52 CXVI. CHLORANTHACE JE. [Chlomnthus. 
Order CXVI. CHLORANTHACEriE. 
Herbs (shrubs or trees). Leaves opposite, toothed; stipules 
small on the margin of petiole sheath. Flowers in terminal spikes 
(heads or panicled unisexual or bisexual), female and male cohering 
in a bract. Flowers without perianth (or females with a toothed 
limb adhering to ovary). Stamens i or 3 connate; filaments 
short and thick; anthers 2-celled or if 3 stamens the side ones 
i-celled. Ovary i-celled; style very short; ovule 1, orthotropous. 
Fruit a fleshy drupe. About 3 genera and 30 species, Asia, America. 
1 . CHLORANTHUS, Swartz. 
Herbs. Flowers spicate simple or panicled bisexual. No 
perianth. Stamens 1 or 3. Stigma sub-sessile, truncate. 
Species 10, Asiatic. Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxxv. pt. i, 33. 
Fig. 140.—Chloranthus brachystachys. 
Stamens 3, connate by the connectives; leaves 
shortly serrate; fruit white . . . . (1) C. officinalis 
Stamens 1, 4-celled on a broad connective; leaves 
coarsely serrate; fruit bright red . . (2) C. brachystachys 
(1) C. officinalis Bl. Enum. PL Jav. 79; Gamble , l.c. 33; 
Bl. FI. Jav. iii, Fig. 10. 
Shrublet about 2 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate 
acuminate, narrowed to base shortly serrate, many-nerved, dark 
