Tas. 4680. 
MONOCERA GRANDIFLORA. 
Large-flowered Monocera. 
Nat. Ord. EL#ocarrem.—PoLyaNnDRIA MoNoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx pentaphyllus, foliolis lanceolatis zstivatione valvatis. Corolle 
petala 5, hypogyna, wstivatione imbricata, cuneata, tri-quinqueloba, lobis laci- 
niatis vel subintegerrimis. Stamina 25-80, disco hypogyno glanduloso inserta ; 
jilamenta brevia, subulata ; anther erect, longe lineares, /oculis introrsum adnatis 
appositis biloculares, apice rima transversa bivalves, valvula antica mutica, postica 
connectivo dorsali-excurrente cuspidata. Ovarium sessile, basi disco cinctum, 
bi-quinqueloculare.  Ovula in loculis 2 y. plura, pendula, anatropa. Stylus 
subulatus; stigma simplex. Drupa monopyrena; nuce levi v. tuberculata, 
uni- bi- rarius quinqueloculari. Semina in loculis solitaria, inversa. Hmbryo in 
axi albuminis carnosi orthotropus, ejusdem fere longitudine ; cofyledonibus planis, 
oblongis ; radicula cotyledonibus breviore, supera.—Arbores Asie tropice et 
Nove Hollandie ; foliis alternis, approximatis, lanceolato- v. cuneato-oblonyis, inte- 
gerrimis v. serratis, petiolis basi et apice tumidis, stipulis deciduis, racemis axil- 
laribus, folio brevioribus, petalis sepissime eatus sericeis. Endl. 
Monocera grandiflora; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis basi attenuatis apice obtu- 
siusculis remote crenato-serratis integerrimisye, racemis axillaribus paucifloris 
pedicellis elongatis gracilibus petiolo longioribus. 
E.mocarpus grandiflora. Smith in Rees’ Cycl. n. 5. 
Monocera lanceolata. Hassk. Cat. Pl..Hort. Bot. Bogor. p. 208. 
Exxocarpus lanceolata. Blume, Bijdr. p.119. Spreng. Syst. Veget. Cur. Post. 
p. 189. 
A native of Java, long cultivated in the stove of the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, as an unknown plant, with the habit of Zer- 
minalia. Tn the summer of 1852 the handsome flowers ap- 
peared. It is clearly the plant “collected by the late Sir G. L. 
Staunton, Bart., who discovered it in his voyage to China, but 
in what country is not mentioned,” and taken up by Sir James 
Smith as Hleocarpus grandiflora, in Rees’ Cyclopedia, where 
the author has faithfully described the anthers as those of a 
Monocera. This name has been strangely overlooked, as far 
as I can find, by all succeeding authors; Blume, considering 
the plant a new species, described it under the name of L/@o- 
NOVEMBER lst, 1852. 
