No. 267. 
Daptmandra micrantha Benth. 
Light Yellow- Wood. 
(Family MONIMIACE^E.) 
Botnnicnl description. Genus Daphnandra Bentham in B.F1., v, 285 (1870). 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube short, segments about fifteen, in about three rows. Stamens 
four or five, opposite the inner segments ; filaments flat, with a wing-like appendage on each side; anthers 
short, extrorae, with two distinct cells opening from the base upwards in convex valves, the connective 
truncate; staminoiia (or abortive carpels ?) five to twelve, between the stamens and carpels. Carpels 
several, in two or three rows with one pendulous ovule in each, and tapering into the style. Fruit unknown. 
Tree. Leaves serrate. Flowers small, in axillary thyrsoid panicles, (ioc. cit.) 
Botanical description. Species micrantha Bentham in B.F1., v, 285 (1870). 
Following is the original description : 
A handsome tree of moderate size, quite glabrous, or the young inflorescence minutely hoary. Leaves 
petiolate, oblong-lanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, more or less serrate, contracted at the base, 3 to 4 
inches long, green on both sides, the primary veins oblique and anastomosing. Panicles shorter than the 
leaves, the flowers not numerous. Bracts scarcely 1 line long, very deciduous. Perianth-tube short and 
broad, outer segments broad, about 1 line diameter, inner ones narrower and more petal-like. Stamens 
not exceeding the perianth. Carpels of the ovary glabrous, or slightly hairy, sessile in the hairy receptacle. 
Only three other species of Daphnandra are recognised by Dr. Janet Perkins 
in her monograph on the Monimiacese. A translation of one other species is herewith. 
Daphnandra tenuipes Perkins in Engler's " Pflanzenreich," Heft iv, Moni- 
miacese, p. 75 (1901). 
A small l.rce, with nearly terete branches, the young ones brownish hairy, the adult ones glabrous. 
Leaves opposito, very shortly petiolate, ovate or ovate-oblong, about 4 to 5 cm. long, chartaceous, shortly 
and broadly acuminate at the apex, rounded or rounded-cuneatc at the base, serrate_in the upper third, 
with small teeth, glabrous above, somewhat brownish hairy beneath, especially on the venation. 
Inflorescence Axillary, paniculate, with slender branches 9 cm. long, loosely and sparsely flowered. Flowers 
bisexual, nearly 5 mm. long, with a nearly flat receptacle. Sepals four to five, broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals 
eight to nine, oblong, about twice as long as the sepals. Fertile stamens four to five, with flat filaments, 
with a wing-like gland on each side. Anthers two-celled, the valves opening upwards ; staminodia several 
between the stamens. Carpels several, terminating in a pilose style. Fruit not yet known. 
