Sambucus. | LX. CAPRIFOLIACEJF. 399 
plant. Leaflets 5 to 11, sessile or petiolulate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
eoarsely and acutely toothed, 2 to 5 in. long, the lowest of each leaf close to 
the stem, short, broad, and toothed, resembling leafy stipules. Primary 
branches of the corymb umbellate, the others cymose. Flowers mostly 4- 
merous. Berries oblong, white.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 164. 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Fitzalan. 
N. S. Wales. Paramatta, Woolls. 
Victoria. Yarra Yarra, Cape Otway, Apollo Bay, F. Mueller; Portland, 20017 ; 
Wendu valley, Robertson ; Wimmera, Da//ac. y. 
T ia. Dense shady woody ravines and alluvial flats in the northern parts of the 
colony, J. D. Hooker. 
S. Australia. Mount Gambier, F. Mueller. 
Orper LXI. RUBIACEZ. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary; the limb entire or with as many teeth 
D 
in the tube; anthers versatile, with parallel cells opening longitudinally. 
re-celled, with 1 or more ovules in each cell, rarely 
scence var 
or less cymose, axillary or terminal. Flowers occasionally 
Polygamous or unisexual, especially in Guetlardee and Anthospermee. 
A very large Order, dispersed over eve rt of the globe; the Cinchonee and Coffee, 
ee few exceptions, Beien or wegl: Lech Stellate chiefly inhabiting the more tem- 
or cold 
whieh is cold regions, Of the 29 Australian genera 2, KE to 
he widest range in tribe; 2, Nertera an j 
Over the extratropical or si tain regions of the southern hemisphere ; 8 extend che 
cal or cal regions both of the New and the orld; 6 are comm 
islands of the W. coast of Africa; 4 only are endemic in Australia, and of t 
monotypic, 
Teise I Cinchon ; í ly whorled, with small or membranous 
; . eæ.— Leaves opposite or rarely w 
Stipules between or inside of them. | Ovules several in each cell of the ovary. 
SubTRIBE I, Nau Josely packed in globular heads on 
. cleese.— Flowers very numerous, closely pac. : y 
le. Ovules pendulous or imbricate on a pendulous placenta. Fruits cap 
e. 
: cn rarely fleshy, not pulpy.—Trees or shrubs. 
concrete, forming in fruit a hard fleshy mass. Petals imbricate 1. SARCOCEPHALUS. 
