398 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen 2-celle(i ; style branches free nearly from base filiform, far 

 exserted, papillose. Fruit drupaceous or coriaceous (Corynula ^) ; 

 pyrenes 2, sometimes ribbed, 1-spermous. Other characters of 

 Normandia. — Slender ceespitose perennial herbs ; leaves opposite small 

 ovate ; stipules connate in sheath with leaves, dentate or shortly lobed ; 

 flowers^ axillary solitary, pedunculate^ (Gorynula) or subsessile. 

 (South. Andean America^ Ant. regions, N. Zealand, Australia, Sandwich 

 and Philippine Isles}) 



16. Serissa Commers.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-6-merous ; 

 lobes of calyx acute or subulate-lanceolate, persistent; denticules 

 sometimes interposed. Lobes of funnel-shaped corolla 4-6 valvate 

 subinduplicate ; tube and throat densely papillose within. Stamens 

 same in number; filaments inserted at greater or less height and 

 connate with tube below, adnate to its base ; anthers dorsifixed en- 

 closed. Disk orbicular depressed. Germen 2-celled; style dilated 

 above ; branches subulate exserted hirsuto-papillose. Ovule erect ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit externally rather fleshy (2 -pyre- 

 nous ?) ; ^ albumen of erect seed ** fleshy; embryo erect central." — 

 Branching shrubs, glabrous or puberulous (foetid) ; leaves small 

 opposite '^ acuminate subcoriaceous ; stipules connate with petioles in 

 a sheath setose above ; flowers ^ axillary or terminal, solitary sessile 

 or glomerulate. {China, Japan.^) 



17. Galopina Thunb.^® — Flowers polygamo-dioecious, 4, 5-merous; 

 receptacle enclosing germen in cavity obcordate or subdidymous and 

 compressed contrary to septum. Calyx superior short, entire or 0. 

 Corolla subrotate or funnel-shaped ; tube short or very short ; throat 

 glabrous; lobes 4, 5, valvate, finally re volute. Stamens inserted in 



» Hook. y. Icon. t. 1123 ; Gen. ii. 138, n. 299. (ed. 1790) U5.—Democntea DC. Prodr. iy. 540. 



* Small, whitish. Fruit sometimes red. — Buchozia Lheb. Diss, (ex DC). 



3 A genus scarcely differing from Coprosma .v ^ " A berry " (Louk. loc. cit. 146). 



" Corynula ad Coprosmam facillime reducejida " 7 Often approaching shortened ramules and 



(F. MuELL. Fragm. ix. 87). spuriously fasciculate. 



* Spec. 4, 5. R. et Pay. Fl. Per. t. 90 {Gome- ^ Perianth oftener double in specimens grown 

 zia). — Hook. p. Fl. N.-Zel. t. 28; Handb. N. in our gardens, but much more rarely single 

 Zeal. Fl. 119 ; Fl. Tasm. 167.— Clos, loc. cit. 200. among the Chinese. Petals white. 



— Wawr. Flora{l%16), ZZO.— Mm.Fl. Ind.-JBaf. 9 Spec. 2. Thunb. Fl. Jap. 1. 17 {Lycium).-^ 



ii. 262; Suppl. 222.— Benth. Fl. Austral-: iii. Salisb. Prodr. 60.— Bot. Mag. t. 361 {Lycium). 



431.— Walp. Pep. ii. 486 ; vi. 48 ; Ann. v. 112. lo Diss. Gen. Nov. i. 3.— Cruse, Pub. Cap. 18. 



57. Gen. 209. — Lamk. III. t. 151.— Eich. —J. Mem. Mus.vl 371.— Rich. Pub. 60.— DC. 



Pub. 81.— DC. Prodr. iv. 575.— Spach, Suit, a Prodr. iv. 579.— Endl. Gen. n. 3107.— B. H. 



^?//b», viii. 468.— Endl. Gen. n. 3117.— B. H. Gen. ii, 139, n. ZiiZ. — Oxyspermum Eckl. et 



Gen. ii. 138, n. 2dS. —Dt/soda Lour. Fl. Coehinch. Zeyh. Evum. 364. 



