Cerhera^ Lxxv. apocyne.^. 307 



clisliicts of E. India, (lie Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands. This appears to he tiie plant 

 descriled hy Lirinreus after Osheck as C. Manghas, although Eurmun's plant quoted hy 

 Linna?us is correctly referred hy Thwaitcs to labern^montana dichoioma. 



5. ALYXIA, E. Br. 



Calyx without glands. Corolla-tube cylindrical, sliglitly swollen round 

 the anthers, the lobes spreading, contorted in the bud, the throat without 

 scales. Anthers enclosed in the tube. Ovary of 3 distinct carpels, united 

 by a single style, with a capitate or oblong stigma ; ovules few (about 4 to 6) 

 in each carpel, in 2 rows. Fruit of 1 or^2 distinct drupes or berries, either 

 OToid or oblong and 1 -seeded or each consisting of 3 or rarely more ovoid or 

 oblong 1-seeded articles placed end to end. Seeds furrowed or concave on 

 the inner face, albuminous, without hairs.— Shrubs usually glabrous. Leaves 

 iu whorls of 3 or 4, or rarely opposite. Flowers in small heads or clusters, 

 or in short spikes or spike-like panicles, terminal or axillary, sessile or shortly 

 pedunculate. Bracts very small. 



A small germs, extending over the islands of the Pacific and into southern Asia. The 

 Australian species are all endemic. 



Flowers in terminal sessile heads or clusters. -, j i j- r-„ 



Leaves ohtuse, smooth above . . \. A. bnxifoha. 



leaves acute, mostly pungent, marked above with parallel veins. 

 Veins of the leaves oblique and very prominent. Corolla-tube 



under 3 lines long . . . . . . • • 2- ^- ruscifoha. 



Veins of the leaves transverse, numerous, aud fine. Corolla-tube 



ftdly 4 lines long . . . ^- ^- '^'''■^''^"'■ 



Inflorescence asillarv, shortly pedunculate. . - j , ,:f,,i: , 



i'edimcles bearing each a simple head or cyme of 3 to 7 flowers . . 4. A. oOUmjouu. 

 Peduncles simple'or branching at the base, the flowers singly sessile . 



along the rhachis. Corolla-tube scarcely exceeding the calyx . . &• ^- sptcaia. 

 Peduncles bearing clusters of flowers sessile or pedunculate along the r,ii1,rfi 



rhachis. Corolla-tube twice or three times as long as the calyx . 6. A- "^yr.ijju . 



1- A. buxifolia, n. Br. Prod. 470. A low rigid spreadl^ig or bushy 

 pbrub, quite glabrous, the branches often dichotomous. Leaves opposite oi 

 >n^vhorls of 3, shortly petiolate, oval-oblong obovate or almost orbicuar, 

 ;"■}- obtuse, thick anil rigid, the margins recurved, mostly ^ to 1 in. ion 

 Flowers few (3 to 7) tog^-ther in little terminal sessile cymes or clu. te s. 

 Pedicels very sbort, 4rely exceeding 1 Hue. Calyx-segments "^f ' « "^^' 

 ^•^areely ubo've 1 line long. Corolla-tube 3 to 4 hues long, the throat 

 Panially closed by a thickish ring ; lobes not half so long as the tube. An- 

 thers nuicronulate, near the top of the corolla-tube. Ovary surrounde< by a 

 ^euse ring of almost scale-like hairs. Fruits orange-co ourec, usually i- 

 seeded or of 2 joints rarely 3 or 4, each one ovoid, 3 to 4 hues long. _^eea. 

 jery broad, but folded over the intruded placenta so as to api^ear ovoid tlie 

 testa wrinkled and folded; albumen ruminated.-^A. ^C. Projl. viu d4« 

 Hook, f, Fl. Tasm. i. 2G9 ; F. Muell. Eep. Eurdek. Exp. 16 ; A. capdellata, 

 ^enth. in llueg. Enuin. 81 ; Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. 366. 



N; S. 'Wales. Twofold Bav, J. Cunningham. p. . j j 



Victoria. Port Phillip, i?. Brown ; along the coast from the Glenelg to G.pps wnu, 

 • ^^i^e^ler and others. 2 



