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Kibara] CXXVIL MONIMIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 115 
branched from the base ; branches and pedicelslong, slender. Perianth 2-bracteolate, 
Pyriform, 3 in. long, “ closed by scales arranged in an alternating series of twos and 
threes,” Maingay. Stamens 5-7, included ; anthers dehiscing apically and trans- 
versely, Drupes 1-15, 4-1 in. long, seated singly on fleshy lobes of the orange- 
cold. receptacle, umbelled on the thickened peduncle, subtended by the excessively 
thickened reflexed perianths, ellipsoid, tip rounded, purple-black.—Beccari (Malina, 
186) describes a variety from the Arou Islands, 
2. MATTHEA, Blune. 
A.glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite, entire or subserrate, coriaceous. 
Flowers fascicled, axillary, pedicelled. Perianth depressed-turbinate, mouth 
Central, very minute obtusely 4-toothed, at length circumsciss. Stamens 
, filaments fleshy; anthers 2-celled, dehiscence lateral. Pistillode of 
male fl. minute. Carpels very many, covering a broad flat receptacle; 
style very short, conical; ovule pendulous, anatropous. Ripe carpels long- 
stipitate, seated on the thickened receptacle, and perianth ellipsoid. 
M. sancta, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 89, fig. 10; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2. 
669; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 74. | 
Matacca, Maingay.— DisTRiB. Sumatra, Borneo. . " 
ranches terete, smooth. Leaves 6-9 by 2-3} in, coriaceous, oblong, shortly 
yculninate, base acute; nerves very spreading, slender; petiole 4-4 in. Peduncles 
lin. long, rather stout, puberulous. Flowers }in. diam. Ripe carpels 3 in. long, 
numerous, about as long as their slender stalks, dark purple. 
3. HORTONIA, Wight. 
An aromatic shrub Leaves opposite, subentire, coriaceous. Flowers 2. 
» in short axillary cymes, bracts small or 0. Perianth-tube short, 
Dak dnulate ; lobes many, many-seriate, outer sepaloid, inner petaloid. 
airy. Stamens 7-12, 1-2-seriate; filaments short, base 2-glandular ; 
anther-cells parallel, extrorse. Carpels numerous, sessile, style short or 0; 
rne ° pendulous, anatropous. Ripe carpels obliquely ovoid, seated on a 
. 
Rat floribunda, Wight in Jard. Mag. Zool. § Bot. ii. 546; Thwaites 
m. 11i Hook. f. & Thoms, Fl. Ind. 166. 
A P Central Province, alt. 4-7000 ft. 
Leaves ve 
ellowish . PE »: 
Bowes ; nerves few ; petiole } in. ` Cymes glabrous or puberulous, $ 3 in. long 
- icels" in., stout 
or slender seed, alternate or subumbellate, greenish-yellow, pedicels’ j—3 in., stou 
neryo, Oribunda Proper; leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in. ovate-lanceolate obtusely acuminate. 
- H. floribunda var. acuminata, Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 165 : 
es Enum. 12. H fioribunda & acuminata, Wight Ie. 1997, 1998, righ- 
r y Mola: T $ h. 
Mus i ad DC. Prodr. xvi. 2. 272, exel. syn. angustifolia; Tulasne in T 
it. Ovalifoli by 14-2 in. broadly elliptic 
or Yolia, Hook. f. & Thoms, 1. c.; leaves 2-4 by AS Tp 
1e n 0 tuse or apiculate, caress eprending. Thwaites l. c. H. ovalifolia, Wigh 
» left-hand figure; A. DO. l. e.; Tulasne l. c. 428. 13° 
