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Pylotria.] LXI. RUBIACER, 499 
thers exserted. Style with 2 short oblong stigmatic lobes. Ovules of Psy- ` 
chotria. Fruit not seen. . 
Queensland. wh Molle, Fitzalan (Burdekin Expedition). 
IBE V. ANTHOSPERMEJX.—Corollalobes valvate. Ovules erect 
from the base. Style-lobes very long and subulate. Fruit a berry-like drupe. 
Albumen E —Shrubs, rarely trees or herbs. Flowers often unisexual 
or polygamo 
21. COPROSMA, Forst. 
(Marquisia, A. Rich.) 
Ee toothed or lobed. Corolla- ME short; lobes 4, 5 or rarely 6, 
valvate the bud. Stamens inserted at the base of the tube ; filaments 
5; E s exserted. Qd 2-celled, sd. one erect ovule in each cell ; 
style. divided nearly to the base into 2 long filiform lobes, more or less papil- 
Fruit a berry-like drupe, with 2 1-seeded pyrenes, ust sually fur- 
towed on the inner face.—Shrubs, erect and bushy or prostrate and creeping. 
Leaves usually small. Stipules interpetiolar, acuminate or acute, sometimes 
denticulate, Flowers solitary or clustered, axillary or terminal, usually dice- 
cious, the males with an imperfect or absolutely abortive style and no ovary, 
the females with [AA stamens, more or less imperfect. The whole plant 
often foetid when fres 
The genus is most numerous in New Zealand, but extends also to the Pacific islands 
hen one, Of the five Australian species, one is also in New Zealand, the hits are 
Kat clustered, Ms or x together. Leaves mostly above uus Tap 
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o € creeping shrub. ‘Corolla. lobes shorter than the tube . . e C. pumila. 
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Spicuous on both sides. Flowers small, sessile, in - or threes, on very 
short pde, clustered in the axils, all males in the specimens i 
out 13 lines long; lobes valvate, longer than the tube. ers 
erted. eet rudimentary, without any cavity or style. 
N. S. Wales. Durandoo, in the western interior, Goodwin and Dallachy. 
? c. uy Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 10. t 95. A rigid shrub, of 
» With few scarcely prominent veins, Aet. € 
zb ew together, in y peon shortly pedunealae terminal heads, becoming 
axillary by the growth of the shoot, with a pair of lanceolate acuminate con- 
