396 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



subdrupaceous, slightly (Ernodea) or strongly ribbed; exocarp finally 

 suberose; columella indistinct, 2-fid; albumen hard or fleshy. — 

 Herbs, sometimes subshrubby, glabrous ; leaves oblong opposite ; 

 stipules connate with petioles in subentire or lacerate sheath ; 

 flowers ' axillary solitary subsessile. (Seashores of E, India ; south- 

 east, Africa, Madagascar, Florida and the Antilles.^) 



III. ANTHOSPERME^. 



12. Anthospermum L. — Flowers polygamo- dioecious ; receptacle 

 in males short, in females ovoid saclike or obovoid, enclosing adnata 

 germen. Calyx superior very short, 4, 5-dentate. Corolla gamo- 

 petalous, in male flower evolute subrotate or funnel-shaped, deeply 

 3-5-fid ; lobes valvate, revolute ; in female flower small or subabortive, 

 tubulaT, shortly 2-4-lobed or dentate. Stamens 2-5 (in female flower 

 very small or 0); filaments rarely thick (Grocyllis) or very slender, 

 inserted in tube of corolla ; anthers introrse dorsifixed oblong large, 

 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower minute efiete) 2-celled ; sometimes 

 two empty cellules are formed in the septum (Nenax) ; disk epigynous 

 small ; style (in male flower short or 0) divided into 2 long filiform 

 branches papillose throughout. Ovule in cells 1, erect, anatropous ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit small, sub-2-dymous ; cocci 2, 

 crustaceous, separable, dehiscing longitudinally within or not at all ; 

 albumen of erect seed fleshy or rather hard ; cotyledons of elongate 

 embryo foliaceous, often elliptical; radicle inferior. — Glabrous or 

 pubescent shrublets ; leaves (generally ericoid) opposite or verticillate; 

 stipules connate with base of leaves in membranous often 1-3-dentate 

 sheath ; flowers in axillary bracteolate glomerules or solitary, some- 

 times inserted on elongate axes of cyme. (South, and trop, Africa, 

 Madagascar.) — See p. 266. 



13. Coprosma Fokst.^ — Flowers (nearly of Anthospermum) dioecious 

 or polygamous ; calyx very short annular or 4-6-dentate, sometimes 



1 Ratlier large, lilac or sometimes yellowisli. 3 Char. Gen. 137, t. 69. — J. Oeu. 205 ; Me/n. 



2 Spec. 3, 4. RoxB. PL Corom. t. 233.— Wight Mus. vi. 381. — Lamk. III. t. 186, 854. — 

 and Arn. Prorfr. i. 441.— Wight, 7co;/. t. 760.— G^rtn. f. Fruct. iii. 17, t. 182.— racH. Jiub. 

 Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 25.— Griseb. FL 57.— DC. Prodr. iv. 578.— Endl. Gen. n. 3109. 

 Brit. W.-Iiid. 347 {Ernodea) .—W ai.v . Rep. ii. — B. H. Gen. ii. 139, n. ZQl.—Marqui^ia Rich. 

 463. jtub. 112. 



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