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MONODORA.receptacleanthers ;sessile, spheroidal, yellowish-white, opening on eachside rather below the middle, by a roundish pore. Ovary spheroidal,yellowish-white, crowned with a sessile, flattened stigma. Seeds ovateoblong,angular, by mutual pressure ferruginous. Integuments double.Albumen of the same form as the seed, fleshy, hard, sculptured withdeep, nearly parallel lines, and a longitudinal furrow. Seeds similarin quality to those of the nutmeg, only being rather less pungent.Many plants belonging to the genera Uvaria, Unona, &c. aremedicinally employed in Java, and have powerful aromatic stimulatingproperties. But Blume remarks that they require to be used withcaution, as they are apt to produce vertigo, haemorrhage, or evenabortion in pregnant women.

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