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LORANTHAOEiE. 
[Loranthus. 
We have imperfect specimens of a third species from Mauritius, gathered by Bojer. 
It has thick rigid obscurely 3 -nerved oblanceolate- oblong obtuse leaves 3 in. long, 
narrowed into a short petiole, and flowers 2-3 together from the lower part of the 
virgate branches without a common peduncle. I have not seen the corolla. 
Order LY. RUBIACEiE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous, in all the Mauritian genera 
regular. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; teeth 4-5, long or short. Corolla 
funnel-shaped or hypocrateriform ; tube short or long ; lobes usually 4 
or 5, valvate or imbricated in bud. Stamens numerous, inserted at 
the throat of the corolla ; filaments short or none ; anthers 2-celled, 
slit down the side, basifixed or versatile. Ovary inferior, two or rnany- 
celled ; ovules one or many in a cell ; style simple below, mostly 
branched above. Fruit and seeds very various ; albumen mostly 
copious. — Trees, shrubs or herbs with opposite entire leaves and con- 
nate interpetiolar stipules ; inflorescence various. Distrib. Cosmo- 
politan, mostly in warm countries. Species 4000. 
Series A. Ovules more than one in each cell. 
Fruit capsular. 
Shrubs 1. Danais. 
Herbs 2. Oldenlandia. 
Fruit indehiscent. (All shrubby.) 
Flowers in terminal corymbs. 
Flowers small , seeds few 3. Webera. 
Flowers large ; seeds numerous 4. Muss,®nda. 
Flowers in terminal panicles with cymose branches . . 6. Bertiera. 
Flowers in clusters in the axils of the leaves .... 6. Randia. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves. 
Shrubs with naked fruit. 
Flowers small, polygamous ........ 7. Fernelia. 
Flowers large hermaphrodite ....... 8. Gardenia. 
Minute herb with bristly fruit * Dentella. 
Series B. Ovules solitary in each cell. Radicle superior. 
Albumen absent or very scanty. 
Lobes of corolla imbricate. 
Corolla large hypocrateriform 4-10-lobed .... 9. Guettarda. 
Corolla small funnel-shaped 4-lobed 10. Antirrhcea. 
Lobes of corolla valvate 11. Timonius. 
Albumen abundant. 
Fruit a berry with a single seed 12. Craterispermum. 
Fruit a drupe with 2-3 pyrenes 13. Plectronia. 
Fruit a drupe with several pyrenes. 
Flowers in dichotomous cymes * Yangueria. 
Flowers one or few clustered within a pair of 
bracts 14. Pyrostria. 
Flowers many clustered within a pair of large bracts 15. Scyphochlamys. 
