Ale E E St ge 
LXI. RUBIACEA. 431 
22. NERTERA, Banks. 
(Cunina, Clos.) 
Calyx-limb i inconspicuous or 2- Sr Corolla-tube campanulate or slender ; 
obes 4, valvate in the bud. Stamens inserted at or near the base of the 
eorolla-tube ; ne long ; ere exserted. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 erect 
ovule in each cell; style divided nearly to the base into 2 long filiform lobes, 
hi small. Flowers solitary, terminal, sessile or very shortly pedicellate 
vi in "x last leaves, her omen or polygamo-diacious. 
Ade all genus, extending over New Zealand, Antarctic and Andine America, the Indian 
P ipelago, and the Pacific Ze Of the two eei M pee one is t = common one 
"vam the whole range of the genus, the other i 
bean o vie obsolete. — — vp peut vir NE irm 
Hirsute, Calyx 2-lobed. Corolla slend et. uie Hs 2 N 
P» epressa, Banks ; po Prod. iv. 451. A slender print 
às grown out. lyx-limb none or — gums 
fampanulate, scarcely above 1 line long, the lobes shorter than the tu 
H ovoid or utem the pyrenes quite th.— Sm. Ie. Ined. t. 98; 
E. coded i. 167; Cunina dee, ‘Clos in C: Gay, Fl. Chil. iii. 
Victori > 
of A zéng KE Fa y places, Snowy River, summits of Baw-Baw mountains, sources 
"eg Se? s on ds — of e western mountains, Gunn. 
v Antarctic America and the Petite’ is- 
distinct. In the small Australian 
form of N. d i gh ssa, so far as can be judged d fw dried specimens, the exocarp encloses but 
i e a a 
rican sine, it is mh larger and more pulpy, and, when dried u nder pressure, assumes 
the nucleus, which gave rise to Clos's 
ng perennial, like 
F. Mi 6 A on creepi 
ca ei 3 ir r less hirsute, with 
few long bristles. 
E Very slender, 4 lines long ; lob ort, ciliate, vith a 
75 ndi not quite 2 a long when dry, cro he calyx-lobes.— 
vi reptans, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, M 
etoria. Mobatain sie? and plains along the Snowy River, F. Mueiler. 
es valvate. Ovules erect from 
Scam E VI. OrgnCULARIEE.— Corolla-lob 
Style-lobes long and .subulate. 
t 
he bus, gek one only to each flower. 
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