from Monimieie, properly so -called, but also from those 

 genera which have been more recently separated by our 

 profoundly learned countryman, Mr. Brown, under the 

 name of Atherospermece. It equals the last-mentioned 

 group in number of genera, by the addition of Calycanthus 

 pracoxof Linnaeus, whose peculiarities appear sufficient to 

 entitle it to become the type of a new family*, as Persoon 

 has already hinted. From the very incomplete account of 

 Cjtrosma in Flora Peruviana, it is impossible to ascertain 

 whether it can also be admitted as Jussieu has proposed. 



Bush erect, compact, 3 or 4 feet high. Branches oppo- 

 site, brachiate, round or rather angular, younger ones pilose* 

 old ones naked, chocolate coloured, opaque, swelling about 

 the joints. Leaves opposite, simple, decussate, horizontal s 

 stipulce none ; footstalks short, pubescent, channelled above* 

 tinged with red ; lamina? ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 entire or somewhat toothed, rugose, above shining, rough- 

 ish, bright green, with distant immersed veins, beneath 

 glaucous, opaque, naked, with the rib and primary nerves* 

 which are prominent, somewhat hairy. Flowers scentless, 

 terminal, between two leaves, in the room of a branch, 

 green purple: hractece none, except the outer segments df 

 the perianth, linear, rather pilose. Perianth (formed of 

 the confluent calyx and corolla, without any apparent 

 limits to either) one-leaved, pitcher-shaped, many divided; 

 the segments imbricate, lanceolate, fleshy, greenish-choco- 

 late, the intermediate largest, exterior least, innermost 

 shorter than the middle ones, curved inwards at the tip, all 

 rather pilose. Stamina about 48, inserted in a great fleshy 

 disk connate with the perianth, in four series, the outermost 

 of 12 fertile, the intermediate shorter, innermost least; 

 Jilaments thick, extended beyond the anthers in a round, 

 obtuse, diaphanous tip, purplish-brown, rather pilose; 

 anthers elliptical, adnate, exterior, two-celled, yellow; 

 cells approximated, opening lengthwise, in the middle sep- 

 tiferous; septum complete, but not united with the margin 

 of the valves; pollen oval. Ovaries many, ovate, straight 

 on one side, hairy at the base, inserted on the face of the 

 tube of the perianth, like that of the Rose, unilocular: 



» Chimonanthtjs. Stamina ajqualia, perw'gtentia, 5 exteriora fertilia, 

 roaturkate basibus connati* faucem operientia. Frutex (Japoniee) ramit 

 virgatis. Flore* axillares, solitarii, odori, Jkvescentet, intut purpura. 

 Lindley MSS. 



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