6 Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. 



the calyx, 2-celled. Seeds numerous, erect, attached to fleshy 

 placentae, which adhere to the dissepiment, subrhomhoid, compressed : 

 Testa crustaceous, black in the middle, with light brownish margins, 

 slightly pitted. Embryo in the centre of fleshy albumen : Radical 

 next the hilum, obtuse, about as long, and as broad as the compressed 

 obtuse cotyledons. 



Obser. — This remarkable Rubiaceous genus, evidently be- 

 longs to the tribe Gardeniece, and to Decandolle's first sub- 

 tribe, Sarcocephalea, but to none of the few genera which have 

 been referred there, does it approach very closely. From 

 Canephora it is distinguished by the concrete, not free scales 

 of the involucre, the nearly entire limb of the calyx, and by 

 its many seeded fruit. From Breonia it likewise differs in the 

 nature of the involucre, and particularly so, in that of the 

 placentae. The name is derived from Xevkoq white, and 

 KtA)$i*)v a bell, from the white campanulate involucre. 



CARRIA, Genus novum. 



(Ord. Nat. Ternstromiace^e, Trib. Gordonie^l.) 



Char. Gen. — Calyx persistens, decidue bracteolatus, 3-5- 

 sepalus, sepalis rotundis, concavis, profunde emarginatis, sub- 

 aequalibus. Corolla; petala 5, hypogyna, sepalis alterna, ima 

 basi coherentia, late obovata, emarginata, aestivatione im- 

 bricata. Stamina plurima, hypogyna, pluriseriata, petalorum 

 basibus adhaerentia : Filamenta, filiformia, valida, inferne in 

 fasciculos quinque subcoalita : Anther® extrorsae, ovatae, basi 

 affixae, erectae, biloculares, connectivo lato carnoso, loculis 

 disjunctis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium liberum, 

 5-loculare: Ovula in loculis 4-6, angulo centrali biseriatim 

 inserta, pendula. Stylus simplex : Stigma quinquefidum. 

 Capsula oblonga, pentagona, 5-locularis, loculicide 5-valvis, 

 valvis lignosis. Semina in loculis 3-5, ovata, subcompressa, 

 biseriatim pendula, imbricata, superne in alam membrana- 



