PROF. OLIVER ON A NEW ANISOPHYLLEA FROM MALACCA. 
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seen fruit or seed ; so that I cannot speak to the fact noted by Mr. Thwaites respecting the 
embryo and its germination, which latter that excellent botanist finds, in A. zeylanica, to 
resemble that of Carey a and Barring t 
Admitting this to apply to the genus, how 
I am far from considering it a sufficient ground for associating Anisophyllea with 
Barrmgtoniete, from which group 
other respects abundantly diver 
But 
structure and germination of the embryo, as described by Mr. Thwaites, I think not very 
dissimilar to that of the Mangrove, apart from the singular though comparatively unim- 
yet suspended in the 
circumstance of the germination of the embryo while 
portant 
pericarp from the parent tree 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLVIII. 
Anisophyllea Griffithii, Oliv. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 
Fig. 2. The same, with lobes of the calyx removed. 
Fig. 3. The same, vertical section. 
Fig. 4. Petal and its opposed stamen. 
Fig. 5. Petal. 
Fig. 6. Stamen. 
Fig. 7. Cross se 
