AND 



of the male elliptic-lanceolate ; of the female all nearly 

 equal. — From the fame country, 



3. A. gracilis. Slender Anarthria.— Stems perfettly 

 fimple, thread-lhaped, compreficd, refembling the leaves, 

 and likewife fmooth-i-dged. Spike racemofe, divided, 

 tetals lanceolate, keeled, nearly equal. — Native of the 

 fame country. • 



4. A. paudflora. Slender-cluftered Anarthria — Stems 

 fimple, thread-lhaped, comprefled, nearly refembling the 

 folitary leaf, and likewife fmooth. Clufter loofe, of few 

 flowers. Flower-ftalks in pairs, unequal, fliorter than the 



flicathing braftea The male plant only was gathered by 



Mr. Brown, on the fouthern coail of New Holland. 



5. K. prolifera. Proliferous Anartliria. — Stems branched 

 in a prohferous manner, two-edged, leafy. Flowers either 

 folitary or fomewhat fpiked. — Found in the fame part of 

 New Holland as all the preceding. Broiun. 



ANATHO. For Anah r. Anna. 



ANATOMY, PiaureJ'que, col. 4, 1. 15, for head r. 

 face. 



AUCHOKyin Architeaiire, &c. 1. 3, forTufcan ;■. Doric. 



ANDALUSITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



ANDANTE, 1. 2, dele or graziofo ; 1. 5, r. or rather 

 graziofo. 



ANDERSONIA,in Botany, received that denomination 

 from the pen of Mr. Brown, in honour of three different 

 botanifts of the name of Anderfon. Firft, Mr. William An- 

 derfon, furgeon in the navy, the companion of captain Cook 

 in two feparate voyages, during the latter of which he died. 

 Although moft devoted to the ftudy of man, and of the 

 animal kingdom, in thofe new and remote regions which it 

 was his lot to vifit, he did not overlook the vegetable world. 

 Several of his manufcript defcriptions exift in the Bankfian 

 library, where charafters of fome new genera, fince pub- 

 lifhed under other names, are to be found. The genus in 

 queftion alfo ferves to commemorate Mr. Alexander Ander- 

 fon, curator of the botanic garden at St. Vincent's, fo im- 

 portant, in a national point of view, as a nurfery for tropical 

 plants, and for their interchange between our feveral colonies. 

 Thirdly, this genus is vi'eU merited by a moft affiduous and 

 obferving cultivator and botanift, Mr. WiUiam Anderfon, 

 F.L.S., now fuperintendant of the Apothecaries' celebrated 

 garden at Chelfea. Let the writer of this be allowed to fub- 

 join to Mr. Brown's lift of thefe botanical worthies, the name 

 of his lamented friend Mr. George Anderfon, F.L.S., whofe 

 early death, owing to a melancholy accident, January loth, 

 1817, is a real lofs to fcience. No one had paid more 

 attention to the cultivation and diftinftion of the different 

 kinds of Britifti Salices, or the beautiful exotic tribe of 

 Peonite ; on which laft fubjedl a paper in the Linnsean So- 

 ciety's Tranf. v. 12. 283, publifhed under the care of his 

 able friend Mr. Sabine, will always evince Mr. George An- 

 derfon's juft claim to botanical commemoration. — Brown 

 Prodr. Nov. HoU. v. i. 553. Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 

 V. I. 321. — Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. 

 Ord. Ericit, Juft. Epacridta, Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, chaffy, co- 

 loured, in five deep,- equal, lanceolate fegments, ere<ft after 

 flowering, permanent, accompanied at the bafe by two, or 

 more, imbricated. fcales. Cor. of one petal, wheel-ftiaped, 

 in five very deep, linear-lanceolate, equal fegments, nearly as 

 long as the calyx, each of them bearded at the bafe. Nec- 

 tary of five fcales, below the germen, fometimes combined. 

 Stam. Filaments five,inferted into the receptacle,linear, hairy, 

 ftiorter than the corolla ; anthers vertical, oblong, diftinft. 

 Pyi. Germen fuperior, roundifh ; ftyle fimple, cyhndrical, 

 about as long as the ftamens ; ftigma obtufe, crenate. Peric. 



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AND 



Capfule oblong, with five furrows, five valves, and five cells, 

 the partitions longitudinal, from the centre of each valve. 

 Seeds feveral, fmall, ereft, inferted into the angles of the (liort 

 central coUunn. 



Eft. Ch. Calyx in five deep fegments, permanent, coloured, 

 with two or more ifnbricated icales at the bafe. Corolla 

 wheel-fliaped, the length of the calyx*; fegments bearded 

 at the bafe. Stamens inferted into the receptacle. Anther;? 

 unconnefted. Neftary of five fcales at the bafe of the germen. 

 Capfule of five valves and five cells, the partitions from the 

 middle of each valve. 



This genus confifts of fmall ftirubs, with Iquarrofe, half- 

 ftieathing leaves, no annular fears remaining on the denu- 

 dated branches. Floivers terminal, eitlier fpiked or folitary, 

 ereft. Receptacles from the bottom of the capfule, ftiort. 

 Seeds but few brought to maturity. Brown, 



lu habit, as well as in the general ftruc\ure of tlie frufti- 

 fication, nothing can be more abfolutely Uke our Spren- 

 GELIA (fee that article) ; infomuch that no perfon could, 

 at firft fight, form any idea of a difference between the two 

 genera. (See alfo Ponceletia.) The prefence of fcales 

 at the bafe of the calyx, fo unlike it as to be more properly 

 termed, with Mr. Brown, braSeas, but in that cafe not en- 

 titled to enter into the generic charatler ; the five neftari- 

 ferous fcales, wanting in Sprengelia ; and the bearded bafe 

 of the fegments of the corolla ; thefe are the diftintlive marks 

 of /inderfotiia. Similar differences ferve to fubdivide the 

 original genera of Epacris and Styphelia (fee tliofe 

 articles) ; but, as it feems to us, the genera thence derived 

 are better defined, and accompanied with fome diftinftions 

 in habit. In the prefent inftance, with the greateft deference 

 to the acute and learned author of Anderfonia, we fhould be 

 inclined to reduce to one genus, under one eftential charafter, 

 plants fo ftrikingly alike, and fo different from all others. 

 Genus dabil charaSerem. One thing is certain, that we are 

 in no danger of being fufpefted of wiftiing, by this means, 

 to get rid of the name Anderfonia, thotigh Sprengelia, having 

 been long previoufly eftabhfhed, muft be preferred to it. 

 Its charafter indeed muft be reformed, becaufe we were 

 originally acquainted with but one fpecies, the only one, it 

 feems, whofe anthers are connedled. Such is the cafe with 

 fome fpecies of Gentiana, but not with all. The following 

 are Mr. Brown's fix fpecies of Anderfonia, ranged in two 

 feftions. 



Se&. I. Flowers ivith two fcales, fpiked. 



1. A.fprengelioides. Spreading-leaved Anderfonia. Br. 

 n. 1. Ait. n. I. — Leaves fpreading ; with a flat point. 

 Flowers fpiked. — Found by Mr.Menzies, at King George's 

 found, on the fouth-weft coaft of New Holland. Sent to 

 Kew, by Mr. Good, in 1803. It is faid to flower moft 

 part of the year, being treated as a green-houfe plant. We 

 received fpecimens from Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy's green- 

 houfe in 1 8 14, but this little ftirub is far from being gene- 

 rally cultivated, nor has it yet been figured. Thejlem is a 

 foot or more in height, determinately branched, round, 

 rigid, fmooth, all the branches covered with numerous, rigid, 



flaucous, feflile, fmooth, ovate, fpinous-pointed, entire 

 a-ves ; roughifii at the edges ; clafping the ftem at their 

 bafe ; each about a quarter of an inch long, permanent. 

 Flowers pale rofe -coloured, fcentlefs, in denfe, fliort, leafy, 

 terminal, upright yj>//^fj, not feparately ftalked, or racemofe, 

 as in Sprengelia incarnata, but otherwife very nearly refem- 

 bling, in fize and colour, the elegant bloftoms of that plant. 



2. A. parvifolia. Small-leaved Anderfonia. Br. n. 2 



" Leaves clofe-preffed ; with a triaftgular point." — :Dif- 

 covered by Mr. Brown, on the fouthern coaft of New Hol- 

 land, We have not feen this fpecies. The fpinous point of 



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