BOTANY OF TERKA AUSTRALIS. 79 



profunde bifidus, laciniis filiformibus elongalis albicantibus glabris ; Stigmata 

 acuta. Drupa ex. involucio aucto efforraata, ovalis glabra, magnitudine pruni 

 domestic! ininoris, nigro-sanguinea, substantia carnosa crassa laotescente intus 

 flavicante, lacte albo ; putamine ovato crustaceo tenaoi Isevi fusoo. Integu- 

 mentum seminis preefer putamen nullum. Albumen nullum. Embri/o dicotj- 

 ledoneus albus : Colyledones maximse amygdalino-carnoss ovatae plano-convexse: 

 Radicula supera brevissima. 



Obs. When I collected and described this plant on the 

 north coast of New Holland, I had no reason to suppose 

 it had any affinity to the Ujms Antiar or Poison tree of 

 Java, of which the first satisfactory account has been since 

 published by Mr. Leschenault. There can however be no 

 doubt that the plant of New Holland belongs to the same 

 genus with Antiaris toxicaria of that author,^ notwith- 

 standing some diffference between our accounts of the 

 structure of the male flowers ; with respect to which I 

 have only to observe that my description was taken from 

 living plants, and I consider its correctness to be very 

 much confirmed by the figure, which was afterwards made 

 from dried specimens, by Mr. Bauer, who was unacquainted 

 with my observations. Antiaris evidently belongs to 

 Urticese, and in a natural series will stand between Brosi- 

 mum of Swartz and Olmedia of Flora Peruviana, agreeing 

 with the latter in the structure of its male flowers, and 

 more nearly resembling the former in its female flowers 

 and fruit. 



FRANKLANBIA. [co4 



Oi-d. Nat. Prolearecn. 



Syst. Linn. TefranAria Monogynia. 



Chak. Gen. Perianfhium hypocrateriforme : limbo 

 quadripartito deciduo, sestivatione induphcata : tnho 

 persistenti. Anthera inclusse, perianthio accretse. 

 Squamce 4, perigynse, in vaginam 4-fidam connatse. 

 Ovarium monospermum. Caryo-psis fusiformis pedi- 

 cellata, apice dilatato papposo. 



1 Aininlea du mns. 16, p. 478, t. 22. 



