RUB I AC E^,. 495 



lobes of limb 4, 5, imbricate ; subglobose (black) glandules sometimes 

 inserted in hollows of lobes. Stamens and germen of Nauclea ; top 

 of style elongate exserted stigmatose clavellate or capitate. Ovules 

 in cells solitary, descending; micropyle introrsely superior. Fruit 

 obconical or obpyramidal, coriaceous, crowned with calyx ; cocci 2, 

 seminiferous (sometimes 2 seedless interposed). Seeds oblong some- 

 times subangular ; funicle short increased to a thick fleshy aril ; coat 

 sometimes short-winged above ; albumen hard, sometimes thin ; 

 cotyledons of inverted embryo flat ; radicle conical superior. — Small 

 trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite or 3, 4-nate, petiolate ; stipules 

 intra- or nearly interpetiolar simple, at apex and sometimes within 

 dark-glandulose ; flowers ' in compound capituliform terminal and 

 axillary pedunculate glomerules, minutely bracteolate.^ (Warm and 

 temp. N. and S. America, temp. S. and E.Asia,"suhtrop. south. Africa." ^) 

 190. Ourouparia Aubl.* — Flowers spuriously capitate (nearly of 

 Nauclea) ; receptacle tubular or fusiform. Calyx tubular, funnel- 

 shaped or campanulate. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped ; throat gla- 

 brous ; lobes of limb 5, imbricate. Stamens 5, inserted in throat ; 

 filaments short orO; anthers elongate dorsifixedintrorse; cells rimose, 

 at base free pointed or produced to a seta. Germen &c. of Nauclea ; 

 top of style stigmatose capitate. Ovules^ oo, inserted on a placenta 

 affixed to septum or descending, ascending. Fruit capsular elongate, 

 septicidal; valves oftener 2-partible. Seeds oo, ascending,' imbricate, 

 produced on both sides to a narrow wing ; wing on both sides entire, 

 or one oftener 2 -fid ; embryo albuminous. — Climbing shrubs, glabrous 

 or tomentose or hirsute ; leaves opposite, petiolate or subsessile ; 

 stipules interpetiolar various ; flowers * in compound contracted capi- 

 tuliform sometimes 1-parous cymes ; pedicels very short or 0, or more 

 rarely rather long ; inflorescences in a raceme or oftener axillary 

 solitary ; peduncle most frequently sterile changed to a hard hooked 

 tendril. {Trop. Asia and Africa, Madagascar, trop. Oceania, south- 

 east. Am,erica.^) ^___ 



' Small, white or yellow. ■• Guian. i. 177, t. 68. — H. Bn Adansonia, xii. 



' Affinity with the Guettardea well indicated 315. — Vuearia Schreb. Gin. i. 125. — DC. Prodr. 



(Hook. p.). But a genus, by the intervention iv. 347.— B. H. Gen. ii. 31, n. 7. — Hook. Fi. Ind. 



of 3f!cr«(?»««, very closely connected with iV«M- iii. 28. — Agylophora Neck. Elem. i. 145. — Fo- 



elea. duneana H. Bn. Bull. Soo. Linn. Par. n. 29. 



' Spec. 5, 6. DuHAM. Arh: t. 54.— H. B. PI. * Small, whitish or yellowish, sometimes pur- 



jiEquin. t. 98.— Bakt. i^V. Med. t. 91.— A. Gray, plish, often villoae or sericeous. 



Man. (ed. 2) 172.— Chapm. Fl. S. Unit. St. 176. « Spec, about 30. "Wall. Itcxi. Fl. Ind. ii. 125 ; 



—Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 152, 344.— W alp. Rep Fl. As. Bar. t. 170.— Deless. le. Sel. iii. t. 81.— 



ii. 469 ; vi. TOO. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 141, 343; Suppl. 214, 538; 



