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Ovaries immersed in the inner face of the perianth and 
the styles just protruding 1. Tambourissa. 
Ovaries not immersed and the styles reaching up to the narrow 
throat of the female perianth 2. Monimia. 
1. TAMBOURISSA, Sonnerat. 
Blowers monoicous. Perianth fig-like, at first a closed bag, the 
female remaining permanently closed, but the male splitting up into 
4 or 5 deep lobes when the anthers are mature. Stamens very numerous, 
spread all over the face of the perianth ; filaments short and stout ; 
anther consisting of a stout connective and 2 narrow cells. Ovules 
very numerous, immersed in the thick substance of the perianth, out of 
which the style and stigma emerge. Fruits dry, ampullseform, immersed 
in a layer of pulp, crowded in the accrescent perianth-sac. — Trees with 
opposite or rarely alternate leaves ; flowers large, solitary or racemose. 
Distbib. All Mascarene, except one Javan species. Species 10-12. 
Pedicels about as long as the flowers. 
Anthers oblong, fa in. long. 
Branches glabrous 1. T. amplifolia. 
Branches tomentose 2. T. Sieberi. 
Anthers ligulate, fa in. long. . 
Leaves subcoriaceous, with indistinct venation. 
Petiole short ; female flower oblong 3. T. quadrifida. 
Petiole long ; female flower subdiscoid 4. T. peltata. 
Leaves coriaceous, with very distinct veining . . . 5. T. elliptica. 
Pedicels scarcely any 6. T. tetragona. 
Pedicels elongated 7. T. pedicellata. 
1. T. amplifolia, A. DO. Prod. xvi. 2, 659. Branchlets stout, 
glabrous, terete. Leaves alternate, on very short channelled petioles, 
oblong, cuneate at the base, deltoid or rounded with a cusp at the apex, 
f-1 foot long, subcoriaceous, with distinct arcuate-ascending main 
veins and visible intermediate reticulated venules. Flowers from the 
axils of the leaves solitary on short pedicels, or said to be sometimes 
racemed. Male perianth an inch broad, with 4 deep lobes. Anthers 
oblong, obtuse, fa in. long. Bud of female perianth black, sub- 
discoid, apiculate. Accrescent female perianth 1| in. thick, depresso- 
globose, with crowded conical fruits half an inch long. Mithridatea am- 
plifolia, Bojer, Sort. Maur. 290. Ambora grandifolia, B. Brown Herb. 
Mauritius, in the forests of the Pouce and other mountain ranges. Endemic. 
Bois tambour pomme jacot. 
2. T. Sieberi, A. DO. Brod. xvi. 2, 660. Known only by the male 
inflorescence, which forms a peduncled deltoid panicle nearly a foot long, 
with a few spreading branches, which like the rachis and outside of the 
perianth are densely clothed with short drab-brown pubescence. 
Pedicels fa in. long. Perianth coriaceous, J-f in. long, splitting down 
beyond the middle into four spreading lanceolate-deltoid lobes. 
Filaments very short and stout ; anthers oblong, obtuse, not more 
than fa in. long. Ambora tomentosa, Sieber Herb. Maur. ii. No. 316, 
not of Bory, (which is Monimia rotundifolia.) 
Mauritius, Sieberi Endemic. 
