RUBIACEM 4,71 



seriate^ transversely compressed and superposed. Fruit capsular, 

 clavate ; exocarp finally separable from endocarp. Seeds oo, orbicular 

 compressed subtransverse reticulate, thick-winged at margin, albu- 

 minous. — Glabrous shrubs ; leaves opposite obovate-lanceolate cori- 

 aceous nearly veinless petiolate ; stipules short connate with petioles 

 in a sheath ; flowers ' in terminal corymbiform cymes, minutely 

 bracteate.^ {N. Caledonia, f) 



, 147. Condaminea DC* — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 subcampanulate. Calyx gamophyllous, widely tubular or campanulate, 

 unequally 2-6-dentate or lobed, coriaceous, at base circumscissile 

 deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped-campanulate coriaceous ; throat 

 villose; lobes of limb 5, 6, thickened at apex, valvate, recurved. 

 Stamens 5, 6, inserted in tube ; filaments thick ; anthers dorsifixed 

 oblong introrse exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk epigynous orbicular- 

 depressed; branches of exserted sometimes subclavate style every- 

 where papiUose-stigmatose recurved. Ovules en, inserted on a 

 longitudinal rather prominent placenta. Fruit capsular turbinate 

 coriaceous, areolate at apex, loculicidal from apex ; valves finally 

 recurved. Seeds oo, small subtransverse cuneate; testa loosely reti- 

 culate ; cotyledons of clavate embryo plano-convex ; radicle obtuse ; 

 albumen fleshy. — Small trees or shrubs ; branches compressed ; leaves 

 opposite (large), petiolate, oblong acuminate, generally cordate at 

 base, coriaceous nervose; stipules intrapetiolar large chartaceous 

 venose, 2-partite ; flowers ' in long-pedunculate compound-3-parous 

 cymes, ebracteolate ; pedicels thick. (Svuth. trop. America.^) 



148. Rustia Kl.' — Flowers 5-merous (nearly of Condaminea); 

 receptacle obconical or campanulate. Calyx short cupular, dentate 

 or lobed, sometimes subentire. , Lobes of funnel-shaped-campanulate 

 corolla 5, glabrous or tomentose, valvate, recurved or open ; throat 

 glabrous or villose. Stamens inserted under throat; filaments subulate 

 or 3-angular, often barbate at base ; anthers basifixed, often 4-gonal, 



' Large, showy, white. showy. 



2 A genus very near Bikkia (of which perhaps « Spec, about 4. R. et Pav. Fl. Per. et ChU. ii. 



better a sect.). , t. 188-190 {Macioanemum).—^.. B. K. Nov. Gen. 



= Spec. 1 (v. 2 ?). Ad. Bk. et Ge. Ann. Sc. et Sp. iii. 399 {Macrocnemum).—FcEFF. et Ekdl. 



Nat. ser 5, vi 255 ; xiii. 401. Nov. Oen. et Sp. iii. 30.— Walp. Eep. ii. 607. 



* Prodr. iv. 402.— Endl.G««. n. 3262.— B. H. ' Hayn. Arzn. xiv. sub t. 14.— B. H. Gen. u. 

 Gen. ii. 44, n. 47. 45, n. i9.—Tresanthera Karst. Flj. Colomh. 37, 



* Large, white, purplish or brown, often t. l9.—EenUa Kabst. loc. cit. 157, t. 78. 



