Cireeaster.] CXXV. CHLORANTHACEEX, (J. D. Hooker.) | 101 
erect stem, bearing at the top a whorled fascicle of leaves and many axillary 
few-fld. short peduncles. Leaves membranous, rhomboidly spathulate, cuneate 
and quite entire below the middle, above it semicircular and toothed. 
lowers minute, 2-sexual or female. Sepals 2-3, minute, scale-like, per- 
sistent. Petals 0. Stamens 1-2, alternate with the sepals, persistent, 
filaments linear flattened ; anther subglobose, cells rather diverging, opening 
laterally - Carpels 1-4, free, linear-oblong, 1-celled ; stigma sessile, oblique ; 
ovule pendulous from the top of the cell. Ripe carpels oblong, terete, 
Drs carp membranous, narrowed at the base, sparsely clothed with hooked 
rislles. Seed oblong, testa membranous adherent to the hard fleshy 
albumen; embryo in the axis of the albumen terete, cotyledons linear, radicle 
Superior, 
A S agrestis, Mazim. in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xxvii. 556; Mel. Biol. 
Xi. 345. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, alt. 8000 ft., Strachey & Winterbottom, Duthie. 
—Disrere. W. China. 1 
Stem 3-5 in. ending in fibrous roots. Leaves very many in a solitary false 
whorl, formed of crowded pairs, pale green, narrowed into a broad petiole and to- 
gether with it 1-1} in. long, nerves flabellate ; immediately below the whorl of leaves 
ae two linear l.nerved ones, which are the primordial leaves. Pedicels shorter 
than the petioles, very slender. Sepals J, in. long, ovate-oblong. Stamens twice as 
long, ipe carpels cylindric, 4 in long, green, tip acute.—A very obscure plant, o 
doubtful or indeed unknown affinity, but regarded by Bentham as near Chore 
occurs in fields in W, China, and in Kumaon on mossy rocks in woods, &c. re 
hooked bristles on the carpels are such aids to dispersion that it may be supposed 
common, though so inconspicuous as to be overlooked. 
OrpER CXXVI. MYRISTICEE. 
Evergreen trees, often llately tomentose. Leaves alternate, quite 
entire, exstipulate, often pellucid-puactate Flowers dioœcious, , small, 
we nlar, fascicled umbelled or panicled; bracteoles persistent or c more, 
ALE FL. Perianth 3-(2-4-)lobed, valvate in bud. Anthers 3 m res 
panate in a sessile or stipitate column head ring or disk, 2-celled. 1 cell d; 
erianth of the male. Staminodes0. Ovary superior, free, sessile, ce e d 
Jie short or 0; stigma capitate discoid or lobed; ovule 1, basal, do d 
#natropous, Fruit fleshy, at length 2- rarely 4-valved. Seed erect, ene-0se 
m a thin or, fleshy entire or lacerate often highly coloured aril, testa cobv- 
*ous, albumen hard densely ruminate ; embryo basal, small, oy 
bout PP UDded spreading often wrinkled, radicle short inferior an 
] Tropica East Asiatic, Malayan and American; a few Air , 
Australian. 
i If, 
situs to the publication of the “ Flora Indica” of Dr. Thomson and myself, 
iw pritish Indian Nutmege were known only through the named but undescribed 
mens distributed by Wallich; for the species contained in Roxburgh’s Flora are 
i 
Tor the. i inable by that 
moe post part from the Archipelago, and were quite undeterminab'e by 
e 
r 5 brief descriptions. Wallich’s types are therefore the foundation of me al 
incon, but then t ere are often several species under one name, ane mo doma from 
them i. à Condition, that it is impossible to draw up satisfactory desc NI is their 
imperf, 9ne, and very difficult to identify other collections by them. ability of the 
f liage tion the only obstacle ; more serious ones are, the excessive variabili E once 
and none individual species, throughout the genus, in size, form, texture, P ken at 
differe mber o nerves; and the alterations in all these characters in leeres taen il. 
able 2 Stages of growth of the same tree. The only other Indian collectio: Md 
T the “ Flora Indica » were Griffith’s, and these were assiduously compa 
