ANT 



two cells and tv/o valves, vr'iih infleifed edges, and a parallel 

 partition. 



A flirubby Imootli genus, whofe habit announces an 

 affinity to the So/anea:, but whofe regular, deep-cut, radiating 

 corolla, is altogether llrange in the Liiinsan clafs Didynamia. 

 The leaves are alternate, tapering at the bafe, or fomewhat 

 ftalked, articulated with the branch, thick, fometimes dotted 

 with glands. Floiuers axillary, nearly folitary, ■C!\e\x Jfalhs 

 minutely brafteated, and moftly feparating eafily at the 

 joint. Corolla white or yellow, handfome ; its tube inter- 

 nally ftriated ; limb in from five to eight fegments. 



1. A. littorea. Yellow Anthocercis. Labill. Nov. Holl. 

 V. 2. 19. t, 158. Br. n. I. Ait. n. i. — Leaves obovate, 

 without dots, fmooth at the edges, as well as on both fides. 

 Young branches fmooth. Segments of the corolla longer 

 than the tube. Capfule oblong, twice the length of the calyx. 

 — Difcovered by Labillardiere in Lewin's land ; and obfervcd 

 in the fame neighbourhood by Mr. Brown, and Mr. Good. 

 The latter fent feeds to Kevv in 1803. This is a green- 

 houfe plant, flowering during mod part of the fummer. 

 Mr. Aiton favoured us with a fpecimer. in May 181 1, when 

 it firft began to produce flowers. Thefe are an inch in 

 diameter, inodorous, pale lemon-coloured ; the radiant feg- 

 ments of the limb narrow, taper -pointed ; the tube ftriated 

 internally with deep violet. Leaves about an inch long, 

 abrupt or emarginate ; nearly entire in our fpecimens. 

 Labillardiere fays they are fometimes toothed, or ferrated. 



2. A. v'lfcofa. Glutinous Anthocercis. Br. n. 2. — 

 *' Leaves obovate, marked with glandular dots ; roughifh at 

 the edges ; when young finely downy, as well as the young 

 branches. Capfule o-«te, about the length of the calyx." 

 — Native of the fouthern coafl; of New Holland. Brown. 

 We have feen no fpecimen of this fpecies, but from the 

 above account, furnifhed by Mr. Brown, we prefume its 



Jlo-wers to be white, and their I'lmh not longer than the 

 tube. 



ANTHODON, a name which feems to allude to the 

 toothed calyx and petals, is applied in the Flora Peruviana, 

 V. T. 45. t. 74. f. b, to a plant referred by profeffor Vahl 

 to his ToNSELLA ; fee that article, fp. 4th. 



ANTHOLOMA. Labill. Voy. Engl. ed. v. 2. 245. 

 t. 41. Nov. Holl. V. 2. 121, is certainly the fame genus 

 as Bassia. (See that article.) Whether Labillardiere's 

 plant may be the obovata of Forfter, or a new fpecies, we 

 have no certain means of knowing. 



ANTHOTIUM, from av6oc, a jloiver, and Am, a little 

 ear, expreflive of the auricles accompanying the upper feg- 

 ments of the corolla. — Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. i. 

 582. — Clafs and order, Penlandrta Monogyma. Nat. Ord. 

 Campanacex, Linn. Campanulaceit, Juff. Goodeno-vtie, Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, in five deep equal 

 fegments, permanent. Cor. of one petal, longer than the 

 calyx, irregular ; tube flit a;t the back from top to bottom, 

 and eafily feparable into five parts, with inflexed edges ; 

 limb two-lipped ; upper lip in two, lower in three, deep 

 fegments, thofe of the upper lip having an ear-like appen- 

 dage at their inner margin. Stam. Filaments five, fhorter 

 than the tube ; anthers clofely united into a tubidar form. 

 Pijl. Germen inferior, oblong ; flyle capillary, the length 

 of the ftamens ; ftigma large, obtufe, enveloped in a bivalve 

 beardlefs cover, contrary to the lips of the corolla. Peric. 

 Capfule of two cells. Seeds feveral. 



Efl". Ch. Corolla of one petal, flit longitudinally at the 

 back ; limb two-lipped, its upper fegments auriclcd at 

 their inner margin. Anthers combined. Stigma with a 

 bivalve beardlefs integument. Capfule inferior, of two 

 cells. 



ANT 



I. A. humik. Dwarf Anthotium. Br. n. I Njtiv? 



of the fouth coaft of New Holland. A little fmooth, ftem- 

 lefs herb. Leaves radical, almoft cylindrical, fcarcely dilated 

 at the bafe. Stalls feveral, fpreading, undivided. Floiuers 

 coUefted in tufts, fubtended by leafy braSeas. Corolla 

 approaching to a violet colour. Pollen of fimple grains. 

 There are two varieties, one almoft twice the fi/.e of the 

 other, the parts of the Jloiver fomewhat differing alfo in 

 their relative proportion. Broivv. 



ANTHRACITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



ANTIARIS, in Botany, altered by Lefchenault from the 

 name of the famous Poifon-tree of Java, Upas Ant'iar, which 

 that botanift calls Ant'iar'is toxicaria, and which Mr. Brown 

 confiders as of the fame genus with wliat we are about to 

 defcribe from his excellent General Remarks, Geographical 

 and Syftematical, on the Botany of Terra Auftrahs, p. -.0 ; 

 publillied at the end of the account of captain Flinders's 

 Voyage, 1814. — Clafs and order, MonoeciaTetrandria. Nat. 

 Ord. Scabridte, Linn. Urtic/s, or Urticeit, Jufl^. Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Male, Cal. Involucrum many-flo\j'ered ; its 

 margin in numerous, imbricated, lanceolate, acute, fringed, 

 converging fegments, at length expanded and reflexed ; 

 diflc flat, covered with crowded feflile florets : perianth of 

 four nearly fpatulate, concave, equal, fpreading leaves, con- 

 verging at the extremity. Cor. none. Stam. Filaments 

 fcarcely any ; anthers ereft, converging, ovate, obtufe, two- 

 celled, with white pollen. No rudiments of a piftij. 



Female, Cal. Involucrum fingle-flowered, ovate, fmall, 

 fmooth, many-cleft at the fummit, vi'ith lanceolate, fringed, 

 converging, deciduous fegments, fome of them fcattered 

 over the body of the involucrum : perianth none. Cor. 

 none. Stam. none. P'tjl. Germen in the body of the 

 involucrum, oblong, fingle-feeded ; ftyle divided almoft to 

 the bottom, its fegments tliread-fhaped, parallel, fmooth, 

 divaricated at the upper part ; ftigmas fimple, acute. Peric. 

 Drupa formed of the enlarged involucrum, oval, fmooth, 

 the lize, of a fmall plum, dark purple, internally flefhy and 

 yeUowifti, containing a white milk. Seed. Nut pendulous, 

 ovate, with a fmooth, brown, tenacious cruft ; kernel with- 

 out a (kin ; albumen none ; embryo white, of two large, 

 ovate, fleftiy, almond-like cotyledons, flat on the infide, 

 rather convex externally ; radicle fuperior, very fliort. 



Efl". Ch. Male, Involucrum many-flowered, many-cleft. 

 Perianth of four leaves. 



Female, Involucrum fingle-flowered, i-.rceolate, many- 

 cleft at the margin. Perianth none. Style deeply divided. 

 Drupa from the enlarged involucrum. Seed without 

 albumen. Radicle fuperior. 



I. A. macrophylla. Brown as above, t. 5. — Found by 

 Mr. Brown, in barren ftony places, on the fliores of the 

 Company's iflands, adjacent to Arnhem's land, on the 

 north coaft of New Holland, in about 12° fouth latitude, 

 bearing flowers and ripe fruit in February 1803. AJhrub, 

 or very fmall tree, about fix feet high, much branched, 

 fmooth, milky. Branches round. Leaves alternate, ftalked, 

 elliptic-oblong with a fliarp point, entire, coriaceous, fix 

 inches long and three wide ; unequal and flightly heart- 

 fliaped at the bafe ; dark-green and fliining above ; more 

 verdant beneath ; with one rib, and many tranfverle parallel 

 veins. /"(/o//?a//vroundifh, grey, half an inch long. Stipitlas 

 intrafohaceous, lanceolate, pointed, folded, leafy. Floiver- 

 Jlalks axillary, folitary, racemofe, fcarcely longer than, the 

 footftalks, each bearing fix or eight alternate flowers, of 

 which one or two of the loweft are female, and earlier than 

 the reft, which are all male. 



We prefume the A. toxicaria of Lefchenault, Annales du 

 Muf. v. 16. 478. t. 22, is another fpecies of the fame genus ; 



but 



