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mersed in truncate receptacle. — Trees ; leaves alternate penniveined ; 

 bud-scales leafy; inflorescences axillary {India, Australia*). 



22. Dictyodaphne Bl. 2 — Flowers of Endiandra ; perianth de- 

 ciduous ; 3 outer leaves larger. Sterile stamens ; fertile 3 ; cells 

 sublateral. Berry quite naked, the whole perianth and receptacle 

 coming off by circumscission at base. — Trees ; leaves alternate 

 penniveined ; buds small incomplete ; flowers in axillary, simple or 

 scarcely branched racemes {Continent and Islands of India?). 



23. Misanteca Cham. & Schltl. 4 — "Flowers hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx 5 fleshy ovoid, 0-toothed ; limb deciduous ; outer teeth broader. 

 Stamens 9, inserted in throat; outer 6 sterile short conical truncate; 

 inner 3 larger ; all united into a column ; anthers extrorse 2-celled, 

 dehiscing by 2 oval apical valves ; accessory cells 2 rudimentary 

 barren. Pistil wholly included in staminal tube, free ; style simple ; 

 stigma capitate depressed. Drupe (or nut 7 ) olive-like mucronate 

 half-exserted ; cupule thickened truncate ; rim narrow double. — A 

 tree ; leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; flowers forming con- 

 tracted cymes and a compound capitulum ; bracts fugacious" 

 [Mexico*). 



24. Bihania Meissn. 9 — " Flowers hermaphrodite ? Calyx in- 

 fundibuliform, G-partite ; lobes subequal. Stamens 12, 4-seriate 

 glandless ; 6 outer sterile petaloid opposite and similar to calyx- 

 lobes ; stamens of third row (3) fertile connivent linear-cuneate sub- 

 triquetrous truncate. Anthers confluent with filament ; locelli 4 (?) 

 apical on same plane 2 introrse, 2 extrorse ; stamens of fourth row 

 (staminodes) subulate. Germen (sterile ?) narrow included in calyx 

 tube, tapering into style ; stigma simple obtuse. Fruit 10 . . . . ? 

 — A tree ; leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; panicles lateral 

 lax" {Borneo 11 ). 



1 Species 5, 6. Nees, in Wall. PL Asiat. — Endl., Gen., n. 2043. — Meissn., Prodr., 95, 

 Ear., ii. 61, (38. — F. Muell., Fragm., ii. 510. 



90. — Benth. & F. Muell., Fl. Amtr., v. 5 Or rather receptacle (?). 



300. 6 Or rather calyx (?). 



2 Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 270. — Meissn., Prodr., 7 Ex A. Geay, in Proceed. Amer. Acad., v. 

 78, 509. 189. 



3 Species 6, 7. Be., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 332 s Species 1. M. capitata Cham. & Sciiltl. 

 (Fndiandra).— Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. ( J18.— 9 Prodr., 96. 



Walp., Ann., iii. 107. 10 "The size of a swan's egg." (Mori.) 



4 In Linnaia, vi. 367. — Nkes, Sj/st., 211, 272. u Species 1. B. borneensis Meissn. 



