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M Y E I S T I C A , LIM.
DICECIOIIS trees or shrubs; with evergreen, siinple, alternate, ex-stipulate
IJCnni-nerved, sometimes pellucid-punctate leaves. Thmen small, regular; thiS
males in axillary or supra-axillary, often bracteate, cymes, fascicles, nmbels,
or panicles, rarely in racemes; the individual flowers sometimes bracteolate!
Perianth gamophyllons, single, inferior, coriaceous, deciduous, usually 3-lobed,
sometimes 2 or 4-lobed; the asstivation valvate. Male flower; anthers 3 to 18
(or even 30 or 45), 2-eelled, ovate or linear, usually sessile; attached by their
backs to a central, vertical, cylindric or angled, sessile or stalked column ; free
from each other or connate; or (sect. Knemi) attached by their bases, either
with or without short filaments, to the edges of a peltate stipitato disc;'always
extrorse; rudimentary pistil none. IPemale flower without staininodes (except in
iio. 16). Ovary sessile in the fundus of the perianth, free, 1-cclIed. Stigma
usually sessile (rarely with a short style), capitate or depressed, sometimes
lohed. Omh solitary, basal, crect, anatropons. Fruit more or less fleshy, often
splittiug into 2, sometimes into 4, valves. 5ecd erect; arillns fleshy or
membranous, entire, lobed, or laciniate and often induplicato at the apex;
usually coloured and often aromatic; testa usually thick; albumen copious,
hard, ruminate. Bmlryo very small, next the hilum; cotyledons divaricate^
flat or crumpled ; radicle short, inferior.
Scot /.—EUMYEISTICA {Exmyristim, Hook. iil. & Thome.; EimyrUtica and Caloneura,
A. DC.] Male flowers ia cymcs, umbels or few-flo-wered panicles; perianth 3-toothed
(4-toothed in M. Ceylanica) with a persistent, usually oblique, bracteole at its base;
andrcccium more or less cylindric or fusiform; staminal column elongate, usually stalked;
a n t h e r s linear, elongate, usually entirely connate to the column and to each other •
occasionally theii' apices, and more rarely theii- edges free. Fruit large, ovoid, or
oblong; the pericarp succulent, rarely leathery.
Male £owei's ia panicles 4 or 5 in. long; flowers and braeteoles large;
leaves 10 to 16 in, long; fruit large 1, J/, brackata.
Male flowers in Inx little-branched panicles, 3 in. long (sereral
fimea longer than tlie leaf-petioles); flowers small; leaves 8 to
lo^e 3. 11. Malaccenm.