RUBIACi:^: 461 



fleshy ; cotyledons of small straight or curved embryo ovate or oblong. 

 — Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs ; leaves opposite or rarely verticillate, 

 very various, small or large, nerved or enervate ; stipules various, 

 often connate with petioles in a sheath, entire, dentate or ciliate- 

 dentate ; flowers in variously ramose or spicate, terminal or axillary, 

 sometimes 1-parous cymes, sometimes cymose few or solitary. {All 

 warm regions.) — See p. 323. 



130 ? Bouvardia Salisb.' — Flowers 4-merous or more rarely 

 5-merous; receptacle obovoid or obconical. Calyx lobes 4, 5, ovate 

 or lanceolate, or spathulate ; sometimes denticules (stipules ?), soli- 

 tary or 2-nate, interposed. Lobes of tubular, funnel-shaped or 

 hypocrateriform corolla 4, or more rarely 5, valvate ; tube straight or 

 slightly curved (Heterophyllcea ^) glabrous within, or sparsely pilose, 

 sometimes encircled by a ring of hairs ; throat sometimes wideJ 

 Stamens 4, or more rarely 5, inserted in throat or tube, sometimes at 

 bottom of tube (Heterophyllcea) ; filaments very short, short or 

 elongate ; anthers dorsifixed, oftener oblong, introrsely or at margins 

 rimose. Germen inferior, 2-celled ; disk various, sometimes pilose ; 

 style slender, at apex 2-dentate, 2-fid or 4-ramose, oftener papillose 

 throughout. Ovules oo, inserted on shortly stipitate obovoid or sub- 

 peltate or shortly clavate placenta affixed at middle or oftener at base 

 of septum. Fruit capsular, oftener sub-2-dymous, coriaceous, loculi- 

 cidal or more rarely septicidal (Hindsia^). Seeds oo, peltate, imbricate, 

 expanded to a membranous or rather thick wing ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo small subclavate. — Herbs or oftener shrubs, sometimes 

 pustulate {Heterophyllcea) ; leaves opposite or more rarely verticillate, 

 entire or rarely crenate ; stipules entire, dentate, fissous or ciliate ; 

 flowers^ in terminal generally corymbiform cymes. {Trap. N. and S. 

 America.'') 



131, Coccocypselum P. Be.^ — Flowers dimorphous (nearly of 



' Far. Land. ii. 88, t. 88. J. M4in. Mas. vi. \5'hitfi, yellow, pink, violet or red, sometimes 



383.— EiCH. Eub. 191 (part).— DC. Prodi: ;v. sweet-scented. 



365.— Endl. Gren. n. 3265.— 33. H. Cfeii. ii. 36, u. ' Spec, about 30. Jacq. Hurt. Selxnbr. t. 237 



22.—? ChriUima Kafin. Ann. Gen. So. Phys. V. {Ixora).—H.. B. K. Nuv. Gen. ec Sp. iii. 383, t. 



m.—.iE^inetia Oav. loon. vi. 51, t. 5"2 (notL.). 288.— Lindl. Jourii. Sort. Soc. iii. 246. — Andk. 



^ Hook. r. Icon. t. 1134.— B. H. Gtn. ii. 37, n. Sot. Sep. t. 106 {Eoustohia).—Bot. Meg. (1840) 



23 (stock imperfectly known and referred here t. 37 ; (1846), t. 32.— .Bt,*. Mag. t. 1854, 3781, 



not -withont doubt). 3953, 3977 (Rondeleiia), 4135 {Sondeletla), 4223, 



^BESTH.Liiidt.£vt.Seg.{18ii)t.iO.^B.H. 4579.— Walp. JZfp. ii. 507; vi. 60 (Hindsia), 



Geii.ii. 37, n. 25.— Mairoiiphon MiQ. liiiuaa, 62; A'lii.i. 377; ii. 778; v. 125. 



xix. 442. ^ Jam. 1 r4, t. 6, fig. 2 (Cocmcypsilum) .— Hw . 



■"Rather large or large, generally showy, Fl.L.d.Occ.i.Uo.—RicR.Rub. Vi^ {Coca.ci/p- 



