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NATUBAL mSTOBY OF FLANTS. 



often (limerous or nearly entire, forms a sort of cupule at the base 

 of tlie liower, which, even in a very young bud, does not surround 

 the interior organs completel3^ 



In another species from New Caledonia, which we have called 

 I). cras.s//'u/i(/,^ the calyx presents the same characters as in D. axillaris; 

 but the flowers are grouped at the top of the branches into false 

 comjiound umbels of cymes several times' ramified. The abortion 

 of the terminal shoot seems constant in this species, which, in this 

 respect, approaches certain forms of D. JFintcri. 



II. Brown has made a special genus^ Tasmannia^ of some Australian 

 and Tasmanian species of Brimys, with flowers often diclinous like 





Drimys (Tasmannid) lanceolata. 

 Fig. 205. 



those of D. axillaris^ carpels few in number, and pericarp not very 

 thick. In T. aromatica'^ (figs. 205-207), which has been rightly 



' Adanmnia, viii. 190. This species has very 

 larpe and tliick leaves, first fleshy and afterwards 

 coriaceous; the midrib is covered with minute 

 pits. Tlic calyx, very thick at its base, consists 

 of two or three lobes with variable dejjth. The 

 carpels, usually four in number, become thinner 

 and wedge-shaped at the base. We make it the 

 type of a section called Sarcodrimys. 



2 Each of the j)cduncles is ramified four or 

 five times. The cymose arrangement is some- 

 times vfTy manifest. A terminal flower on a 

 very short a-vis is accompauied by two lateral 



pedicels, far longer and more slender, which 

 arise nearly on a level, and belong to the flowers 

 of the next generation. 



8 Ex DC. Syst. Teg., i. 445 ; :Prod/r., i. 78.— 

 Enul., Gen., n. 4741. — MiERS, Contr'ib., i. 138. 



^ E. Bb., Prodr. Fov.-Holl. (ined.), ex DC, 

 loc. cit. — Winterania lanceolata PoiR., Diet., 

 viii. 799 (1808). — Drimys aromatica F. Mtjell., 

 PI. Vict., i. 20; Benth., Fl. Austr., i. 49. 

 These species must now take the name of D. 

 lanceolata. 



