180 .CIX. URTICER. [ Antiaris. 
1 
 Ylower-heads several on a very short common um e, the lowest 
female, the others male, on short pedicels. Male receptacle flat or con- 
cave, about 5 eet diameter, em marginal bracts ciliate, at first inflexed, 
ei Australia. Shores of Company's Island opposite Arnhem's Land, Æ. Brown. 
—I have found no are of this plant in any of the herbaria I have had access 
to, and bise therefore no means of comparing it with the closely allied WC 
cies. e above —— is taken from Brown's elaborate account and Daue 
plate in Flinders’ Voyag 
TRIBE 3. Monzu.—Flowers unisexual, in dense spikes or heads. 
biüinens inflected in the bud. Styles usually 2-branched. Ovules 
pendulous or laterally attached. Embryo incurved or involute. Trees | 
or shrubs, very rarely herbs. 
7. MALAISIA, Blanco. 
(Cephalotropis, Blume; Dumartroya, Gaudich.) . 
Flowers dicecious, the males in oblong or cylindrical spikes, the — 
females i in globular heads on a small e Male perianth deni P 
ivided into 8 or 4 lobes or segments, valvate in the bud. Stamens 
9 or 4, the filaments quac d, inflected i in the bud. Female perian 
urceolate, with a small orifice, enclosing the ovary. Style with 2 elon- 
a milky jul aves a ay usua 
deciduous. Thlireatnéo axill 
The genus appears to be limited to = state Australian species, qe over te 
Indian Archipelago and Bladds of the South Pacific to the Philippine 
y entire. Stipules smat, 
concave, the prominent dorsal pubescent gibbosities densely imbricate. Sd. 
Flowers mostly rudimentary, only 2 or 3 in the head perfect, conce 
