Carissa.] LXXIX. APOOYNACEiE.. 979 



branchlets. Oalyx-segments more subvjlate, and oorollpnlpbes narrower, IpngQr, 

 and more acute than in C. oi-ata, but otherwise the same. Berry ovoid, about 

 3 lines long, with 1 or 2 smooth or scarcely wrinkled seeds. 



Hab.: Islands of the GuK of Carpentaria, li. Brown ; Suttor Elver, Bowman ; Flinders Biver, 

 Sutherland. 



This is used by the natives as a poultice for sores, the leaves being beaten up into a pulp and 

 applied to the part affected.— Flinders River, G. F. Flant. 



Wood hard, dark-brown colour. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 276a. 



4. ALYXIA, R. Br. 

 (Form alysis, a chain ; form of fruit.) 

 Calyx without glands. Corolla-tube cylindrical, slightly swollen round the 

 anthers, the lobes spreading, contorted in the bud, the throat without scales. 

 Anthers enclosed in the tube. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels, united by a single 

 style, with a capitate or oblong stigma ; ovules few (about 4 to 6) in each carpel, 

 in 2 rows. Fruit of 1 or 2 distinct drupes or berries, either ovoid or oblong and 

 1 -seeded or each consisting of 2 or rarely more ovoid or oblong 1 -seeded articles 

 placed end to end. Seeds furrowed or concave on the inner face, albuminous, 

 without hairs. — Shrubs usually glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, or rarely 

 opposite. Flowers in small heads or clusters, or in short spikes or spike-like 

 panicles, terminal or axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Bracts very small. 



A small genus, extending over the islands of the Pacific and into southern Asia. The 

 Australian species are all endemic. 

 Flowers in terminal sessile heads or clusters. Leaves acute, mostly pungent, 



marked above with parallel veins. 

 Veins of the leaves oblique and very prominent. Corolla-tube under 3 



lines long 1. ^. niscifolia. 



Veins of the leaves transverse, numerous, and fine. Corolla-tube fully 4 



lines long ■ 2. A.ilici/olia. 



Inflorescence axillary, shortly pedunculate. i 



Peduncles bearing each a simple head or cyme of 3 to 7 flowers . . . . 3. A. dbtusifolia. 

 Peduncles simple or branching at the base, the flowers singly sessile along 



the rhachis. Corolla-tube scarcely exceeding the calyx i. A. spieata. 



Peduncles bearing clusters of flowers sessile or pedunculate along the rhachis. 



Corolla-tube twice or three times as long as the calyx ........ 5. A. thyrsijlora. 



Peduncles bearing umbels of 3 flowers. Corolla-tube twice or three times 



as long as the calyx 6. A. Thozetii. 



1. A., ruscifolia (Ruscus-leaved), R. Br. Prod. 470 ; Bejith. Fl. Amtr. iv. 

 308. " Moonya," Bundaberg, Keys. A tall, handsome, glabrous shrub. Leaves 

 in whorls of 4 or rarely of 8 only, from broadly ovate-elliptical to narrow- 

 lanceolate, acute with a short pungent point, contracted into a very short 

 petiole, the margins recurved or revolute, coriaceous and shining, obliquely and 

 prominently veined on the upper side, f to IJin. long. Flowers small, in sessile 

 terminal heads, and the flowers themselves sessile. Calyx- segments lanceolate, 

 ciliolate, nearly 1 line long. Corolla-tube under 3 lines long, the lobes about 

 half as long, the throat scarcely thickened inside. Ovary surrounded by hairs at 

 the base. Fruits orange-coloured, consisting of 1 or 2 carpels, each with 1 or 2 

 ovoid-globular articles about 4 lines long. Seed with a wrinkled testa and 

 ruminate albumen.— A. DC. Prod. viii. 347 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3312 ; Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 1811 ; A. Bichardsonii, Sweet in Loud. Hort. Brit. 67 (according to 

 A. DC). 



Hab.: Sandy Cape, Harvey's Bay, R. Brown ; Cape Cleveland, Endeavour and Brisbane 

 m-vevs, A. Cunningham ; Burdekin River, F. v. Mueller; Curtis Island, Henne ; Port Denison, 

 Mtxalan ; Bockhampton, Dallachy ; Ipswich, Nernst. 



Wood close-grained, yrhitiah.— Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No, 277. 



Var. pugioniformis. Branchlets scabrous, with short stiff hairs. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 1 

 to l|in. long Brisbane Kiver. 



Var. ulicina. Branchlets angular, scabrous, with short stiff hairs. Leaves J to Jm. long, 

 nearly' sessile, tapering towards the sharp pungent point, upper side scabrous and scarcely 

 shining ; the whorls numerous, about J to Jin. apart. — Main range. 



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