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MAOUTIA, Wedd. 
Flowers monoecious or dioecious. Males: perianth 5-parted, the 
segments ovate and somewhat acuminate, valvate in the bud. 
Stamens 5. Ovary rudimentary. Females: perianth none. Ovary 
ovoid, with a solitary almost erect ovule; style short, persist~ 
ent, with a nearly lateral lanceolate or almost capitate stigma. 
Achené ovate, somewhat compressed and sometimes bluntish 3- 
onous, hispid or setose, formed by the somewhat fleshy perianth 
outside and the bony or nut-like seed within. Albumen thin. 
Cotyledons ss get or oblong, somewhat longer than the terete 
slender radicle—Shrubs, with alternating, 3-nerved, crenulate or 
serrulate as. white- or grey-tomentose beneat Sti ipules axil- 
lary, usually deeply 2-cleft. Flowers as sessile, in small 
clusters or a collected into axillary cym 
1. M, a, Wedd.; Brand. For. FI., ts. —A shrub, 2-6 ft. 
high, the ances pubescent leaves ovate to elliptically oblong, on 
a pubescent petiole 3 -14 in. long’, acute or cuneate at the base, 4-6 
in. long, acuminate, “coarsely serrate, membranous, very rough above 
from short minute bristles, beneath shortly white-tomentose and 
pubescent on the 3 principal nerves ; flowers sessile or nearly so, 
minute, in small heads, forming chest, ‘slender, puberulous or pubes- 
cent dichotomous cymes in the axils of the leaves ; 3 achenes not 
=a somewhat appressed-hispid. 
B.—Frequent in the drier hill forests of the i eo pee at gue to 
500 fe a often springing up in deserted hill toun —Fr. March.— 
Remarxs.— Yields strong fibre resembling the rhea. 
CONOCEPHALWUS, BI. 
Flowers dioecious. Males: perianth turbinate, tubular, 4- very 
rarely 2-cleft, the segments valvate in bud. Stamens 4 4, very 
rarely 2 , opposite the perianth-lobes ; Glerints complanate ; anthers 
short, introrse and extrorse, 2-celled, the cells opening longitudi- 
2 os Teste one Albumen none. Embryo goin ing 
with plano-convex cotyledons, the radicle superior.—Scandent 
shrubs, with alternate, long-petioled, simple leaves. Stipules deci- 
duous, axillary. Flowers in he ads, arranged in cymes or cymose | 
panicles and axillary, secly the female heads solitar y. 
