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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Monimiaeeee. 
Oedee M0NIMIACE2E. 
Juss. in Annal. Mus. Paris, xiv. 133. 
Calyx monophyllous, four- to many-cleft or operculate and without divisions, its 
lobes forming one, two or several rows. JPetals none. Stamens indefinite, affixed to 
the base, sides or faux of the calyx. Anthers adnate, two-celled, extrorse or introrse, 
from the base to the apex opening either by longitudinal fissures or by valves. 
Staminodia of varied form or wanting. Ovaries inserted to the base or sides of the 
calyx, free or rarely binned in the succulent walls of the calyx, one-celled, with a 
solitary erect or pendulous anatropal ovule. Style simple, terminal, lateral or basilar. 
Stigma undivided. Carpels indehiscent, free, rarely coherent with the calyx, dry or 
drupaceous. Embryo straight, in the axis or at the base of a fleshy albumen. 
Evergreen generally aromatic trees or shrubs, found in tropical America, Africa 
and Asia, and in extratropical South America and Australia, and also in New Zealand. 
Branches opposite or verticillate. Leaves simple, opposite, ternate or quatemate, 
rarely alternate, frequently clotted with glands, without stipules. Floivers unisexual, 
rarely hermaphrodite, solitary axillary, or cymose-paniculate or racemose, with 
deciduous bracteoles. Inner lobes of the calyx generally petaloid. Stamens often 
irritable and gland-bearing.— JEndl. Gen. jp. 313; Lindl. Veg. Ling. ed. iii. 298-306; 
Tulasne , in Archiv. du 31us. d’IListoire Natur. viii. 273-436; J. Look. 8f Thoms. Flor. 
Indie, i. 164. 
Monimiaeeee are allied both to Magnoliacese and Anonacese through Myristicese, 
and evidently also to Schizandrese and to Laurinese, which latter order, with many 
others of the monochlamydeous series, -would find a more appropriate place amongst 
Calyciflorse. The tribe Atherospermese, separated as a distinct order by B. Brown, is 
connected with the genuine Monimiece through the Indian genus Hortonia, as shown 
by Hooker and Thomson. 
Tribe I. MONIMIEfiE, R. Br. Append, to Flinders’ Voyage, ii 553 ; Tulasne, Monogr. 1 . c. 
Carpels free, drupaceous. 
HEDYCARYA. 
Foi'st. Char, Gen. t. 64. 
Flowers dioecious. Calyx rotate , deeply 6-10-cleft, slightly enlarged and reflexed in age; lobes 
biseriate. Anthers numerous, inserted to the disk of the calyx, sessile , hairy; their cells parallel, not 
confluent, bursting by a longitudinal fissure; connective not protruding beyond the cells. Pollen- 
grains foar-valved. Ovaries numerous, inserted to the hairy disk of the calyx. Ovule pendulous. 
Style short or wanting. Stigma blunt. Carpels ovate. Mesocarp fleshy. Endocarp horny or crus- 
taceous. Testa thin. Raphe linear. Chalaza circular. Embryo axillar. Cotyledones flat, elliptical, 
erect. Radicle long, superior. 
