APPENDIX. No. V. 453 



QuincJuwiaUum, a genus in every otlicr respect resembling Thesium, lias 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 Santalacese 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 Santalaceae is monospermous ; t a statement, however, which I 

 conclude must have proceeded from mere inadvertency. 



UIITICE^E. 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 Ficii.s, of which there are seven species. One of these is very nearly 

 related to Ficus religiosa ; and like tliat species in India, is regarded as a 

 sacred tree on the banks of tlie 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 i\ ublet and Cecropia ; agreeing with tlie 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 inHorescence, and even in the structure of its male flowers, Mtisanga 

 approaches very nearly to Myrianthus of M. de Beauvois,^ whicli it also 

 resembles in liabii. 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 flowers is wanting to fix our ideas botli 

 of the structure and affinities of the genus. This desideratum the expedition 

 lo Congo has \v<i suiplied, the male plant only of ISIyrianth us having been 

 observed by Professor Smith. 



* Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. I, p. 352. + Mhn. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 2, p. 439. 



+ Flore d'Oware, \,p. \6,tabb. 11 el 1'?. 



