1460 OXIX. URTICACE2E. [CeUis. 



slightly incurved in the bud. Disk hairy, with a rudimentary pistil in the males. 

 Ovary in the female and hermaphrodite flowers inserted on a hairy disk. Style- 

 branches (or distinct styles) 2, equal, linear oblong or dilated, recurved and 

 papillose on the- upper or inner surface, truncate or 2-lobed. Ovule pendulous 

 or laterally attached near the top. Drupe ovoid or globose. Embryo curved, 

 the cotyledons broad, conduplicate or rarely flat, incumbent on or embracing 

 the ascending radicle.^Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, more or less 3-nerved 

 entire, dentate in others. Stipules small and deciduous. 



The genus is dispersed over the temperate and subtropical regions of both the New and the 

 Old World, with a few tropical species, ohiefiy in mountainous districts. Both the Australian 

 species extend to the Indian Archipelago. 



Leaves broad, strongly 3-nerved, scarcely' acuminate. Cotyledons flat 



or nearly so- , . . . 1. C. philippinensis. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, the lateral nerves scarcely prominent. Cotyledons 



conduplicate 2. C. paniculata. 



1. C philippinensis (of the Philippines), Blanco, Fl.. Filip. 197 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. vi. 156. A tall shrub or stunted tree, or according to some collectors 

 a fine tree, quite glabrous or with a minute pubescence on the young shoots. 

 Leaves on petioles of 1 to 4 lines, ovate or broadly elliptical, shortly acuminate, 

 entire, rounded and sometimes rather oblique at the base, varying from 1^ to 

 Sin. in the more rigid broader leaved specimens, to 3 to Sin. in luxuriant ones, 

 coriaceous, green on both sides, very prominently and strongly 3-nerved, -with 

 very fine reticulations. Cymes loose, J to fin. diameter, those with all male 

 flowers more crowded than the polygamous ones. Perianths pedicellate, the 

 segments broad, f to nearly 1 line long. Btigmatic branches of the style (or 

 styles) broadly cuneate truncate or 2-lobed, sometimes broader than long, 

 sometimes much longer than broad and often the, two of the same flower 

 dissimilar. Drupe ovoid, 3 or 4 lines long, the endocarp bony. Embryo curved 

 lengthwise but the cotyledons transversely flat in the seeds examined, not 

 conduplicate as in C. paniculata. — Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 306 ; C. 

 strychnoides, Planch. Ic. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, iJ. BroioK ; Sunday Island, 4. Cit)mt»j/(om; Port 

 Denison, Fitaalan, Dallachy. 



Wood light-coloured, hard and close-grained. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 384a. 



The species extends over the Archipelago to South China. The smaller more rigid-leaved 

 specimens upon which the C. strychnoides was founded appear to have grown in open dry 

 situations. Cunningham's larger-leaved specimens are stated by him to have been from moist 

 shady situations, 



2. C. paniculata (paniculate). Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. x. 305 ; 

 Benth. FL Austr. vi. 156. A large tree, quite glabrous. Leaves from ovate- 

 lanceolate to elliptical-oblong, acuminate, more or less cuneate at the base and 

 often oblique or slightly falcate, entire, coriaceous, smooth, penniveined and 

 3-nerved at the base but the midrib alone prominent, the lateral veins or nerves 

 short and fine or almost evanescent. Cymes sometimes dense and few-flowered, 

 sometimes loose and lin. broad. Drupes smaller than in C. philippinensis. 

 Style-branches truncate or 2-lobed, often unequally so. Cotyledons very broad 

 and folded over the ascending tBjdiole.— Solenostii/ma paniculatwn, Endl. Prod. 

 Fl. Norf. ,42; S. brevinerve, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 67 ; C. sp. nova, n. 82, Planch, 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 305 ; C. imjens, F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 88. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B,. Brown, Heniie ; Broadsound, H. Brown; 

 Endeavour Kiver, A. Cunning hoim ; Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller; Rookhampton, Thozet 

 O'Shanesy; Edgecombe Bay and Port Denison, DaU«c/ii/ ,- Curtis Island, Henne ; Keppel Bay, 

 Thoztl. 



