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plavfully-intcndod shot takes fatal effect.' Neitlier, liowerer, Prof. Skcat nor 

 Mr. Cox dispose of the diffieulty which exists in identifying lialdur, the son of 

 Odin, witli tlie (Ireat Luminary, in tlie fact that in the Scandinavian mythohigy 

 the Sun was feminine. On this ^[r. W. Tayhir ohserves- — "The Goths make the 

 sun feminine and the moon masculine. This is natural in a cold climate. Among 

 savages every male is a foe ; every female a friend. Displeasing and unwelcome 

 objects therefore are in their language masculine, pleasing and welcome objects 

 feminine. In hot countries, where the night is more welcome than the day, an 

 opposite allotment of gender takes place." In exemplification of this statement 

 we find the place of torment assigned to the wicked, in religious systems originating 

 in the East, a place of heat, where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched ; 

 whereas, among our Is^orthern ancestors. Hell was a place of intense and unemlurable 

 cold ! To support the statement that the Sun among the Scandinavian nations was 

 a female deity, it will suffice to quote two couplets fi-om the Cosmogonieal Edda, 

 entitled the " Lay of Yafthrudni " (Tajdor, Lr. p. 27). Tlie lay describes a contest 

 of knowledge between Odin and Yafthrudni, King of the Jutes. 



Odiii asks — 



" Far I've wander'd, much sojourn'd 

 In the kingdoms of the Earth : 

 liut I've still a wish to know 

 AVlience, to deck the empty skies, 

 Sliall another Sun be drawn, 

 "When the jaws of Fenrir ope 

 To ingorge the lamp of day?" 



Yafthrudni replies — 



" Ere the throat of Fenrir yawn 

 Shall the Sun a daughter bear. 

 Who, in spite of shower and sleet, 

 Rides the road her mother rode." 



GiN.VLLOA, Jiorf/i. 



Flowers monnncious. Pfn'cuifh 3-4-petalle<l. Anthem almost sessile, o])ening 

 by longitudinal slits, 2-celled, and almost didymuus. Fruit, a 1 -seeded berry. 

 Flowers spicate. 



* Spikes very slender, the flowers surrounded hij an annular i up-shaped involucre. 

 Leaves thin-coriaceous. 



G. Helfeki, Kz. Tenasserim. 



Leaves elongate, 5-ncrved. 



** Spikes robust, the flowers immersed in grooves of the thick rachis, destitute of 

 the annular cup-shaped involucre. 



G. Andamanic.v, Kz. Tree forests of South Andaman on Artocarpus Chaplasha. 

 Leaves thick coriaceous. 



QUERNALES. 



Flowers diclinous, male in catkins, female solitary or in spikes. Pcrif/ilh green; 

 if male, lobcd or reduced to a scale; if female, minute, lol)ed or toothed. Ocorj/ 

 inferior, 1 to 6-celled. Ovule 1, basal or 1 or more pendulous. Fruit 1-seeded. 

 Albumen none. 



• Jfytholoiry of the Aryan Xatiniis. liy Rev. G. ^\^ fox, vol. ii. p. 9.5. 

 ' Uistoric SurvLV of Gcrniim Poetry, vol. i. p. 'JS, iiuU 1. 



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