Kiba r/i.] 
CIX- MONIMACEiE. 
1293 
veins prominent underneath, 2 to 4in. long, on petioles of \ to ^in. Flowers 
in small cymes or clusters sometimes lengthened into short thyrsoid panicles, 
which are sessile or pedunculate, but usually scarcely £ so long as the leaves. 
Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long. Bracts adnate to the perianth. Perianth about 1 
line diameter, nearly globular, the orifice closed with 4 small lobes, thin in the 
males, thickened inside in the females. Stamens 4 opposite to the perianth 
lobes, the filaments shortly free and distinct, with 1 or 2 smaller stamens within 
them. Female perianth circumsciss. Carpels numerous, villous, with thick 
glabrous nearly sessile stigma. Drupes closely sessile on the dilated disk or base 
of the perianth, ovoid, glabrous or nearly so, 3 to 4 lines long. 
Hab : Rockingham Bay, Dallacliy , and southern localities (with the flowers chiefly males). 
Wood of a light-brown colour, very prettily marked, resembling English Oak ; soft, suitable 
for cabinet-work. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Jl r oods, No. 307b. 
4. HED YCARYA, Forst. 
(Fruit of one species sweet). 
Flowers dicecious. Perianth hemispherical or flat, with about 8 (7 to 10) small 
inflexed lobes. Stamens in the males numerous, covering the whole disk or 
leaving a small villous centre, without rudimentary carpels ; anthers sessile or 
nearly so, the cells usually lateral, distinct, opening longitudinally. Carpels in 
the females numerous, sessile, occupying the whole disk without staminodia, with 
one pendulous ovule in each, and terminating in a short thick obtuse style. 
Fruiting carpels drupaceous, small numerous crowded and almost coherent in the 
Australian species, larger fewer and distinct (as in Mollinedia and Kibara) in 
other species. Seed with a fleshy albumen. Embryo small, with erect cotyle- 
dons. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves toothed or entire. Flowers in short axillary 
cymes or raceme-like panicles. Bracts small or none. 
Besides the Australian species which is endemic, there is one from New Zealand and another 
from the islands of the S. Pacific. 
1. IX. angustifolia (leaves narrow), A. Cunn. in Ami. Nat. Hist. Sen 
1, i. 215 ; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 291. A tall shrub or small tree, the young shoots 
and inflorescence slightly hoary-pubescent, the adult parts glabrous. Leaves on 
rather long petioles, from ovate-elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
acute or rarely rounded at the base, irregularly serrate-crenate or almost entire, 
mostly 3 to 4in. long, rigidly membranous, penniveined and broadly reticulate. 
Flowers in short axillary raceme-like cymes, the pedicels very variable in length. 
Bracts usually very small or none, rarely larger and leaf-like. Perianth flatly 
hemispherical, 2^ to 3 lines diameter, with 8 or 10 small inflexed lobes. Stamens 
very numerous, covering the whole disk or concealing a very small central space. 
Female perianth at first smaller than the male, with smaller inflexed lobes, which 
become reflexed as the disk and carpels enlarge. Carpels very numerous, 
surrounded by a few abortive ones (or staminodia ?). Drupes 10 to 20, nearly 
globular and succulent, each 1 to H line diameter, all closely packed and almost 
connate in a globular fruit of 3 or 4 lines diameter. Endocarps crustaceous, 
minutely rugose. — H. Cunnintjhamii, Tul. in Arch. Mus. Par. viii. 408 ; H. dentata, 
var. australasica, Sond. in Linnaea xxviii. 228 ; H. australasica , A. DC. Prod. xvi. 
ii. 073 ; FI. pseudomorus, F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Viet. ii. 63, PI. Viet. i. 23, 
t. suppl. 2. 
Hab.: Mount Mistake and other southern localities. 
5. PIPTOCALYX, Oliv. 
(From pipto to fall, and calyx). 
Flowers polygamous. Perianth-tube or disk very short, segments about 6, 
nearly equal, in 2 rows, very deciduous. Stamens indefinate, filaments filiform ; 
