.Dendropdnax.'] araliaceje. 137 



globular .umbel of about 30 to 100 flowers. Petals Mexed and mticronate at 

 the top. Styles united in a short cone. — Eedera protea. Champ, in Kew 

 Joum. Bot. iv. 122. 



In ravines of Mount Gougli and Mount ¥ictoria, Champon, Wright. Not received from 

 elsewhere. 



3. D. parvifloraj Benth. A shrub resembling some forms of D. protea, 

 of which it may prove to be a variety, although very unlike its more usual 

 states. Leaves entire and 3-ribbed, oval-eUiptical or oblong and acuminate, 

 often almost opposite or whorled at the ends of the branches, varying in size 

 and length of petiole, the larger ones about 5 in, long and 3 in. wide. Inflo- 

 rescence of B. protea, but the flowers are smaller (scarcely 1 line long) and 

 even more numerous in the umbel, the petals with less of the inflected point, 

 the style-cone much longer, the berries smaller. — Eedera parviflora. Champ, 

 .in Kew Joum. Bot. iv. 133. 



Hongkong, Champion. No specimens tave been seen from any other collector, and the 

 (Species is therefore as yet doulrfcftil. 



Order LIII. CORNAC£.ffi. 



Calyx adherent to the ovary, with a superior border either entire or with as 

 many teeth as petals. Petals 4, 5, or rarely more, valvate in the bud, in- 

 serted round an epigynous disk, or on the border of the calyx, rarely wanting. 

 Stamens as many, or rarely twice as many or more, inserted with the petals. 

 Ovary inferior, 1- or 3-cened, with one pendulous ovule in each. Style simple, 

 with an entire or scarcely lobed stigma. Pruit an indehiscent drupe, with a 

 1- or 3-celled nucleus. Seeds soUtary, pendulous, with a fleshy albumen. 

 Embryo nearly as long as the albumen, straight ; the radicle superior and 

 shorter than the flat cotyledons. — Trees, shrubs, or very rarely herbs. Leaves 

 opposite or rarely alternate, entire or slightly lobed, without stipules. Plowers 

 in axillary or terminal heads, cymes, or corymbose panicles. 



A small Order, generally scattered over the globe, but most abundant in the temperate 

 regions of the northern hemisphere. 



Leaves opposite. Flowers and fruits nnited in a close head. Petals 4. 



Ovary 2-celled 1. Benthamia. 



Leaves alternate. Flowers in a loose cyme. Petals 6 to 10. Ovary 2-celled 2. Mablea. 

 Leaves opposite. Flowers dioecious, in a loose raceme or panicle. Petals 



4. Ovary 1-ceUed 3. Aucuba. 



1. BENTHAMIA, Lindl. 



Plowers closely connected in globular heads, with an involucre of 4 petal- 

 like bracts. Calyx-border entire, or with 4 smaU. teeth round the summit of 

 the ovaiy. Petals 4, valvate in the bud. Stamens 4. Style entire. Ovary 

 3-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. Drupes united together in a 

 strawberry-like head, each with a hai-d, usually 1-seeded stone. — Trees or 

 shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Plower-heads terminal. 



Besides the following species the genus contains but one other from the Himalaya. It is 

 nearly allied to the true Corni with capitate flowers, but in those the drupes are always 

 iqui^e distinct. 



