CXVI. CHXORANTHACEiSJ. 
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Chloranthus .] 
green membranous, 5 in. long, 2*5 in. wide; petioles -25 in. long. 
Peduncles slender, 2 in. long. Spikes usually 4 or 5, slender, 
1*5 in. long. Bracts sheathing ovate. Flowers very small, white. 
Stamens 3, connate by connectives. Drupe *5 in. through, pulpy, 
white. Hab. Common in damp spots in woods, Singapore, Bukit 
Timah; Jurong; Kranji. Johor, Batu Pahat; Gunong Pulai. 
Pahang, Pulau Tawar; Kwala Tembeling. Malacca, Batu Tiga. 
Negri Sembilan, Tampin Hill; Bukit Kandang (Cantley). Selan¬ 
gor, Batu Caves. Perak, Kwala Kangsa. Dindings, Tomoh 
(Machado). Penang Hill to 3000 ft. altitude (Curtis). Lankawi. 
Distrib. Indo-Malaya. Native names: Sigueh Putih; Sambau 
Pay a. 
A form on the top of Bukit Tangga in Negri Sembilan has stiffer ovate 
acute leaves, 6 in. long, 3 in. wide. 
{2) C. brachystachys Bl. FI. Jav. fasc. viii, 13, 14, i. 2; 
Gamble, l.c. 34. (Fig. 140, p. 52.) 
Glabrous undershrub about 2 ft. tall. Leaves stiffly mem¬ 
branous elliptic-lanceolate acute, base acuminate, coarsely serrate, 
5 in. long, 2-25 in. wide, upper ones smaller; petioles -2 in. long. 
Peduncles *5 in. long. Spikes -5 in. long, dense. Stamen 1; 
anther-cells 4. Drupe globose, -25 in. through, bright red. Hab. 
Mountain woods, not so common as the last, Pahang, Telom. 
Selangor, Sempang Mines; Menuang Gasing (Kloss). Perak, 
Bujong Malacca; Gunong Kerbau (Haniff); Batang Padang Valley 
(Wray). Penang Hill (all collectors). Distrib. India, China, 
Malaya. 
C. inconspicuus Sw. is the species grown in pots by the Chinese for its 
fragrant leaves. 
Order CXVII. MYRISTICACEiE. 
Trees, often large, usually more or less tomentose. Leaves 
alternate penni-nerved. Flowers unisexual, small, yellow, fragrant, 
in axillary panicles, cymes, umbels or fascicles. Perianth gamo- 
phyllous, inferior with 3 (or 2 or 4) lobes valvate. Androecium 
of 3 to 30 extrorse anthers, connate in a sessile or stipitate column 
or a disc. Ovary superior, sessile, i-celled; ovule 1, erect. Stigma 
capitate or lobed. Fruit fleshy, splitting in 2 valves. Seed oblong 
or globose in a fleshy, entire or lacerate red or yellow aril (mace), 
albumen hard ruminate. Native names: Mendarah; Pendarah; 
Chendarah. About 235 species, chiefly Asiatic, also American 
and African (Gamble, Journ . As. Soc. Beng. lxxv. 205). 
Anthers attached to a column of connate filaments. 
Column sessile. 
Anthers completely attached to column; aril 
entire or nearly so . 
1, Horsfieldia 
