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Rudgea (named in honor of Edward Rudge, an English botanist). Rubiaceae. Shrubs or small trees, glabrous or pubescent, suitable for the warmhouse and perhaps hardy in the extreme southern U. S.: lvs. opposite, subsessile or petioled, leathery: fls. medium to rather large, paniculate, sessile or pedicelled, rarely capitate; calyx-tube ovoid or obconical, limb short, 5- rarely 4-cleft or -parted, persistent; corolla smooth or villous, limb 5- rarely 4-lobed, erect or spreading; stamens 5, rarely 4; disk various; ovary 2-celled: fr. small, dry or succulent, with 2 nutlets which are dorsally plano-convex and smooth or sulcate and longitudinally sulcate on their ventral face.—About 115 species, Trop. Amer. R. leucocephala, Schumann (R. macrophylla, Benth. Psychotria leucocephala, Brongn.). Lvs. large, subsessile, obovate-oblong: fls. cream-colored, sessile, in fascicles densely clustered in globose heads; corolla-segms. obtuse; peduncles short. Brazil. B.M. 5653. F.S. 17:1720, 1721. G.C. II. 12:81. H.U. 6, p. 257. J.F. 3:292, 293. F. Tracy Hubbard.

Rudgea (named in honor of Edward Rudge, an English botanist). Rubiaceae. Shrubs or small trees, glabrous or pubescent, suitable for the warmhouse and perhaps hardy in the extreme southern U. S.: lvs. opposite, subsessile or petioled, leathery: fls. medium to rather large, paniculate, sessile or pedicelled, rarely capitate; calyx-tube ovoid or obconical, limb short, 5- rarely 4-cleft or -parted, persistent; corolla smooth or villous, limb 5- rarely 4-lobed, erect or spreading; stamens 5, rarely 4; disk various; ovary 2-celled: fr. small, dry or succulent, with 2 nutlets which are dorsally plano-convex and smooth or sulcate and longitudinally sulcate on their ventral face.—About 115 species, Trop. Amer. R. leucocephala, Schumann (R. macrophylla, Benth. Psychotria leucocephala, Brongn.). Lvs. large, subsessile, obovate-oblong: fls. cream-colored, sessile, in fascicles densely clustered in globose heads; corolla-segms. obtuse; peduncles short. Brazil. B.M. 5653. F.S. 17:1720, 1721. G.C. II. 12:81. H.U. 6, p. 257. J.F. 3:292, 293.  

 

F. Tracy Hubbard.

Rue: Ruta graveolens. R. Anemone: Syndesmon. R., Goat's: Galega. officinalis.

Rue: Ruta graveolens. R. Anemone: Syndesmon. R., Goat's: Galega. officinalis.