RITBIACEJE. 397 



subnil. Corolla funnel-shaped or subcampanulate ; lobes 4-6, valvate. 

 Stamens 4-6, inserted at bottom of corolla; filaments filiform; 

 anthers basally dorsifixed oblong apiculate exserted (in female flower 

 very small enclosed sterile or 0). Germ en 2-celled (of Aiithospermum) 

 or more rarely 4-celled ; style branches 2, often thick, separate from 

 base, exserted, hispid-papillose. Fruit drupaceous; pyrenes 2-4, 

 cartilaginous or osseous, 1-spermous. Seed ascending; albumen 

 dense fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo superior foliaceous. Other 

 characters of Anthospermum, — Small trees or shrubs (foetid) ; leaves 

 opposite ; stipules connate with petioles in sheath ; flowers ^ solitary 

 or cymose or glomerulate, axillar or terminal. (Warm and temp. 

 Oceania, Juan Fernandez.^) 



14 ? Normandia Hook, f/ — Flowers (of Coprosma) polygamous;* 

 receptacle obconical. Sepals 5, subulate, persistent. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped ; throat glabrous; lobes 5, short, valvate. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at bottom of corolla, free ; anthers dorsally inserted, in male 

 flower exserted ; cells produced at base to subulate point. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk epigynous small ; style branches 2, slender, free nearly 

 from base, exserted. Ovules in cells solitary, erect; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit 2-coccous ; cocci dehiscing in the middle 

 longitudinally within ; albumen of erect seed fleshy ; cotyledons of 

 axile embryo suborbicular ; radicle inferior. — A low glabrous virgate 

 shrublet ; leaves opposite shortly petiolate ovately acute nearly vein- 

 less, paler beneath ; stipules interpetiolar, entire or divided ; flowers 

 in terminal compound-cymiferous corymbs.^ (Neio Caledonia.^) 



15 ? Nertera Banks and Sol.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Normandia), 4, 5-merous ; calyx short subentire or 

 4, 5-fid; lobes of narrow funnel-shaped corolla suberect, valvate. 



I Whitish or yellowish. (Hook, f.), better perhaps reduced to a sect. 



- Spec, about 30. Labill. JV. HolL' t. 94 of Coprosma. 



{Canthium), 95.— Endl. Icon. t. Ill ; Frodr. Fl. ^ Spec. 1. N. Neo-Cakdonica Hook. f. 



Norfolh. 61.— A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. iv. 7 G<ertn, Fruct. i. 124, t. 26 (1788).— J. Me>n. 



49, 306.— Hook. f. Ant. Fl t. 13-16 ; FL Tasm. Mus. vi 373.— Rich. Ruh. 139.— DC. Prodr. iv. 



i. 165, t. 39; Handb. JSTew Zeal. Flora, 110.— 451.— Endl. Ge». n. 3187. -B.H. Gen.n. 138, 



^liQ.. Fl. Ind.-Pat.ii. Z27.—B'e.^t:v.. Fl. Austral. n. Z^iO.—Nerteria Sm. Icon. Lied. ii. t. 28.— 



iii. 429.— F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 45; ix. 69, Erythrodanum Dup.-Th. Fl. Trist. d'Acugna, 



186.— Wawr. Flora (1875), 323.— Walp. iJ^p. 41, t. 10, W.—Leptostigma A^. Hook. Jotirn, 



ii. 462 ; vi. 25 ; Ann. i. 370 ; v. 103. £ot. iii. 270.— Cwiina Clos, C. Cag Fl. CHI. 



3 Icon. t. 1121 ; Gen. ii. 139, n. 302. iii. 201, t. 34.— ? Gomosia Mux. ex. L. f. SuppL 



* "Hermaphrodite" (Hook. F.). (1781) 17 (the name having priority and 



5 A genua " with habit of Psgchotria, flowers perhaps to be retained till its synonymy is 



of Coprjsna and fruit nearly of Spirmaace" determined). 



