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nioribus pilis fulvis lanato-tomentosis, spicis axillaribus. solitariis - 
tomentosis folio brevioribus, floribus inferioribus fertilibus breve 
pedicellatis, superioribus masculis sessilibus, omnibus intus dense 
lanatis, calycis segmentis triangularibus acutis sub anthesi revolutis, 
drupa sphærica sericea diametro 9—10-lin.— Crescit raro in Concano 
australiore ; fl. Apr. ; fr. Jan. 
Alarge and handsome tree, with the leaves nine inches in length 
and five in breadth, finely reticulated, and the petioles destitute of 
glands. The fruit, when procurable in any quantity, is an article of 
commerce, and has the same qualities as that of 7. Bellirica, being used 
in dyeing cloth and also medicinally by the natives. The flowers have 
the same disagreeable smell as those of most species of this genus. In 
Graham’s ‘Catalogue of Bombay Plants’ this tree is entered as 7. 
nitida (Roxb. in Herb. Lamb.), but it cannot be that. species, as the 
leaves do not taper to both ends, nor is their apex acuminated. 
Nat. Ord. EUPHORBIACEA. 
Tribe PHYLLANTHE®. 
ANOMOSPERMUM, genus novum. 
GEN.. CHAR. Flores monoici. Calyx 5-phyllus. Corolle petala 5 
calyce multoties minora, glandulis minutis dentatis utrinque. Sta- 
mina 5 : filamentis inferne in ovarii stipitem disco plano orbiculato 
impositum connatis, superne liberis patentibus, antheris demum ex- 
trorsis. Fem. Ovarium disco orbiculato impositum, triloculare, 
loculis biovulatis. Styli 3, semibifidi, breves, obtusi. Fructus cap- 
sularis, depresse globosus, tricoccus, coccis dispermis. Semina ex- 
albuminosa.— Arbores in India orientali indigenz, foliis alternis sti- 
pulatis integerrimis coriaceis glabris lzvibus, venis costalibus inter se 
-arcus anastomosantes formantibus, foribus axillaribus fasciculatis, 
masculis et foemineis mixtis. 
A. excelsum; folis ellipticis utrinque acutis nitidis coriaceis glabris 
cum petiolo subpollicari 6—7 poll. longis 21—3 poll. latis, stipulis e 
basi lata acuminatis squamæformibus glabris, floribus longiuscule 
pedicellatis, pedicellis fructiferis cernuis suprapollicaribus, petalis 
obovatis integris, sepalis rotundatis, capsula glabra diametro polli- 
cari.— Crescit in jugo Syhadrensi ; fl. Aug.; fr. Nov. 
That the species of Cluytia, figured in Roxb. Cor. pl. 169-173, are 
the representatives of two very distinct genera, there cannot be the 
