- Ovules and 1-seeded pyrenes of the same number'as ~ ER lobes. 
Ovary-cells, em? = style-lobes 4 or mo Flo 
mas sessile c . 19. LASIANTHUS. 
Ovary-cells, pyrenes ze | stylo-lobes 9. Flowers in 1 terminal 
cymes or corymbs . 20. Psycnorria. 
SusTRIBE V. Anthospermese.— Coro//a-lobes valvate. Ovules erect from the bas 
Style-lobes very long. Fruit a berry-like drupe. Albumen copious.—Shrubs, rarely mee 
or 
lygamous 
n erect or creeping. Flowers clustered or wën: unisexual 
polygamous . . 91. Coprosma. 
Slander seeping perennial herbs. Flowers rs solitary, hermaphrodite, 
or polygamo . 92. NERTERA. 
SuBTRIBE VI. Opercularieze. E valvate. Ovules erect from the - 
usually one only to ea ny sa wer. Style-lobes long. Fruit capsular, 2-valved. de 
topious.— Herbs, undershrubs, or rarely small shrub 
in simple or compound heads, the calyx-tubes . Outer 
valves of the fruits of each partial head con ins in a NC a 
cup, inner valves of the same fruits connate in a deciduous oper- 
um. 
Flower-heads connate in a yee zap head or rarely solitary. eine OPERCULARIA. 
NT -heads several iu an um OMAX. 
eer 
des a vue head, but sel connate. Fruits separately £^ 
. 95. ELEUTHRANTHES. 
Lm E VIL. Spermacocese.— Coro//a-lobes valvate.  Ovules — aterally 
attached to the acis, Mn. esos — perfectly. 9-celled. Gester short, Fru 
CH ar, or indehiscent and dry. umen copious.—Herbs, undershrubs, or rarely 
Flowers i in 
"zeg terminal cymes: Ovules attached at or near the top. 
at base only, ling off delen leaving a 
"| separating 
persistent den A . 96. KNoxia. 
raid in terminal bh r lateral ‘eluate ers. d'Ae attache at or 
w the middle. Capes opening septici . 97. SPERMACOCE. 
Teer III. 
— Calyx wholl, eden. pic) any m RE (in the Aus- 
genera ). ose lobes valvate. zx ary 2-celled, with 1 geh a, Fruit 
—Herbs, rarely — A Stipules imitar Ss thé lem 
s th o 
tralian 
— Deag with a distinct babe ob thi cet cae RR ABPEROLA, 
y rotate, tirs searcely any tube . es. » 99. GALIUM 
i KEE above AT ll be found probably to comprehen the whole of the Order, ort 
v and Rondeletion, which, numerous in tropical America, less so in Africa, 
3 i and the Paci fic Islands, are, as far as hitherto known, unrepresented in Australia. 
Seay TBE I. Orxcmoxg E. Leaves opposite or rarely whorled, with € 
AM of embranous Maso between or inside of them. Ovules several in eac 
the ovary, 
; tino I. Navcrer#.—Flowers very numerous, e? Le in 
zi ona aaa receptacle. Ovules pen ndulous or imbricate on 
Cie lacenta. Fruits capsular or rarely fleshy, not ve E és or or 
This subtribe į dee 
| it i with imbricate and with 
de m. 15 à very natural one, although it includes genera wit - | 
LXI. RUBIACER. 401 > 
