Plagiostyles.| | CXV. MONIMIACEH (BAKER AND WRIGH'). 171 
1. P. klaineana, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 1327. A 
tree up to 32 ft. high. Branches terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 
oblong, acuminate, 6 in. long, 2} in. wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous; 
lateral nerves about 5 on each side, uniting by loops within the 
margin ; reticulation fine; petiole about 6 lin. long, slender, glabrous. 
Racemes axillary, much shorter than the leaves. Male flower: Perianth 
about 14 lin. in diam., glabrous; lobes short, rounded. Stamens about 
30. Female flower: Perianth cupular, 1 lin. long, glabrous; lobes 
rounded. Ovary oblong, slightly oblique. Fruit transversely oblong, 
with the stigma lateral through unequal growth, 4 lin. high, 9 lin. 
across the longer and 6 lin. across the shorter diameter. Seed of the 
same shape as the fruit, minutely black verrucose, with a very large 
central cavity containing on the side against the base of the fruit a 
pale-brown thin saucer-shaped body as long and wide as the seed, 
attached by a small point, and enclosing the smallembryo; ‘‘ endosperm 
oily” (Pierre).—Pax in Engl. & Prant], Planzenfam. Nachtr. ii.-iii. 38. 
Lower Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1730! Gaboon: Issoula, 
Klaine, 1010! 1096! 
OrpeR CXVI. LAURINEAS. (By O. Stapf.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamous or diccious, regular, Perianth 
inferior, very rarely superior (/ypodaphnis) ; tube (receptacle) ovoid, 
turbinate, campanulate or rarely oblong, sometimes growing out and 
persisting after flowering; lobes usually 6, equal or more or less 
unequal, in 2 whorls, or the perianth divided almost to the very base 
into 6 equal or subequal segments; estivation imbricate. Stamens 
typically in 4 whorls at the base of and opposite to the perianth-lobes 
or in the upper part of the receptacle, often one or the other (usually 
the fourth) reduced to staminodes or entirely suppressed ; filaments 
usually present, more or less flattened, varying from very short to 
several times the length of the anther, those of the third whorl 
mostly with a pair of large globose glands at the sides or the base 
or behind them (i.e., between the second and third whorl), very 
rarely the glands fused with the receptacle into a disk, or also 
the outer stamens'’with glands at the base; anthers continuous with 
the filaments, 2- or 4-valved, valves superposed or more or less 
collateral, dehiscing from the base upwards, introrse, or those of the 
third whorl more often extrorse. Ovary superior, often more or 
less surrounded by the receptacle or ultimately quite enclosed in it, 
very rarely inferior (Hypodaphnis), 1-celled ; style terminal, short or 
long, simple; stigma small, obtuse or unilaterally widened or discoid. 
Ovule solitary, anatropous, pendulous from near the apex of the ovary. 
Fruit baccate, fleshy or more or less drupaceous, indehiscent, more or 
less surrounded by or entirely free or enclosed in the persistent and 
accrescent perianth or its receptacular portion, often borne on an 
enlarged pedicel. Seed pendulous, exalbuminous ; testa membranous, 
often adnate to the pericarp and indistinct in the mature state. 
