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accompanied the figure (Tas. CX.), by Professor Bojer, who 
is of opinion that it is a genus quite distinct from Cerbera, 
to which it has been referred in the Botanical Magazine. 
Tasmaitus; A. du P. Th. 
Calycis sepala 5, patentia, decidua. Corolla — Lng, 
hypocrateriformis; tubo viridi; fauce subpentagona, dilatata; 
limbo plano, contorto, 5-lobo, roseo. Stamina 5; filamentis 
dilatatione tubi insertis. Anthere crassee, cordiformes, intus 
dehiscentes, superne lamellis foliaceis acuminatis, productione 
tubi inflexis: tuberculi sub quaque anthera umbilicati. Ova- 
rium 1,4-lobum. Stylus 1, tubi longitudine zequalis. Stigma 
capitatum, thecis antherarum inclusum. Fructus ovatus, dru- 
paceus: Nux fibrosa, utrinque acuta, unilateraliter fissa. 
Seminis integumentum membranaceum, fibris tenuibus tunice 
nucis solummodo adhserens. Albumen crassum, concavum, 
(in sicco corneum). Cofyledones planæ, tenues, "m 
Embryo superus, inversus.— Bojer. ` 
Tanghinia veneniflua. (Tas. CX.). 
Tanghinia veneniflua. Poiret in Encycl. Bot. Suppl. v. 5. 
p. 983. 
Cerbera Tanghin. Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 2968. 
Arbor insignis, 30-pedalis et ultra, habitu Mangifere 
Indice, ubique succo gelatinoso, albo-virescente scatens. 
Truncus rectus, cortice cinereo, levi, intus albicante, tectus. 
Lignum subflavum. Rami inferne horizontales, superne 
erectiusculi : juniores subherbacei, cinereo-virides, glabri. 
Folia 5-8-pollicaria, ad extremitates ramorum approximata, 
erecta, coriacea, glabra, nitida, apicem versus bipollicaria, in- 
ferne sensim attenuata, margine cartilagineo, revoluto; ner- 
vis lateralibus numerosis indistinctis subtus pallidioribus. 
Petioli vix unciam longi, supra plani; ad basin magis minusve 
incrassati. Flores in paniculas terminales subcorymbosas. 
Pedunculi pedicellique bi-ternati ad basin articulati, cylin- 
dracei, carnosi, bracteati; bracteis 2, oppositis, ovatis, acutis 
vel obtusis, concavis, deciduis. Calycis sepala viridia, erecta 
ovata, acuta, glabra, demum patentia, Corolle tubus 8 lineis 
longus, ad faucem pubescens, carnosus; laciniis hori 
