RUBIACE^. 469 



fusiform. Ovules oo, inserted on rather prominent placentas affixed 

 *to middle of septum. Fruit capsular rather fleshy, crowned with 

 calyx, "dehiscing at base between its lobes in 5 valves, exposing the- 

 placenta." Seeds co, oblong imbricate albuminous; "cotyledons of 

 small cylindrical embryo subconnate." — A glabrous ramose shrub; 

 ramules terete ; leaves ' opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate unequidentate, exstipulate ; flowers " in dense axillary subsessile 

 cymes, shortly pedicellate, bracteate ; bracts oblong obtuse.^ {Mount. 

 India.*) 



X. PORTLANDIBiE. 



144. Fortlandia P. Be. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4, 5-merous ; 

 receptacle saclike obconical, obovoid or campanulate, enclosing adnate 

 germen. Calyx lobes 4-6, elongate subulate or subfoliaeeous, glan- 

 dulose-denticulate at margins sometimes incurved below, persistent or 

 deciduous (Goutarea, Coutaportla), valvate or induplicate. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped-campanulate or subclavate; tuhe generally 5-gonalj 

 straight or sometimes curved ; lobes of straight or sometimes oblique 

 limb 4, 5, more rarely 6, at attenuate margin imbricate or subvalvate 

 (Jsicforea) or reduplicate ; throat glabrous. Stamens 4-6, inserted at 

 bottom of corolla tube or higher ; filaments generally free except at 

 base where connate in a small ring ; anthers basifixed linear-elongate 

 apiculate or muticous, introrse, enclosed or shortly exserted. Germen 

 inferior; cells 2, complete or incomplete; disk epigynous entire or 

 2-lobed ; style filiform, at apex stigmatose entire, 2-dentate or shortly 

 2-lobed. Ovules in cells oo, or few, some descending, others ascending 

 (Coutaportla), inserted on a rather prominent placenta affixed more 

 or less widely to septum. Fruit capsular, obovoid or obconical, 

 sometimes obcordate, more or less compressed contrary to septum, 

 septicidal (Tacourea, Isidorea) or locuhcidal; valves generally 2-fid 

 or 2-partible above. Seeds oo, or few, compressed or obtusely angular ; 

 margin attenuate {Euportlandia, Isidorea, Coutaportla) or wing mar- 

 gined (Coutarea, Tacourea) ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons of rather 

 large embryo ovate or suborbiculate.— Glabrous trees or shrubs; leaves 



1 ".Large." * Spec. 1. S. bracteatus Hook. T.—Fsyehotria 



2 Eather large, " purplish." Wall. Cat. n. 8367.—? Neurocalyx Gkiff . herb, 

 ' Eather a sefct. of CarUmannia ? n. 2880. 



