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[ Gcertnera . 
6. G. pendula, Pojer ; A. DC. Prod. ix. 34. A glabrous shrub, with 
rather stout branchlets. Leaves distinctly petioled, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, cuneate at the base, 3—5 in. long, subcoriaceous ; 
stipules large, lanceolate, with two deciduous awns. Flowers in 
terminal crowded peduncled corymbose panicles 2-3 in. broad, sessile 
in clusters at the end of the branchlets. Calyx i in. long ; teeth 
lanceolate or deltoid-ari state, nearly as long as the tube. ? Corolla 
white, an inch long, the lower flowers of the corymb cernuous ; teeth 
i as long as the tube. Fruit fusiform, black, an inch long. 
Mauritius, in damp shaded woods of the Pouce range. Endemic. 
7. G. longifolia, Pojer; A. DC. Prod. ix. 34. A shrub 5-6 feet high 
with pilose branchlets. Leaves oblong, subcoriaceous, acute, cuneate 
at the base, a foot or more long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, slightly 
downy beneath ; petiole flattened, 1-1 \ in. long. Flowers in corymbose 
terminal panicles, on short downy pedicels, with minute deltoid bracts. 
Calyx yV in. long, irregularly repand at the border. Corolla an inch 
long ; teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube. Fruit obovoid-cuspidate, 
angular, black, an inch long, j Bojer in Mem. Soc. Helv. viii. t. 2, dissec- 
tions , ( fruit immature). 
Mauritius, in dense woods of Nouvelle Decouverte and Quartier Militaire. 
Endemic. 
8. G. calycina^ Pojer ; A. DC. Prod. ix. 35. A glabrous shrub 3-4 
feet high, with stout terete branchlets. Leaves oblong or obovate- 
oblong, 4-6 in. long, subcoriaceous, cuspidate, deltoid or rather 
rounded at the base ; stipules deltoid, with a single deciduous awn ; 
lower petioles 1-1| in. long. Flowers in ample corymbose terminal 
panicles half afoot or more broad, distinctly peduncled, with lanceo- 
late bracts at the base of the pedicels. Calyx very large, broadly 
campanulate, green, or white variegated with green, finally \ in. long, 
with 5 broad unequal deltoid teeth. Corolla § in. long ; teeth half 
as long as the tube. Fruit oblong, black, twice as long as the calyx. 
Pojer in Mem. Helv. viii. t. 2, ( dissections ). Gr. vaginata, Sieb. non. 
Poir. Gr. sethionoma, Steudel. 
Mauritius, in the forests of Grand Bassin, Nouvelle Decouverte, etc. Endemic. 
2. NICODEMIA, Tenore. 
Calyx small, tubular ; teeth 4, linear. Corolla hypocrateriform, with 
a cylindrical tube and 4 round spreading lobes imbricated in bud. 
Stamens 4 ; anthers minute, nearly sessile at the throat of the corolla. 
Ovary 2-celled ; ovules many in a cell ; style filiform ; stigma entire. 
Fruit fleshy, 2-celled. — Shrubs with opposite leaves and small 
flowers in terminal and axillary clusters. Distrlb. Species 2, the 
other a plant of the Comoros. Only differs from Buddleia by its 
fleshy fruit. 
