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inches long. Leaflets alternate ; short-petiolleted ; from 

 three to four pair, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, entire, 

 marked through and through with transparent dots, 

 those towards the base of the common petiole smallest. 

 Panicles terminal, composed of diverging, trichotomous 

 ramifications. Flowers numerous, small, whitish yellow. 

 Calyx, corol, receptacles, stamens and pistil as in the fa- 

 mily. Berry oblong, covered with glandular dots ; when 

 ripe pale yellow. Seed solitary. 



The leaves, when bruised, give out in a very strong de- 

 gree the fra^france of the finest and freshest anise. 



7. A. nana. R. 



Shrubby. Leaflets from five to eleven, opposite, and al- 

 ternate, ovate, crenulate, smooth. Panicles axillary. 

 Berries round. 



Introduced from the Moluccas, into the Botanic garden 

 at Calcutta, where it blossoms in April and May. Seed 

 ripe in June and July. 



Trunk erect, in our young plants, simple. Bark smooth, 

 dark brown, whole height of four years' old plants from 

 two to five feet. Leaves alternate, pinnate, with an odd 

 one. Leaflets from five to eleven, subopposite, or alter- 

 nate, short-petioled, obliquely ovate, more or less crenu- 

 late, emarginate, smooth on both sides ; general length 

 from one to two inches. Petioles, and peiiolets round, 

 and somewhat glandular. Racemes simple, and com- 

 pound, axillary, solitary ; the simple shorter than the 

 leaves, the compound, or panicles, they may be called, 

 about as long as the leaves. Flowers minute, whit- 

 ish, alternate, rather remote. Calyx four-toothed, glan- 

 dular. Petals oblong, concave, marked with green 

 glands on the back. Filaments short, wiih a broad con- 

 cave base, converging over the germ. Anthers erect, 

 oblong. Germ elevated on a short receptacle, four-lob- 

 ed, glandular. Style short. Stigma four-lobed. Berry 



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