758 LXIV. EUBIACEJE. [Diplospora. 



Stipules interpetiolar, pointed, with a broad base. Flowers in axillary clusters 

 or close cymes, or in pairs of clusters with one terminal one, forming a short 

 terminal raceme. 



Besides the Australian species, which are endemic, others are met with in tropical Asia and 

 Malaya. 



Leaves ovate or elliptical, 2 to Sin. long .... 1. D. aiistralis. 



Leaves ovate or elliptical-oblong, 1 to IJin. long 2. D. ixoroides. 



1. 3>. australis (Australian), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 413. A small glabrous 

 tree. Leaves ovate or elliptical, shortly and obtusely acuminate, narrowed into a 

 short petiole, 2 to Sin. long, coriaceous and shining. Stipules triangular, acute, 

 deciduous. Peduncles 3 or 5 in a short terminal racetne, the lateral ones 

 opposite in pairs, divaricate, each with 3 flowers sessile within a pair of concave 

 bracts. Flowers altogether not 2 lines long. Calyx-limb cup-shaped, with 4 

 short rounded teeth or lobes. Corolla-tube very short and broad ; lobes 4, much 

 longer than the tube. (3vules about 3 to each placenta. Style short with 

 oblong stigmatic lobes. 



Hab.: Cape York, W. Hill, M'Gillivrmj. 



2. H, ixoroides (Ixora-like), F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 182. A shrub of about 

 8 or 10ft. high, glabrous, dichotomously branched. Leaves ovate or elliptical- 

 oblong, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, shortly narrowed into the petiole, 1 to IJin. 

 long, very coriaceous, smooth and shining. Stipules membranous, short, broad, 

 and deciduous. Peduncles very short, in little terminal clusters, each with from 



3 to 5 very small sessile flowers. Calyx-limb short, obscurely toothed. Corolla 

 not 2 lines long, green on the outside, white inside, sparsely bearded in the 

 throat ; lobes 4, longer than the tube, imbricate, not contorted. Anthers 

 exserted. Style shortly lobed. Fruit black, smooth, ovoid. Seeds 3 or 4j 

 hemispherical, rugose, the inner face not concave, sometimes they are 3 or 4- 

 angular. Testa shiny brown. — Ixora triflora, R. Br. in Fl. Austr. iii. 416. 



Hab.: East coast, R. Br.; Broadsound,* Boioman; Eockhampton, Thozet; Port Denison, 



Fitzalan. 



15. SCYPHIPHORA, Gfertn. 



(Flowers supposed to resemble a jug.) 



(Epithinia, Jack.) 



Calyx-limb truncate or minutely toothed. Corolla-tube cyhndrical or slightly 

 dilated upwards; lobes 4 or rarely 5, imbricate in the bud. Anthers linear- 

 sagittate, exserted. Ovary really 2-celled, but each cell divided by a spurious 

 dissepiment into 2 superposed ones, with one ovule in each, the upper ovule 

 erect, the lower one pendulous. Style filiform, with 2 short linear stigmatic 

 lobes. Fruit a drupe with a hard endocarp scai;cely separable into pyrenes, with 



4 1-seeded cells superposed in pairs, or fewer by abortipn. Seeds of Gnettarda. 



Shrub. Stipules interpetiolar, broad and short. Flowers in small pedunculate 

 axillary cymes. 



The genus consists of a single species, extending from Ceylon over the Indian Archipelago 



Benth. 



1. S. hydrophylacea (resembling a plant of Hyclrophylaoefe), Gartn.- DC 

 Prod. iv. 577; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 418. " Yar-ro-kal," Cooktov/n, ' Rotji. 

 A shrub of several feet, quite glabrous, the young shoots resinous. Leaves 

 obovate, very obtuse, narrowed into a rather long petiole, IJ to nearly 8in. long 

 coriaceous, smooth and shining. Cymes dense, very shortly pedunculate! 



