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in common. All are slirubs or small trees, with persistent, 

 a,lternate, petiolate, exstipulate, glabrous leaves, covered with 

 pellucid dots, and more or less aromatic. The flowers are pedun- 

 culate and terminal in the American species with dilated filaments 

 {Oi/mbosfemoii^), but buds, at first lateral with respect to them, and 

 originally axillary to the leaves or bracts below them, may in time 

 receive a great development and elongate into branches which push 

 aside the peduncles, making them appear axillary. /. cmisafum and 

 the species analogous to it {EtiiUic'unii), on the contrary, have their 

 flowers axillary from the commencement. - 



When we know Illicium, it is very easy to obtain an exact idea 



Drimys Winter!. 



Fig. 200. 

 Floriferous branch. 



of the structure of Drimys^ which may be considered as lUicium, 



See fig. 191 and Adansoaia, vii. 361. The 

 floral peduncle of I. parvifloruni is the conthiua- 

 tion of a branch ; beneath the flower it be.irs one 

 or several bracts, some echelonned on the peduncle, 

 the others close together below the flower. 



^ See Adansonia, viii. 13. Hence, for these 

 species alone can we admit what Bextiiam & 

 Hooker say {loc. cU.) of the inflorescence of 

 IlUcium : " FeduiicuU 1-JIori, revera axillares. 



sedfoliis non evolutis intra gemmam terminalem 

 fasciculati." 



3 FoKSTER, Char. Gen., 84, t, 42.— Juss., Oen., 

 2S0, 451.— Lamk., Diet., ii. 830 ; Suppl., ii. 526 ; 

 III., t. 494.— DC. Prodr., i. 78.— SrACU, Suit, a 

 Buffon, vii. 436.— Endl., Gen., n. 4742.— Mieks, 

 Conirih., i. 132.— B. H., Gen., 17, n. 1.— H. Bx., 

 Adansonia, vii. 8, 67. — Vintcrana Soi.., M'd. 

 Ohs., V. 46. — Wintera iSIUKK., Syst., 507.— 



