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partite, valvate ; petals absent; stamens, four, inserted beneath a glandular 
disc. Female: Calyx, five- to nine-partite; petals absent; stamens abortive ; 
ovary five- to nine-celled ; stigmas united at their base, recurved above. Fruit, 
an ovoid or oblong berry, five- to nine-celled ; seeds bony, compressed. 
ORDER 18. CORNE/E. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees with opposite or alternate exstipulate, entire leaves. 
Flowers perfect or dicecious: calyx-tube adnate with the ovary, limb four- or 
five-toothed ; petals, four or five, valvate, rarely absent, perigynous; stamens, 
four or five, perigynous, or inserted at the base of an epigynous disc; ovary 
inferior, one- to three-celled; style very short; stigma solitary and capitate 
or three to four, filiform or recurved ; ovules solitary in each cell, pendulous, 
anatropous. fruit, usually a drupe; stone one- to three-celled; endosperm 
fleshy ; embryo very small. 
GENUS I. GRISELINIA, Forster. 
Dicecious shrubs or small trees, sometimes epiphytic. Leaves coriaceous, 
glossy, oblique, petioled, jointed to the stem. Flowers in axillary panicles. 
Male: Calyx five-toothed ; petals, five, valvate; stamens, five. Female: Calyx 
superior, five-toothed ; petals, five, rarely absent ; stamens, none; ovary inferior, 
one- or, rarely, two-celled; styles, three, subulate, very short. Fruit, a small 
fleshy drupe or berry. 
Diviston II]. COROLLIFLORA. 
Calyx and corolla usually present, the corolla consisting of coherent petals, 
forming a tube or cup. 
OrDER Ig. RUBIACEA®. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite, with interpetiolar stipules or 
verticillate, simple. Flowers regular, dicecious or moncecious or perfect: calyx 
adherent with the ovary, four- or five-toothed or lobed or partite, or absent ; 
corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate, limb of four to six segments, valvate or 
rarely imbricate or contorted; stamens, two to six, inserted on the corolla ; 
ovary inferior, one- to three-celled; styles, one to three, filiform; stigmas 
filiform or capitate; ovules solitary in each cell. Fruit, a capsule, berry, or 
drupe, two- to six-celled, each cell one-seeded ; endosperm fleshy or cartilaginous 
or horny; embryo small; cotyledons flat. 
GENUS I. Coprosma, Forster. 
Shrubs or small trees, sometimes small and prostrate, often fcoetid when 
bruised. Leaves opposite. Flowers dicecious, frequently small and incon- 
spicuous, solitary or fascicled. Male: Calyx two- to five-toothed or lobed, 
often truncate or absent; corolla, four- to five-fid; stamens, four to five, pen- 
dulous, inserted on the corolla. Female smaller than the male; calyx adnate 
with the ovary, four- to five-toothed or truncate or, rarely, with linear lobes; 
ovary inferior, two- or, rarely, three- or four-celled, with a single ovule in each 
cell; styles, two to four, filiform. Fruit, a berry, two- to four-seeded. 
Orper 20. COMPOSITL. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate, rarely opposite, exstipulate leaves. 
Flowers small, sessile, usually crowded in involucrate heads, rarely solitary, 
the involucre being composed of one or more series of erect imbricating bracts ; 
receptacle pitted or paleaceous or naked. Flowers (florets) perfect, male or 
female or neuter; all the Horets may be perfect or male or female when the 
