APPENDIX. 
603 
Descriptions of Plants. ~\ 
tres uncias lata. Petioli teretiusculi cinerascentes semunciales. Stipula intrafoliacea 
conduplicata lanceolata acuminata foliacea. Pedtmculi ax; Hares solitarii, brevbsimi, an- 
drogyni, pedicellis 6-8 alternis, infimo femineo praecociore, reliquis masculis. M ,sc. 
Involucrum subeyathiforme apice rnulti.fido, laciniis imbricatis acutis ciliatis cooni- 
ventibus, demutn expansum orbiculare marginibus refbxis, diametro quirnrn lineari. 
Ftosculi numerosi dense conferti sessiles. Calyx 1-pb. foliolis subspathulatis a pi, e con- 
niventibus. Carolina. Anther ce biloculares: Pollen album. Nullum rudimentum pisfilli. 
Fem. Involucrum uniflorum ovatum parvum glabram viride a ice multitidum, 
laciniis numerosis lanceolatis ciliatis connivendbus, nunnullisque dorsa'ibus sparsis 
similibus. Calyx o. Stamina o. Ovarium acc return et indusum ventre involu: ri, mono- 
spermum, ovulo pendulo: Stylus profundi bifidus, lac iis fil f rmibes elongati . albican- 
tibus glabris : Stigmata acuta. Drupa ex luvolucro aucto effor atum, o alis g’abra, 
magnitudine pruni domestici minoris, nigro-sanguinea, substantia carnosa crass lactes- 
cente intus flavicante, lacte albo ; putamine ovato crustaceo tenaci ltevi i'usco. Integu- 
mentum seminis praeter putamcn nullum. Albumen nul um. Embryo d.cot ledotuus 
albus : Cotyledones maximae amygdalino-carnosae ovatte plano-convexas : lladicula su- 
pera 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 Upas 
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,* notwithstanding some difference between our accounts 
of the structure of the male flowers; with respect to which I have r n'y 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 after- 
wards made from dried specimens, by Mr. Bluer, who was unacquainted 
with my observations. Antiaris evidently belongs to Urticeae, and in 
a natural series will stand between Brosimum ol 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 uuit. 
* Annales da mus. 16. p. 478, t. 22. 
