Retiniphyllum
(from retine, resin, and phyllon, a leaf; the leaves are covered with resin). SYN. Commianthus. ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus consisting of half-a-dozen species of glabrous, pubescent or pilose, stove shrubs, natives of North Brazil and Guiana. Flowers white, flesh-colour, or pink, in terminal, simple spikes; calyx limb tubular, truncate, entire, or five-fid; corolla hypocrateriform, with five narrow, reflexed lobes; stamens five. Berries small, five-stoned, edible. Leaves opposite, petiolate. coriaccous, obovate or oblong, often abruptly acuminate, with numerous diverging nerves. For culture of the only species introduced, see Hamiltonia.
R. secundiflorum (side-flowering). fl. white, in clusters of from two to four; spikes axillary, pedunculate, side-flowered. July. l. obovate, obtuse or emarginate at apex, cuneate at base, coriaceous, pubescent beneath. h. 4ft.