Kibara.] GXXVII. MONIMIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 115 



branched from the base ; branches and pedicels long, slender. Perianth 2-bracteolate, 

 pyriform, in. long, " closed by scales 'arranged in an alternating series of twos and 

 threes," Maingay. Stamens 5-7, included ; anthers dehiscing aplcally and trans- 

 versely. Drupes 1-15, -1 in. long, seated singly on fleshy lobes of the orange- 

 cold, receptacle, umbelled on the thickened peduncle, subtended by the excessively 

 thickened reflexed perianths, ellipsoid, tip rounded, purple-black. Beccari (Malina, 

 186) describes a variety from the Arou Islands. 



2. ITCATTHJEA, Illume. 



A glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite, entire or subserrate, coriaceous. 

 Flowers fascicled, axillary, pedicelled. Perianth depressed-turbinate, mouth 

 central, ver.y minute obtusely 4-toothed, at length circumsciss. Stamens 

 4-6, filaments fleshy ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscence lateral. Pistillode of 

 male fl. minute. Carpels very many, covering a broad flat receptacle; 

 style very short, conical ; ovule pendulous, anatropous. Ripe carpels long- 

 stipitate, seated on the thickened receptacle, and perianth ellipsoid. 



M. sancta, Blume MILS. Sot. ii. 89, fig. 10; A. DC. Prodr.mi. 2. 

 669 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 74. 



MALACCA, Maingay. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Branches terete, smooth. Leaves 6-9 by 2-3| in., coriaceous, oblong, shortly 

 acuminate, base acute; nerves very spreading, slender; petiole - in. Peduncles 

 \-\ in. long, rather stout, puberulous. Flowers * in. diam. Ripe carpels f in. long, 

 numerous, about as long as their slender stalks, dark purple. 



3. HORTONIA, Wight. 



An aromatic shrub. Leaves opposite, subentire, coriaceous. Flowers 2- 

 sexual, in short axillary cymes ; bracts small or 0. Perianth-tube short, 

 campanulate ; lobes many, many-seriate, outer sepaloid, inner petaloid. 

 Disk hairy. Stamens 7-12, 1-2-seriate ;" filaments short, base 2-glandular; 

 anther-cells parallel, extrorse. Carpels numerous, sessile, style short or ; 

 ovule pendulous, anatropous. Ripe carpels obliquely ovoid, seated on a 

 small receptacle surrounded with the withered thickened perianth-lobes. 

 Seed flattened, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons erect or divergent, radicle short 

 superior. 



XX. floribunda, Wight in Jard. Mag. Zool. $ Sot. ii. 546; Thwaites 

 Enum. 11 ; Hook.f. Sf Thorns. Fl, Ind. 166. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



A glabrous aromatic bush ; branches stout or slender, terete ; buds puberulous. 

 Leaves very variable in form, usually red-brown when dry, but sometimes green or 

 yellowish; nerves few ; petiole ^ in. Cymes glabrous or puberulous, f-3 in. long; 

 flowers pedicelled, alternate or subumbellate, greenish-yellow, pedicels ^ in., stout 

 or slender. Perianth ^ in. diam. Fruit \ in. long, ellipsoid, subacute, red-black. 

 A very variable plant. Thwaites had doubts of the permanent distinctness of var. j3. 

 I have, in making its varieties, regarded as the type the commonest form, which is 

 that on which the genus was founded. 



H. floribunda proper ; leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in. ovate-lanceolate obtusely acuminate, 

 nerves arching. H. floribunda var. acuminata, Hook. f. 8( Thorns. Fl. Ind. 166 ; 

 Thwaites Hnum. 12. H. floribunda & acuminata, Wight Ic. 1997, 1998, right- 

 hand figure; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2. 272, excl. syn. angustifolia ; Tulasne in Arch. 

 Hus. viii. 427. 



Var. ovalifolia, Hook. f. & Thorns. 1. c. ; leaves 2-4 by l-2 in. broadly elliptic 

 or oblong obtuse or apiculate, nerves spreading. Thwaites 1. c. H. ovalifolia, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1998, left-hand figure; A. DC. 1. c. ; Tulasne I. c. 428. 



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