Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, No. 23.—By J. Sykes 
GAMBLE, C.I.E., M.A., F.R.S., late of the Indian Forest 
Department. 
This Part, continuing the Monochlamydez, deals with the 
Families Nos. 100 Myristicacez, 101 Monimiacez, 105 Thymeleacez 
(including 105 67s Gonystylacez which should properly have come in 
Thalamiflore near Tiliacez), 106 EHleagnacez and 108 Santalacez 
(including the genus Champereia which should properly have come 
in Opiliacez), all the work of Mr. Gamble. In the descriptions of 
Myristicaceze he has closely followed the recent Monograph of the 
whole Family by Dr. Warburg of Berlin (Nova Acta Acad. Leop.- 
Carol. Bot. LX VIII) ; and in Monimiacez he has followed that of Miss 
Janet Perkins in Engler’s ‘Pflanzenreich’ so that there are no new 
genera or species. In Thymeleacex there is one new species and in 
Santalacez there are four, making five in all. The Latin descriptions 
of these species have been published in the Kew Bulletin. 
Altogether, in the 6 Families described there are 16 genera and 
73 species of which, as above mentioned, 5 species are new. 
The next part, No. 24, will contain, with other Families, the 
description of the Family Piperaceze (No. 98) by Monsieur Casimir de 
Candolle of Geneva, who has described a large number of new species. 
Family C—MYRISTICACEA. 
Evergreen trees, often stellately-tomentose, sometimes with 
branching hairs. Leaves alternate, entire, penni-nerved, sometimes 
pellucid-punctate, exstipulate. lowers dicecious, small, regular, brac- 
teate, in axillary or lateral (from scars of fallen leaves) panicles, cymes, 
umbels or fascicles, rarely in racemes; bracteoles persistent or cadu- 
cous; perianth gamophyllous, inferior, with 3 (sometimes 2 or 4) lobes 
valvate in bud; andreecium of 3—18 (or even —30 or more) extrorse 
anthers, connate in a sessile or stipitate column, head, ring or disc, 
sessile or sometimes with short filaments; anthers 2-celled, linear or 
ovate; ovary superior, free, sessile, l-celled; stigma capitate, dis- 
coid or lobed; ovule 1 basal, erect, anatropous. rut more or less 
fleshy, splitting usually into 2, sometimes into 4, valves. Seed erect, 
enclosed in a thin or fleshy, entire or lacerate, usually highly coloured, 
often aromatic arillus; testa usually thick; albumen copious, hard, 
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