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ecorploid); it is fasciculate or clustered in tlie axils of the leaves 

 ia Temnopteryx^ Fentalonclia, Morelia^ Lasianthiis^ and other 

 genera ; and solitary flowers occur in some species of JRandia^ 

 Gardenia^ Psilanthus^ Anthospermum^ and Diodia, 



Precocious flowers occur in Zygoon, Feretia, and occasionally 

 in Tricalysia. In many genera the flowers are small and incon- 

 spicuous, as in Oldenlandia, IleTcistocarpa, PauridiantJia, most spe- 

 cies 0^ Spermacoce, &c. ; but large and handsome flowers occur in 

 Musscenda, Ileiiisia, Dictyandra, Leptactina^ Bandia (^ EucUnia)^ 

 Gardenia, Oxyanthis, Amaraliay Ixora, Pavetta^ and Coffea. 



Tetramerous and pentamerous flowers are by far the commonest, 

 but hexamerous flowers are by no means uncommon in certain 

 genera, as, for instance, Tricalysia and Coffea ; octomerous flowers 

 occur in one species of Bandia, and as many as eleven divisions in 

 the corolla occur in one species of Gardenia. The flowers are 

 fragrant in many species, as, for example, in Gardenia, Crosso^ 

 ])teryx, &c. ; an opposite condition, in w^hich tlie flowers have a 

 very disagreeable smell, occurs in Cantliium fodtidiim. The colour 

 of the flower is various, and white flow^ers are not at all rare. 



The bracts are involucrate in Sahicea, Sfipularia, and CepJiaelis; 

 in Hymenodictyon thej are foliaceous, reticulated, marcescent, and 

 long-stalked, and form a very conspicuous addition to the flowers. 

 The bracteoles are connate at the base and become calyculate in 

 Tricalysia, PolyspJiceria, Laniprothamnus and Coffea ; one lobe of 

 the epicalyx often becoming foliaceous in one species of Tricalysia. 

 Numerous iiliform bracteoles surround'the flowers in Octodon ; 

 and bracteoles are altogether absent from Galium. The position 

 of the bracteoles in Pavettah useful in separating this genus 

 from its near ally Ixora. ' 



9. Differences in the Leaves and Stiptiles. 

 The variation in the foliage is limited by the condition that the 

 leaves are uniformly opposite or verticillate and quite entire ; 

 the only exception within the range of our flora that has come 

 under notice is that a barren shoot of Bandia mallei/era (Schwein- 

 furth, no. 1877) had alternate leaves. In the majority of genera 

 the leaves are opposite ; in some cases the intcrnode between con- 

 tiguous pairs of opposite leaves is so abbreviated as to give the 

 appearance of quaternate leaves; examples of this occur in Aryo- 

 stemma and in Vangiieria ietrapliylla. Ternate leaves occur rarely 

 in Sarcoceplialus Bttsseggeri and Bandia, more frequently in Oar- 

 denia, and regularly so in Pavetfa ternifoUa. Quaternate leavi 



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