396 NATURAL SI STORY OF PLANTS. 



subdrupaceous, slightly (Ernodea) or strongly ribbed ; exoearp finally 

 suberose; columella indistinct, 2-fid; albumen hard or fleshy — 

 Herbs, sometimes subshrubby, glabrous ; leaves oblong opposite ; 

 stipules connate with petioles in subentire or lacerate sheath ; 

 flowers ' axillary solitary subsessile. (Seashores of E. India ; south- 

 east. Africa, Madagascar, Florida and the Antilles.^) 



III. ANTHOSPEEME^. 



12. Anthospermum L. — Flowers polygamo-dioecious ; receptacle 

 in males short, in fem'ales ovoid saclike or obovoid, enclosing adnate 

 germen. Calyx superior very short, 4, 6-dentate. Corolla gamo- 

 petalous, in male flower evolute subrotate or funnel-shaped, deeply 

 3-5-fid ; lobes valvate, revolute ; in female flower small or subabortive, 

 tubular, shortly 2-4-lobed or dentate. Stamens 2-5 (in female flower 

 very small or 0); filaments rarely thick (Grocyllis) or very slender, 

 inserted in tube of corolla ; anthers introrse dorsifixed oblong large, 

 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower minute effete) 2-celled ; sometimes 

 two empty cellules are formed in the septum (Nenax) ; disk epigynous 

 small ; style (in male, flower short or 0) divided into 2 long filiform 

 branches papillose throughout. Ovule in cells 1, erect, anatropous ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit small, sub-2-dymous ; cocci 2, 

 crustaceous, separable, dehiscing longitudinally within or not at all ; 

 albumen of erect seed fleshy or rather hard ; cotyledons of elongate 

 embryo foliaceous, often elliptical; radicle inferior. — Glabrous or 

 pubescent shrublets ; leaves (generally ericoid) opposite or verticUlate; 

 stipules connate with base of leaves in membranous often 1-3-dentate 

 sheath ; flowers in axillary bracteolate glomerules or solitary, some- 

 times inserted on elongate axes of cyme. (South, and trop. Afnca, 

 Madagascar.) — See p. 266. 



13. Coprosma Fokst.' — Flowers (nearly of Anthospermum) dioecious 

 or polygamous ; calyx very short annular or 4-6-dentate, sometimes 



' Kather large, lilac or sometimes yellowisli. ' Char. Gen. 137, t. 69. — J. Oeii. 205 ; M^m. 



2 Spec. 3, 4. KoxB. P/. Cotow. t. 233.— Wight Mus. vi. 381. — Lamk. III. t. 186, 8S4. — 



andABN. Pjorfj-. i. 441. — Wight, /cwi. t. 760. — G^ktn. f. Fruct. iii. 17, t. 182,— TlIch. Sub. 



Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. 25.— Gkiseb. M. 57. — DC. Prodr. iv. 578.— Endl. Gen. n. 3109. 



-Brit. W.-Iiid. 347 (Ernodea).— Wa\.t. Sep. ii. — B. H. Gen. ii. 139, n. 301.— Jfai-jai^ia Eich. 



463. " Ruh. 112. 



