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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Amyris consists of trees and shrubs, of which every part, even to 

 the embryo, is covered with glandular punctures secreting a resinous 

 odorous liquid. The leaves are alternate, or here and there opposite 

 or imparipinnate, more usually 1 -3-foliolate, with opposite articulate 



Anwris mcmtvma. 



Fig. 448. 



Hermaphrodite 

 flower (&). 



Fig. 449. 

 Long. sect, of flower. 



Fig. 450. 

 Fruit (f ). 



Fig. 447. 

 Floriferous branch. 



Fig. 451. 

 Long. sect, of fruit. 



folioles. The petiole, exstipulate at the base, is sometimes margi- 

 nate, as is the rachis. The flowers are grouped in the axils of the 

 leaves or at the summit of the branches in ramified racemes of cymes. 

 The genus contains some ten species, 1 native of the Antilles and the 

 neighbouring regions of the two Americas. 



Beside Amyris we doubtfully place two genera having the same 

 organization of the gyna?ceum, the fruit, and the seed. These are : 

 Stauranthus, consisting of Mexican shrubs, having hermaphrodite, 

 isostemonous flowers, a uniovulate ovary, a berry as fruit, and uni- 

 foliolate leaves ; and Teclea, having dioecious, sessile flowers, four 



1 Jacq., Amer., 107.— H. B. K., Nov. Gen. — Te. & Pi., in Ann. Sc. Nat., scr. 5, xiv. 



et Spec, vii. 37, t. 610.— Tore. & Gr., FL 321.— Karst., Fl. Colomb., t. 158.— Walp., 



N.-Amer., i. 221.— Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., Rep., i. 560; ii. 831; v. 420; Ann., vii. 552. 

 i. 174.— Tubcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 475. 



