Cephalosphcera.'] cxiv. MYRiSTicACEiE (staff). 167 



pressed. — Brochoneura (?) usambarensis, "Warb. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 180 ; Warb. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. Ixviii. 240 ; Muskatnuss, 

 386, t. 4, fig. 10. 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambaraj Derema, Scheffler, 122 I 

 152! 



Okder CXV. MONIMIACEiE. (By J. G. Baker, with 

 additions by C. H. Wright.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Perianth inferior, regular 

 or irregular ; tube globose ; limb 4- or more lobed or oblique. Disk 

 adnate to the perianth -tube. Stamens indefinite, in two or more rows ; 

 filaments short, usually flat, often with a gland on each side of the 

 base ; anthers erect ; cells 2, distinct or confluent at the apex, dehiscing 

 longitudinally or by valves. Carpels distinct, usually many, more or 

 less immersed in the disk ; style long or short ; stigma terminal ; ovule 

 solitary, erect or pendulous, usually anatropous. Fruit indehiscent, 

 included in the accrescent perianth-tube. Seed solitary ; testa mem- 

 branous ; endosperm fleshy or oily. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite 

 or alternate, entire or toothed, penninerved, exstipulate. Flowers 

 axillary, fascicled, cymose or racemose ; bracts small or absent. 



Species about 150, widely dispersed in tlie warmer regions of botli hemispheres. 

 Perianth oblique . . . . . . . .1. Glossocalyx. 



Perianth symmetrical. 



Male perianth protrudinj^ beyond the stamens . . 2. Ciiloeopatane. 



Male perianth concealed by the stamens. 



Leaves subopposite . . . . . .3. Xymalos. 



Leaves alternate ....... 4. Plagiostyles. 



1. GLOSSOCALYX, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 144. 



Flowers dia?cious. Perianth-tube campanulate; limb oblique, one 

 lobe protruded into a long tongue-like process, the others small and 

 deltoid. Disk represented by a ring in the male flowers, in the female 

 fleshy and divided into cells, in which the carpels are sunk. Stamens 

 indefinite, inside the disk, 2-3-seriate ; filaments short, flat, united at 

 the base ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Carpels many, 

 distinct, sunk in the disk ; style short ; stigma capitate. Ovule solitary, 

 erect. Fruits included in the accrescent perianth-tube, which is 

 orowned by the withered limb. — Trees or shrubs. Young shoots 

 clothed with rigid, often fascicled, hairs. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 penninerved. Flowers in axillary fascicles. 

 Species 3, endemic. 



Perianth-lip narrow, 12 lin. long 1. G^. longicuspis. 



Perianth-lip narrow, 4 lin. long . . . . . 2. G. Staudtii. 



Perianth-lip broader, 2 lin. long 3. (r. brevipes. 



1. G. longicuspis, ^6?2^A. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. 1, t. 1301. A tree 

 30-40 ft. high ; young branches furnished with very short hairs. 



