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GENUS II. ILLICIUM. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sez: Sys: 
Deriv. From Illicio, to allure, on account of the agreeable aros 
matic smell and taste of the species. 
Gen. Cuan. Flowers hermaphrodite: sepals and petals 12-36 
in many rows: stamens numerous, anthers adnate: ovaries 6-15 
apiculated with the subulate style: ovules solitary, ascending from 
the base of the cell. 
(1) I. Garritan. (H. F. § T.) 
Ident. Hook. & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 74. 
Spec. Cuan. Shrub 10-15 feet: younger branches angled : leaf- 
buds involute with numerous imbricated scales: leaves elliptic. or 
lanceolate, acute at both ends, shining: sepals subciliated : exterior 
petals broad-ovate, larger than the sepals, inner ones gradually 
lesser and narrower: anthers oval-oblong, introrse: carpels fleshy, 
12-15 with an erect or somewhat curved beak : seed solitary. 
Khasia hills, flowering in April and May. 
GENUS Il. TALAUMA. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. The native name in Guadaloupe of one of the species. 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals 3: petals 6 or more: gynophore sessile : 
ovaries 2-ovuled : carpels woody combined into a cone-shaped fruit, 
irregularly dehiscing : seeds pendulous in the cells of the central 
persistent receptacle. 
(1) T. Rasaniana. (H. F. & T.) 
Ident. Hook, & Thoms. Flor. Ind. I. p. 75. 
Spec. Cuar. Large tree: leaves lanceolate, coriaceous, quite 
glabrous : stipulary areola shorter than the petiole: peduncles ter- 
minal, solitary, 1-2-annulate : fruit oval: carpels irregularly obo- 
vate, tuberculated with small pustules at the back, obtusely beaked : 
flowers unknown, 
Khasia hills, 
GENUS IV. MANGLIETIA. 
Polyandria Polygynia. Sea: Syst: 
Deriv. The Javanese name latinized. 
Gen. Cuan. Sepals 3: petals 6 or more: gynophore sessile : 
ovuries 6 or many-ovuled : carpels somewhat woody cohering among 
