BUBIACEM ■ 437 



obconical solid. Calyx tubular coriaceous thick, subentire at truncate 

 margin. Corolla long-funnel-shaped coriaceous; tube elongate, at 

 throat dilated tomentose; lobes of limb (acute in bud) oftener 8, 

 acute-acuminate, closely contorted, finally reflexed. Stamens 8, 

 inserted in throat ; filaments very short ; anthers dorsifixed at base 

 oblong, pointed at both ends, 2-fid at base; connective thick; cells 

 linear introrse, longitudinally rimose. Disk epigynous short annular- 

 depressed. Style erect ; lobes 2, oblong papillose. Female flower . . . ? 

 — " Drupe pea-shaped, crowned with calyx, 6, 7-pyrenous ; pyrenes 

 crustaceous, dorsally and laterally carinate, 1-spermous; seeds . . . ?" 

 — A very tall glabrous tree; leaves opposite oblong membranous, 

 narrowed to petiole; stipules intrapetiolar connate in a cupule; 

 flowers ' in scantily ramose corymbiform cymes.^ (GuiarM.^) 



88 ? Phitopis Hook, f.* — Flowers nearly of Genipa ; calyx gamo- 

 sepalous campanulate unequally lobed or dentate, sericeous or hirsute, 

 valvate, persistent (?), Corolla subcampanulate ; lobes 5 (more rarely 

 4, 6), obtuse, closely contorted, sericeous; throat pilose. Stamens 

 same in number, inserted in throat ; filaments short or subnil ; anthers 

 oblong introrse semiexserted, 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled; disk 

 epigynous thick depressed ; style branches 2, short obovate obtuse. 

 Ovules in cells oo , inserted . on thick vertical obpyramidal 2-lobed 

 placenta. Fruit , . . ? — Small hispid- or sericeo-villose trees ; leaves 

 opposite Bubsessile obovate-lanceolate acute; nerves subparallel 

 divergent ; stipules 2, free, deciduous ; flowers ° in compound racemi- 

 form 3-chotomous cymes ; cymules 3-florous ; bracts broad subinvo- 

 lucrant spathaceous sericeous ; bracteoles smaller conformed.* {East. 

 PeruJ) 



89 ? Billiottia DC— Flowers nearly of Genipa (or Amaioua), 

 dioecious ; calyx ' of males campanulate ; lobes 5 (or more rarely 4), 

 acute recurved, equal or unequal ; denticules as many alternate. Lobes 



> Large showy * A ge^s apparently very near to Genipa. 



» A gfcnus imperfectly known; male flowers 'Spec. 1 (v. 2?). Spruce, exs. n. 4319, 



only examined by us ; apparently very near to i83i (Hippotis). u \ x. 



Genipa. A congener of Rhyssocarpm ? ' ^rod,: iv. 618 (not Coll. nor E Bii.).-±!. 



'Speo.l.K.insi!,nisFiscu.-GardeniamUffra H. Gen. ii. 80, n. US.-Melanopsjd^um Gels 



Kick. ie«S. m.-Fatima? laxijU>m Benth. (not Poii.).-Endl. Gen. n. Si2S.-nmama 



' Book. Jown. Bot. iii. 220. Coll. Mim. Soc. Unn. Par. iv. 25, t. 2 (not of 



* Icon. t. 1093 ; Gen. ii. 84, n. 157. others). 



« White, moderate. " Darkening on decaying. 



