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cloven. CapfiJe'of one cell and two valves. Seeds imbri- 

 cated, pendulous, winged. 



I. A., glandulofa. Glandular Anopterus. Labill. Nov. 

 Holl. V. I. 86. t. 112. — Native of Cape Van Diemen. An 

 elegant flender tree, about thirty feet high, ver\- fmooth in 

 every part. Leaves fcattered, occafionally oppofite, obovate- 

 oblong, ferrated, lingle-ribbed, coriaceous, about four 

 inches long, rather bitter to the tafte ; tapering at the bafe ; 

 a black prominent gland on the inner edge of each ferra- 

 ture. Clujlers terminal, fimple, half the length of the 

 leaves, either folitary, or as many as four together. Corolla 

 about the fize and Aape of Pyrnla rotundlfolia ; of its 

 colour nothing is recorded, Labillai-diere's defcriptions 

 having been drawn up fron:; his dried fpecimens after his 

 return to Europe. Mr. Brown remarks, that the embryo is 

 minute, nearly globofe, enclofed in a flefhy albumen ; the 

 radicle fuperior. 



ANREDERA, a name of which we find no explanation. 

 JufT. Gen. 84. 448. — Clafs and order, Pentandria Monogy- 

 n'ta. Nat. Ord. Holeracee, Linn. Atriplkes, JufT. 



EIT, Ch. Calyx in two deep fegments ; keeled at the 

 back. Corolla none. Style divided. Stigmas two. Seed 

 clothed with the compreffed, membranous, two-winged 

 calyx, emarginate at the top and bottom. 



I. A. fcandens. Climbing Anredera. {Fegopyrum 

 fcandens, feu Volubilis nigra major, flore et fruclu mem- 

 branaceis, fubrotundis, compreflis ; Sloane Jam. v. I. 138. 

 t. 90. f. I.) — Native of Jamaica, growing among trees 

 near the ruins of a monafterj- by the town. Sloar.e. The 

 Jlems are twining, round, red, fucculent, climbing to the 

 height of feven or eight feet. Leaves alternate, heart- 

 fhaped, or fomewhat deltoid, fucculent, fmooth, entire, 

 two inches and a quarter long, on footjialks half an inch 

 in length. Clujlers numerous, alternate, many-flowered, 

 axillary and terminal. Floiuers orbicular, comprefled, 

 green, bordered with a thin white membrane formed of the 

 keel of each calyx-leaf. As the feed ripens, they turn 

 brown. Sloane compares them to parfnip-feed. Swartz 

 feems not to have noticed this plant. Its habit is nearly that 

 of Bafella. 



ANTELOPE, col. 3, 1. 7 from bottom, r. Bubahs 

 or Cervine Antelope. 



ANTHERYLIUM, in Botany, fo named, either by 

 Vahl or Von Rohi", apparently from a-Ar^x, an anther, 

 and i/?.>i, ivood, or materials of any kind, in allufion to its 

 nimierous and confpicuous anthers. — Vahl in Mem. of the 

 Nat. Hift. Soc. of Copenhagen, v. 2. 211. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. V. 2. 980. — Clafs and order, Icofar.dria Monogynia. 

 Nat. Ord. Hefperidee, Linn. Myrti, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, inferior, in four 

 deep, lanceolate, fpreading, permanent fegments. Cer. Petals 

 four, inferted into the calyx between its fegments, large, 

 obovate, plaited and undulated, with (hort linear claws. 

 Stam. Filaments numerous, from about thirieen to fixteen, 

 capillary, inferted into the calyx, longer than the corolla, 

 permanent; anthers incumbent, convoluted, fun-owed. Pifi. 

 Germen fuperior, globofe ; ftyle thread-diaped, very long ; 

 ftigma capitate. Peric. Capfule globofe, obfcurely trian- 

 gular, of one cell, and three, occafionally four, valves, burft- 

 ing at the top and deciduous. Reccpt. globofe, fomewhat 

 triangular, fpongy, dotted with little hollows to receive the 

 Seeds, which are numerous and minute. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx mferior, in four deep permanent feg- 

 ments. Petals four, inferted into the calyx. Capfule of 

 one cell and three valves. Seeds numerous. 



1. A. Robrit. Flowery Antherylium. Vahl as above, 

 112. t. 8. Symb. v. 3. 66. WiUd. n. i. — Native of 



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the Weft. Indian ifland of St. Thomas, ^tn Rohr, and IVeJ. 

 A tree, with round, grey, fcattered, fcarred branches ; leafy" 

 and fomewhat quadrangular, in their upper part. Leaves 

 nearly oppofite, ftalked, ovate, acute, entire, two inches 

 long, thin, very fmooth, with one rib, and many tranfverfe 

 veins. There is a pair of ftipulaceous prickles, at the bafe 

 of each footjlalk, which difappear from the older branches. 

 Flozver-fialks axillary from the infertion of the laft year's 

 leaves, from five to eight, fewer on one fide of the branch 

 than the other, hardly an inch long, fimple, fingle-flowered, 

 naked, thread-lhaped. Capfule downy, the fize of a currant. 

 Nothing is recorded of the colour of the ^ficivers, nor of the 

 qualities or ufe of any part. The habit of the tree is com- 

 pared by "V^ahl to the Legnatis of Swartz, to which genus 

 he fuppofes this to be allied. He fufpefts alfo fomc affinity 

 to Aublet's CREX.2A. See that article. 



ANTHOBOLUS, we prefume from avSo-r, ajlower, and 

 0uiXo:, a mafs, or lump, the flowers forming little denfe tufts. 

 — ^^Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 357. — Clafs and order, 

 Dioecia Triandria. Nat. Ord. Calycflor^s, Linn. EUagni, 

 JufT. Santalacea, Brown. 



EfT. Ch. Male, Calyx of three leaves. CoroUa none. 

 Stamina inferted into the bafe of the calyx -leaves. 



Female, Calyx of three deciduous leaves. Corolla none. 

 Stigma feflile, three-lobed. Drupa with one feed. Embryo 

 inverted, in the axis of the flefhy albumen. 



Akin to ExocARPUs and Osyris. (See thofe articles.) 

 The genus confifts of fmooth rufhy fhrubs, copioufly 

 branched, in habit refembling Ofyris, the principal as well 

 as the ultimate branches jointed at their infertion. Leaves 

 fcattered, feflile, articulated with the branch, narrow, nearly 

 thread-fliaped, deftitute oi flipulas. Flowerflalk^ axillary ; 

 the male ones bearing each an umbel of three or four flowers ; 

 the female from one to three, jointed in the middle when 

 fimple, at the divifion when branched, and furniflied at the 

 joint with two deciduous braSeas. Floiuers fmall, yellowifh. 



1. K. Jilif alius. Slender-leaved Anthobolus. — Leaves 

 thread-fhaped, lax, as well as the young branches. — Gathered 

 by Mr. Brown, in the tropical part of New Holland. 



2. A. triqueter. Awl-leaved Anthobolus. — Leaves awl- 

 fhaped, femi-cylindrical, moderately fpreading. Branches 

 angular, ftraight. — Found by fir Jofeph Banks and Dr. 

 Solander, in the fame country. Brown. 



ANTHOCERCIS, fo named by Labillardiere, from 

 avS^i, a flower, and JcffZij, a ray, the narrow divifions of 

 the corolla fpreading in a radiant manner, Lke the fpokes of 

 a wheel. — Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 2. 19. Brown Prodr. 

 Nov. Holl. V. I. 448. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 4. 53. — Clafs 

 and order, Didynamia Angiofpermia. Nat. Ord. Lurid*, 

 Linn. SolaniiS, Juif. Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, cut half 

 way down into five equal, ereft, acute fegments, permanent. 

 Cor. of one petal, wheel-fhaped ; tube bell-fhaped, con- 

 traifled at the bafe, twice as long as the calyx ; limb about 

 as long as the tube, in five, fometimes feven or eight, very 

 deep, equal, linear-lanceolate, fpreading fegments. Slam. 

 Filaments four, with the rudiment of a fifth, inferted into 

 the bafe of the tube, and not above half fo long, awl-lhap^d, 

 fimple, fmooth ; anthers roundiih, incumbent. Pifl. Ger- 

 men fuperior, oblong ; ftyle cyHndrical, the length of ttie 

 tube ; iligma capitate, notched. Peric. Capicle ovate- 

 oblong, of two cells .-md two valves, with infiexed edges, 

 meeting the parallel partition. Seeds numerous, fraall, 

 roundifh, reticulated. 



Efl". Ch. Calyx five-cleft. Corolla wheel-fliaped, regu- 

 lar, with a bell-fhapcd tube. Stigma capitate. Capfule of 



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