BUBIACE^. 397 



subnil. Corolla funnel-shaped or subcampanulate ; lobes 4-6, valvate. 

 Stamens 4-6, inserted at bottom of corolla ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers basally dorsifixed oblong apiculate exserted (in female flower 

 very small enclosed sterile or 0), Germen 2-celled (of Anthospermum) 

 or more rarely 4-celled ; style branches 2, often thick, separate from 

 base, exserted, hispid-papillose. Fruit drupaceous ; pyrenes 2-4, 

 cartilaginous or osseous, 1-spermous. Seed ascending; albumen 

 dense fleshy ; cotyledons of axile embryo superior foliaceous. Other 

 characters of Anthospermum. — Small irees or shrubs (foetid) ; leaves 

 opposite ; stipules connate with petioles in sheath ; flowers ' solitary 

 or cymose or glomerulate, axillar or terminal. (Warm and temp. 

 Oceania, Juan Fernandez.^) 



14 ? Normandia Hook, f.' — Flowers (of Coprosma) polygamous;* 

 receptacle obconical. Sepals 5, subulate, persistent. Corolla funnel- 

 sha.ped; throat glabrous; lobes 6, short, valvate. Stamens 5, 

 inserted at bottom of corolla, free ; anthers dorsally inserted, in male 

 flower exserted ; cells produced at base to subulate point. Germen 

 2-celled ; disk epigynous small ; style branches 2, slender, free nearly 

 from base, exserted. Ovules in cells solitary, erect; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior. Fruit 2-coccous ; cocci dehiscing in the middle 

 longitudinally within ; albumen of erect seed fleshy ; cotyledons of 

 axile embryo suborbicular ; radicle inferior. — A low glabrous virgate 

 shrublet ; leaves opposite shortly petiolate ovately acute nearly vein- 

 less, paler beneath ; stipules interpetiolar, entire or divided ; flowers 

 in terminal compound-cymiferous corymbs.^ (Netp Caledonia.^) 



15 ? Nertera Banks and Sol,' — Flowers hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous (nearly of Normandia), 4, 5-merous ; calyx short subentire or 

 4, 5-fid; lobes of narrow funnel-shaped corolla suberect, valvate. 



' "Whitish or yellowish. (Hook, p.), hetter perhaps reduced to a sect. 



' Spec, ahout 30. Laeill. if. Holl. t. 94 of Coprosma. 

 (Canthium), 95. — Endl. Icon. t. Ill ; Prodr. Fl. ^ Spec. 1. N. Neo-Caledoniea Hook. p. 



Norfolk. 61.— A. Geat, Froc. Amer. Acad. iv. ? Gcertn. Fruct. i. 124, t. 26 (1788).— J. Mem. 



49, 306.— Hook. p. Ant. Fl. t. 13-16 ; Fl. Tasm. Mus. vi. 373.— Eich. Buh. 139.— DC. Prodr. iv. 



i. 165, t. 39; JECandb. New Zeal. Flora, llC— 451.^Endl. Gen. n. 3187.-B. H. (?e». ii. 138, 



MiQ.. Fl. Ind.-Bat.ii. Z21.—6^vis. Fl. Austral. n. ZfiQ .—Nerteria Sm. Icon. hied. ii. t. 28.— 



iii. 429.— F. MuELL. Fragm. viii. 45; ix. 69, Frythrodanum Dup.-Th. Fl. 'Prist. d'Amgna, 



186.— Wawr. Flora (1875), 323.— Walp. ijcp. 41, t. 10, n.—Leptostigma Abs. Book. Journ. 



ii. 462; vi. 25; Ann. i. 370; v. 103. Pot. iii. 270.— Cunina Clos, C. Cag Fl. Chil. 



3 Icon. t. 1121 ; Gen. ii. 139, n. 302. iii. 201, t. 34.— ? Gomosia MuT. ex. L. p. Suppl. 



< "Hermaphrodite" (Hook. p.). (1781) 17 (the name having priority and 



*A ge}ms"withhabitofP«j/cAo<na, flowers perhaps to he retained till its synonymy is 



of Coprosma and fruit nearly of Spermaeooe " determined). 



