BOTANY OF TERRA AUSTRAIJS. 79 



profundc bifidus, laciuiis filirorniibus olongatis alhicantibus glabris ; Stigmata 

 acuta. Drirpa ex involucro aucto cfforniata, ovalis glabra, niagnitudinc |)ruiii 

 domestici miiioris, nigro-sanguinea, substantia carnosa crassa lactescente intus 

 flavicante, lactc (\\\)0; puiamine ovato crustacoo tenaci loevi fusco. Iiitrqn- 

 mentum seminis prneter putamen nullum. Albumen nullum. Emtjr^jo dicoty- 

 ledoneus albus : Coti/ledones maxiuiaj ainygdaliuo-caruosa) ovatse plano-couvexaj: 

 Radicula supera brcvissima. 



Obs. When I collected and described this plant on the 

 north coast of New Holland, T had no reason to suppose 

 it had any affinity to the Upa.s Antiar or Poison tree of 

 Java, of which the first satisfactory account has been since 

 published ])y Mr. Leschenault. There can however be no 

 doubt that the plant of New Holland behmn^s to the same 

 genus with Antiarls toxicaria of that author,^ not with - 

 standinor some difference between our accounts of the 



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structure of the male flowers ; with respect to which I 

 have only to observe that my description was taken from 

 living plants, and I consider its correctness to be very 

 much confirmed by the figure, which was afterwards made 

 from dried specimens, by Mr. Bauer, who was unacquainted 

 with my observations. Antiaris evidently belongs to 

 Urticeae, and in a natural series will stand between Brosi- 

 mum of Swartz and Olmedia of Flora Peruviana, a^reeine; 

 with the latter in the structure of its male flowers, and 

 more nearly resembling the former in its female flowers 

 and fruit. 



FRANKLANDIA. [go4 



Ord. Nat. Protrncro'. 



Syst. Linn. Tetrandria Monoqi/nia. 



Char. Gen. Perianfhmm. hypocrateriforme : Vimho 

 quadripartito deciduo, sestivatione induj)licata : ittho 

 persistenti. Antherce inclusae, perianthio accretcC. 

 Sqnamce 4, perigyna\ in vaginam 4-fidam connntiP. 

 Ovarutin monos[)ermnm. Can/ojjsis fusifornu's pech- 

 cellata, a})ice dilatato papposo. 



' Anttales du nnis. IG, /;. 478, t. 22. 



