Cephalosphera. } CXIV. MYRISTICACE# (STAPF). 167 
pressed.—Brochoneura (?) usambarensis, Warb. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 180; Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. lxviii. 240; Muskatnuss, 
386, t. 4, fig. 10. 
‘ Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Derema, Scheffler, 122! 
152! 
OrDER CXV. MONIMIACEA. (By J. G. Baker, with 
additions by C. H. Wright.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth inferior, regular 
or irregular; tube globose; limb 4- or more lobed or oblique. Disk 
adnate to the perianth-tube. Stamens indefinite, in two or more rows ; 
filaments short, usually flat, often with a gland on each side of the 
base; anthers erect ; cells 2, distinct or confiuent at the apex, dehiscing 
longitudinally or by valves. Carpels distinct, usually many, more or 
less immersed in the disk; style long or short ; stigma terminal ; ovule 
solitary, erect or pendulous, usually anatropous. Fruit indehiscent, 
included in the accrescent perianth-tube. Seed solitary; testa mem- 
branous ; endosperm fleshy or oily.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite 
or alternate, entire or toothed, penninerved, exstipulate. Flowers 
axillary, fascicled, cymose or racemose ; bracts small or absent. 
Species about 150, widely dispersed in the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
Perianth oblique . ° ‘ : : : . - 1. GLossocaLyx. 
Perianth symmetrical. 
Male perianth protruding beyond the stamens. . 2, CHLOROPATANE, 
Male perianth concealed by the stamens. 
Leaves subopposite : : - . - 38. XYMALOS. 
Leaves alternate . : : . . . . 4, PLAGIOSTYLES. 
1. GLOSSOCALYX, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 144. 
Flowers dicecious. Perianth-tube campanulate; limb oblique, one 
lobe protruded into a long tongue-like process, the others small and 
deltoid. Disk represented by a ring in the male flowers, in the female 
fleshy and divided into cells, in which the carpels are sunk. Stamens 
indetinite, inside the disk, 2~3-seriate; filaments short, flat, united at 
the base; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Carpels many, 
distinct, sunk in the disk ; style short ; stigma capitate. Ovule solitary, 
erect. Fruits included in the accrescent perianth-tube, which is 
crowned by the withered limb.—Trees or shrubs. Young shoots 
clothed with rigid, often fascicled, hairs. Leaves alternate, entire, 
penninerved. Flowers in axillary fascicles. 
Species 3, endemic. 
Perianth-lip narrow, 12 lin. long r 1. G. longicuspis. 
Perianth-lip narrow, 4 lin. long. : : : . 2. G. Staudtit, 
~ Perianth-lip broader, 2 lin, long j 3. G. brevipes. 
1. G. longicuspis, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xiv. 1, t.1301. A tree 
30-40 ft. high; young branches furnished with very short hairs. 
