164 flora indica. [Mouimiaceo?. 



merulato-paniculatis. — M.Iryaghedhi, Wight^ Icones, t. 1857. Gartn. 

 i. t. 41, ex parte. M. Iriagedi, Spr. Syst. Veg. iii. 65. M. ferruginea, 

 fFall. Cat. 6803 ! Horsfieldia odorata, Willd. Sp. iv. 872. 

 Hab. In Zeylanise sylvis! — (v.s.) 



Arbor excelsa, cortice nigro-fusco striatulo glabro, ramulornm junior um dense to- 

 mentoso; partes novelise floceoso-tomentosze. Folia 6-9 poll. longa, 2^-3-% poll, 

 lata, petiolo ^-1 • pollicari, basi subcordata vel rotundata vel interdum subacuta, mar- 

 gine recurva, glabra, lsete viridia, ocbreo-tomentosa. Fanicttla axillares; masculse 

 3-6 poll, longa?, ramosse, ramis alternis, capitula 3-5 subsessilia gerentes ; focmineae 

 plerumque multo breviores, simplices, dense furfuraceo-tomentosse. Flores suaveo- 

 lentes ; masculi dense glomerati, sessiles, obconici, inutua pressione angulati, calyce 

 3-4-dentato. Anther a 6 in eolumnam gracilein clavatam apice connectivo baud 

 apiculatam coalitce. Flores fmminei laxiores, subsessiles, basi turgidi. Ovarium 

 tomentosum, stigmate sessili indiviso. Fructus ovoidei, ferrugineo-tomentosi. Aril- 

 lus carnosus, completus, indivisus. 



Blume has very properly rejected the barbarous name employed by Gfertner, 

 which is only doubtfully referable to the present species, as the synonyms quoted be- 

 long elsewhere. As 31. Horsjieldii is stated by Blume to be only known in a culti- 

 vated state in Java, 3L ferruginea, Wall., is probably also cultivated at Singapur. 

 It is, according to Blume, closely allied to the Madagascar species, 31. 31adagasca- 

 rensis and 31. acuminata, Lara. 



VII. MONIMIACEiE. 



Flores unisexuales, rarius hermaphroditi. Sepala basi plus minus 

 coalita. Petala nulla vel sepalis alterna interdum pluriserialia, sestiva- 

 tione imbricata. Stamina perigyna, definita et uniserialia, vel saepius 

 indefinita et calycis tubo inserta; basi plerumque glandulis stipata. 

 Antherce biloculares. Ovaria indefinita, unilocularia, ovulo solitario 

 pendulo anatropo. Drupes siecse; semen pendulum; albumen carno- 

 sum ; embryo minutus hilo versus ; radicula supera ; cotyledones diva- 

 ricatse. — Arbores vel frutices, foliis oppositis, exstipulatis, integris, den- 

 tat is vel wtegerrimis, inflorescentia cymosa axillari vel terminally 



The genus Eortonia furnishes precisely the information required to settle defi- 

 nitely the position of the Order to which it belongs, for it cannot be doubted that it 

 is a genuine Monimiaceous plant, notwithstanding its hermaphrodite flowers, nume- 

 rous petals imbricated in several rows, and definite stamens. The opposite exstipu- 

 late leaves, slightly perigynous stamens furnished with glands, solitary pendulous 

 auatropous ovules, and, above all, the peculiar character of the fruit and embryo of 

 Uortt ia, agree so precisely with the Order, that its right to a place there cannot 



be disputed. 



Modimiacea being generally apetalous, have sometimes been considered achlamy- 

 deous and involucrate ; but the regularly imbricated perianth of Hortonia is opposed 

 to this view of their structure, which had already indeed been rendered improbable 

 by the regular alternation of the inner series of segments with the outer in Boldoa. 



If the presence of a perianth be admitted, the place of Monimiacea is necessarily 

 among apocarpous orders; and its minute embryo, with divaricating cotyledons in 

 copious albumen, bring it naturally into the great class upon which we are now en- 

 gaged, notwithstanding the more or less perigynous insertion of the stamens of the 

 greater number of genera, and the opposite leaves, which indeed occur likewise in 

 Clematu/esp. The glandular appendages of the filaments, and the valvular dehiscence 

 of the anthers of AtAerosptrme* (which must share the position of Monimiacea) do 



