RUBIAGEm. 493 



lobes of placentas. Fruit capsular, obovoid, septicidal; valves 2, 

 2-partible. Seeds oo, small, imbricate, produced on both sides to a 

 narrow wing lacerate at apex; embryo albuminous. — Shrubs; leaves 

 opposite, acuminate, petiolate ; stipules interpetiolar, deciduous ; 

 flowers ' in compound terminal corymbiform cymes ; bracteoles 

 deciduous.^ (Temp, mount. India.^) 



187. Chimarrhis Jacq.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, 

 oftener 5-merous; receptacle obconical or subcampanulate. Calyx 

 short, often cupular, subentire or dentate,' sometimes imbricate. 

 Corolla cylindro-campanulate or funnel-shaped, sometimes suburceo- 

 late ; lobes ^ short imbricate or subvalvate, sometimes very short, 

 3-angular or suborbicular, suddenly narrowed at base. Stamens 2- 

 morphous, inserted near base of corolla or higher, sometimes between 

 lobes; filaments short or elongate exserted, often dilated at base, 

 barbate or villose ; anthers oblong, versatile ; cells introrse, at base 

 oftener free, rimose, enclosed or exserted. Germen 2-celled ; disk 

 orbicular or hemispherical ; style ^ short or elongate sulcate ; branches 

 2, oftener obtuse recurved, sometimes marginate below apex. Ovules 

 00 , inserted on axile placenta,'' either oblique or subhorizontal super- 

 posed. Fruit capsular, septicidal ; valves sometimes 2-partite ; 

 exocarp seceding from endocarp. Seeds go, oftener short, at margin 

 shortly or more or less broadly alate ; wing unequally dentate. — 

 Glabrous or pubescent trees ; leaves opposite, often large, sometimes 

 cordate at base or long unequally attenuate ; stipules interpetiolar 

 various, deciduous . or caducous ; flowers * in axillary or oftener 

 terminal compound-ramose and cymiferous racemes, bracteate and 

 bracteolate. (Trop. America and Antilles.^) 



188. Nauclea L." — Flowers spuriously capitate, 5-merous; recep- 

 tacle free obconical. Calyx 5-partite or 5-lobed ; lobes various, 



' White or pink, showy, sweet-scented. ^ Sometimes 4 or 6, separable sometimes al- 



^ A sect, of Gihchona, ex Bkigkoli, loc. cil. most to the base of the (suhdialypetalous) corolla. 



' Spec. 2. Wall. Tmt. Fl. Nepal, t. 21 (^Cin- ^ Sometimes exserted before anthesis and 



ehona). — KuRz, For. Fl. Brit, Burm. ii. 71. — compressed between the short lobes of the 



Bot. Mag. t. 3046, 4132. corolla. 



* St. Amer. 61. — J. Gen. 204; Mem.Mus. vi. ' Sometimes apparently sterile. 



381.— DC. iVWr. iv. 403. — Endl. Gen. n. 3260. ' Small, white, sometimes deep reddish on 



— B. H. Gen. ii. 46, u. i%.—Sickingia W. Ges. drying, odorous. 



Naturf. Fr. Berl. N. Schr. iii. 445 ; Sehrad. ' Spec, about 12. Gkiseb. F/. Brit. W.-Ind. 



Journ. Bot. (1800) ii. 291.— Rich. Rub. 200.— 323.— Walp. ^««. v. 120 {Sprifcea). 



DG.Frodr. iv. 621.— Endl. Qen. 666.— B. H. " G««.n. 223.— J. (?«. 209.— Rich. JJk*. 208. 



Gen. ii. 34, u. 14.— H. Bn. Jdansonia, xii. 302. —DO. Prodr. iv. 343.— Enbl. Gen. n. 3280.— 



—Sprucea Benth. Sook. Kew Journ. v. 230.— B. H. Gen. ii. 31, n. 6.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 



B. H. Gen. ii. 43, n. 44. 311.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 26. 



