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1 1 1 id u m Floridan u m , Ellis * is a native of AVestern Florida; in 

 the vicinity of the Mississippi. It differs from other species by its 

 perianth consisting of three varieties of segments, the outer ones 

 being short, wide, and of whitish-green ; beneath these are 

 segments equally wide and membranous, of dark reddish-purple 

 colour ; and in the interior the segments are of the same colour as 

 the last, but more elongated and straighter. These three different 

 formations blend gradually from one to the other. Its carpels 

 number about the same as in the last mentioned species, 13, but 

 neither of them are known in (European) commerce,-]- although 

 both are of agreeable odour and are probably used in America for 

 the same purposes as the Chinese fruit. if 



llllcium Sanki, Perr. Baillon§ is of opinion that this 

 species, which furnishes the star anise of the Philippines, is only a 

 form of Illicium anisatum. 



Illicium Griffithii, Hooker and Thomson.;! This species is 

 a native of eastern Bengal growing in dense humid woods on the 

 Bhotan and Khasia hills at an altitude of 4,000 to 5,000 feet. It 

 is a shrub with angular glabrous branches and leaves larger than 

 those of /. anisatum, being 2 to 4 inches long and 1 to 2 inches 

 broad, acute at both ends, coriaceous, shining. The flowers much 

 resemble those of L 2:)arviflorum ; they have 6 orbicular sepals and 

 18 petals, the outer being oval and the inner ones smaller and 

 narrower. It is readily distinguished from the Chinese and 

 Japanese species by the strongly beaked carpels, numbering 12 to 

 15 ; these are very equally developed, have a thin fleshy epicarp, 

 a woody endocarp and short, subulate, incurved beak. After being 

 packed in the dried state, and transported down to the bazaars, the 

 slender portion of the beak is usually broken off, but its incurved 

 direction remains noticeable. All parts of the plant are aromatic, 



*' Act. angl., 1770, 524, t. xii. 



t Baillon, Kecherches sur I'origine des Badianes on Anis etioles, in 

 "Adansonia," viii., 1 ; Dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences medicales, 

 viii., p. 81. 



+ In the American Journal of Pharmacy, May, 1885, is an elaborate 

 paper on Illicium Floridanum, illustrated by four plates showing the minute 

 structure of the fruit, seed, leaves, stem, bark and root of the plant. 



§ Hist, des Plantes, i., p. 185, note 1. 



II Flor. Brit. Ind., i., 40 ; and Flor. Ind., i., p. 74. 



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