ON THE JULIANIACEZ, A NEW NATURAL ORDER 879 
scp of India (1881), or in Ritter’s Index, or in any — 
map o a rt. They are probably only the landmarks of mo 
tain-hu 
The | leaves are very thin in texture, and the upper pair are close 
under the flowers. In one capsule there were twenty-four-seeds ; 
compound microscope. The specific name, though transferred 
ie another pore sncoteuied expresses the appearance of the 
lan 
ies kella and mel REGS wr readily distinguished from Newro- 
calyx by the entire (not fimbriate) stipules. The following salient 
characters serve to distin a ‘ish Ophiorrhiza, Clarkella, and Argo- 
stemma from one another :— 
Opuiorruiza. Anthers free, spreading; fruit broadly and didy- 
mously obcordate, compressed, composed 0 5 chen lobes, 
eae ae the calyx; flowers secund o e branches of 
dichotom oer embryo clavate, bilobed. 
LARKELLA. s connivent, subconnected at the sides ; 
fruit obconical, bilostlar indehiscent ; flowers in a terminal bract- 
eate cyme; style short, with two filiform arms; embryo clavate, 
bilobed. 
Arcostemma, Anthers connivent or es fruit pilooyltts 
dehiscence by one or two terminal pores vular ; rs in 
pedunculate cymes or umbels ; dle panes with oats Wectia : 
embryo ovoid, bifid, with denser album 
The Lage to which the present species seems to be most nearly 
llied are Argostemma humile J. ennett and A) noe Kha- 
sianum "C. B. Clarke, both of the Himalayan region 
ON THE JULIANIACES, A NEW NATURAL ORDER. 
By W. Borrine Hemstey, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
e have received from the author for publication the following 
abstract of an important paper communicated by him to the Royal 
Society.—Ep. Journ. ] 
—GeENERAL DescRIPTION. 
The Julianiacee comprise, 80 far as at present known, two 
genera and fives spe ecies. They : are resiniferous, tortuously branched, 
deciduous, dicecious shrubs or small trees, ving alternate, ex- 
stipulate, imparipinnate leaves, from about one to to three decimetres 
long, clustered at the tips of the flowering branches and scattered 
along the short barren shoots. The flowers are green oa 
