206 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
usually ruminate; embryo very small, basal; cotyledons divaricate, 
flat or crumpled; radicle short, inferior—Distripution: Tropical 
regions of Asia and Australia (181), America (38), and Africa (16), 
235 species (Warburg). 
Anthers attached more or less by their backs to a 
column formed of the connate filaments. 
Anther column sessile 
Anthers completely attached to the column; aril- 
lus entire or nearly so .. -. 1. HoRSFIBLDIA. 
Anthers attached to the column be eee lower 
parts only, their apices free; arillus laciniate 
almost to the base ae 2. GYMNACRANTHERA. 
Anther column stipitate, and metal produced 
beyond the anthers, which are completely attached 
to it; arillus laciniate almost to the base .. 3. MyYRISTICA. 
Anthers attached by their bases stellately to a peltate 
usually stipitate column formed of the connate fila- 
ments; arillus laciniate at the apex only or not at 
all (except K. retusa) oP Su .. 4 Kynema. 
1. HorsFretpia, Willd. 
Dicecious trees with evergreen chartaceous glabrous leaves, the 
main nerves joining near the margin, the transverse nervules obscure. 
Inflorescence of loose {at any rate the 3) usually compound panicles; 
bracts sometimes large, usually caducous: flowers small, globose or 
subclavate, pedicellate or rarely sessile, bracteoles 0; perianth 2—4- 
toothed. Andrecium sessile or subsessile; filaments combined in a 
globose or clavate column; anthers 12—30 completely attached to 
the column by their backs. Stigmas very small, sessile, connate. 
Fruit globose or ovoid-globose; pericarp leathery, rarely succulent; 
arillus entire or scarcely laciniate. Seed conform to the fruit; testa 
thin, woody; albumen ruminate; cotyledons connate at the base. 
—Duistrere. S. Asia from India to New Guinea, species about 51. 
Anthers fully touching each other. 
Perianth bivalved (very rarely 3-valved) .. IL. A. globularia. 
Perianth 3-valved for the most part at least. 
Lobes of the perianth papillose within .. 2. H. canarioides. 
Lobes of the perianth not papillose. 
o& flowers elongate or oval. 
f flowers large, 4—5 mm. long, elongate, as 
long as the pedicel; leaves hve hairy 
beneath : Ae) ae Jal, yaoi, 
¢ flowers medium- ad 2—3 mm. Vione! oval- 
globose, much shorter than the pedicel; 
leaves thickly hairy beneath .. -. 4 EH. floceuiosa. 
