APPENDIX. No. V. 453 
Quinchamalium, a genus in every other respect resembling Thesium, has an 
outer floral envelope surrounding its ovarium, and having more the usual 
appearance of calyx than that of Olax; and also in adverting to the generally 
admitted association of Loranthus and Viscum, of which the former is pro- 
vided with both calyx and corolla, the latter, in its male flowers at least, with 
only a single envelope, and that analogous to the corolla of Loranthus.* 
The second objection seems to be equally weakened by the obvious affinity 
of Santalacee to Exocarpus, which has not only ovarium superum, but the 
fleshy receptacle of whose fruit, similar to that of Taxus, perfectly resembles, 
and may be supposed in some degree analogous to, the enlarged calyx of 
certain species of Olax. 
To these objections M. de Jussieu has added a third, which, were it well 
founded, would be more formidable than either of them, namely, that the 
ovarium of Santalaceze is monospermous;} a statement, however, which I 
conclude must have proceeded from mere inadyertency. 
URTICE. In the collection the plants of this family, taking it in the 
most extensive sense, and considering it as a class rather than an order, belong 
chiefly to Ficus, of which there are seven species. One of these is very nearly 
related to Ficus religiosa; and like that species in India, is regarded as a 
sacred tree on the banks of the Congo. 
A remarkable tree, called by the natives Musanga, under which name it is 
repeatedly mentioned in Professor Smith’s Journal, forms a genus intermediate 
between Coussapoa of Aublet and Cecropia; agreeing with the latter in habit, 
and differing from it chiefly in the structure and disposition of its monandrous 
male flowers, and in the form of its female amenta 
In the inflorescence, and even in the structure of its male flowers, Musanga 
approaches very nearly to Myrianthus of M. de Beauvois,t which it also 
resembles in habit. But the fruit of Myrianthus, as given in the Flore 
d'Oware, is totally different, and, with relation to its male flowers, so remark- 
able, that a knowledge of the female Howers is wanting to fix our ideas both 
of the structure and affinities of the genus. This desideratum the expedition 
to Congo has not suyplied, the male plant only of Myrianthus having been 
observed by Professor Smith. 
* Prodr. Flor, Nov. Holl. \, p. 352. + Mém, du Mus, @’ Hist, Nat. 2, p. 439. 
+ Flore d’Qware, 1, p. 16, tabb. 11 et 12. 
