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Diagnosis. Menispern 



Tropical trees, often yielding a red juice. !..,•. - alternate, without >u\ 

 dotted, quite entire, stalked, coria ence axillary or terminal, in i 



the Bowers \< ry si 



i each w ith oi 

 cucullate br >■:. ■ al) \ 

 coriao ous, mostly down) 

 outsidi . 1 low< ra i om- 



ly unisexual. < 

 trifid, rarely quadrifid, 

 with valvular aestivation. 

 g . Filaments either & 

 rate or complete ly in 

 in :i cylinder. Antl 

 2-celled, turned outwards, 

 and bursting longitudinally: either connate 

 or distinct. t Calyx deciduous, 

 solitary, or many, with :i single ereel 

 tropal ovule; Btyle ver) short; Btigma 

 somewhat lobed. Fruit baccate. Albumen 

 ruminate, between fatty and flesh) : 1 1 

 small, orthotropal ; cotyledons d 

 radicle inferior. 



The Order of Nutmegs i- usuall) \ 

 on account of their apetalous flow< i -. in the 

 vit-ini t \ of Laurels, from which the) 

 distinguished by the structure of th< ir • 

 anthers, and fruit Brown places them 

 between Proteads and Laun Is, i 

 that they arc not closel) akin to 

 Order. They may also 

 apetalous form "t' Anonads, "iili » 

 their trimerous flowers, arilla 

 nat< d all. urn. n, minute embi 

 ble properl I) all) thi m. i 



which is usuall) considi i 

 link between 1 1 > • - 



ked upon 

 of transition from A i 

 Nutmi gs. \.\ I much i 



resting instance is afloi 

 genus liyalosb inma, which « 

 That plant, which 

 Bowers, and a trifid calyx Burrounded by an involu 

 led as a (Jvaria b) Roxburgh, and ma) be indiffi 

 it ii^ numerous carpels arc considered, or M 

 simple trifid cal) \. arc allowed to have w< ight 

 While, however, all these relationships may I 

 impossible t.> disjoin Nutmegs from the M 



Bowers. The diverging cotyledons of their eml 

 while the ruminated albumen finds its parallel in the g 

 sp< rmads. S • p. 308. 



CC1X Myi i.—Blum%e. l. n flow 



an an i ovuJ 



CCIX 

 an involucrated Myristica if ii had an aril. 



