobiea EiCH. Bub. \Z5.—6uettardella Champ. 



5 Gtn. n, 1064.--J. Gen. 207.— KicH. Rub. 121. Hoolc. Kew Journ. iv. 197 .— PUtoniotis Grieeb. 



—DC. Pro*, iv. 465 Endl. Gen. n. 3192.— Bonplmdia (1858), 8.—Donlee!aaria Lem. III., 



B. H. Gen. ii. 99, n. 196.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. Sort.ii. Misc. 72.— Obbea Hook. f. Icon. 1. 1070 ; 



143.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 126.— Matthiola L. (?e». ii. 102.— ^«r«eya (part) Ch. et Schlchtl, 



Gen. n. 1231 (not T)C.).—Cadamba Sonn. Voy. ii. Linnoea, iv. 190.— Shytidotus Hook. p. Icon. 



228, t. 128 (1776).— Ja&jia P. Br. Jam. 205 t., 1071 [Bi/ticlotus). — B.. Bn. Adansonia, xii* 



(1756). — Antii r/icea Commeks. /. Gen. 204 ; Mem. 242. 



