416 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS, 



free or through the tube a little above the base ; throat bare, pilose 

 or barbate. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat ; anthers dorsifixed, 

 introrse, versatile, sometimes acuminate ; cells oftener discrete at 

 base. Germen 2-celled &c. of Morinda ; ovules in cells 2, ascending; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior ; ^ a spurious septum between each ovule 

 more or less evolved or 0. Fruit drupaceous; putamens generally 

 4, 1-spermous ; coat of albuminous ascending seed rather hard, 

 sometimes produced below to a short membranous wing.— Small trees 

 or shrubs, flexuose or climbing, generally glabrous; branchlets 

 sometimes compressed ; leaves ^ opposite coriaceous, often reticulate 

 veined ; stipules inter- or intrapetiolar various ; flowers ^ in terminal 

 cymes inserted subumbellately on a common axis ; bracts sometimes 

 wide membranous ; * pedicels articulate. {Trop. Oceania, Australia, 

 N. Caledonia.^) 



50. Gynochtodes Bl.^ — Flowers hermaphrodite or oftener 1- 

 sexual (nearly of Coelospermum), 4, 5-merous; calyx short entire, 

 sinuate or 5-dentate. Corolla various coriaceous; tube sometimes 

 short; throat pilose; lobes of limb valvate, patent or reflexed. 

 Stamens &c. oi Morinda. Germen 2-celIed; ovules in each cell 2, 

 ascending or more rarely subhorizontal (Tetralopha ^) ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior ; disk epigynous rather thick ; style sometimes very 

 short (Tetralopha). Fruit drupaceous, 2-4-pyrenous ; seeds richly 

 albuminous. — Glabrous, sometimes climbing shrubs; leaves opposite 

 coriaceous ; ® stipules connate, sometimes rather large, deciduous ; 

 flowers ^ in small pedunculate or sometimes contracted axillary cymes ; 

 bracts sometimes (Tetralopha) connate in a ring.^° (Ind. Archip.^^) 



51. Cruckshanksia Hook, and Arn.^^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; 

 receptacle subglobose or shortly ovoid, enclosing adnate germen. 



' Sometimes finally lateral. iv. 477. — Endl. Gen. n. 3210. — B. H. Gen. ii. 



3 Often yellow. 119, n. 252.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 160. 



s Small or rather large, white or pale yellow, 7 Hook. f. Icnn. t. 1072 ; Gen. ii. 120, n. 253. 



mostly sweet-scented. * Generally darkening on drying. 



4 C. dtcipiente H. Bn. {Morinda reticulata ' Small, white. 



Benth.). Germens of this plant free ; cells lo A genus closely related to Coslospermum. 



2- ovulate ; each 2-cellulate. Cells of germen spuriously septate between 



» Spec, about 10. Labill. Sert. Austro-caled. ovules in Eugynochtode ; in Tetralopha not 



48, t. 48 {Stylocoryna) . — Wall. Roxb. Fl. Ind. septate. 



(ed.CAR.)ii.538(T^<'i^;a).— DC.P;o^r. iv. 394, ^^ Spec. 3, 4. Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 313; 



n. 7 (Cw^ta).— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. ii. 301, 356.— Suppl. 224, 548. 



F. MuELL. Fragm. v. 19.— Benth. Fl. Austral. 12 B.ook. Bot. Misc. iii. 361.— Endl. Oen. n. 



iii. 424 {Morinda, n. 4 ; Coelospermum).— K. Bn. 3137.— B. H. Gen. ii. 97, n. 190.— H. Bx. Bull. 



Bull. Soc. Linn. Par. n. 28 ; Adansonia, xii. 236. Soc. Linn. Par. 187. — Rotheria Meten, Reis. i. 



^ Bijdr. 993.- Rich. Rub. 128. —DC. Frodr. 402.— Walp. P'. M^ytfn. 365. 



