Myrsinaceae 
, von 
Carl Mez. 
(Gedruckt seit October 1901.) 
Wichtigste Litteratu r. Endlicher, Gen. (l 836 — 40) 734. — Schnizlein, Iconogr. 
II. (1843 —70) t. 157. — A. de Candolle, A Review of the Natural Order Myrsineae , 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. (1 834) 95; Memoire sur la famille des Myrsinacces, in Ann. sc. 
nat. 2. ser. II. (l 834) 291, XVI. ( 4 844) 65 et 129; Myrsinaceae , in DG. Prodr. VIII. (1 844) 
75. — Lindley, Veg. Kingd. (1847) 647. — - Miquel in Fl. brasil. X. (1 856) 269 t. 
24 — 59; Fl. Ind. bat. II. (1856) 1 005; Suppl. I. (1 860) 573. — Scheffer, Commentatio 
de Myrsinaceis Archipelagi indici (1 867). — Hooker f. in Bentham et Hooker f“. Gen. 
II. ( I 876) 639. — C. B. Clarke in Hooker I'. Fl. Brit. India III. (1882) 507. — Pax in 
Engler et Prantl, Pflzfam. IV. 1. (1889) 84. — Bailion, Hist. pl. XI. (1 892) 331. — 
Mez in Urban, Symb. antill. II. (190 1) 389. 
y? Morphologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte: Fichler, Bliitendiagr. I. 
/ (1 875) 330. 
^ Anatomie: Höhnel, Sekretionsorgane, in Sitzber. Akad. Wien LXXXIV. Abth. 1. 
583. — Bokorny, Durchs. Punkte, in Flora (1882) 373. — - Vesquc, Gamopetaies, 
in Ann. sc. nat. 7. ser. 1.(1885) 245. — Solereder, Holzstruktur (l 885) 165. — Bach- 
J mann, Schildhaare, in Flora ( I 886) 407. — Radlkofer, Durchs. Punkte, in Sitzber. Akad. 
^ München (1 8 86) 32 1. — Solereder, System. Anat. Dicot. (1 899) 572. 
Character. Flores hermaphroditi vel saepissime reductione sexus alterius dioeci, typo 
5-sed saepius 4-meri, reguläres. Calyx inferus vel in Maesa semiinferus segmentis liberis 
vel ib alte connatis saepissime ciliatis et punctis glandulosis praeditis, valvatis v. imbricatis 
v. sinistrorsum contortis per anthesin demum saepius apertis, constanter persistentibus. 
Coro 11a nunc regulä et saepissime monopetala rotata v. rarius campanulata v. tubulosa 
nunc raro dialypetala; segmentis sinistrorsum convolutis v. imbricatis v. quincuncialibus 
v. rarius valvatis, margine sattem saepius papillosis, plerumque glanduloso-punctatis vel 
lincatis. Stamina petalis oppösita et iis isomera; fdamentis brevibus rarius elongalis Luho 
petalorum connatis vel rarius fere omnino liberis, saepius basi arcuatim connexis inferne 
tubum cum petalis coalitum nectarilerum formantibus; antheris dorso vel raro basi affixis 
sagittatis vel breviter ovatis v. ellipticis, constanter introrsum rimis nunc tota longitudine 
apertis nunc apicalibus poriformibus inferne elausis vel raro poris subapicalibus dehiscen- 
tibus, loculis in Aegicerate et in Arclisiae spec. unica septatis. Staminodia vera in speciebus 
binis anomalis tantum adsunt, spuria e tubi ncctariferi lobulis episepaleis formata pluries 
reperiuntur. Ovariuin globosum v. ovoideum v. clavatum, liberum et lata basi sessile vel 
in Maesa semiinferum, t-loculare, saepissime in stylum attenuatum; stylo nunc perelongato 
gracillimo nunc brevi crasso nunc rarius deficiente; stigmate punctiformi, capitato, discoideo, 
conico, fungi- et morehelliformi, loboso; placenta centrali saepius globosa, apice fere con- 
stanter apiculata, ovula oo vel pauca nunc perpauca multi- vel uniseriata immersa amphi- 
tropa v. anatropa gerente. Fructus baccatus v. drupaceus indehiscens, Maesa excepla 
monospermus, in Aegicerate tantum irregulariter dehiscens. Semina placentae reliquiis 
vestita testa tenui; albumine copioso laevi vel rarius ruminato vel rarissime (in Aegicerate) 
A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich. IV. 23G. \ 
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