14 - CXXVL MYRISTICEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Myristica 
furacea in habit and foliage; fem. flowers densely crowded forming almost globose 
fascicles on tubercles of the stem, clavate, with the stout pedicel i in. long, densely 
rufous-tomentose ; stigma subsessile with 3-4 radiating teeth.—Apparently the same 
species is sent by Murton also from Singapore, with leaves glabrous and glaucous 
beneath. 
Orpen CXXVII. MONIMIACEIE. 
Trees or shrubs, often aromatic. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, entire 
or serrate, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers 1-2-sexual, regular, 
usually in short cymes or racemes; bracts small or 0, or 2 valvately en- 
closing the bud. - Perianth inferior, globose ovoid or depressed, rarely cam- 
panulate; limb 4-many-toothed, teeth in one or several series, equal or the 
outer sepaloid and inner petaloid, or various, or obsolete, when the mouth. 
closes over the ovary. Stamens few or many, in one or many series on ê 
disk adnate to the perianth-tube, included; filaments short, simple or wi 
a basal scale; anthers erect, 2-celled, bursting by slits or valves. Carpels 
many, rarely solitary, sessile in the base or on the sides of the perianth- 
tube, or immersed in a disk, 1-celled; styles long or short, stigma small; 
ovule solitary, erect or pendulous, anatropous or orthotropous. Fruiting 
carpels free, enclosed in the perianth or exposed on a discoid receptacle, 
indehiscent. Seed erect or pendulous, testa membranous, albumen pur 
embryo usually next the hilum and minute, cotyledons erect or ài 
verging, radicle superior or inferior.—Genera 22; species about 150, tropical 
and temperate. l 
* Drupes on an enlarged disciform receptacle, fem. perianth cir- 
cumsciss. 
Anther-cells confluent . . . . . . . © . . . . . . ew . 1. KIBARA 
Anther-cells parallel, distinct. . . . . 5... . . . . . 2. MATTEEA 
_ ** Drupeson a small receptacle, perianth-lobes persistent. 3. HonTONIA 
1. RIBARA, Endl, 
Aromatic trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers 
l-sexual, small,'in short axillary or lateral cymes or panicles; bracts minute 
or 0. Mate rr. Perianth short, teeth or lobes 4, 2.seriate; mouth con- 
tracted. Disk annular or tubular. Anthers subsessile, 5-8, 2-seriate, cells 
confluent above. Frm. FL. Perianth circumsciss above the disk. Carpets 
many, free; style very short; ovule pendulous, anatropous. Ripe carpe 
sessile or stipitate on a dilated receptacle. Seed pendulous ; embryo small, 
axile, radicle superior.—Species 10, Eastern Tropical Asia, Australia. 
K. coriacea, Endl. Gen. Pl. 314; leaves elliptic obtuse acute oF 
acuminate subentire, cymes  umbellately: compound puberulous muc 
branched exceeding the petioles. A. pr Prodr. xvi. 2. 670; Miquel Fl. 
Ind. Bat. i. 2,73. Tulasne in Archiv. Mus. viii. 404. K. Blumei, Steud 
JNomencl. Ed. 2; Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 88, f. 9. Brongniartia coriacea 
Blume Bijd.436. Sciadicarpus Brongniartii, Hassk. Plant. Jav. Rar. 209. 
BSercodticns chloranthiformis, Grif. Notul. iv. 381, and Ic. Pl. Asiat: 
Matacca, Griffith, Maingay.— DrsTRIB. Java, Sumatra, Celebes. " 
A tree, branches stout, smooth, and leaves when dry yellowish. Leaves 5-10 in» 
coriaceous, obscurely toothed towards the tip; midrib puberulous beneath. - Cymes 
