416 NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



free or through the tube a little above the base ; throat bare, pilose 

 or barbate. Stamens 4, 5, inserted in throat ; anthers dorsifixed, 

 introrse, versatile, sometimes acuminate; cells oftener discrete at 

 base. Germen 2-eelled &c. of Morinda ; ovules in cells 2, ascending; 

 micropyle extrorsely inferior ; ' a spurious septum between each ovule 

 more or less evolved or 0. Fruit drupaceous ; putamens generally 

 4, 1-spermous; coat of albuminous ascending seed rather hard, 

 sometimes produced below to a short membranous wing. — Small trees 

 or shrubs, flexuose or climbing, generally glabrous; branchlets 

 sometimes compressed ; leaves ^ opposite coriaceous, often reticulate 

 veined ; stipules inter- or intrapetiolar various ; flowers ^ in terminal 

 cymes inserted subumbellately on a common axis ; bracts sometimes 

 wide membranous;* pedicels articulate. (Trop. Oceania, Australia, 

 N. Caledonia.^) 



50. Gynochtodes Bl.° — Flowers hermaphrodite or oftener 1- 

 sexual (nearly of Goelospermum), 4, 5-merous; calyx short entire, 

 sinuate or 5-dentate. Corolla various coriaceous; tube sometimes 

 short; throat pilose; lobes of limb valvate, patent or reflexed. 

 Stamens &c. of Morinda. Germen 2 -celled ; ovules in each cell 2, 

 ascending or more rarely subhorizontal (Tetralopha '') ; micropyle 

 extrorsely inferior ; disk epigynous rather thick ; style sometimes very 

 short (Tetralopha) . Fruit drupaceous, 2-4-pyrenous ; seeds richly 

 albuminous. — Glabrous, sometimes climbing shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 coriaceous ; ^ stipules connate, sometimes rather large, deciduous ; 

 flowers ^ in small pedunculate or sometimes contracted axillary cymes ; 

 bracts sometimes {Tetralopha) connate in a ring." (Ind. Archip.^^) 



51. Cruckshanksia Hook, and Aen.^^ — Flowers hermaphrodite ; 

 receptacle subglobose or shortly ovoid, enclosing adnate germen. 



' Sometimes iinally lateral. iv. 477. — ^T5ndl. Gen. n. 3210.— B. H. Gen. ii. 



2 Often yellow. 119, n. 252.— Hook. Fl. Ind. iii. 160. 



s Small or rather large, white or pale yellow, ' Hook. p. lenn. t. 1072 ; Gen. ii. 120, n. 263. 



moBtly sweet- Boented. s Generally darkening on drying. 



•> C. dtcipiente H. Bn. [Morinda reticulata ' Small, white. 



Benth.). Germens of this plant free ; cells i" A genus closely related to Ccelospermum. 



2-ovulate ; each 2-cellulate. Cells of germen spuriously septate between 



' Spec. ahoutlO. Labill. Serf. Austro-caled. ovules in Eugynochtode ; in Tetralopha not 



48, t. 48 {Stvloooryna). — "Wall. Roxb. Fl. Ind. septate. 



{ed. G^B..) ii. 5S8 (Webera).— DC. Prodr. iv. 394, "Spec. 3, 4. Mia. Fl. Ind.-Sat. ii. 313; 



u. 7 ((7«p»a).— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Sat. ii. 301, 356.— Suppl. 224, 548. 



F. Mdell. Fragm. v. 19. — Benth. Fl. Austral. n Hook. Sot. Misc. iii. 361.- Endl. Gen. n. 



iii. 424 {Morinda, n. 4 ; Ccelospermum).— B.. En. 3137. — B. H. Gen. ii. 97, n. 190.- H. Bn. Bull. 



Bull. Soc. Linn. Far. n. 28 ; Jdansonia, xii. 236. Soc. Linn. Par. 187. — Eotheria Metbn, Seis. i. 



<> Bijdr. 993." Rich. Rub. 128. —DC. Frodr. 402.— Walp. P', Jlfeyex. 355. 



