MONODORA. 



receptacle ; anthers sessile, spheroidal, yellowish-white, opening on each 

 side rather below the middle, by a roundish pore. Ovary spheroidal, 

 yellowish-white, crowned with a sessile, flattened stigma. Seeds ovate- 

 oblong, angular, by mutual pressure ferruginous. Integuments double. 

 Albumen of the same form as the seed, fleshy, hard, sculptured with 

 deep, nearly parallel lines, and a longitudinal furrow. — Seeds similar 

 in quality to those of the nutmeg, only being rather less pungent. 



Many plants belonging to the genera Uvaria, Unona, &c. are 

 medicinally employed in Java, and have powerful aromatic stimulating 

 properties. But Blume remarks that they require to be used with 

 caution, as they are apt to produce vertigo, haemorrhage, or even 

 abortion in pregnant women. 



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