152 AUNOTT ON SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS. 



of having eight stamens, while Don removes all the Cape 

 species o^ Fagara to Burseracece, and forms of them the genus 

 Fagarantrian. In the above plant from Drege, there is no 

 flower,' but the whole habit and structure, so fer as I could 

 examine, are decidedly those o^ ZantJioxylon. 



B. obliqua, Thunb., as well as perhaps Elaphrium ina- 

 quale, DC. (as already indicated by Ecklon and Zeyher) ap- 

 pear to me to 1)6 the same as Arnyris incEqualis^ Ant. Spreng. 

 (E. et Z. En. p. 153) ; but the plant is neither a species of 

 Amyris, nor of Amyridece, but like almost all the East Indian 

 species of Amyris, belongs to Anrantiacece. The following is 

 the analysis : 



Calyx parvus, quadrifidus. Petala 4, hypogyna, ovalia, 

 concava, patentia : alabastrum obpyriforme. Stamina 8, hypo- 

 gyna. subsequalia, libera. Filamenta crassa, apice abruptim 

 acuminata. AiUherfp. oblongse, biloculares, longitudinaliter 

 dehiscentes. Ovarium toro in stipitem elevato insidens, bilo- 

 culare, subobcordatum. Ovula in loculis gemina, collateralia, 

 angulo centrali medio inserta. Stylus ab ovario distinctus et 

 subarticulatus, decidnus, crassus, ovarii longitudine. Stigma 

 obtusum. Bacca sicca, 2-vel ssepius abortu 1-locularis, 1 — 2- 

 sperma ; pericarpium tenue, glandulosum. Sewen inversum, 

 testa membranacea, glabra. Emhnjonis recti atro-viridis exal- 

 buminosi cotyledones carnosse, basi minute auriculatae. Radi- 

 cula brevissima, supera, pubescens. — Arbor 10 — \b-pedalis. 

 Folia impari-pitmota ; foliolis subuppositis, incequilateris, arti- 

 cidatione insertis, ovato-lanceolatis, ufrinque acuminatis, crena- 

 lis, pellucido-piinctatis. Flores albi, parvi, panicidati; pani- 

 culcB pauciJiorcE tenninales, vel versus raniorum apices axillares. 



The habit is that of Clausena, but the structure of the 

 ovary approaches more to that o( Bergera: from that how- 

 ever it differs by the quaternary proportion of the floral 

 organs, and the ovules being in pairs; approaching in charac- 

 ter to Rissoa, but witli a widely different iiabit, and struc- 

 ture of style. 



T. B. melanocarpa, E. M., leucocarpa, E. M., erosa, !»•? 

 uvdidata, Jacq., and decipiens, E. M., are all species ot 



