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APPENDIX. [Botany of Terra Australis. 
differ from the greater part, but not from all the Rosacea? ; and in otliei 
respects it does not appear to belong to any subdivision of that erder 
hitherto proposed. 
In the structure of its Ascidia it agrees with Nepenthes, with which, 
however, it has no other point of resemblance. 
The Ascidia or Pitchers of Cepbalotus were observed to be in gene- 
ral nearly half filled with a watery fluid, in which great numbers ol a 
small species of Ant were frequently found drowned. This fluid, which 
had a slightly sweet taste, may possibly be in part a secretion of the Pitcher 
itself, but more probably consists merely of rain-water received and pre- 
served in it. The lid of the Pitcher in the full grown state was found 
either accurately closing its mouth or having an erect position and there- 
fore leaving it entirely open ; and it is not unlikely that the position of the 
lid is determined by the slate of the atmosphere, or even by other external 
causes. 
ANTIARIS. 
Orb Nat. Urticece , inter Brosimum et Olmediam. 
Syst. Linn. Moncccia Tetrandria 
Char. Gen. Masc. Involucrum multiflorum, basi orbiculata florifera, 
apice mullifido. Calyx 4-ph. Stain. 4. 
Fem. Involucrum uniflorum, urceolatum, apice multifidum. Calyx o. 
Ovarium cum involucro cohferens, monospermnm, ovulo pendulo. 
Stylus bipartitus. Drupa ex involucro aucto formata. Semen exnl- 
buminosum. Embryonis radicula supera. 
Antiakis macrophylla. Tab. 5. 
A shrub or very small tree observed in barren stony places, on the shores of the 
Company’s Blands, adjacent to Arnhem’s Land, on the North coast of New Holland, in 
about 1 2 ° S. lat. ; bearing both flowers and ripe fruit in February 1803. 
DESC. Frutex orgyalis ramosissimus glaber lactescens. Famuli teretes. Folia 
alterna, petiolata, stipidata, obtonga cum brevi acumine, basi insequali snbeordata, gla- 
btrrima iutegerrima c< riacea, supra nigro-viridia nitida subtus viridiora, venis fere rect- 
angulis juxta marginein anastomozantibus, venulis divaricatis, duai sex uncias tonga ultra 
