164 FLORA INDICA. [Mouiiu'wcece . 



merulato-paniculatis. — M.Iryaghedhi, Wight, Icones, t. 1857. Garln. 

 i. t. 41, ex parte. M. Iriagedi, 8pr. Syst. Vecj. iii. 65. M. ferruginea, 

 fTall. Cat. 6803 ! Horsfieldia odorata, Willd. 8p. iv. 873. 

 Hab. In Zeylanife sylvis ! — {v.s.) 



Arltor excelsa, cortice uigro-fusco striatulo glabro, ramulorura juniorum dense to- 

 mentoso ; partes novella; floceoso-tomentosse. Folia 6-9 poll, longa, 2-^-3i poll, 

 lata, petiolo i-l-pollicari, basi subcordata vel rotandala vel interdum subacuta, mar- 

 gine recurva, glabra, la;te viridia, ocbreo-tomentosa. Fantculce axillares; mascula^ 

 3-6 poll, longfc, ramosEe, ramis alternis, capitula 3-5 subsessilia gerentes ; fffimineai 

 plerumque multo breviores, simplices, dense furfuraceo-tomentosse. Flares suaveo- 

 Icntcs ; masculi dense glomerati, sessiles, obconici, miitua prcssione angulati, calycc 

 3-4-dentato. Anthercs 6 in columnam gracilein clavatam apice connectivo baud 

 apiculatam coalUee. Jlores fmminei laxiores, subsessiles, basi turgidi. Ovarium 

 tomentosum, stigmate sessili indiviso. Fructus ovoidei, ferrugineo-tomerttosi. Jrit- 

 his carnosiis, completus, indivisus. 



Blame bas very properly rejected tlie barbarous name employed by Gfertne)-, 

 wliicb is only doubtfully referable to tbc present species, as the synonyms quoted be- 

 long elsewliere. As il. Horsfieldii is stated by Blunie to be only known in a culti- 

 vated state in Java, M.femghiea, "Wall., is probably also cultivated at Singapur. 

 It is, according to Blume, closely allied to the Madagascar species, M. Madagasca- 

 nmsis and M. acuminata. Lam. 



YII. MONIMIACEyE. 



Flores unisexuales, rai'ius liermaphroditi. Sepata basi plus minus 

 coalita. Petala nulla vel sepalis alterna interdum pluriserialia, sestiva- 

 tione imbricata. Stamina perigyna, definita et uniserialia, vel seepius 

 iiidefinita et oalycis tubo inserta ; basi plerumque glandulis stipata. 

 Antlierce biloculares. Ovaria indefinita, unilocularia, ovulo solitario 

 pendulo anatropo. Drupes siccEE ; semen pendulum ; albumen carno- 

 sum ; embryo minutus liilo versus ; radiciila supera ; cotyledones diva- 

 ricate.. — -Arbores vel frutices, f'oliis oppositis, exstipiilatis, hitegris, deu- 

 talis vel intecjerrhiiis, inflorescentia cymosa axillari vel te?ininali. 



The genus Horfonia furnishes precisely the information required to settle defi- 

 nitely the position of the Order to which it belongs, for it cannot be doubted that it 

 is a genuine Monimiaceous plant, notwithstanding its hermaphrodite flowers, nume- 

 lous petals imbricated in several rows, and definite stamens. The opposite exstipu- 

 late leaves, slightly perigynous stamens fui-nished with glands, solitary pendulous 

 auatropuus ovules, and, above all, the pecidiar character of the fruit and embryo of 

 Horioniu, agree so precisely with the Order, that its right to a place there cannot 

 be disputed. 



Monimiaoeee being generally apetalous, have sometimes been considered achlamy- 

 deuus and involucrate; but the regularly imbricated perianth of Hortonia is opposed 

 1o this view of their struclure, which had already indeed been rendered improbable 

 by the regular alternation of the inner series of segments with the outer in Boldoa. 



If the presence of a perianth be admitted, the place of Monimiacets is necessarily 

 among apocarpous orders; and its minute embryo, with divaricating cotyledons in 

 copious albumen, bring it naturally into the great class upon which we are now en- 

 gaged, notwithstanding the more or less perigynous insertion of the stamens of the 

 greater number of genera, and the opposite leaves, which indeed occur likewise in 

 Clewiilideee. The glandular appendages of the filaments, and the valvular dehiscence 

 of the anlhei!. o[\-U//i7r':sjic/ii/<vr fwliieh must share the position of JlJonimiarc/r) do 



