Schradera
(named in honour of Henry Adolf Schrader, 1767-1836, a German botanist.) SYNS. Fuchsia (of Swartz), Urceolaria (of Cothenius). ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus of about five species of stove, sub-epiphytal, highly glabrous shrubs, with thick, rooting branches, natives of Brazil, Guiana, The West Indies, and the Gorgona Islands. Flowers in compact, globose, terminal heads; calyx tube turbinate or hemispherical, produced above the ovary; corolla thickly coriaceous, hypocrateriform, the limb of five to ten narrow, spreading or reflexed lobes; stamens five to ten. Leaves opposite, petiolate, thickly coriaceous, oblong; stipules large, connate in a sheath. S.cephalotes, the only species introduced, thrives in a compost of sandy loam and peat. Propagated by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat. S. cephalotes (headed). fl. white; corolla salver-shaped, eight to ten-lobed, the tube twice as long as the calyx. July. l. elliptic or lanceolate-oblong; stipules spathulate-oblong, blunt, as long as the petioles. h. 4ft. Jamaica, 1820.