Mollinedia .] 
CIX. MONIMIACEiE. 
1289 
/drupaceous, sessile or stipitate on the expanded receptacle. Seed with a fleshy 
albumen ; embryo small, with small erect cotyledons, the radicle superior. — 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers small, in axillary lateral 
or almost terminal cymes or thyrsoid panicles. Bracts very small. 
The genus is rather numerous in tropical America, but unknown elsewhere besides the 
Australian species, which are endemic. — Benth. 
Leaves coriaceous, much reticulate underneath, the petioles short. Young 
parts often pubescent. Ovary and young fruits villous 1. 31. Huegeliana. 
Leaves prominently veined, narrow-lanceolate, margins more or less 
toothed. Peduncles slender, single or forked ; flowers few. Receptacle 
and carpels glabrous 2. 31. angustifolia. 
Leaves membranous or chartaceous, obtuse, the veins scarcely prominent. 
Petioles rather long. Flowers and fruit glabrous 3. M. Wardellii. 
•Leaves smooth lanceolate, margins entire. Receptacle hairy 4. ilL macooraia. 
•Leaves nearly of M. Wardellii. Carpels of the fruit obtusely and obliquely 
acuminate 5. 31. loxocarya. 
Leaves nearly of ,1/. Wardellii, but acutely acuminate. Stamens crowded 
on the disk 6. M. acuminata. 
Leaves sometimes nearly in whorls of three, broad-lanceolate. Carpels 
hairy 7. M. subternata. 
1. H. Huegeliana (after Baron C. von Huegel), Till, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 
viii. 399 ; and in Archie. Mus. Par. viii. 399 ; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 286. A small tree, 
the young shoots inflorescence and underside of the leaves usually pubescent. 
X/eaves on short petioles, ovate-elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or shortly 
acuminate, entire or bordered by short rigid teeth, rounded or rarely acute at the 
base, mostly 3 to 4in. long, but varying to short and broad or long and narrow, 
mere coriaceous and shining above than other species, strongly reticulate. 
Flowers apparently dioecious, in little cymes or thyrsoid panicles very short and 
sessile or nearly so in the axils, pedicels rather long in the males with a very 
short common, peduncle, the pedicels shorter in the females with a longer 
peduncle or rhachis, almost forming a few-flowered raceme of about an inch. 
Male perianth glabrous, nearly globular, about 1 line diameter, the small orifice 
almost closed by 4 minute broad lobes, 2 inside the 2 others and 1 or 2 outer 
lobes (or adnate bracts?) opposite the inner ones. Stamens 8 to 14, irregularly 
lining the perianth as in American Mollinedice. Female perianth larger, very 
villous inside, circumsciss after flowering. Carpels numerous and villous. 
Drupes sessile on the base of the perianth or disk, expanded to a diameter of 3 or 
4 lines, ovoid-globose, Jin. long, pubescent or at length glabrous. — Wilkiea 
Huegeliana, A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 669. 
Hab. : Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. v. Mueller-, the most 
.■common’species. 
Wood light-coloured, close-grained, hard and tough. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 306a. 
2. M. angustifolia (leaves narrow), Bail. Bot. Bull. v. 23. A tall shrub 
•or small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves prominently veined, like those of M. 
Huegeliana, narrow-lanceolate attaining the length of 5in., and at the widest 
•part not over ljin., attenuated towards each end ; apex very blunt ; margins 
undulate and more or less toothed ; petiole" very short. Peduncles axillary, 
about Jin. long, quite slender, bearing a single or, when forked, 2 or more 
flowers. Receptacle and carpels glabrous. 
Hab.: Bellenden-Ker, at about 3,000 or 4,000ft. elevation. I would not venture to name 
from such imperfect material were it not in the hope that a short notice may enable persons 
visiting the locality to identify the plants and collect those portions wanting to complete the 
/diagnosis. 
3. 1VI. Wardelli (after W. Wardell), F. v. 21. Fragm. v. 155 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. v. 287. A glabrous shrub. Leaves ovate elliptical or obovate-oblong, 
'obtuse, obscurely crenulate, contracted into a rather long petiole, mostly about 
