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6. T. tetragona, A. DC. Prod. xvi. 2, 659. Branchlets quite 
glabrous, tetragonous, compressed and dilated at the top. Leaves 
opposite, lanceolate or narrow oblong, shortly pointed, narrowed to the 
base, shortly petioled, with obscure venation. Male flowers in dense 
subspicate racemes. Ambora tetragona, Tulasne , Mon. 302. 
Mauritius, in woods near Grandport, Commerson , Boivin. Endemic. This I 
have not seen. 
7. T. pedicellata, Baker. Branches terete, more or less compressed 
and dilated at the nodes. Leaves oblong, subcoriaceous, acute, deltoid 
at the base, 3-5 inches long, dark green above, with the veins and reticu- 
lated veinlets distinctly visible ; petiole | in. long. Blowers single or 
in short racemes from the dilated nodes on slender pedicels 1-1J in. 
long. Male flowers not seen. Female perianth globose, glabrous, in 
flower i— i- in. thick, in fruit 1J inch thick, irregularly lobed with a 
truncate mouth i in. broad, which finally becomes lacerated. 
Mauritius, in mountain woods, Blackburn ! Bouton ! Endemic. 
2. MONIMIA, Thouars. 
Dioicous. Male perianth when expanded with 4 long spreading 
lanceolate lobes. Stamens indefinite, clothing the whole face of the 
perianth ; filaments with a stalked capitate gland on each side ; anthers 
ovoid-quadrangular, with longitudinal dehiscence. Female perianth 
globose, wuth a small opening at the mouth, not splitting open. Ovaries 
6-8, bottle-shaped, free, with long slender styles and capitate stigmas, 
just protruding from the mouth of the perianth. Fruit with a fleshy 
pericarp and bony endocarp, included in the accrescent perianth-tube. 
— Shrubs or low trees, with rough coriaceous opposite leaves and small 
flowers in lateral or terminal peduncled cymes or panicles. Distbib. 
Confined to Mauritius and Bourbon. Species 3. 
Leaves scabrous above, cuneate at the base 1. M. ovalifolla. 
Leaves pilose above, broadly rounded at the base . . . 2. M. rotundifolia. 
1. M. ovalifolia, Thouars ; A. DC. Prod. xvi. 2, 661. A low tree, 
with thinly pilose terete branchlets. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 
obovate with a cuneate base, cuspidate, 2-3 in. long, very coriaceous 
pale green and rough with raised points on the upper surface, clothed 
with thin whitish lepidote tomentum below. Male flowers not seen. 
Female flowers 3-10 together, on very short pedicels, in peduncled 
umbels or cymes, 6 or 8 of which sometimes form a lateral or terminal 
panicle, with small leafy caducous bracts at the base of the short pilose 
stiff erecto-patent branches. Perianth globose-urceolate, T \ in. long 
and broad, crenulate at the mouth. Ovaries 5-6 to a flower. Fruit- 
perianth glabrescent, coriaceous, black, the size of a pea. 
Mauritius, in woods of the Pouce range. Also Bourbon, Vesco ! 
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