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CIX. MONIMIACEjE. 
Stamens indefinite, few or numerous, irregularly lining the perianth-tube. 
Flowers usually dioecious 2. Mollixedia. 
Stamens 4, opposite the perianth-lobes, with frequently 1 to 3 smaller ones 
within. Flowers usually monoecious 3. Kibara. 
Fruiting perianth circumsciss or expanding under the carpels and scarcely 
enlarged. Carpels numerous 4. Hkdycarya. 
Flowers polygamous. Perianth-segments or scales about 6. Stamens 
numerous, filaments filiform. Carpels solitary. Stems climbing ... 5. Piptocalyx. 
Tribe II. Atlierosperznea?. — Anther-cells distinct, opening each in a separate valve from 
the base upwards. Ovule erect or rarely pendulous. 
Flowers unisexual. Anther-connective not produced 6. Atherosperma. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Anther-connective with a long subulate appendage 7. Doryphora. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, small, in thrysoid panicles. Anther-conective not 
produced 8. Daphxaxdra. 
1. PALMERIA, F. v. M. 
(Alter J. Palmer.) 
Flowers dioecious. Male perianth hemispherical, with 4 or 5 connivent lobes. 
Stamens numerous, without staminodia or rudimentary carpels ; anthers sessile 
or nearly so ; the cells distinct, opening longitudinally. Female perianth nearly 
globular, with a minute orifice, staminodia none. Carpels numerous, with 1 
pendulous ovule in each ; styles filiform slighlly protruding through the orifice 
of the perianth. Fruiting perianth enlarged, irregularly globular or pear-shaped, 
completely enclosing the drupes. Seed pendulous. — Woody climbers (or 
trees?). Leaves entire. Flowers small, in axillary raceme-like cymes or 
panicles. Bracts none. 
The genus is endemic in Australia. 
1. P. scandens (climbing), F. v. 31. Fraym. iv. 152, v. 2 ; Bcntli. FI. 
Austr. v. 291. A tall woody climber, the branches minutely tomentose or 
woolly pubescent. Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or broadly elliptical, acumi- 
nate, 3 to oin. long, hoary tomentose on both sides or at length glabrous above. 
Male inflorescences somewhat branched and half as long as the leaves, female 
shorter and more simple. Male perianth about 2 lines diameter, flat on the 
top, the lobes connivent and produced into long points inflexed over the stamens 
into the centre of the disk before the flower expands. Stamens 
16 to 20, surrounding in several rows a small hairy disk ; anthers 
oblong, slightly hairy, not longer than the perianth. Female perianth about 1J 
line diameter, densely villous inside. Carpels 10 or more, glabrous, tapering 
into the style. Fruiting perianth irregularly shaped, more or less fleshy, about 
iin. diameter. Drupes glabrous, with a thin exocarp and hard bony endccarp. 
Seed with a membranous testa, pendulous from near the apex of the cavity, with 
a rather long hilum, the inside dried up and the embryo undeveloped in all the 
drupes opened.— A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 657. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Ballachy ; Wild River, .7. F. Bailey. 
2. MOLLINEDIA, Ruiz, and Pav. 
Flowers unisexual, usually dioecious. Perianth ovoid globular or turbinate, 
nearly closed by 4 connivent lobes or rarely, in species not Australian, more 
deeply divided and spreading. Stamens in the males indefinite, few or many, 
irregularly lining the inside of the perianth-tube ; anthers sessile or nearly so, 
the cells confluent at the apex and opening longitudinally round the apex and to 
the base on each side, without staminodia or abortive carpels. Female perianth 
circumsciss after flowering; staminodia none. Carpels usually numerous, 
covering the receptacle in many rows, with one pendulous ovule in each ; style 
very short and obtuse or the stigma sessile. Fruiting carpels several, ovoid, 
