106 FLORA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
Loranthus. 
1. Anthers versatile ; petals free, yellowish 
11. Anthers adnate ; petals united to the middle. 
Flowers in cymes; leaves linear opposite ... 
Flowers solitary or in pairs ; petals usually 6. 
Leaves flat, opposite ; petals scarlet, green at the 
summit ; ‘fruit orange, bikie: to red and finally 
purple Sip Be ap 
Leaves filiform- Yodatinecins 
Leaves mostly opposite ; pedicels terete ; berries 
white, globular ; petals scarlet.. 
Leaves alternate; pedicels eee winged ; 
petals pale yellow, rose-coloured at the summit 
11. Anthers adnate ; petals free. 
Flowers in axillary cymes. 
Leaves terete. 
Leaves glabrous ; flowers usually glabrous, the 
common peduncles of the cyme very short, 
bearing 3 or 4 rays of 3 or rarely 5 flowers 
each ; petals usually 5 o 
Leaves hoary-tomentose, flowers bostleltsne: the 
common peduncle of the cyme bearing 2 rays 
of 2 pedicellate flowers each, or the cyme re- 
duced to a pair of pedicellate flowers ; calyx- 
tube gibbous at the base by reason of the 
adnate bracteole ; petals 4 ree io0 
Leaves flat. 
Flowers all stalked, or the central ones sessile ; 
petals 5, foliage and inflorescence usually 
glabrous oe nae ae 
Flowers sessile, petall green ; jihad green witha 
thick epicarp ; foliage and inflorescence hoary 
Flowers sessile between two large bracts. 
Viseum. 
minute, 
Leaves absent; branches flattened; petals 3, 
persistent ... = “oe 
ORDER RUBIACEAE. 
ovules several in each cell; 
1. Leaves opposite ; 
Peren- 
fruit capsular scarcely dehiscent. 
nial herbs. 
Corolla bell-shaped, entire ; sepals and petals 4 ... 
Corolla toothed ; sepals and petals 5 
celastroides 
angustifolius 
Exocarpi 
linearifolius 
Murrayi 
linophyllus 
gibberulus 
pendulus 
Quandang 
grandibracteus 
articulatum 
Oldenlandia 
Dentella 
