436 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



unequal, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted at mouth of 

 corolla; filaments straight or curved, glabrous or hispid; anthers 

 introrse, sometimes coalite with each other ; cells sometimes unequal ; 

 connective produced below under cells to a simple or 2-lobed lamina. , 

 Germen 2-celled ; cells complete or incomplete, oo -ovulate ; disk 

 epigynous various, sometimes much produced; style slender, some- 

 times short, at apex stigmatose 2-fid. Fruit ' baccate, often crowned 

 with calyx ; cells 1, 2, oo -spermous. Seeds angular, exappendiculate, 

 densely albuminous. — Glabrous trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 petiolate coriaceous; stipules intrapetiolar rather large, deciduous; 

 flowers ^ in terminal corymbiform cymes. (Trop. America.') 



86. Oxyanthus DC* — Flowers nearly of Genipa; calyx shortly 

 tubular or urceolate, 5-dentate. Tube of hypocrateriform corolla long 

 or oftener very long and slender ; throat glabrous ; lobes of limb 5, 

 equal, closely contorted. Stamens 5, inserted at mouth or throat of 

 corolla; filaments short; anthers exserted, dorsifixed at base; 

 connective acuminate and generally produced in two lobes at base. 

 Germen 2-celled ; cells often incomplete ; disk epigynous annular ; 

 style elongate very slender, clavate above and narrowly fusiform ; 

 lobes 2, stigmatose. Ovules in cells oo , inserted on axile or oftener 

 parietal 2-lobed placenta. Fruit baccate, 1 -celled, crowned with 

 calyx; seeds oo , more or less angular or compressed ; albumen fleshy; 

 cotykdons of axile embryo foliaceous; radicle elongate. Other 

 characters of Genipa. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite, sometimes 

 unequal at base ; petiole short ; stipules intrapetiolar various, 

 deciduous ; flowers ^ axillary in corymbiform cymes ; pedicels brac- 

 teolate.* (Trop. and south. Africa.') 



87 ? Kotchubea Fisch.' — Flowers dioecious ; receptacle of males 



' Generally rather large. ' A genus hence very near to Posoqueria, 



2 White, yellowish, pink or coccineous, large thenoe to Genipa sect, of the Toooyem, some- 

 showy, odorous. what also allied to Exoatema. 



' EuDO. Chuian. t. 40, 41 (Solena). — Lindl. et ^ Spec, ahout 15. Andr. Bot. Sep. t. 183 



Paxt. Fl. G-ard. i. 185, fig. 114.— Pl. M. Serr. (Gardenia). — Sohum. et Thonn. BeaTcr. 107 



Ti.l69, t. 687. — LiNDL. 5o<. JSe^. (1841)t. 26. — {Ucriana). — Lindl. Collect, t. 13.— Harv. and 



Walp. Rep. ii. 520 ; ti. 76 ; Ann. ii. 797. Sond. i'l. Cup. t. iii. 3.— Kl. Pet. Most. Bot. 292. 



* Ann. Mus. ix. 618; Prodr.vv. 376.— J. Mim. —Fl. Serr. ii. 148.— Hook. Icon. t. 785, 786.— 



Mus. vi. 390.— Endl. Gen. n.. 3307.— B. H. (r«j. Benth. iV%. Fl. 388.— Hiern. Fl. Trop. Afr. 



ii. 91, n. 171. — Gandellaria Smeathm. herb. — iii. 106.— .Bo*. Mag. t. 1992, 4636. — Walp. Rep. 



Megaearpha Hochst. Flora (1844), 551. Ti. 73 (MegacarphiC). 



5 White or yellow, odorous, sometimes very * Ex DC.Prorfy. iv. 373 (ir«<<:A«f(B8).— Endl. 



long. Gm. n. 3312.— B. H. Gen. ii.9S, n. 193. 



