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No. 275. 
Codonocarpus cotinifolius F.v.M. 
Horse-radish Tree. 
(Family PHYTOLACCACEvE.) 
Botanical description. Genus Codonocarpus A. Cunn. in Hook. Bot. Misc., i, 244 
(1830). 
Flowers dioecious or monoecious. Perianth very open under the fruit, very shortly and obtusely 
or obscurely sinuate-toothed. Stamens in the males ten to twenty, radiating in a single series round a 
central disc, the anthers oblong, nearly sessile. Ovary in the females of twenty to fifty carpels connate 
in a ring round a central column dilated into a flat disc at the top. Styles or stigmas short or linear, free 
or slightly connected in a ring round the terminal disc. 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 (B.FL, v, 147, 1870.) 
Leaves narrow-linear. Styles rather long. Carpels 
thirty to forty C. pyramidalis. 
Leaves lanceolate, tapering into a long point. 
Carpels forty to fifty C. australis. 
Leaves obovate to broadly lanceolate, obtuse or 
shortly pointed. Styles short, conical. Car- 
pels about twenty to thirty C. cotinifolius. 
Botanical description. Species cotinifolius F.v.M., PI. Viet., i, 200 (1862). 
Usually a tall shrub or small tree, but attaining sometimes 40 feet, of a pale or glaucous green. 
Leaves from broadly obovate or ovate to elliptical, oblong or almost lanceolate, obtuse or shortly 
pointed, contracted into a rather long petiole, 1 to 2 inches long. 
Flowers dioecious or monoecious, but usually the two sexes in separate racemes in the upper axils, 
sometimes forming a terminal panicle, the males on very short, the females on rather long pedicels. 
Perianth about 2 lines diameter in the females, rather smaller in the males. 
Stamens, fifteen to twenty. 
