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anatropous. Fruit globose, compressed or angular ; or oE 2 cocci, 
epicarp loose, fragile, membranous. Seeds with little or much 
albumen, of a lleshy character; cotyledons broad, foliaceoiis ; radicle 
inferior. Climbing or erect shrubs ; very freque7itly fetid when bruised. 
Stipules entire, solitary on both sides. Example : Pcederia. Rather 
pretty climbing plants, but the foliage when rubbed emits a most 
disagreeable odour. 
Tribe 23. Anthospeiimejg. — F lowers often polygamo-dimcious or 
unisexual. Corolla vaivate. Stamens inserted in the throat, tube, or 
often at the base of the corolla ; filaments exserted ; anthers elongate, 
versatile. Ovary 1-4-celis ; style entire or style-branches often fili- 
form, much elongated and papillous or hirsute, rarely lajvis ; ovules 
solitary in each cell, erect from the base, anatropous. Fruit of 
2 pyrenes, 2 cocci, or capsular. Seeds erect, albumen co])ious, cotyle- 
dons very often plane, I'adicle inferior. Shrubs and uadorahruba, 
rarely herbs ; when bruised often fetid. Examples; Sertssa^ Coprosma. 
Examples of each are commonly to be met with iu cultivation as 
ornamental plants — often for the variogatiou of their foliage. 
Tribe 24. Speraiacoceje. — F lowers hermaphrodite, rarely l-sexual, 
Corolla-lobes vaivate. Ovary 2 (very rarely 3-4) celled ; style entire, 
stigmas capitellate or bifid, rarely 2 or 3-4 elongate stylo branches ; 
ovules solitary in each cell, attached to the septa, amphitropous. 
Fruit dry, indehiscent or dehiscent, 2-cocci or capsular, sometimes 
circumscissile. Seeds oblong or linear, the hilum ventral, often 
elongate, very often longitudiualljr exsculpturcd on the ventral face, 
albumen horny or fieshy ; embryo various, radicle inferior. Herbs, 
rarely uiiderslirubs ; stipules setose, very rarely entire. The fiowers 
small and inconspicuous. Examples: Spermacoce^ IlieharJsonia ; 
generally weedy plants. 
Tribe 25. Galieje. — ^F lowers usually hermaphrodite. Corolla 
vaivate. Ovary 2-eelled ; style very often short, branches 2, apex 
stigmatose or capitellate ; ovules solitary in the cells, amphitropous, 
anatropous, or semi-anatropous, funicle attached to the base of septa. 
Fruit coriaceous or fleshy, very often didymous, indehiscent. Seeds 
peltate, the ventral face often concave ; hilum broad, albumen horny, 
embrvo curved, radicle inferior. Ileibs, rarely undershrubs, the 
branches 4-augular. Leaves vertieillate; stipules similar to the leaves, 
then said to he exstipulate, rarely opposite. Examples : lluhia^ 
Galium, Asperula; often rough weedy plants. From the first genus 
the well-known dye, Madder, is obtained. 
Tribe XVITI. IXOEE.5::. 
COFFEA, Linn. 
Tlie Arabic name of the plant is Qahoueh; and of this word, the 
Persian Gahwa, the Turkish Cahvoy, the French Cafe, and our Coffee 
are evidently corruptions. Others, liowever, give the following as its 
derivation :—Caffee, a province of Xarea, iu Africa, where the common 
coffee grew in abundance. 
Calyx-tube short, campanulato, turbinate or urceolate ; limb 
small or obsolete, cleft or obscurely toothed, persistent, not accrescent. 
Corolla salver or somewhat funnel-shaped, membranous or slightly 
coriaceous ; tube short or elongated ; throat glabrous ; limb spreading, 
5 to 7-partite, rarely 4 or 8-partite ; lobes coutorted dextroraely (as 
