— Dentelia.) LXI. RUBIACEX. 407 
RS Wales. Blue Mountains, 4. Cunningha 
S.Australia. Between Stokes Range and eng s Creek, M“ Douall Stuart's Expe» 
dition 
The species ranges over East India, the Archipelago, and islands of the S. Pacific. 
4, OPHIORRHIZA, Linn. 
Calyx-limb of 5 persistent lobes or teeth. Corolla-tube slender; lobes 5, 
valvate in the bud. Anthers included in the corolla-tube. Ova 2-celled, 
with Ee ovules in each cell, attached to a placenta ascending geg near 
the Style usually included, with 2 stigmatic lobes. Capsule much 
fattened ‘and very broad, almost 2-lobed, opening loculicidally in 2 valves. 
Seeds several, angular.—Herbs or low straggling shrubs. Stipules united 
with the ges in a ver — truncate sheath, either entire or occasionally 
with 1 o 2 long hair-like points. deg sessile along the branches of 
bran o; or rarely axillary ee cy 
A considerable genus, extending over Me a eastern ene es Asia. The only 
Australian species is endemic, although nearly allied to an East Indian 
l. O, australiana, Benih. A low shrub with weak rere the 
younger Kate sty-tomentose with short mine hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 
mostly 2 to 3 in. long, but those of the same pair often unequal, spri 
with appressed hairs on the upper side, pale underneath, with the — more 
or less hirsute, Stipules with long hair-like points. Cymes t 
shorter than the leaves. Bracts small, setaceous. | Calyx-lobes mme about 
as long as the hirsute tube. Corolla nearly glabrous outside, the tube scarcely 
Be L line long, the lobes rather shorter, tomentose inside. Fruit about 3 
es broad ge scarcely above 1 line lon ng. 
: Queens Rockingham Bay, Da//acAy. The species is nearly allied to the com- 
. mon Indian O, Mango Ave, however, dem to have the leaves always Reims and the 
. Corolla-lobes much sh 
Susreipe III. GamprwrEx.—Flowers in cymes clusters or solitary, 
Corolla-lobes imbricate, frequently contorted. Ovules attached to an ge or 
Parietal placenta. Fruit succulent, indehiscent. 
5. GARDENIA, Linn. 
ire inh "uer vereri toothed, lobed or divided: to the base into 5 
more lobes, cylindrical or slightly dilated upwards; lobes 
- 5, or more, fnbiitato in the bud. Anthers nearly — usually more or less 
Ze eg e 1-celled, vem antea divided by 2,3 or -— more pro- 
uo 
J 
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ery decid 
EM her large and solitary or 3 together, terminal or lor; by the 
^ dereopment o of the flowering-branch. 
