BUBIACE^. 435 



83 ? Rhyssocarpus Endl.' — Male flower . . . ? Eeceptacle of 

 solitary pedunculate female flower globose, longitudinally 10-12-cos- 

 tate; " ribs strong transversely rugose. Calyx 1 0-1 2 -partite ; lobes 

 linear- spathulate erect open. Corolla hypocrateriform coriaceous ; 

 tube short ; throat hirsute ; lobes of limb 5, acute, puberulous, con- 

 torted. Staminodes 5, 6. Disk fleshy. Germen globose, 4-celled ; 

 branches of short style, linear erect. Ovules oo , inserted on enlarged 

 peltate placentas, amphitropous. Berry subglobosetoruloso-costate . . . 

 — ^A branched shrub or small tree ; leaves opposite petiolate elliptico- 

 oblong acuminate ; stipules intrapetiolar connate in a " finally fissous " 

 sheath, large deciduous.^ {Trop. America.^) 



84. Ghapeliera A. Rich.*— ^Flowers small (nearly of Genipa), 

 5-merous; receptacle obconical. Calyx lobes rigid acute, persistent. 

 Corolla closely contorted, glabrous within. Stamens 5, inserted in 

 throat ; anthers dorsifixed, enclosed. Germen 2-celled; disk epigynous 

 annular ; style fusiform longitudinally sulcate. OVtiles oo , oftener 

 few,^ inserted along margins of long ovate placenta affixed to septum. 

 Fruit ovoid (small) baccate coriaceous, crowned with calyx; seeds 

 few, richly albuminous ; testa thick curvo-sulcate and densely fibrous.* 

 — A glabrous (evergreen) shrub; leaves opposite, shortly petiolate 

 elliptico- or oblong-acute coriaceous penninerved ; stipules interpetiolar 

 cuspidate, generally persistent ; flowers '' in axillary or a little supra- 

 axillary contracted cymes, bracteolate; bracteoles conformed to 

 stipules.^ [Madagascar.^) 



85. Posoqueria Aubl.'° — Flowers nearly of Genipa, 5-merous; 

 corolla tube very long slender ; throat glabrous or variously pilose ; 

 limb before anthesis refracto-gibbous long-ovoid; lobes equal or 



xxviii. 519, t. 43 {AUhertia).—WA!JV. Sep. ii. « Yellow or golden. 



489 (Cordiera), 523 {Scepaeothamnus), 524 {Gar- ' "W^hite." 



deniola, ThieUodoxa) ; vi. 77. ° Rather a sect, of Genipa, very near Para- 



' ' £o<. ^ert. (1843) 459 ; Gen. Suppl. 73.— B. ^fnijoa, to be distinguislied chiefly for the nature 



H. Gen. ii. 29, 81, n. 148 a.—Pleuroearpus Kl. of its fibrous testa ? 



JSonplmdia (1850), 3. ' Spec. 1. C. madagascariensis Rich. — Tama- 



* A genus unkiio-wn to us ; rather a sect, of tavia Melleri Hook. r. 

 Amaioua, germen and fruit being costate. '" Guian. u 133, t. 61.— J. M^m. Mus. vi. 389. 



= Spec. 1. R. pubescens Endl. —Rich. Bah,. 168 (not Wall.).— DC. Frodr. iv, 



"Sub. 172 (part).— DO. iVo<«r. iv. 389.— 376.— Endl. (?«re. n. 3308.— B. H. ffCT. ii. 83, n. 



Endl. Gen. n. 3301.— B.H. Gen. ii. 96, n. 188.— l6Z.—SolenayT . Spec. i. 961.—Cyrtanthus Schr. 



H. Bn. Sull. Soc. Linn. Par. 200.— Tamatcwia Gen.lli.—KyrtanthusGnLEL.Syst.iQ'i.—Posoria 



Hook. f. Gen. ii. 92, n. 173. Eafin. Ann. Gen. Se. Phys. vi. iO.Stannia 



' Sometimes 5. Karst. Ausw.-'N. Gem. 27, t. 9 ; PI. Col. t. 16, 25, 



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