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raphe dorsal, micropyle superior. Drupe with 1 or many pyrenes, 
or putamen 1 or many celled. Seeds various, albumen copious ; 
cotyledons very often compressed, broad, radicle sxiperior. Trees, 
shrubs with usually an axillary inflorescence. Examples : Flectronia, 
Tangueria. The first-named genus is frequently to be met with 
in Queensland in the foi'in of tall shrubs or small trees. The latter 
is represented by one species in our gardens. One, V. eduliSj produces 
a good fruit. 
Suhseries II. Radicle inferior. 
Tribe 18. Ixoeeje. — Corolla closely contorted (never imbricate). 
iStamens inserted in the mouth or throat of the corolla. Ovary 
2 (rarely 3 or 4) celled; ovules in cell solitary, anatropous or 
amphitropous, affixed above the middle, very rarely at the base of the 
cell. Emit baccate or coriaceous, 2-4-celled or 2-4 pyrenes ; pyrenes 
coriaceous, rarely 1-celled, l-seedcd. Seeds very often plano-convex, 
or the ventral face exsculptured, albumen horny ; embryo curved, 
small or middling; cotyledons flat, broad; radicle terete, inferior. 
Trees or shrubs, the stipules of both sides entire. Examples : Ixora, 
Coffea. 
Tribe 19. MoETNnK.n. — Corolla-lobes valvate. Stamens inserted 
at the mouth or throat of the corolla. Ovary 2 (rarely perfect or 
imperfect 4) celled ; ovules in cells solitary or in ovaries imperfectly 
4-celled in pairs, anatropous or amphitropous, attached below the 
middle of the cell; raphe dorsal, micropyle inferior. Fruit baccate 
or drupaceous, 2 or 4 celled or with 2 or 4 pyrenes. Seeds various, 
umbilicus ventral or subbasal, albumen horny; embryo straight or 
curved, cotyledons somewhat linear ; radicle terete, inferior. Trees 
and scrubs erect or scandent ; stipules solitary on both sides, entire, 
rarely cut. Example: Morimla ; known at once by their mulberry- 
like fruit, whence the name. 
fribe 20. Coussxbee^. — C orolla-lobes valvate. Stamens inserted 
in the tube or throat of corolla. Ovary 1-celled (or 2-cellec!, the 
septa very thin and evanescent) ; ovules in pairs, basal and erect or 
peltately affixed at the base of the thin septa, ampliitropoua. Fruit 
coriaceous, l-seeded. Embryo minute, radicle inferior. Shrubs ; 
stipules entire, solitary on both sides ; flowers terminal. Plants of 
Brazil and Tropical America; probably no examples in Queensland. 
Tribe 21. Pbtchotrte.e. — C orolia-lobes valvaio. Stamens in- 
serted at the throat of the corolla. Ovary 2 (rarely 4 or 8) celled ; 
ovules solitnry in the cells, wholly basal, anatropous, very often 
cuneate, compressed. Fruit very often of 2 pyrenes ; pyrenes plano- 
convex, tlie Ventral face plane, sulcatc, or concave. Albumen often 
horny, embryo often curved, cotyledons plane or somi-tercte, radicle 
straight or curved, inferior. Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Examples : 
Psyc]wtri(('^ Geophila^ Myrmecoclia. and Mydnopltijfwm. The first are 
usually shrubs ; the second is a creeping plant bearing fruit resembling 
the Ivenlisli cherry in shape and colour ; the two latter genera are 
gouty-stemrned epiphytes. 
Tribe 22. PiEnrmTE.E. — Flowers hermaphrodite ov j)olygamo- 
dioecious. Corolla-lobes valvate. )Stamens inserted in the throat or 
tube of the corolla (or sometimes at the base). Ovary 2 to 5-celled; 
style branches (or stigmas) 2 or 5, filiform, papillous all round, rarel; 
short and obtuse; ovules solitary in each shell, erect from the basey 
