Coriaria. | PHYTOLACCACEE. 281 
CORIARIA, L. 
Perianth 5-6-sepalled, imbricate. Staminodes 5 or 6, sepal-like. 
Stamens 10 or 12, exserted; filaments filiform; anthers large, 
2-celled. Ovary consisting of 5 or 6 carpels adnate to a central 
torus, with a solitary pendulous ovule in each; styles as many, 
subulate, simple. Ripe carpels dry, dehiscent. Embryo straight.— 
Shrubs or small trees, with opposite or almost opposite leaves. 
Flowers in spikes. 
1. C. Napalensis, Wall—A large shrub, growing out into a 
little tree of 12-16 ft. height, with 4-cornered branches, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves elliptical to elliptically ovate, almost sessile, short- 
ly and rather abruptly acuminate, 14-2 in. long, thin-coriaceous, 
3-nerved at the base, glabrous; flowers small, greenish, with large 
purple anthers, on about 2 lin. long pedicels and forming 1-1} in. 
long, glabrous racemes arising in small clusters from above the scars 
of the fallen leaves on the older branches; sepals and staminodes 
about a line long, almost conform, rotundate; ripe carpels dry, 
compressed, dehiscent, about a line long. 
Has.—Ava, Kakhyen hills.—Fr. May. 
MYRISTICACEM. 
Flowers regular, dioecious. Perianth deciduous, 3- (rarely 2- 
or 4-) -lobed, the lobes valvate in bud. Male flowers: stamens 
united in a central column; anthers 8, 6 or more, adnate to the 
column at the apex, or in a ring immediately below the column, 
2-celled, the cells parallel, opening longitudinally. Female flowers : 
ovary free within the perianth, with a single, erect, anatropous 
ovule ; stigma sessile or nearly so, capitate or depressed. Fruit 
thick- or fleshy-coriaceous, opening tardily in 2 valves. Seed erect, 
sessile, more or less covered with an entire or more usually lobed 
or jagged coloured arillus. Albumen ruminate. Embryo very small, 
r, with divaricate cotyledons.—Trees, rarely shrubs, wi 
alternate, simple, usually dotted penninerved leaves. Stipules none. 
Flowers small, the males more numerous than the females, in 
sans or supra-axillary racemes or panicles. Bracts minute or none. 
_ An order consisting of a single genus, of which 5 species occur 
in Burma: The nutmeg and its mace (Myristica fragrans) is the 
produce of this family. Aromatic qualities prevail, while their 
bark abounds in an acrid juice, which is viscid and stains 
| MYRISTICA, L. : 
Characters same as of the order. 
