fl lonoeoceus .] 
CIT. PHYTOLACCACEiE. 
1267 
inner (stigmatic ?) edge densely bearded and terminating in a small hooked style, 
the back and sides of the carpel echinate with rigid hooked bristles. Fruiting 
carpel about 2 lines long without the long hooked bristles with which it is 
covered, forming an adhesive burr. 
Hab.: Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy, Broadsound, Bowman ; Rock- 
hampton, Thozet, O’ Shanes ]) ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay. (('. Hill, F. v. Mueller. 
8. PHYTOLACCA, Linn. 
(The names refers to the coloured juice of the fruit.) 
Flowers 1 to 2-sexual. Sepals 4, oblong, obtuse. Stamens 5 to 25. Carpels 
5 to 10, free or connate, fleshy in fruit. Seed reniform, compressed, exarillate, 
albumen floury; embryo annular, cotyledons slender, radicle ascending. — Shrubs 
or herbs, rarely trees. Leaves exstipulate. 
Species tropical and subtropical. 
1. P. octandra (stamens eight), Linn.; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 148. 
Bed Ink Plant. An erect soft-wooded herbaceous plant, with a thick fleshy 
rootstock. Leaves large, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers hermaphrodite, almost 
sessile in pedunculate racemes, either terminal or almost leaf-opposed. Perianth 
small, of 6 divisions. Stamens usually 8. Carpels usually 8, united in the 
fruit in a depressed succulent almost black berry more or less prominently 
8-ribbed. 
Hab.: An American weed. Naturalized and in many places a great pest. 
4. CODONOCARPUS, A. Cunn. 
(Bell-fruit). 
(Hy.nenotheca, F. v. Mu’ll.) 
Flowers dioecious or monoecious. Perianth very open under the fruit, very 
shortly and obtusely or obscurely sinuate-toothed. Stamens in the males 10 to 
20 radiating in a single series round a central disk, the anthers oblong, nearly 
sessile. Ovary in the females of. 20 to 50 carpels connate in a ring round a 
central column, dilated into a flat disk at the top. Styles or stigmas short 
or linear, free or slightly connected in a ring round the terminal disk. 
Fruiting carpels closely connected till near their maturity, separating 
when ripe from each other and from the central column and opening 
only along their inner edge. Seeds of adjoining carpels alternately placed near 
the top and below the top of the carpel, each with a small membranous aril or 
strophiole. — Tall shrubs or trees. Leaves linear or broad. Flowers in leafless 
racemes, axillary or terminal or the females on the leafless bases of the year’s 
shoot. Bracteoles usually very small under the perianth. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Leaves lanceolate, tapering into a long point. Carpels 40 to 50 1. C. australis. 
Leaves obovate t > broadly lanceolate, obtuse or shortly pointed. Styles 
short, conical. Carpels about 20 to 30 2. C. cotinifolius. 
1. C. australis (southern), A Cunn. Herb. ; Mocj. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 39 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. v. 148. A tree of 30ft. with a smooth bark and numerous 
slender flexuose branches. Leaves lanceolate, tapering into a long nar- 
row point and contracted into a long petiole lj to Bin. long. Fruits on 
long pedicels along the leafless bases’ of axillary branches (racemes of which the 
axis has grown out into a leafy branch ?). Perianth 2 to 2 h lines diameter. 
Fruit turbinate, almost campanulate, 7 to 8 lines long, very broad at the apex, 
and rather deeply depressed in the centre, the disk or dilated summit of the 
central column 3 to 4 lines diameter; carpels 40 to 50, quite connate when young, 
