BUBIACE^. 4,33 



compressed. Fruit subglobose or oblong ; cocci 2 solute from slender 

 axis or {rentankia). Seed descending, arillate above; albumen 

 fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo foliaceous ; radicle terete superior. 

 — Herbs, sometimes subshrubby, glabrous or variously clothed; 

 leaves opposite, petiolate or sessile, ovate or lanceolate; stipules 

 connate in a sheath oftener setose ; flowers ' in terminal cymes, 

 Sometimes more or' less contracted and often finally spikelike (1-parous 

 towards apex). {Africa, trop. xisia and Oceania.^) 



80 ? Synisoon H. Bn.' — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle ovoid. 

 Calyx tubular subentire, hence finally longitudinally fissous. Corolla 

 tubular-funnel-shaped ; lobes of limb 5, closely contorted. Stamens 

 5 ; filaments inserted in hollows of corolla, subulate, at base dUated 

 complanate ; anthers exserfed dorsifixed, introrsely rimose, versatile ; 

 connective apioulate; cells produced below in a foliaceous layer. 

 Germen 5-celled ; disk epigynous rather thick ; style slender, apex 

 asserted globose stigmatose, 5-lobulate above; lobes small acute, 

 finally reflexed. Ovules in cells 2, collaterally pendulous from short 

 funicle thickened at apex ; micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit . . . ? 

 ■ — A tree (?) ; leaves opposite oblong petiolate; stipules interpetiolar 

 short connate ; flowers * in terminal corymbiform cymes.' {British 

 Guiana.^) 



VIII. GENIPE^. 



81. Genipa Plum.— Flowers hermaphrodite or 1-sexual, 4, 6- 

 merous, or more rarely 6-10-merous ; calyx epigynous various, entire, 

 dentate, lobate, partite, or spathaceous, sometimes wide-foliaceous, 

 persistent or deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform or 

 campanulate {Amaralia) ; tube sometimes short, or more rarely long 

 narrow {Griffiihia) or very long slender {Leptactinia, Tocoyena, Eoth- 



' Pink or lilac, small. Mum. I'l. Zeyl. 151.— Walp. nep. ii. 468 ; Ann. 



2 Spec. 8-10. Wail. PI. As. Rar. t. 32.— iii. 906. 



Wight, III. ii. t. 128.— Hart, and Sond. Fl. ^ Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 208. 



Gap. iii. 24 (Pente;rt«'a).— HiEBN, PI. Trop. Afr. * Rather large, white. 



iii. 131 (Pentanuia).—KL. Put. Moss. Sot. 286 * A genus closely allied to none, somewhat 



(Peiitaidsia).— Km. Fl.lH.-Sat. ii.'Si9 ; Suppl. lesemhling Bitiniph^llum. But ovules descend- 



225, 550,- Benth. Pi. Auairal. iii. 438 ; F/. ing ; micropyle introrsely superior. 



Songk. 164.— F.Muell. 2i')-ff^»fi.ix. 187.— Thw. ^ Spec. 1. S. Schomiurc/kiamm H. Bs. 



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