BUBIACEM 439 



girt at base with cupular 2-plicate involucel ; pericarp 4.celled/ 

 00 -spermous. Seeds rather large horizontal flat ; testa thin subfibrous- 

 cellubse." — Small glabrous trees ; leaves ^ opposite oblong petiolate 

 obtuse coriaceous ; nerves divaricate ; stipules intrapetiolar connate 

 in cupule ; flowers ' in erect terminal glomeruliferous spikes.* 

 {Amazonian regions.^) 



92. Pouchetia A. Rich.^ — Flowers small (nearly of Genipa) 

 hermaphrodite, 5-merous; calyx short, acute dentate. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped, contorted ; throat glabrous. Stamens 5, inserted in throat ; 

 anthers subsessile elongate enclosed or semiexserted acuminate ; cells 

 introrse, rimose, free at base. Germen 2-celled ; cells incomplete 

 above, oo -ovulate ; ovules 2-seriate on each placenta ; disk epigynous 

 annular; branches of slender style 2, rather thick, exserted or enclosed. 

 Fruit baccate ; seeds oo , compressed, unequally 3-angular ; testa 

 externally fibrous, longitudinally filamentose-sulcate ; embryo small, 

 rich in albumen. — Glabrous shrubs ; ramules virgate ; leaves opposite 

 oblong petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar connate, 3-angular ; flowers '' 

 in cymiferous racemes, pedicellate; bracteoles minute.^ (Trap. west. 

 Africa.^) 



93. Petunga DC.^" — Flowers small, hermaphrodite or rarely 1- 

 sexual (nearly of Genipa or Pouchetia), 4, 5-merous ; calyx dentate, 

 persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; lobes of limb oblong, contorted ; 

 throat viUose. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat ; anthers subsessile 

 dorsifixed exserted ; connective rather thick at apex ; cells free below, 

 rimose. Germen 2-celled ; cells complete or incomplete. Ovules few, 

 sometimes 2, or co , descending.. Disk entire or 2-lobed ; branches of 

 slender style 2, densely pilose. Berry (small) ; seeds few imbricate ; 

 testa sulcate; albumen fleshy. — Virgate glabrous shrubs; leaves 

 opposite petiolate; stipules mtrapetiolar connate, 3-angular; flowers" 



' " ? Always " (Hook. f.). ' -^ genus aped on the one hand to Chape- 



t " Under the lens granular, reJdish-hrown Hera, on the other to Cofea ; from the latter it 



on drying." dififers chiefly in cells heing «? -ovulate. 



3 "White or yellow," smaU. » Spec. 2. G. Don, &en. Syst. iii. 159. "• 20 



*A genus very near to Amaiom, differing {Wendlandia).-^Uisss. M. Trap. Afr. iii. 116. 



chiefly in spikelike inflorescence. — Walp. Ann. ii. 793 (part). 



' Spec. 2, 3. Sprvce, exs. n. 661, 269.6, 2891, » Froch: iv. 398.— Endl. Gen. n.3289.— B. H. 



3142, 3322, 3346 {Sehradera). &en. ii. 93, n. 178.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 120.— 



6 Mub. 171.— DC. Prodr. iv. 393.— Enpi. Gen. Bigginsia Bl. Bijdr. 988 (not Pers.).— SpiciV- 



11. 3294.— B. H. (?w ii. 92, n. 175. laria KicH. Rub. 172. 



' Small, " greemsL white." " White. 



