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lobis perigonii alternantibus, linearibus v, ovalibus, 2-locularibus, longitudinaliter extrorsum dehis- 
centibus, circa aut super apicem stipitis dorso v. basi adnatis, seepius connatis, nunc a medio y. a basi 
liberis; connectivis perspicuis, sepe in dentem brevissimum cuique antherze proprium v. omnibus 
communem desinentibus. Pollen sphericum aut spheerico-3-gonum. Ovarinm superum; stigmate 
subsessili, vix 2-lobo v. depresso-capitato. Ovarium a basi ovarii 1, anatropum. Fructus carnosus, 
tarde valvis 2, rarissime 4 dehiscens. Semen sessile, arillodio basi cupuliformi, a medio seepius 
lobato et quasi lacerato, rubro y. aurantiaco, carnoso vy. tenui, seepe suaveolente involutum ; teste 
strato externo membranaceo v. carnosulo, interno duro; raphe lineari, externe perspicua, a basi 
seminis ultra apicem extensa, chalaza inde non solum supera, sed paulo laterali tumida; endopleura 
tenui, plicis interne aucta, exsiccatione a plicis segregata ; albumine ruminato, plicis nempe ex endo- 
pleura sese insinuantibus. Embryo minimus prope hilum; cotyledonibus divergentibus, ovatis, 
planis v. undulatis ; radicula brevi, infera, conica.—Arbores, rarius frutices, seepe aromaticz, succo 
acrido szepe rubicundo scatentes; novellis et inflorescentia plerumque stellato-tomentosis ; foliis 
alternis, distichis, integerrimis, seepe pellucido-puncticulatis, pennineryiis, yernatione conduplicata, 
limbo nempe secus nervum centralem longitudinaliter involuto y. plicato, nervis lateralibus patentibus 
plerumque validis prope marginem arcuatis et sepe connexis, numero in quaque specie constante. 
Stipula 0. Racemi vy. paniculv axillares, interdum supra-axillares; floribus plerumque pedicellatis, 
parvis, externe stellato-tomentosis ; albumen seepe sebaceum vy, oleosum. 
M. hypargea, A. Gray (from Samoa and Tonga), is the only other species besides the following as yet 
met with in tropical Polynesia. 
1, M. castanezefolia, A. Gray, Bot, Wilkes, vol. i. p.32; foliis oblongis seu oblongo-lanceolatis 
sensim acutis basi rotundatis glabris subtus albidis, nervis later. utrinque 20-30; floribus axillaribus, 
¢ amentaceo-spicatis pedunculo incrassato seepius fureato deflexo petiolo subbreviore, bracteis sub 
flore floribusque ferrugineo-pubescentibus, antheris 8-10; fructu oblongo obtuso subapiculato ferru- 
ginco-pubescente.—Nomen vernac. Vitiense, ** Male.’— Mountains of Ovalau, frequent (U. 8. Expl. 
Exped.) , Viti Levu, and Vanua Levu (Seemann ! n. 6 et 866). 
This species of Nutmeg is found in the larger islands, forming stout trees 60-80 feet high, but produ- 
cing avery inferior kind of timber, which rapidly decays on being exposed to the influence of the weather. 
Both its “mace” and “nut” prove good substitutes for those of the genuine N utmeg (Myristica moschata, 
Linn,), and are used as such by the white settlers. They were turned to no account by the natives. The fruit 
is about the size of a pigeon’s egg; the mace (arillws) is of a fine pink colour. The shape of the “nut” 
is too oblong to allow this kind ever to be passed off for the genuine and best sorts of the Indian Archi- 
pelago, though the other qualities of the Fijian produce would be no great obstacle to that being done, 
2. M. grandifolia, Alph. De Cand. in DC. Prod. 1. c. p. 194; foliis magnis obovato-oblongis 
basi angustatis glabris subtus albidis, nervis lateralibus utrinque 3-5; fl. et fruct. ignotis.—M, ma- 
crophylla, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 33, non alior.—Nomen vernac, Vitiense, “ Male.’— Ovalau, in 
mountain forests (U.S. Expl, Exped.), 
Orvo LXXXI, MONIMIACEA., 
“T have,” says A. Gray in Seemann’s‘ Journal of Botany,’ 1866, p. 83, “ from the Fiji Islands, imperfect 
specimens of what J take may be a new genus of Monimiacee Atherospermee, with alternate entire leaves, 
and a sort of lignescent receptacle, achenioid ovaries, very hairy, and a perianth of 4 or 6 broad lobes; 
but we can make nothing of it, unless Dr. Seemann should have some materials.” — 
Forster collected in New Caledonia specimens, without flower or frnit, of a plant which in habit and 
foliage is very near Doryphora Sassafras, Endl., and to which he has not given aname. It may be described 
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