989 CI. MYRISTICEJE, 
tose or nearly glabrous. Seeds normal; embryo with very small thick 
divaricate c ty edons quite entire. —A. DC. Prod. xiv. 206; A. cme- 
Jera, R. Br. Prod. 400; A. DC. Le. 191. 
N. Australia. ‘Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Brunswick Bay, 
A. Cunningham ; Melville island, Fraser ; Port Essington, Armstrong. Hil; 
ieensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander ; Albany island, W. , 
Rockingbam Bay, Dallachy ; near Rockhampton, Thozet. 
l'he species is very near to M. Zeylanica, A. DC., united by Thwaites wit A. w 
Jolia, Hook. f. and Thoms. from Ceylon, and is indeed scarcely to be distinguishe 
from it, as far as our specimens show, but by the narrower perianth and apparenty — — 
fewer anthers. | 
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.  OmpzR CIL. MONIMIACES. | 
Perianth regular, usually at first globular or nearly so and more r 
less adnate to or continuous with the expanded receptacle or pn 
disk, the limb of 4 or more connivent lobes or segments in < or n 
more rows but all of similar texture, calycine or scarcely pe 
deciduous or persistent. Stamens either definite and opposite t | 
anth-segments or more frequently indefinite and irregularly arra 
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centrical or almost lateral, filiform or very short or almost pe per 
a small or V deena terminal stigma. Fruit of several (or rare y 
one) 1-seeded drupes or nuts, resting on the expanded receptae 
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erento opposite, entire orid 
without stipules. Flowers solitary or in trichotomous cymes or 
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