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444 style simple; stigma capitate or oblong; ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule globose or oblong, septicidally 2-valved; valves separating from the consolidated placentas and axis. Seeds numerous, small, enveloped by the persistent placentas.

1. G. ligustrifolium, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 401.—A perfectly glabrous much-branched shrub 4–12 ft. high; branches slender, terete. Leaves 1½–3 in. long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate, shortly petiolate, membranous, quite entire, paler beneath, veins conspicuous. Flowers in short axillary corymbs or fascicles, ⅛–⅙ in. diam., greenish-white; pedicels bracteolate. Calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, ciliolate. Corolla rotate -campanulate; tube short; lobes spreading or reflexed, bearded within. Ovarv subglobose; style very short; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ⅕ in. diam., subglobose, mucronate, splitting into 2 boat-shaped valves. Seeds numerous; testa brown, pitted.—''Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 430; Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 177; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 189. G. rupestre, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 207 (not of Forst.'').





Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, usually glabrous and bitter. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate or whorled, nearly always simple and entire; stipules wanting. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, solitary or cymose. Calyx inferior, 4–5-lobed or -partite, lobes imbricate. Corolla gamopetalous, hypogynous, 4–5-lobed or -partite, lobes twisted to the right (valvate in Liparophyllum). Stamens 4–5, inserted on the throat or tube of the corolla and alternate with its lobes; filaments filiform or dilated at the base; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary superior, 1-celled, or 2-celled by the meeting of 2 intruded parietal placentas; style single, short or long; stigma entire or 2-lobed or 2-lamellate; ovules numerous in each cell. Fruit a 1- or 2-celled capsule with septicidal dehiscence, rarely fleshy or indehiscent. Seeds numerous, small; albumen copious, fleshy; embryo minute. 