A small proe Kë? pam over the globe, but most SNE in the temperate 
regions of the n rn hemisp It is represented in Australia by a single genus common 
to tropical Asia P Africa, Er pnm nging to t the small section of Alice di differing in alter- 
nate leaves and in some other respects from the majority of the 
1. MARLEA, Roxb. 
(Rhytidandra, 4. Gray ; Pseudalangium, F. Monty, 
Calyx-limb Weier toothed. Petals narrow-linear. Stamens the same 
number as petals, the filaments adhering to the petals at the base and con- 
necting them in an apparently tubular corolla; anthers adnate, long and 
near. Ovary l- or 2-celled ; style filiform, with a 2- or 4-lobed or capitate 
stigma. Drupe often reduced to 1 cell and seed.— Trees or shrubs. ves 
alternate. Flowers in axillary cymes. 
Besides the Australian species, which is also in the islands of the South Pacific, there are 
three others in tropical Asia and Africa 
1. M. vitiensis, Benth. A tree, attaining a considerable height, gla- 
A brous or the young branches pubescent or villous. Leaves ovate ovate- Jan- 
ceolate or oblong, shortly acuminate, more or less oblique and unequal at the 
base or rarely equal, 3 to 5 in. long, glabrous or slightly pubescen 
neath in the normal form. Flowers in short axillary cymes on slender 
386 LVITI. CORNACER. | 
2 line diameter. Petals 4 to 6, varying in length from 4 to 6 lines, conne | 
by the stamens up to from 3 to 3 their length, revolute at the ends. Fila- 
ments villous ; anthers about the "length of the corolla, the valves involute 
dividing each cell into 2 before they open and dad with transverse Con- 
strictions, which give them the appearance of being cha mbered. d 
shaped, enclosing the base of the style. Style divided at the end into 2 linear 
stigmatic lobes. Ovary 1-celled with 1 ovule. Drupe ovoid, about 4 it. 
long. —Rhytidandra vitiensis, A. Gray, Bot. Amer . Expl. Exped. i. SCH GA 
and in Proc. Amer. Acad. vi. 55; Pse ege polyosmoides, y. Me 
Fragm. ii. is Rigtidndr polyosmoides, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 176. 
Rockingham Bay, Dadlachy. 
N. S. Wales. Gisa river, Beckler, Ü Moore ; Richmond river, Beckler. 
upper side of the leaves alone glabrous: 
Var. tomentosa. Softly villous all over, or the u ockham 
Tua rossi paas more P free than usual.—Fitzroy river, Zhozet ; R x 
n, chy; Moreton Bay, W. | 
The apparently dhtiibitod anthers are not really so, and traces of t the co : 
onifolia, t| d wen differs also in the large thick disk, = gus mik 4 
` h Leg 
lobed style, and an unpublished SER ayan species has a small disk, with a 1 
almost entire style, all these distinctions Ste idus to be specific, not gene 
Order LIX. LORANTHACEE.. 
