RUBIACEM. 449 



globose, obconical or subcampanulate. Calyx short, entire, sinuate, 

 dentate or shortly 4-6-lobed. Corolla tubular, thick coriaceous, 

 sometimes externally granular or very plicate or tuberculate ; throat 

 barbate or villose; lobes of limb short 4-6,^ valvate or imbricate, 

 sometimes barbate within ; alternate sinuses sometimes projecting 

 more or less outwards, 3-angular or auriculate. Stamens equal in 

 number to lobes of corolla, inserted in throat or tube ; filaments short ; 

 anthers dorsifixed^ introrse, acute or acuminate, oftener enclosed, 

 2-rimose. Germen 2-celled (Cassupa^) or oftener 4-6 - celled ; disk 

 annular or cupular, sometimes thick ; style slender, 2-6-lobed stig- 

 matose at apex ; lobes thin or oftener thick, obovoid or plano-convex. 

 Ovules 00 , inserted in axile sometimes 2-lobed placenta. Fruit 

 baccate or drupaceous ; cells or pyrenes 2-6, few- or many-seeded. 

 Seeds small, often foveolate; albumen fleshy; embryo terete or clavate. 

 — Trees or shrubs, glabrous or variously clothed ; leaves opposite or 

 rarely 3, 4-nate, large coriaceous acuminate, often pale beneath ; 

 stipules interpetiolar connate, intrapetiolar or subfree ; flowers * in 

 terminal compound-cymiferous racemes ; pedicels bracteate and 

 bracteolate.^ {Trop. America.') 



109. Mussaenda L.'— Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely polyga- 

 mous; receptacle obconical or oblong, sometimes subhemispherical. 

 Lobes of oftener scarcely gamophyllous calyx 6, 6, short or elon- 

 gate, erect or recurved, persistent or oftener deciduous ; one often 

 produced to a leaflike (coloured) petiolate lamina. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped ; tube elongate, externally often sericeous or hirsute, sometimes 

 enlarged above (Polysolenia^); throat villose or glabrous; lobes of 

 limb 5, or more rarely 6, valvate, sometimes very redupUcate 

 {Acranthera^). Stamens same in number; filaments inserted more 



fig. 2.— DC. Prdr. iv. 437.— Endl. Gen.n. C2 i4. t. 48, 49 {Briiiiismania).—QRissB. FL fiiit. W.- 



— B. H. Gm. ii. 63, n. \n.—Pho.santhus Eafin. I'id. 319.— Walp. Rep. ii. 490 ; vi. 52 ; A,m. 



Ann. Phya. Ti. 82. — Biignolia 1)0. Prodr. iv. ii. 768. 



iii.—Bimnsmania MiQ. Linn(m xvii. 72. '' Gen.-a.. 241.— J. Mim. Mas. vi. 386.— Gjjut. 



' Rarely more numerous. ^ruct. i. t. 28.— Lamk. ///. t. 157.— Rich. Rub. 



2 Sometimes inserted at top of connective, 165.-DC. Prodr.iv. 370.— Endl. Gm.n. 3313. 



whence as if pendulous. -B- H. (?««. ii. 64, n. 98.— Baker, n. Maurit. 



=• H. B. PL Mqain. i. 43, t. 12.— ^ICH. Bub. 140.— Hook. Fl. Lid. iii. f,%.—Landia Oommeus. 



170.- DC. Prodi-, iv. 373.— Endl. Gen. n. 331 1. (ex B.\cu.).—BeliUa Rheed. Hart. Malab. u. 27, 



-B. H. Gen. ii. 65, n. 100 (corolla valvate). t. IT .—Spallauzankt DC. Prodr. iv. 406 (not 



* White, yellow, or generally red or cocci- Poll, nor Neck.). 



neons, often rather large showy. * Hook. p. (?w. ii- 68, u. 109.— Hook. Fl. 



° A genus evidently connecting the Mmsaen- Ind. iii. 94. 



dm and Satneliea of authors. ' Akn. Ann. Nat. Bist. ui. 20.- B. H. Gen. 



' Spec, ahout 15. Vahl, F^l. t. 15 — Aubl. ii. 64, n. 99.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 92,~Aiidr!i~ 



Guian. t 123 (<?«««)•(?«).- Mia. $t. Suriunm. tro;pis B . Bn. Wull- C(ft. a.. 8398. 



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