398 NATURAL SISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



Germen 2-celled ; style branches free nearly from base filiform, far 

 exserted, papillose. Fruit drupaceous or coriaceous (Gorynula ') ; 

 pyrenes 2, sometimes ribbed, 1-spermous. Other characters of 

 Normandia. — Slender csespitose perennial herbs ; leaves opposite small 

 ovate ; stipules connate in sheath with leaves, dentate or shortly lobed ; 

 flowers^ axillary solitary, pedunculate' (Gorynula) or subsessile. 

 (South. Andean America, Ant. regions, N. Zealand, Australia, Sandwich 

 and Philippine Isles.*) 



16. Serissa Commebs.' — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-6-merous ; 

 lobes of calyx acute or subulate-lanceolate, persistent; denticules 

 sometimes interposed. Lobes of funnel-shaped corolla 4-6 valvate 

 subinduplicate ; tube and throat densely papillose within. Stamens 

 same in number; filaments inserted at greater or less height and 

 connate with tube below, adnate to its base ; anthers dorsifixed en- 

 closed. Disk orbicular depressed. Germen 2-celled ; style dilated 

 above ; branches subulate exserted hirsuto-papillose. Ovule erect ; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior. Fruit externally rather fleshy (2 -pyre- 

 nous ?); ^ albumen of erect seed " fleshy ; embryo erect central." — 

 Branching shrubs, glabrous or puberulous (foetid) ; leaves small 

 opposite '' acuminate subcoriaceous ; stipules connate with petioles in 

 a sheath setose above ; flowers ' axillary or terminal, solitary sessile 

 or glomerulate. (China, Japan. ^) 



17. Galopina Thunb.^" — Flowers polygamo-dioecious, 4, 5-merous; 

 receptacle enclosing germen in cavity obcordate or subdidymous and 

 compressed contrary to septum. Calyx superior short, entire or 0. 

 Corolla subrotate or funnel-shaped ; tube short or very short ; throat 

 glabrous; lobes 4, 5, valvate, finally revolute. Stamens inserted in 



' Hook. r. Icon. t. 1123 ; Gen. ii. 138, n. 299. (ed. 1790) liS. —Democntea DC. Prodr. iv. 540. 



' Small, whitish. Fruit sometimes red. — Buchozia Lher. Diss, (ex DC). 



^ A genus scarcely differing from Coprosma : •> " A berry " (Louk. Ioc. cit. 146). 



" Corynula ad Coprosmam faciUime reducenda " ' Often approaching shortened ramules and 



(F. MuELL. Fragm. ix. 87). spuriously fasciculate. 



■* Spec. 4, 5. E. et Pay. Fl. Per. t. 90 {Gome- ' Perianth oftener double in specimens grown 



zia). — Hook. r. Fl. N.-Zel. t. 28 ; Handb. N. in our gardens, but much more rarely single 



Zeal. Fl. 119 ; Fl- Tasm. 167. — Clos, Ioc. cit. 200. among the Chinese. Petals white. 



— "Wawr. Flora (1875), 330.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 9 Spec. 2. Thunb. Fl. Jap. 1. 17 {Lydum).— 



ii. 262; Suppl. 222.— Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. Salisb. Prndr. 60. — Bot. Mag. t. 361 {Lycium). 



431.— Walp. Sep. ii. 486 ; vi. 48 ; Ann. v. 112. lo Diss. Gen. Nov. i. 3.— Cruse, Sub. Cap. 18. 



5/. Qen. 209. — Lamk. J«. t. 151.- Rich. —J. Mem. Mus.mi. 3T1.— Rich. Bub. 60.— DC. 



Bub. 81.— DC. Prodr. iv. 575.— Spach, Suit, a Prodr. iv. 579.— Endl. Gen. a. 3107.— B. H. 



Buffon, viii. 468.— Endl. Gen. n. 3117. — B. II. Gen. ii. 139, n. 303. — Oxyspermmn 'Eokl. et 



&M. ii. 138, n. 29i.—DysodaXiOVB.. Fl. Cochinrh. Zeyh. Enum. 364. 



