■ BUBIACE^.. 451 



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pericarp indehiscent or finally loculicidal above. Seeds small cuneate 

 or subcubical spotted ; embryo minute ovoid albuminous. — Feeble 

 shrubs ; bark whitish secedent ; leaves opposite oblong acuminate 

 petiolate, membranous, oo-nerved; stipules interpetiolar entire or 

 2 -dentate, persistent or deciduous ; flowers in axillary and terminal 

 compound-2-chotomous open cymiferous or glomeruliferous racemes ; 

 pedicels oftener slender; bracts sometimes glandular, {Trop. mount. 

 Asia, Ind. Archip.^) 



111. Sabicea Aubl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely polyga- 

 mous ; receptacle obconical or hemispherical. C'alyx entire truncate 

 (Patima'), or 3-6-dentate or lobed; lobes sometimes unequal, obtuse 

 or elongate acute; denticules (stipulary ?) sometimes interposed. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform ; tube short or elongate ; 

 throat villose or pubescent ; lobes of limb 4-6, sometimes sericeous 

 within, short, obtuse or rather long acute (Patinia), valvate. Stamens 

 as many, inserted in throat or tube of corolla ; filaments rather long, 

 short or ; anthers dorsifixed linear-oblong, introrsely 2-rimose. 

 Germen 2-6-celled ; cells * complete or incomplete ; tranches of erect 

 style same in number stigmatiferous linear rather obtuse. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on tumid axile or parietal 2-lobed placentas. Fruit baccate, 

 coriaceous or fleshy ; cells 2-6, polyspermous ; seeds minute, some- 

 times angular; embryo clavate or terete albuminous. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs, erect or oftener twining, more frequently tomentose; 

 leaves opposite oblong, petiolate or subsessile ; stipules intrapetiolar, 

 straight or recurved, often persistent ; flowers ° axillary cymose or 

 glomerulate ; cymes sessile or pedunculate, often corymbiform, brac- 

 teate ; bracte"oles sometimes 0." (Warm America, trop. tvest. and east, 

 ins. Africa.^) 



112 ? Stipularia P.Beauv.^— Flowers nearly of /Sakcea," 5-merous; 



1 Spec. 3, 4. Wall. Jiota. FL. Ind. ii. 138 opposite. 

 (iJoH<?«&&).— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 215 ; Suppl. * White, yellow, small. 



218 ; Ann. Mia. Lugil.-Bat. iv. 239.— Kdkz, ^ A genus hence resembling Manettia. 



For. Fl. Bni. Burm. ii. 64.— Walp. Aim. i. 376 ' Spec, about 30. E. et Pav. Fl. Per. ii. t. 200, 



(lawia); v. 135 {Bertiera). fig. a {Schwm/cfelda).— 'BooTi. Icon. t. 247.— 



2 Gaian. i. 192, t. 75, 76.— J. M4in. Mas. vi. Don, Gen. Si/st. iii. 605 (CspA^Hs).- Gtmseb. Fl. 

 400.— Lamk. III. t. 165.— KioH. Sub. 147 -^DC. Biit. W.-Ind. 322 ; Cat. PI. Cub. 124.— Hiern, 

 /'ra*-.iv.439.— ENDL.Gcn.n.3224.— B.H. ffc«. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 74.— Walp. Bep. ii. 489; 

 ii. 72, n. llX.—Schwenkfelda Schkeb. Gen. 123. Ann. ii. 766. 



-Schvieukfeldia W. Spec. i. mi.—Paiva Vell. « //. Ow. et Ben. ii. 26, t. 75 (not Haw.). 



Fl. Flum. iii. t. 163 (ex Endl.). -Rich. Rub. 117. - DC. Prodr. iv. 619. - 



» AUBL. tfw««. i. 196, t. 77.— EiCH. ifM*. 150, Endl. Oeii. 566, 2.— B. H. Gen. ii. 74, n. 



t. 15, fig. 2.— DC. Prodr. iv. 444.— Endl. Gefi. 128. 



n. 3232.— B. H. Gm. ii. 73, u.. 125. » Of which perhaps rather a sect., bracts 



■* Corolla lobes, while the same in number, dilated to an involucre. 



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