| Canthium. | LXI. RUBIACEX. 423 
— distant. and not ice Flowers 4-merous or 5-merous, very shortly 
| pedicellate, in sessile axillary clusters of 3 to 6. Corolla-tube slender, fully 
- lines long, bearded inside at the orifice, the lobes about 4 as long as the 
2 "ie "Mam pg) ae Style exserted, with a "broad E pel- 
tate stigma. metimes 4 in. broad, on a pe edin lof 2 to 4 
Queensland. Port Ge ec? Edgecombe and Rock nos Dos get 
F. EN engen, Thozet ; Dawson and Brisbane rivers, F. Mue 
S. Wal KS Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and ee Hastings 
all QA river 
E is us p allied to C. barbatum, Benth., from the Pacific Islands, es 
me more coriaceous and obtuse, the pedicels shorter, and the corolla-lobes m 
SupTRIBE IV. PsycuorRrEX.—Corolla-lobes valvate. Ovules erect om 
the base or laterally attached below the middle. Style- lobes short. Frui 
my-like Van with l-seeded pyrenes. Albumen copious.—Trees or iiie 
Itf. wur ws 
in the tube or rarely exserted. Ovary 2-celled or more or less completely 4- 
` celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, laterally attached at the base or below ur 
Ke lc du D rnm aea d iere. te et amet eh AERE ORA au 
fro 
Shrubs or small trees, or sometimes woody climbers. Stipules usu sually m 
us and united within the petioles in a short shea oder ge on 
axillary or terminal solitary or clustered peduncles. 
A considerable s Lage Hee eege? or African, with 2 or 3 America species. 
vet en ropieal Asia, another as widely distributed 
"gem i so uium ped ie itm Pcie the two 0 
solitary, apparently leaf-opposed. Le iiid ie . . 1. M. citrifolia 
SS together at the ends of Gi brane M» M. jasminoides. 
ales å or m more together at the wärt 
Ta Ze mmer en gi Cem = en 
EY prominent, bra 3. M. umbellata. 
| Dori Ern ate or rtis coriaceous , and prominently r reti- : 
ne large coloured leafy b afy bract to each flower r-hea . 4. M. reticulata. 
M. trifolia, Lin».; DC. Prod. iv. 446. A’ all glabrous ciel 
mith thick more or less 4-angled branches. Leaves large, ovate, broad o 
Manow, mostly 6 to 10 in. long, on very short petioles. Stipules are 
! fen mae, Flower-heads on very short peduncles, € =. 
` e the ealyx-tubes quite connate. Corolla-tube e? to + in Kies 
SE than the tube. Ovary: ger the ge? ascending, attached 
' or near the middle. Fruit forming a pulpy mass above 1 in. diameter, 
pyrenes ara zeg, about 3 lines mo E 
osland. he coast and adjoining islands, fro Albany island and Cape 
to Perey og = "riae Bay, 4 1 A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and others. Com- 
