‘LAURACEZ, 469 
mersed in truncate receptacle.—Trees ; leaves alternate penniveined ; 
hud-scales leafy ; inflorescences axillary (India, Australia’). 
22. Dictyodaphne Bn.’—Flowers of Hndiandra; perianth de- 
ciduous ; 3 outer leaves larger. Sterile stamens 0; fertile 3; cells 
sublateral. Berry quite naked, the whole perianth and receptacle 
coming off by circumscission at base.—Trees; leaves alternate 
penniveined ; buds small incomplete; flowers in axillary, simple or 
scarcely branched racemes (Continent and Islands of India’). 
23. Misanteca Cuam. & Scuuty.t—“ Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Calyx® fleshy ovoid, 6-toothed ; limb® deciduous ; outer teeth broader. 
Stamens 9, inserted in throat; outer 6 sterile short conical truncate; 
inner 3 larger ;-all united into a column; anthers extrorse 2-celled, 
dehiscing by 2 oval apical valves; accessory cells 2 rudimentary 
barren. Pistil wholly included in staminal tube, free; style simple ; 
stigma capitate depressed. Drupe (or nut’) olive-like mucronate 
half-exserted; cupule thickened truncate; rim narrow double—A 
tree; leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; flowers forming con- 
tracted cymes and a compound capitulum; bracts fugacious” 
(Mewico*). . 
24, Bihania Muissn.’—“ Flowers hermaphrodite? Calyx in- 
fundibuliform, 6-partite; lobes subequal. Stamens 12, 4-seriate 
glandless; 6 outer sterile petaloid opposite and similar to calyx- 
lobes ; stamens of third row (38) fertile connivent linear-cuneate sub- 
triquetrous truncate. Anthers confluent with filament; locelli 4 (?) 
apical on same plane 2 introrse, 2 extrorse ; stamens of fourth row 
(staminodes) subulate. Germen (sterile?) narrow included in calyx 
tube, tapering into style; stigma simple obtuse. Fruit”... . ? 
—A tree; leaves alternate coriaceous penniveined ; panicles lateral 
lax” (Borneo"), 
1 Species: 5, 6. NzxEs, in Wall. Pl. Asiat. 
Rar, ii. 61, 68.— F. Mveuy, Fragm., ii. 
90.—Brentu. & F, Muri, Fl. Austr, v. 
300. 
2 Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 270.—Mutssn., Prodr., 
78, 509. 
3 Species 6,7. Bu., Mus. Lugd.-Bat., i. 332 
(Endiandra). —Mia., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. ‘918.— 
Wap., Amn., iii. 107, 
4In Times, vi. 867.—NEES, Syst., 244, 272. 
—EnDL., Gen., n. 2043.—Muissy., Prodr., 95, 
510. 
5 Or rather receptacle (?). 
6 Or rather calyx (?). 
7 Ex A. Gray, in Proceed. Ane Acad. v. 
189, 
8 Species 1, 
9 Prodr., 96. 
10 « The size of a swan’s egg.” (MorTL.) 
U Species 1. B. borneensis MEISSN. 
WW. capitata CaM, & ScHLTL. 
