440 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



in axillary simple slightly ramose spikes, in axils of bracts solitary or 

 cymose few, 2-bracteolate. {India, Malaya, Ind. Archip}) 



94. Fernelia Commers.^ — Flowers small (nearly of Genipa or 

 Pouchetia), 1-sexual, oftener 4-merous; teeth of calyx elongate; 

 corolla shortly hypocrateriform, contorted. Stamens inserted in throat 

 of corolla or a little lower ; anthers subsessile introrse acute (in female 

 flower sterile, sometimes subspherical, or 0). Germen 1-celled; disk 

 annular ; branches of short style 2, linear-elongate stigmatose (in male 

 flower minute or 0). Ovules oo . Berry small coriaceous ; seeds oo , 

 obtusely angular, densely albuminous. Other characters of Pouchetia 

 or Petunga. — Very ramose glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite (small) 

 coriaceous, orbicular, obovate or oblong ; stipules interpetiolar small ; 

 flowers small axillary, sohtary, 2-nate or few cymose ; pedicels short 

 or subnil; bracteoles connate in a dentate calycule under flower. 

 (Mascarene Is., Seychelles,^ ? Ind. Archip.*) 



95. Morindopsis Hook, p.^ — Flowers small dicecious ; receptacle 

 of males short subhemispherical. Calyx short, 4-dentate, alternately 

 imbricate. ° Lobes of subcampanulate corolla 4, contorted; throat 

 villose. Stamens 4, inserted in throat; anthers sessile dorsifixed 

 enclosed acuminate, 2-rimose. Germen minute sterile; disk thick 

 convex; branches of short style 2, pubescent. Keceptacle of female 

 flower oblong, sulcate and costate ; teeth of persistent cupular calyx 

 4, acute. Corolla of males. Staminodes 4, inserted on corolla. 

 Germen 2-celled ; ovules oo , peltate ; thick style and disk of males. 

 Fruit crowned with calyx, straight or curved, oblong-fusiform ; pericarp 

 thin subcoriaceous obtusely sulcate, indehiscent. Seeds oo, compressed, 

 imbricate ; embryo .... ? — Glabrous or slightly pubescent shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite elliptical or lanceolate subcoriaceous; petiole short or 

 ; stipules interpetiolar short coriaceous cuspidate, persistent; flowers' 

 axillary or somewhat supra-axillary pedunculate ; males in contracted 



> Spec. 8, i. RoxB. Fl. Ind. i. 144 (Sandia).— 92, n. 176.— Bakeb, M. Maurit. Ii2.—Niver- 



Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 200 ; Suppl. 217 ; Ann. nenia Cokmeks. (ex Lamk.). 

 Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iv. 130, 262.— V7alp. Ann. ii. 3 Spec. 2, 3. Baker, m. Maurit. 142.— Balp. 



792. p. Bot. Modng. 46, t. 23. 



^J.Gen. 199; Mim. Mas. vi. 393.— Lamk. * 'SS.iq.. Fl. Ind.-Bat. '^. 2\B 



Vuit. ii. 452 ; III. t. 67, fig. 1.— ©.asBTN. p. Fi-uct. ' Gen. ii. 93, u. 



i. 61, 1. 191, 197.— Rich. Rub. in.~-J)O.P,odr. « Lateral foliol 



iv. 398.— Enul. Gen. n. 3290.— B. H. Gen. ii. 7 Wiite, small, 



D'wt. ii. 452 ; III. t. 67, fig. 1.— ©.asBTN. p. Fruct. ' Gen. ii. 93, u. 179.— Hook. Fl. Lid. iii 121 



iii.61,t. 191,197.— Rich. i?Mi. 177.— DC. J'/orfr. « Lateral folioles exterior. ' 



