BUBIACJEM ^ 411 



capituliform cymes at top of peduncle ; females solitary decussately 

 4-bracteate ' or cymose few. (East. India, Cochin China, Malaya.'^) 



96. Scyphostachys Thw.^ — Flowers small hermaphrodite (nearly 

 of Pouchetia or Petunga), 4-merous ; corolla narrow funnel-shaped ; 

 lobes of limb 4, contorted, recurved ; throat villose. Stamens 4 ; 

 filaments very short or ; anthers enclosed ; hairs of corolla throat 

 collected in compressed masses alternating with stamens. Germen 

 2-celled ; ovules few (often to 4). Berry ovoid-oblong ; seeds few, 

 descending, richly albuminous ; testa sulcate ; " cotyledons of eccentric 

 embryo small." — Erect ramose shrubs; leaves opposite oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate coriaceous; stipules intrapetiolar acuminate, 

 connate at base ; flowers * in axillary or supra- axillary amentiform 

 spikes, sessile and involucrate with younger connate imbricate early 

 deciduous bracts.^ (Ceylon.^) 



97. Canephora J.^ — Flowers small hermaphrodite (nearly of 

 Genipa) ; receptacle obovate ; calycinal teeth 5, or more rarely 3-6, 

 acute. Lobes of nearly funnel-shaped corolla 5 (or 4, 6) contorted ; 

 throat glabrous or slightly pubescent. Stamens same in number, 

 inserted in throat ; anthers subsessile, introrse. Germen 2-celled ;. 

 lobes of rather thick style 2, approximate stigmatiferous. Ovules in 

 cells 00 ; often few, compressed. Fruit "baccate pealike coriaceous ;" 

 seeds . . . ? — ^A shrub ; leaves opposite elliptical acuminate coriaceous 

 glabrous ; stipules connate with petioles, 3-angular ; flowers ® com- 

 pound cymose at top of compressed alate leaf-like peduncle ; pedicel 

 very short ; bracts and bracteoles stipuliform shortly imbricate in an 

 involucre under flowers. (Madagascar.^) 



98. Hypobathrum Bl.^" — Flowers small, hermaphrodite or very 

 rarely 1-sexual; receptacle obconical or obovoid. Calyx short 



> Bracts opposite calyx lotes. — PoiR. Suppl. ii. 77.- J. Gen. 208 ; M^n. Mus. 



' Spec. 2, 3. Wall. Cat. n. 8433 (part), 8434 vi. 401.— Eich. Sui. lS\.—BC.Frodr.iv. 617. 



{Morinda). —KvRZ, For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 62. — Endl. Gen. n. 3284.— B.H. G-en. ii. 74, n. 



' Mnum. PI. Zeyl. 137.— B. H. Oen. ii. 94, n. 129.— H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. 199. 



181.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 122. * Small, white ? 



* Small or very small. ' Spec. 1. C. axillaris Lamk. 



' A genus with the hahit of Lasianthus, differ- " Bijdr. 1007 (1826).— Eioh. Bub. 118.— DC. 



ing chiefly in germen heing plariovulate. Prodr. iv. 451.— Endl. Qen. n. 3186.— B. H. 



« Spec. " 2." Bbdd. Icon. PI. Ind. Or. t. 240 ; Gen. ii. 93, n. 177.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 201. 



Fl. Sylv. t. 16, vi. ; cxxxiv. —m>c%dia Rich. Bub. 112.-DC. Prodr. iv. 477. 



^ Gen. 208.— Lamk. III. t. 151, fig. 1 (not 2). —Endl. Gen. n. 3172.^11. Bn. l:c. dl. 204.— 



