Cmthium.] LXI. RUBIACEZ. 421 
leaves broadly ovate, prominently penniveined and reticulate. . 1. C. latifolium. 
€ p to narrow- — starr) and 
obliquely penniveined 2. C. attenuatum. 
leaves ovate to óblong-elliptical (2 i 6 E ong) very smooth 
and shining, the veins vigi Zei pro 3. C. lucidum. 
Leaves oblong, rarely in. age? Sch shining, the veins ; 
rarely conspicuous. ch about 3 lin 4. C. oleifolium. 
Leaves ovate, ama wm l in. long, udo and shining. EES 
Flowers not 2 li 5. C. buxifolium. 
em m. deeply "2. ie. Flowers 2 or 8 together. ` Lobes of 
P rolla, arrow, rather shorter than the tube. Leaves 
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. C. vacciniifolium. 
a b road, peltate, entire. Flowers í in sessile seré. SG 
a the corolla much shorter than the tu 1. C. coprosmoides. 
s 
l. C. latifolium, P Muell. Herb. A glabrous ah e glaucous 
shrub, nearly allied to C. lucidum. Leaves br roadly e, very ri gid, the 
pinnate veins and reticulations much more pin d. s in C. lucidum. 
Flowers much smaller than in that s species, pede in looser cymes, otherwise 
their structure as well as the inflorescence the sam 
"hg Wales. In the interior towards the Barrier E (Nielson ?) in Herb, F. 
da Australia. N.W. interior, M‘Douall Stuart. 
2. C. attenuatum, R. Br. ms. A glabrous shrub, very oi ES 
bo C. lu cidum. Leaves narrower; from oblong-elliptical ‘and about 
ore prominent than in C. lucidum. Flowers nearly the same, but in 
shorter and more dense cymes, and the tube of the corolla longer in propor- 
tion to the lo bes 
fn, Austr a. Br oast, A. Cunningham ; yours River and 
s Land, P. Mueller gw ies AC d Diei Jn 
Bo d. Burdekin and Burnett rivers, F. Mueller; Port "EN W. Hill, 
19 os Bridge on the Balonne; Mitchell. 
cone OR ea 4 to 6 in. long in others, ¢ jaceous, very S ooth arid 
| Ze with distant very oblique veins scarcely ‘cies nt. Cymes axillary, 
shortly peduneulate, often large an ny- ed but shorter than the 
: forks, - Pedicels short or sometimes the flowers dee? except those be est 
Corolla glabrous outside, slightly hairy inside, the tube about 1 line; 
iB lobes about 2 lines lon ng. Anthers exserted. Stigma ‘thick, ovoid, more or 
G less mitre-shaped (hollowed at the base round the der Fruit, when = 
| iris ls ripen, somewhat com pressed and didymous, 3 to 4 lines broad, 
ie one-seeded ; ek nearly globular.— C. lamp aphyllum, F. Muell. Fragm. 
N. Australi 
a. Gulfof C taria, R. Brown. 
a. E const, x. coser " . Dawson and Burnett rivers, F Se Port 
; Edgecombe Bay, ` Dallachy uerge, Thozet ; 
A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, wd k 
ales. Clarence | river, Beckler ; Gene? river, C. Moore. 
