416 5 LXI. *RUBIACER. - [Irora 
long, smooth and shanties Booties connate within the petioles, with - 
subulate points. C mbs rather dense, sessile and much shorter than the 
leaves. Calyx-limb X Geer T toothed. Corolla-tube about 1j li 
long; lobes 4, about as lon the am acute. Style-lobes short, linear. 
Fruit 3 to 4 lines diam "aee i (not seen quite. ripe) hemispherical, the 
inner face not concave, the testa wrinkled t the albumen not ruminate. 
N.S. Wales. Richmond and Clarence rivers, Eva 
6. I. triflora, R. Br. Herb. A glabrous eg ie dichotomous bripolit 
Gen ves ovate or elliptical-oblong, obtuse or arcely acuminate, shortly 
i mooth an 
px ng. Stipules membranous, short, broad, and deciduous. Peduneles ` 
very short, in little terminal clusters, each with 3 to 5 very small sessile — 
flowers. Calyx-limb short, obscurely toothed. Corolla not 2 lines pus | 
—— inside ; lobes 4 4, longer than the tube.  Anthers exserted. Style - 
shortly 2-lobed. Fruit small, ovoid, smooth. ZU hemispherical, rugo 
the inner face not SE but not seen ug perfec 
land. R. Brown ; Bro Lëtze ` ckhampton, Thor, 
Dallachy.—NVery Sieg Ge Y ole og kee a; me, but the ovules aud the estivation of 
the me? are those of the gen 
Section III, PENTADIUM.—Flowers 5-merous. Style BET 
7. I. pentamera, Benth. A shrub of 8 to 10 ft., the branches and in- 
florescence minutely hoary-pubescent. Leaves petiolate, oval-elliptical, 4 to 
6 in. long, coriaceous, smooth and shining. Stipules broad, slightly connate 
within the petioles, deciduous. Flowers small in a nearly sessile rather dense 
corymb like that of Z. Becklerii. Cal ubescent ; limb short, with 5 b 
) © the oeren about 3 lines diameter. fime smooth. Seeds hemi- 
sp erical, the inner face - concave, but the albumen ruminate as in the se 
tion Grumilia of SE 
N. Australia. ands i the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. B. —In the “2 
examined, the ovules appeared to be attached near the base, but the tegen of the 
is much contorto-imbricated. 
the pyrene or cells of the nucleus. Albumen little or none. Embry o 
terete, the cotyledons semiterete and scarcely broader than the radicle.— 
or shrubs. Flowers in forked cymes, rarely in umbels, or when po duer 
the females often solitary. jas : 
The exceptional characters of this sub inted out by A. Gray C 4 
on some Rubiacee’), except that it +5 ie: E s aad P hether it Ka any v E 
with really valvate corolla-lobes. 1 
