114 cxxvi. MYRISTICE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Myristica. 



furacea in habit and foliage ; fern, flowers densely crowded forming almost globose 

 fascicles on tubercles of tbe stem, clavate, with the stout pedicel in. long, densely 

 rufous -torn entose ; stigma subsessile with 3-4 radiating teeth. Apparently the same 

 species is sent by Murton also from Singapore, with leaves glabrous and glaucous 

 beneath. 



OBD^E CXXYII. IttONIBIlACEJE. 



Trees or shrubs, often aromatic. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, entire 

 or serrate, usually coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers 1-2-sexual, regular, 

 usually in short cymes or racemes ; bracts small or 0, or 2 valvately en- 

 closing the bud. Perianth inferior, globose ovoid or depressed, rarely cam- 

 panulate ; limb 4-many-toothed, teeth in one or several series, equal or the 

 outer sepaloid and inner petaloid, or various, or obsolete, when the mouth 

 closes over the ovary. Stamens few or many, in one or many series on a 

 disk adnate to the perianth-tube, included ; filaments short, simple or with 

 a basal scale ; anthers erect, 2-celled, bursting by slits or valves. Carpels 

 many, rarely solitary, sessile in the base or on the sides of the perianth- 

 tube, or immersed in a disk, 1-celled ; styles long or -short, stigma small ; 

 ovule solitary, erect or pendulous, anatropous or orthotropous. Fruiting 

 carpels free, enclosed in the perianth or exposed on a discoid receptacle, 

 indehiscent. Seed erect or pendulous, testa membranous, albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo usually next the hilum and minute, cotyledons erect, or di- 

 verging, radicle superior or inferior. Genera 22 ; species about 150, tropical 

 and temperate. 



* Drupes on an enlarged disciform receptacle, fern, perianth cir- 

 cumsciss. 



Anther-cells confluent 1. KIBAEA. 



Anther-cells parallel, distinct 2. MATTHJEA. 



** Drupes on a small receptacle, perianth-lobes persistent. 3. HOETONIA. 



1. KIBARA, Endl. 



Aromatic trees or shrubs. " Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Flowers 

 1-sexual, small, in short axillary or lateral cymes or panicles; bracts minute 

 or 0. MALE PL. Perianth short, teeth or lobes 4, 2-seriate ; mouth con- 

 tracted. Disk annular or tubular. Anthers subsessile, 5-8, 2-seriate, cells 

 confluent above. FEM. FL. Perianth circumsciss above the disk. Carpels 

 many, free ; style very short ; ovule pendulous, anatropous. Ripe carpels 

 sessile or stipitate on a dilated receptacle. Seed pendulous ; embryo small, 

 axile, radicle superior. Species 10, Eastern Tropical Asia, Australia. 



X.. coriacea, Endl. Gen. PI. 314; leaves elliptic obtuse acute or 

 acuminate subentire, cymes umbellately compound puberulous much 

 branched exceeding the petioles. A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2. 670; Miquel Fl. 

 Ind. Sat. i. 2. 73. Tidasne in ArcJiiv. Mus. viii. 404. K. Blumei, Steud. 

 Nomencl. Ed. 2 ; Plume Mus. Sot. ii. 88, f. 9. Brongniartia coriacea, 

 Blume Bijd. 436. Sciadicarpus Brongniartii, Hassle. Plant. Jav. Rar. 209. 

 Sarcodiscus chloranthiformis, Griff. Notul. iv. 381, and Ic. PL Asiat. 

 t. 545. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTBIB. Java, Sumatra, Celebes. 

 A tree, branches stout, smooth, and leaves when dry yellowish. Leaves 5-10 in., 

 coriaceous, obscurely toothed towards the tip ; midrib puberulous beneath. Cymes 



