Guettarda. RUBIACEjE. 29 



inch long, subglobose, blue or black, not many-seeded. — P. Browne, Jam. t. 8, f. 1 ; Griceb, 

 Fl. W. Ind. 318; Chapm. Fl. 179. R. aculeata & R. mitis, L. Spec. ii. 1192, the latter 

 nearly a spineless form. R. latifolia, Lam. Diet. iii. 24, & 111. t. 156. Gardenia Randia, 

 Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 526; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1841. — Coast and Keys of S.Florida. 

 (W. Ind., &c) 

 R. Xalapensis, Mart. & Gal., occurs not very far beyond the Mexican border. 



10. G-ENIPA, Plum. (Altered from an aboriginal name.) — Shrubs or 

 small trees of Tropical America ; with ample coriaceous and mostly lucid leaves, 

 deciduous interpetiolar stipules, no spines, but rather large white or whitish 

 flowers which are more or less pedunculate in a terminal cyme, and a large 

 firm-rinded berry. — Plum. Cat. 20. & PI. Amer. ed. Burm. 127, t. 136 ; Tourn. 

 Inst. 658, t. 436, 437 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 316. 



G. clusissfolia, Griseb. 1. c. Glabrous :, plant blackening in drying : leaves obovate, very 

 obtuse or retuse, mucronulate, slightly petioled, 2 to 5 inches long, nearly straight-veined, 

 fleshy-coriaceous, lucid : truncate calyx-limb bearing 5 distant and slender subulate teeth : 

 corolla inch long, fleshy, glabrous within and without ; tube longer than the oblong-lanceolate 

 lobes : acute tips of anthers exserted : stigmas 2, subulate : fruit 2 or 3 inches long, ovoid. — 

 Gardenia clusiafolia, Jacq. CoD. App. 37, t. 4; DC. Prodr. iv. 381. Randia? clusimfolia, 

 Chapm. Fl. 179. Seven-years Apple, Catesb. Car. i. 59, t. 59. — Keys and shores of S. Florida, 

 first coll. by Blodgett. (Bahamas, Cuba.) 

 Gardenia Florida, L., cult, as Cape Jessamine, belonging to the genus most allied to 



Genipa, is planted out freely in the Southern Atlantic States. 



11. CEPHALANTHUS, L. Button-bdsh. (KefaXri, head, and avflo?, 

 flower, the blossoms densely aggregated in a round head.) — Two or three 

 American and as many Asiatic or African species. 



C. OCCidentalis, L. Shrub 3 to 1 5 feet high, glabrous or pubescent : stipules one on each 

 side between the petioles, triangular, sphacelate, at length deciduous : leaves ovate to lanceo- 

 late : flowers white : setiform bractlets between the flowers glandular-capitate : calyx not 

 glandular, a little hairy around the base. — Spec. i. 95 ; Lam. 111. t. 59 ; Michx. Fl. i. 87 ; 

 Schk. Handb. t. 21 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. iii. t. 91 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 31 ; Gray, Bot. 

 Calif, i. 282. — Swamps and along streams, Canada to Florida and Texas, Arizona, and Cali- 

 fornia; fl. summer. Var. brachypodus, DC, of Texas, and var. Valifornicus, Benth. PI. 

 Hartw., are mere forms, with leaves short-petioled and often in threes. Var. sa/icifolius 

 (C. salicifolius, Humb. & Bonpl. PI. iEquin. t. 98) is an unusually narrow-leaved Mexican 

 form. (Mex., Cuba.) 



12. MORlNDA, Vaill. (Name contracted from Morus Indicus, the syn- 

 carp resembling a mulberry.) — Tropical shrubs or small trees, mostly glabrous ; 

 with oval to lanceolate leaves, their bases or petioles united by small scarious 

 stipules, terminal or axillary peduncles, and white flowers. — Roioc, Plum. Nov. 

 Gen. 11, t. 26. 



M. Roioc, L. Low shrub, or sometimes climbing by twining: leaves oblong-lanceolate: 

 stipules subulate-pointed: peduncles solitary, bearing single or sometimes geminate small 

 heads. — Spec. i. 176; Jacq. Hort. Vind. t. 16; Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 129. — Coast and Keys of 

 S. Florida. (W Ind.) 



13. G-UETTARDA, L. (Dr. J. E. Guettard.) — Tropical and subtropi- 

 cal shrubs, chiefly American, and one widely diffused littoral species : leaves ovate 

 to oblong, petioled, with prominent primary veins beneath : flowers in axillary 

 pedunculate cymes ; the corollas sericeous-canescent outside. — L. Gen. ed. 5, 

 428 ; Vent. Choix, t. 1 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 455, excl. § 4. Mathiola, Plum. Gen. 

 16; L. Gen. ed. 1, 49. 



