RUBIACEJE. 481 



below, albuminous. — Puberulous trees;' leaves opposite, obovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate, petiolate; stipules interpetiolar sericeous and 

 linear-glandulose within ; flowers ' in compound cymiferous racemes, 

 oftener secund, sessile, ebracteolate. {Columbia, Peru.^) 



165. Macrocnemum P. Bb.* — Flowers' 5-merous; receptacle 

 oblong. Calyx cupular ; teeth 5, sometimes equal, partly foliaceous, 

 persistent. Tube of funnel-shaped corolla rather long f lobes of limb 

 5, valvate or reduplicate, pilose within at margin, finally open. 

 Stamens inserted in tube; filaments unequal or subequal, barbate 

 below or to middle ; anthers short dorsifixed introrse, enclosed. 

 Germen 2-celled; disk epigynous thick; branches of slender style 

 stigmatose oblong or ellipsoid rather compressed. Ovules oo, inserted 

 on placenta adnate to septum. Fruit capsular, oblong, subclavate or 

 subcylindrical, 2-sulcate, loculicidal. Seeds oo, inserted on entire or 

 fissous septum, imbricate, produced on both sides to a narrow entire 

 wing, albuminous. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite, petiolate ; 

 stipules interpetiolar, deciduous ; flowers ' in terminal and axillary 

 compound cymiferous racemes ; pedicels bracteolate. {Trop. America, 

 Antilles.^) 



166, Hymenopogon Wall.' — Flowers^" 5-merous; receptacle 

 long-obovoid. Calyx lobes long-subulate, sometimes subunequal. 

 Tube of hypocrateriform corolla rather long ; throat retrorsely villose ; 

 lobes of limb 5, short valvate, finally open, internally barbate at 

 middle. Stamens 5, inserted under throat ; filaments short ; anthers 

 narrow dorsifixed ; cells rimose, free at base. Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 orbicular, ciliate ; branches of slender style 2, long linear, stigmatose- 

 papillose to middle. Ovules oo, inserted on subpeltate placentas, 

 fusiform. Fruit capsular coriaceous shortly clavate, crowned with 



' Bark titter. {Cinchona). — H.B. PI. JEquin. t. 19 [Cinchona) 



■ ' Small, " ash-grey." — Wedd. Et. Quinq. 97, t. 27 (Lasionema) 



' Spec. 1, 2. R. et Pav. Fl. Per. ii. t. 197 Arm. So. Sat. ser. 4, i. 73.— Gmseb. Fl. Brit. 



{Cinchona).— Waj.v. Ann. ii. 788. W.-Ind. 322.— Walp. Ann. v. 119.— [Of this 



* ./»m. 165 (not of others). — li. Amcen. v. ilS. genus is (ex Tui.) Cinchona dissitiflora MuT. 



—J. Mlm. Mus. vi. 386 (part). — B. H. Gen. ii. This genus is also referred to Cinchona by 



35, n. 17. — Lasionema Don, Trans. Linn. Soc. Bkignoli, mem. cit. {Mtm. Soc. Ital. Moden. 



XYii, 141.— Endi. Gen. ii. 3272. eer. 2, i. 52).] ' 



'Somewhat of Cinchona. ' ^ Roxh. Fl. Lid. (ed. Cab,.) ii. 156; PI. As. 



» Before stamens sometimes longitudinally P,ar. t. 22 (not P. Beaxiv.).- Rich. Rub. 202 



BO.'Prodr. iv. 351.— Endl. Gen. n. 3276. — 

 ' Moderate, white or pink. B. H. Oen. ii. 34, n. 15.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 34. 



' Spec. 7, 8. R. et Pav. Fl. Per. ii. t. 199 '" Somewhat of Cinchona. 



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