H NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Odontocarya} is American. 2 The staminal filaments are halfway 

 up, and the anther-cells are distinct. The form of the internal pro- 

 minence of the fruit-stone resembles that of Chasmanthera. 



Fibraurea, 8 whereof only one Asiatic species 4 is described, has six 

 free club-shaped stamens, slightly incurved towards the apex, and 

 the ventral surface of the fruit-stone bears a well marked hollow 

 internal prominence. 



Burasaia" consists of four species 6 of plants from Madagascar, 

 which were formerly referred to Lardizabalece. We were the first 

 to show that they are quite similar to the preceding genera in the 

 structure of the fruit, the stone bearing a longitudinal groove 

 outside and a semi-ovoidal prominence inside on the ventral face. 

 But they are very sharply distinguished from all the allied types by 

 their trifoliolate leaves. 



The two Indian genera Paraba/ia 7 and Aspidocarya? each repre- 

 sented by a single species, have, with the same female flowers and fruit, 

 a quite distinct androceum, formed of a vertical cylindrical column, 

 on top of which are found six sessjle anthers. This column is 

 dilated at the top into a circular platform in the latter genus and is 

 capitate in the former. 



Anamirta* (figs. 1, 18-21) has apetalous flowers with a perianth 

 of two, three, or four trimerous verticils, whose leaves increase in 

 size as they are more internal. In the male flowers is a sort of head 

 formed by the indefinite stamens which are arranged in six vertical 

 rows. Each stamen has a subsessile vertically compressed anther 

 divided into four more or less distinct lobes ; it opens by a 



1 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 38 (part.) ; 96. — Dcne., in Arch. Mus., i. 197, 1. 13 (fig. c). — 

 ser. 3, xiv. 97. — B. H., Gen., 34 (Chondoden- Endl., Gen., n. 4699. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, 

 dron), 960, n. 4. ii. 316.— B. H., Gen., 39, n. 31; 960, n. 6 a. 



2 Miees admits seven species, all united in 6 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xiii. 490. 

 one by Eichleb (in Mart. FL Bras., Menisp., 7 Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, vii. 39 ; 

 167, t. 36, fig. 2). ser. 3, xiv. 51.— B. H., Gen., 34, 960, n. 2.— 



3 Lous., Fl. CocUnch., ed. Ulyssip. (1790), Hook. & Thoms., FL Ind., i. 181. — Walp., 

 626. — Miees, in Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xiii. Ann., iv. 123. 



487.— B. H., Gen., 960, n. 7 a. 8 Hook. & Thoms., FL Ind., i. 180.— B. H. 



4 F. tinctoria Loue., loc. cit. — Hook. & Gen., 33, 960, n. 1. — Miees, in Ann. Nat. 

 Thoms.,.FZ. J»rf.,i.204. — WALP.,^n«.,iv.l33. — Hist., ser. 2, vii. 39; ser. 3, xiv. 52. — Walp., 

 Coceulus Fibraurea DC, Prodr., i. 99. MlEES Ann., iv. 123. 



admits three species in this genus, which are not 9 Anamirta Colebe., in Trans. Linn. Soc, 



distinct according to Bentham, and reduces to xiii. 52. — Endl., Atakt., t. 39, 40, n. 4693. — 



F. tinctoria Loue. B. H., Gen., 35, 961, n. 9. — Miees, in Ann. 



5 Dup.-Th., Gen. Nov. Madag., 18 ; in Diet. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, xiv. 49. 

 Sc. Nat., v. 266.— DC, Syst., i. 514 ; Prodr., i. 



