RUBIACEM 4)5 



102. Bertiera Aubl.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygaiiious ; 

 receptacle obconical or subspherical. Calyx cupular entire or 5-dentate 

 or lobed. Corolla ^ funnel-shaped ', tube often sericeous ; lobes of limb 

 5, ovate-acute, closely contorted or more rarely imbricate (1 interior ; 

 1 exterior). Stamens 5, inserted in throat or tube, sometimes near 

 base of corolla ; filaments short or subnil ; anthers enclosed introrse, 

 thinly apiculate or appendiculate ; cells rimose, free at base. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk annular or cupular ; style fusiform subentire or diyided 

 into 2 thick or thin stigmatiferous branches. Ovules oo , inserted on 

 slightly prominent placenta sometimes thickly stipitate and affixed to 

 septum. Fruit oblong or fusiform, fleshy or coriaceous. Seeds oo , 

 angular, externally granular or foveolate ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 of straight or curved embryo ovate. — Small trees or shrubs, glabrous 

 or variously clothed ; leaves opposite petiolate oblong-acuminate ; 

 stipules intrapetiolar connate; sheath sometimes large unequally 

 divided; flowers' in axillary, often pendent, pedunculate, compound 

 cymiferous racemes, sometimes sessile ; cymes sometimes 1 -parous. 

 {Trop. America, trop. cont. and east. trop. ins. Africa.^) 



103. Hamelia Jacq.' — Flowers generally hermaphrodite; recep- 

 tacle ovoid or obconical, sometimes costate. Calyx gamophyllous ; 

 foholes at base or scarcely connate, sometimes rather large,* persistent. 

 Corolla narrow- tubular or subcampanulate, sometimes dilated at base 

 and sometimes narrowed a little above, longitudinally costate ; hmb 5, 

 6-lobed, often short, imbricate. Stamens 5, 6, alternate, inserted in 

 tube of corolla, sometimes at base ; filaments free or very shortly 

 connate at base ; anthers elongate narrow basifixed introrse, 2-rimose, 

 enclosed or exserted ; connective slightly produced beyond cells. 

 Germen ' 2-6-celled ; cells 2-6,^ oo -ovulate ; disk epigynous thick- 



] Guim. i. 180, t. 69.— Lamk. III. t. 165.— iii. 82.— Waip. Sep. ii. 517; vi. 73; Aim. ii. 



/GjERtn. jr. Fruct. iii. t. 192. — 3. MSm. Mus. vi. 793. 



390.— Rich. Jfwi. 1 73, t. 13, fig. 1.— DC. Prodr. * St. Amer. 71, t. 50 ; le. Ear. t. 336.— GiEKTN. 



iv. 391 (part).— Ekdl. Gen. n. 3296.— B.H. Gen. p. Fruet. iii. 63, t. 191, 196.— Eich. Rub. 147.— 



ii. 77, n. 138.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. U\.—Foma- DC. Prodr. iv. 441.— Ehdl. Gen. n. 3228.— B.H. 



i!«»»GrJEBTN.p.JiV!«!<.iii.252,t.226. — TiO.Prodr. Gen. ii. 75, n. 134. — H. Bs. Adansonia, i. 374. 



iv. 391. — ^ENDL.Gen. n. 3296. — Zaluzania Comm. — Tmgaraca Adans. Fam. Fl.ii. 147 (1763).— 



(ex GjErtn. p. Fruct. t. 192, f. 6). Duhamelia Pees. Synops. i. 203. — ? Tepesia 



^ Acute in Ijud. GjKktn. p. Fruct. iii. 72, t. 192. 



^.Small, white or greenish. * Sometimes coloured. 



* Spec, about 15. Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. ' Sometimes coloured externally. 



321.— G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 619 ( Wendlmidia). ^ Lobes of corolla, when the same in number, 



— Bak. Fl. Maur. 141. — Hiekn, Fl. Trop. Afr, opposite. 



