Xymalos. | MONIMIACEA (Wright). 493 
1. X. monospora (Baill. in Bull. Soe. Linn. Paris, i. 650); a 
shrub or small tree ; branches glabrous ; leaves alternate or almost 
opposite, up to 6 in. long and 2} in. wide, varying from obovate 
to elliptic, cuneate at the base, usually irregularly serrate, more 
rarely entire, glabrous; main lateral nerves forming loops about 
3 lin. within the margin; petiole about 6 lin. long; inflorescence 
diwcious ; male flowers subtended by an ovate pubescent bract 
shorter than the perianth; perianth nearly 1 lin. long, deeply 
4-lobed, pubescent; stamens about 10; anthers shortly elliptic, 
subsessile ; female flowers: perianth 3—5-lobed, less than 1 lin. long, 
pubescent outside, and with a ring of hairs inside near the base ; 
ovary oblong, slightly longer than the perianth. Warb. in Engl. 
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 6a, 53, fig. 21, A. B.; Oliv. in Hook. Ie. 
Pl. t, 2444; Perkins in Engl. Pflanzenr. Monimiacex, 23 ; Sim, For. 
Fl. Cape Col. 288, t. 121; Burtt-Davy in Transv. Agric. Journ, v. 
416, 426, t. 171; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
vi. 1. 169. X. usambarensis, Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 310. Xylosma 
monospora, Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 52, t.181. Towxicodendron acutifolium, 
Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 214. Paawiodendron usambarense, 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 182, incl. var. serratifolia, 
Coast Region: Victoria East Div. ; in woods at the source of the Chumie 
River, Tyson in Herb. MacOwan, 2962! Cathcart Div. ; Amatola Range, MacOwan, 
2962! British Kaffraria ; without precise locality, Mrs. Barber, 10! 
KaxaHart Recion: Orange River Colony; without precise locality, Cooper, 
1204! Transvaal ; Houtbosch mountains, Nelson, 428! 
Eastern Recton: Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 835! Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 
986! 1315! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1251! Gerrard, 1921 ! Swazi- 
land ; Forbes Reef, 5100 ft., Burtt-Davy, 2732! 
Also in Tropical Africa. Known in South Africa as ‘‘ wild lemon,” ‘‘lemon- 
wood ”’ and ‘‘limoen hout.” 
Orper CXVI. LAURINEZE. 
(By O. Srapr.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamous or diwcious, regular. 
Perianth inferior, very rarely superior ; 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 ; wstivation 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 (ie., between the second 
