RVBIACE^. 457 



baccate, sometimes crowned with calyx. Seeds oc, more or less 

 crowded in a mass, small, unequal- angled ; albumen fleshy ; radicle 

 of straight or curved embryo elongate ; cotyledons suborbicular, ovate 

 or obovate. — Small trees or shrubs, often pilose; leaves opposite 

 _ petiolate obovate or ovate-lanceolate, striated with crowded veinules ; 

 stipules interpetiolar, elongate or lanceolate, oftener caducous or 

 deciduoug; flowers' axillary in pedunculate, often few-flowered, 

 sometimes 1-flowered cymes, {Trop. N. and S. America.'') 



122. Fentagonia Benth.' — Flowers 5, 6-merous (nearly of 

 Genipa) ; receptacle cylindrical or subcampanulate. Calyx spatha- 

 ceous-4-6-lobed ; lobes equal or unequal, imbricate. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped-tubular, glabrous within or with the tube variously pilose ; 

 throat glabrous; lobes of limb 4-6, obtuse thick, valvate. Stamens same 

 in number, inserted at bottom of tube ; filaments unequal, often villose 

 at base, straight, flexnose or much recurved; anthers ovate- oblong 

 dorsifixed, often finally reflexed ; cells introrsely rimose, free below. 

 Grermen 2-celled ; disk annular or cupular ; style unequally 2-lobed 

 at apex ; lobes subovate obtuse complanate stigmatiferous. Ovules oo, 

 inserted on oblong placentas adnate to septum, oo-seriate. Fruit 

 "baccate," spherical or ovoid. Seeds oo, obtuse-angled, albuminous. 



■ — Shrubs, sometimes but rarely twining ; leaves opposite (large), 

 entire or sometimes pinnatifid,''venose-lineate, petiolate ; "stipules 

 large lanceolate;" flowers^ in axillary sessile or pedunculate com- 

 pound corymbtform cymes, bracteate." (Trop. America.'') 



123. Gouldia A. Gray.' — Flowers generally 4-merous; receptacle 

 obconical or obovoid. Calyx short dentate. Corolla hypocrateriform ; 

 lobes 4, thick, 3-angular, valvate.' Stamens 4, inserted in tube or 

 throat ; filaments short or rather long ; anthers dorsifixed elongate 

 introrse, 2-rimose ; connective apiculate, oftener exserted. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk annular ; branches of slender style 2, linear-acute 



• Rather large, •white, often odorous ; corolla ' A genus resembling Genipa ; corolla val- 



generally sericeous, pilose or puhes(^nt without vate. 



^ Spec, about 10. Karst. loe. eit. i. t. 17. — ' Spec. 5, 6. Seem. Uer, Bot. t. 28 ; Hook. Lmi. 



Walp. Rep. vi. 77 [Sommera). Journ. vii. t. 18. — Hook. p. Bot. Mag. t. 5230. 



, Bot. 105, t. 39.— B. H. Gen. ii. 78, n. —"Walp. Ann. ii. 798. 

 142. — MegaphyUum SiVKVc^, Herb. n. 6230. ' Pioc. Amer. Acad. iv. 310. — B. H. Geii. ii. 



* Nearly of Artiicurpus iiicisa. 77, n. 139. 

 ' Large, red, yellow or greenish. " One lobe oceaaiomlly somewhat exterior. 



