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TASMANNIA aromatica. 
Aromatic Tasmannia. 
POLYGAMIA MONŒCIA. 
Nat. ord. MAGNOLIACEX. 
TASMANNIA, R. Br. Flores dioici v. polygami. Calyx diphyllus, 
foliolis planis, deciduis. Corolle petala 2-5, hypogyna, patentia, decidua. 
Stamina plurima, hypogyna ; filamenta crassiuscula, teretia ; anthere bilo- 
culares, loculis ovatis, extrorsum adnatis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 
Ovarium unicum, rarissime duo, libera, subsessilia, ovulis ad suturam ven- 
tralem plurimis, biseriatis, subhorizontalibus, anatropis. Stigma subtermi- 
nale, introrsum decurrens. Fructus membranaceus indehiscens. Semina 
plura, pendula, ovata, subcurvata, testa nitida, fragili. Embryo in basi 
albuminis carnosi minutus, orthotropus, radicula supera. Frutices glaber- 
rimi, in Nova-Zeelandia, insula Diemen et Nova Hollandia orientali monticoli : 
cortice aromatico, folis sparsis sempervirentibus, pellucido-punctatis, breve 
petiolatis, integerrimis, pedicellis ad apices ramorum v. e summorum foliorum 
axillis confertis, unifloris, folio brevioribus, gracilibus, teretiusculis, squamis 
gemmularum convolutis, acuminatis, ramulos novellos terminantibus, deciduis. 
Endl. gen. no. 4741. 
T. aromatica ; foliis oblongis basi in petiolum sensim attenuatis, fructibus 
globosis subdidymis.—R. Brown in DC. Syst. 1. 445. Delessert.-ic. 1. 
t. 84. 
Sepala 3, ovata, pellucido-punctata, basi connata, acuta, concava, imbri- 
cata. Petala 6, duplici serie, imbricata, obtusa, quorum exteriora obovato- 
oblonga, latiora, interiora lineari-oblonga. Carpellum solitarium nunc in 
medio staminum ; sed flores sepius omninó masculi. Nunc pars altera additur, 
et corollæ octopetale fiunt. 
This plant was first made known in DeCandolle's 
** System," where it was described from specimens gathered 
on the mountains of Van Diemen's Land by Brown, and in 
the country round D’Entrecasteaux’ channel by Leschenault, 
a French traveller. But at that time nothing was known of 
the flowers, except that they were diecious. At a much 
more recent period the more extended character quoted above 
was furnished by Endlicher, who describes the flowers as 
being composed of two flat deciduous sepals, and from two 
to five petals. Such is certainly not the structure of Tas- 
