‘250 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Family CIMONIMIACE. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely scandent, often aromatic. Leaves oppo- 
site, rarely alternate, entire or serrate, usually coriaceous, exstipu- 
late. Flowers 1—2-sexual, regular, usually in short cymes or 
racemes; bracts small or 0, or 2 valvately enclosing the bud. 
Perianth inferior, globose ovoid or depressed, rarely campanulate ; 
limb 4—many-toothed, teeth in one or several series, equal, or the 
outer sepaloid and the inner petaloid, sometimes obsolete when the 
perianth is calyptrate. Stamens few or many in one or many series 
on a disk adnate to the perianth tube, included ; filaments short, 
simple or with basal scales; anthers erect, 2-celled, opening by slite 
or by valves opening upwards; staminodesin ? flowers usually none. 
Carpels many or rarely solitary, sessile on the disk or on the sides of 
the perianth-tube, or immersed in a disk, l-celled; styles long or 
short, stigma small; ovule solitary, erect or pendulous, anatropous 
or orthotropous. /rutt a drupe, free or enclosed in the disk or on a 
discoid receptacle, indehiscent. Seed erect or pendulous; testa 
membranous; albumen fleshy; embryo near the hilum and minute, 
cotyledons usually flattened ; radicle superior or inferior.—DisTRIB. 
Genera 31, species 253 (according to Perkins and Gilg in Engler’s 
Pflanzenreich), chiefly in tropical America, also in Africa, Australia 
and the Pacific Islands, a few only in tropical Asia. 
Stamens 4, the anther-cells distinct and dehiscing 
longitudinally .. ans cle .. J. Marraaa. 
Stamens 8, the 4 outer larger than the 4 inner, the 
anther-cells confluent bo oe .. 2. Krpara. 
1. MarrHaa, Blume. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or subserrate, petiolate, 
glabrous. Flowers fasciculate in the axils of the leaves or at the 
nodes of the branches below them, moneecious, pedicelled, Perianth 
depressed-turbinate, with 4 minute lobes at the nearly-closed mouth, 
at length circumsciss, the top dehiscent. Stamens 4 on the flattened 
receptacle of the 3 flower; filaments very short; anthers ovoid, 2- 
celled, longitudinally dehiscing ; pistillode of ¢ flower minute. Car- 
pels many, on the broad flattened receptacles of the ? flower; style 
short, conical; ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a 
fleshy pedunculate drupe, one or several on the persistent enlarged 
flattened receptacle. Seed pendulous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 
