148 XOV. PHYTOLACCACEJE. [ Codonocarpus. 
1. C. pyramidalis, F. Muell. A tall arborescent shrub of pyramidal 
growth. i | 
or almost sessile, 2 to 9 in. long. owers dicecious, in lateral or axil- 
lary racemes, the males on very short pedicels, the females on rather lon 
ones. Perianth about 14 lines diameter. Ovary almost hemispherical, ` 
S. Australia. Elder's Range, F. Mueller; in the interior, M‘Douall Stuart. 
2. C. australis, 4. Cunn. Herb.; Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 99. A 
tree of 80 ft. with numerous slender flexuose branches. Leaves laneeo- 
ole, 13 to 3 in. long. Flow | 
along the leafless bases of Uer branches (racemes of which the axis 
i ?). Perianth 2 to 21 lines diameter. 
summit of the central colui to 4 lines diameter ; carpels 40 to 9U, 
quite connate when young, their dorsal edges forming prominent ribs 
when approaching maturity, and finally separating completely, the 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser. 
N. S. Wales. Richmond river, Fowiettz: p 
It must have been owing to some mistake that the carpels have been described as 
having 3 or 4 ovules in each, of which only one comes to maturity, I can find no trace 
of any more than one in the youngest fruits on the specimens. ‘The second seed 
figured in the Botanical Miscellany evidently belongs to the adjoining carpel. ave 
carpels sometimes remain unseparated and the valves are so thin that without careful 
examination the two seeds appear to be in one carpel, one a little above and overlaying 
the other as represented by the artist. 
. C. cotinifolius, F. Mull. Pl. Vict. i. 900. Usually a tall shrub 
or small tree, but attaining sometimes 40 a pale or glaucous 
: œ or 
a terminal wr 
erianth about 2 lines diameter in the females, r9 " 
smaller in the males. Stamens 15 to 20. Ovary about twice as lo 
