the flower is drooping. Perianth cup-shaped, two-lobed, 
or shortly two-lipped, pale green, embracing the lower 
half of the pistil. Germen oblong, green, tapering into a 
bipartite style, whose divisions are linear, and recurved : 
the stigma appears to constitute a gland or disk on the 
underside, just beneath the extremity. Male flowers nu- 
merous, very small, generally in threes, of which the central 
one is on the largest pedicel, and has the most stamens (six), 
while the lateral ones have only three or four stamens, all 
included in a bractea resembling that of the female flower. 
Perianth small, green, membranous, cup-shaped, rather 
compressed, two-lobed. Filaments united at the base in 
one row. Anthers large, didymous, granulated, at first. 
yellow, at length each lobe bursts with a vertical fissure 
and becomes green. As the germens advance to maturity, 
the axis of the raceme which supported the male flowers 
falls off, and the fruit reaches to the size of a large pea, 
oval, terminated by the bifid style. Before it is quite ma- 
ture, the pericarp is green and fleshy, marked with a suture 
on each side, where it evidently opens. There are two 
cells, each bearing one brown, pendent seed, enveloped in 
a white, pulpy, semipellucid arillus. Albumen copious, 
white. Embryo small, compressed, imbedded in the upper 
cont of the albumen, the radicle pointing to the scar of the 
seed. 
This plant has much affinity with Srittyneta sebifera. 
A comparison of the flowers, however, soon enabled me to 
refer it to the genus Omaantuus of the excellent Memoir 
of the younger Jusstev, on the Eurnorsiacez. His speci- 
mens were in an imperfect and a dried state, which will 
account for the trifling difference in his figure and mine. 
Native of New Holland, whence seeds were communi- 
cated by Mr. Fraser to Dr. Granam, in 1824. The plants 
__ flowered in the stove of the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, 
~ in June, 1827. : 
My wild specimens were sent to me from Java, by M. 
_ SPANOGHE. 
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Fig. 1. Male Tivees and their Bractea. 2. Male Flower spread open to 
show the Stamens. 3. Young Anther. 4. Old ditto. 5. Female flower and 
Bractea. 5. Style and Stigma. 6. Section of Capsule. 7. Section of a 
Seed enclosed in its pulpy Arillus or Coat,—More or less magnified. — 
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