Mitreola.] xcYi. loganiace^. (C. B. Clarke.) 79 



* Herbs ; corolla valvate ; capsule compressed, didymous. 



■Cymes 2-3-ehotomous. Corolla 5-lobod 1. Mitebola. 



Pedicels solitary or clustered. Corolla 4-lol)ed 2. Mitrasacme. 



** Shrubs or trees. 



Corolla imbricate. Capsule 2-valved 3. BoDDtEiA. 



Corolla valvate. Capsule 2-V3,lved 5. Noerisia. 



■Corolla contorted. IVuit indehiscent i. Fage^a. 



Corolla valvate. Fruit indehiscent 6. Stbychnos. 



Teibe n. CS-aertnerise. Ovary with 1 ovule in each cell. 



Corolla tubular. Anthers nearly included in the tube .... 7. Gaeetneea. 

 Corolla subrotate. Anthers large, exserted 8. Gaedneeia. 



1. nXXTREOZiA, lArm. 



Herbs. Leaves opposite, membranous ; stipules membranous or small. Cymes 

 3-3-chotomous, terminal or peduncled, axillary. Flowers small, white, often 

 unilateral on the ultimate cyme-branches. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla urn- 

 shaped ; lobes 5, small, valvate. Stamens 5, included. Ovary 2-oelled ; styles 

 2, short, connate under one small hairy stigma, ultimately divergent ; ovules 

 many in each cell, placentas peltate. Capsule obovoid, laterally compressed, 

 truncate or 2-homed ; carpels dehiscing by separating from each side of the 

 septum from above. Seeds very many, minute, globose or elongate, albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo linear. — Species 4 ; 2 American and the following. 



1. nx. oldenlandioides, WdU. Ca^. 4350; leaves oblong nearly glabrous, 

 cymes terminal and axillary 2-chotomous, capsule 2-homed, seeds elongate 

 trigonous, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 9 ; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 156 ; Sook. le. PI. t. 

 827 ; Benth. in Jorurn. lAnm. Soc. i. 91. M. paniculata. Wall. Cat. 4349 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 600 (yiowers of principal Jlgwe inaccwate) ; A. DC. I. c. (as to the 



Asiatic plant). M. inconspicua, Zoll. et Mor. Verz. (1845-6) 55. 



Centkal Peotinces, alt. 0-3000 ft. ; extending to Bombay and to Chota Nagpore, 

 frequent. Pbgtj ; J". Anderson. Distkib. Burma, Malaya, N. Australia. 



Annual, 6-18 in., erect. Leaves 2 by f in., narrowed at both ends; petiole | in. 

 Cymes 2-6 in., often numerous ; bracts ^ in., lanceolate. Flowers subsessile, scarcely 

 ^ in. Capsides | in., unilateral on the branches. Seeds twice as long as broad. 

 The American M. petiolata united with this by A. DC. is exceedingly like it, but has 

 globose seeds. 



2. m. pedicellata, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 91 ; leaves oblong 

 hairy beneath, cymes on long axillary peduncles 3-chotomous, capsule truncate, 

 aeeds globose tubereulate. Parophiorrhiza khasiana, Clarke; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iii. 85. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 4200 ft. ; Cherra, Limestone Hill, Griffith, J. D. H., Clm-ke. 



Perennial, 2-8 in., decumbent, branching. Leaves 3J by 1 j^ in., narrowed at both 

 «nds ; petiole ^ in. Cymes 6-12-flow6red, lax, irregular, peduncle 1-3 in. Flowers 

 nearly as of M. oldenlandioides, obscurely unilateral, fruiting pedicels sometimes ^-^ 

 in., but not longer than sometimes in M. oldenlandioides. Capsules -^ in., succulent, 

 little compressed. — The specimens on which the genus Parophiorrhiza were founded, 

 wer^ mislaid when the Eubiaceae were described for this work. 



2. nXITXlASACnXE, Labai. 



Small herbs. Leaves opposite, stipules forming a minute sheath. Flowers 

 small, white, terminal or axillary, solitary clustered or in irregular umbels. 



