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8. DIPLOSPORA, DC. 
(Discospermum, Dalz.) 
Calyx-limb short, 4-toothed or truncate. Corolla-tube short, lobes 4, 
, spreading, imbricate in the bud. Anthers exserted.. Ovary 2- celled, with 2 
ot more ovules in each cell, attached to a small peltate placenta. Style 
with 2 stigmatic lobes. Fruit a globular berry. Seeds solitary or few in 
cell—Trees or shrubs. Stipules re Gergen with a broad 
wers in axillary clusters or close cymes n pairs of clusters 
with one terminal one, forming a short terminal raceme. 
ele the Australian species, which is endemic, the genus comprises 3 or 4 from tro- 
l D. australis, Benth. A small glabrous tree. Leaves ovate or 
litical, shortly and obtusely acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole, 2 to 
ng, coriaceous and shining. Stipules triangular, acute, deciduous. 
a 
rounded teeth or lobes. Corolla-tube very short and broad; lobes 4, much 
longer than the tube. Ovules about 3 to each placenta. Style short with 
Queen sland. Cap York, W. Hill, M ‘Gillioray. —The structure of the flower and 
ovary is precisely that of D. viridiflora , DC., although the inflorescence is so different. In 
Species at the time of flowering iios are only 2 or 3 ipai rich perfect ovules 
: i ive. ones whi n e flow 
H 
; tarely 2 collateral in eac of the ovary, zeit several um each carpel 
. Sparated by spurious ue ° Cells of the fruit or pyrenes always 1-seeded. 
| SUBTRIBE I. Ixonz&.—Corolla-lobes imbricate, usually contorted. Ovules 
i Adr cen Mad; peltate. Fruit a berry or drupe. Albumen co- 
shrubs. 
x Kin saben of the corolla is the most important character of this een which only ; 
of the he smaller-fruited Gardeniee in the solitary ovules. The pelta te attachment 
D ionis may not be quite constant even in the genus Zzora. 
9. IXORA, z 
(Pa vetta, L 
, Circi small, 4-toothed or lobed eet 5-toothed). Corolla-tube 
der; lobes 4 (rarely 5), imbricate in the bud, qe od contorted. Anthers 
exserte a i 
