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tubular-funnelform, with 4 short lobes imbricated in the bud, one lobe outside. Stamens 

 included : filaments short, inserted in the throat : anthers 2-mucronate at base. Style long- 

 exserted : stigma clavate-capitate. Ovary 2-celled, a solitary anatropous ovule pendulous 

 from near the summit of each cell. Fruits akene-like, obpyramidal by mutual pressure, 1-2- 

 seeded. 



1 2. MORIND A. Flowers usually 5-merous, compacted and the ovaries or fruits confluent 

 in a short-peduncled fleshy head. Calyx urceolate or hemispherical, with truncate or ob- 

 scurely dentate limb. Corolla salverform or somewhat funnelform, mostly short ; lobes val- 

 vate in the bud. Stamens short, inserted in the throat. Style bearing 2 slender stigmas. 

 Ovary 4-celled, or rather 2-celled and the cells 2-loceDate ; an ascending ovule in each cell. 

 Fruits drupaceous, maturing 2 to 4 bony seed-like nutlets, all confluent into a succulent 

 syncarp. 



# * Shrubs : flowers distinct, in cymes or panicles : fruit drupaceous, 

 ■*— "With 4 to 10 cells, at least in the ovary. 



13. GTJETTARDA. Flowers 4-9-merous (sometimes polygamo-dicecious). Calyx with 

 ovoid or globular tube, continued above the ovary into a cupulate or campanulate limb ; the 

 border truncate, commonly irregularly denticulate or dentate. Corolla salverform, with 

 elongated tube, and rounded or oblong lobes imbricated in the bud. Stamens inserted on 

 the tube or throat of the corolla, included : filaments short or none : anthers linear. Style 

 filiform : stigma subcapitate or minutely 2-lobed. Ovary 4-9-celled : an anatropous ovule 

 suspended from the summit of each cell on a thickened funiculus. Drupe globular, with 

 thin flesh, and a bony or ligneous 4-9-celled and lobed putamen ; the cells and contained 

 seed narrow. Embryo cylindrical : albumen little or none. 



14. ERITHALIS. Flowers 5-merous, varying to 6-1 0-merous. Calyx with obovate or glob- 

 ular tube and a truncate or denticulate short limb or border. Corolla rotate, parted into 5 

 or more oblong-linear divisions, valvate, or at tips slightly imbricated in the bud. Stamens 

 inserted on the base of the corolla : filaments hairy at base : anthers linear-oblong. Style 

 thickish : stigma of 5 or more minute lobes. Ovary 5-10-celled, with solitary pendulous 

 ovules. Drupe small, globose, 5-10-sulcate, containing as many bony seed-like nutlets. Em- 

 bryo small in copious albumen. 



•)— ■*- With 2 (rarely by variation 3) cells to the ovary : ovules anatropous. 



15. CHIOCOCCA. Flowers 5-merous, in axillary panicles or racemes. Calyx with ovoid 

 or turbinate tube and 5-toothed limb. Corolla funnelform, 5-cleft ; the lobes valvate or at 

 apex obscurely imbricated in the bud. Stamens inserted on the very base of the corolla : 

 filaments monadelphous at base, somewhat hairy : anthers linear. Style filiform : stigma 

 clavate. Ovules suspended. Drupe globular, small, containing two coriaceous seed-like 

 nutlets. 



16. PSYCHOTRIA. Flowers (small) 5-merous, sometimes 4-merous, in terminal naked 

 cymes. Calyx short. Corolla from campanulate to short-tubular or funnelform, not gib- 

 bous ; lobes valvate in the bud. Stamens short, inserted in the throat of the corolla, distinct. 

 Stigma 2-cleft. Ovule erect from the base of each cell. Drape globular, small, containing 

 2 flattened and commonly costate or cristate nutlets. Leaves mostly dilated and mem- 

 branaceous. Flowers in some heterogone-dimorphous. 



17. STRUMPFIA. Flowers (very small) 5-merous, in axillary thyrsiform cymes. Calyx 

 short, 5-toothed. Corolla short, 5-parted ; lobes oblong-lanceolate, lightly imbricated in the 

 bud. Stamens inserted on the very base of the corolla : filaments very short, monadelphous : 

 anthers oblong, with adnate introrse cells, connate by their broad coriaceous connectives into 

 an ovoid tube. Style hirsute : stigmas 2, obtuse. Ovule erect from the base of each cell. 

 Drupe small, with a 2-celled 2-seeded (or by abortion single-seeded) putamen. Leaves linear, 

 rigid, Kosemary-like. 



# # # Suffruticose and procumbent plants : flowers axillary and sessile : fruit drupaceous, 

 2-celled : seeds peltate. 



1 8. ERNODEA. Flowers 4-6-merous. Calyx-tube ovoid ; lobes elongated, subulate-lanceo- 

 late, persistent. Corolla salverform ; lobes valvate in the bud, linear, at length revolute. 

 Stamens inserted on the throat of the corolla, much exserted : filaments filiform : anthers 

 linear-oblong. Ovary 2-celled, with a peltate amphitropous ovule borne at the middle of the 



