Pisonia.} C. NYCTAGINEZ. 281 
ced of the perianth.—Hook. f. Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 999; P. Sinclairii, 
ook, £. Fl. N. Zeal. i. 209, t. 50 ; P. Mooriana, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 20. 
eae mp Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
a... Richmond river, Richards, Henderson; Illawarra, A. Cunning- 
x + Moore ; also Sydney woods, Paris Exhibition, 1855, Macarthur, n. 197. 
ER p ies is also in Norfolk island and New Zealand, all other stations doubtful, 
for the identification of the Australasian and Polynesian specimens of Pisonia is often 
nem 1 tes from th f 
; Forst., he has been evidently misled by Guillemin, who Zéph. Tait. in Ann. Sc. 
vii. 191, having before him only the P. procera, Bert. ( Ceodes, Forst.) re- 
wers dicecious, regular. Perianth deciduous, 3-lobed or rarely 
fl. Stamens united’ 
us her 8 i 
or S otted, penniveined, without stipules. Flowers small, in axil 
in the f “axillary racemes or panicles, more numero 
The WUR Bracts minute or none 
rder is limited to the single genus Myristica. 
l. MYRISTICA, Linn. 
Characters those of the Order. 
* genus is entirely tropical, most abundant in the Eastern Archipelago, with a few 
: South Pacific islands, and 
be endemic, but is 
e of 60 to 70 ft. or more 
| bae í 
Dall apes da, R. Br. Prod. 400. A fine tre 
i y), glabrous t d petioles often ferru- 
but the young branches an 
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