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Series C. Ovules solitary in each cell. Radicle inferior. 
Erect shrubs. 
Estivation of corolla-lobes twisted. 
Fruit a berry with a single seed 16. Rutidea. 
Fruit a drupe with many pyrenes 17. Myonima. 
Fruit a drupe with two pyrenes. 
Flowers in terminal corymbs 18. Ixoka. 
Flowers axillary 19. Coffea. 
Estivation of corolla-lobes valvate. 
Flowers united in a globose head 20. Morinda. 
Flowers distinct. 
Stamens inserted at the throat of the corolla- 
tube. 
Pyrenes two ; tube long 21. Chasalia. 
Pyrenes two ; tube short 22. Psychotria. 
Pyrenes 5-6 23. Psathura. 
Stamens inserted low down in the corolla-tube . * Serissa. 
Climbing shrub 24. P^ederia. 
Annual herbs . . : 25. Spermacoce. 
1. DANAIS, Comm. 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5, minute, 
deltoid, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube cylindrical, villose at 
the throat ; teeth 5, lanceolate, valvate. Stamens inserted at the 
throat of the tube ; filaments filiform Ovary 2-celled ; ovules nume- 
rous ; style filiform, deeply 2-forked in the female flower. Fruit a 
small crustaceous capsule, splitting down the middle from the top to 
the bottom. Seeds peltate, winged, attached to a central placenta. — 
Climbing shrubs with copious axillary or terminal corymbs of minute 
flowers. Distrib. Mascaren Isles also. Species 4. 
Corymbs terminal 1 . D. corymbosa. 
Corymbs axillary 2. D. fragrans. 
1. D. corymbosa, Sal/. Jil. A woody climber with slender 
glabrous branches. Leaves short-petioled, oblong or lanceolate, sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous, If -3 in. long, f-1 in. broad, acute or acu- 
minate, cuneate at the base ; stipules deltoid, minute. Flowers in dense 
terminal corymbs lf-2 in. broad ; pedicels erect, slender, puberulent, 
in. long. Calyx under /j in. long ; tube campanulate ; teeth 5 
lanceolate. Corolla under f in. long ; segments oblong-spathulate, as 
long as the tube ; throat densely villose. Stamens exserted. Fruit 
globose, glabrous, £ in. long, dry, splitting to the bottom into two 
halves. 
Rodriguez, scattered through the island, but not plentiful. Balfour ! En- 
demic. 
2. D. fragrans, Comm. ; DC. Drod. iv. 361. A wide-climbing shrub 
with slender branches. Leaves short-petioled, oblong or obovate, ob- 
tuse or subacute, cuneate at the base, 2-4 in. long, glabrous, penni- 
nerved. Corymbs copious, axillary, often fascicled, much shorter than 
the leaves ; bracts very minute ; pedicels ascending, slender, often 
