A U It ANTI ACK-fli. 
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Leaves alternate, petiolate, without stipules, lanceolate, subacu- 
ininate with the apex blunt, attenuated at the base, very glab- 
rous, nerved, with a pustulose blister in the axil of the under 
surface of eacli nerve, about G inches long, and 1 broad : petiole 
plane above. Panicle axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaf : 
peduncle and its subdivisions compressed, puberulous : flowers 
greenish-yellow, fragrant, shortly pedicelled. Calyx minute, 
5-, rarely 4-toothed, externally puberulous, persistent. Petals 
5, rarely 4, alternating with the teeth of the calyx, lineari-ob- 
long, obtuse, externally puberulous, internally marked with 3 
longitudinal ridges, and villous especially near the base. Sta- 
mens 5, alternating with, and more than half the length of the 
petals, spreading ; filaments expanded at the base, towards the 
apex subulato-compressed : anthers cordate, purpurascent. 
Ovary placed on a minute annular disk, ovate, puberulous, 1- 
ovuled : style very short : stigma bifid. Fruit subdrupaceous, 
(from the thinness of the cortical part,) size of a pigeon’s egg, 
ovoid, mono-pyrene: shell chartaceous: seed solitary. 
I refer this plant with some confidence to the above genus ; 
although Adr. Jussieu, by whom it was founded, describes the 
fruit of the only species hitherto known, as a capsule dehiscent 
at the apex. 
ORDER XXXIII. AURANTIACE/E. 
Calyx urceolate or campanulate, somewhat adher- 
ing to the disk, short, 3-5 toothed, marescent. Pe- 
tals 3-5, broad at the base, free or slightly combined, 
inserted upon the outside of a hypogynous disk, 
slightly imbricated at the edges. Stamens equal in 
number, or some multiple of that of the petals, in- 
serted upon a hypogynous disk : filaments flattened 
at the base, sometimes slightly cohering among them- 
selves : anthers terminal, innate. Ovary many-celled : 
style 1, terete : stigma thickish, slightly divided. 
Fruit pulpy, many-celled, with a leathery glandulose 
valveless indehiscent rind ; cells verticillate, frequent- 
ly separable without laceration, usually filled with 
pulp : pulp lodged in innumerable little sacs arising 
from the sides of the cell. Seeds attached to the 
axis, 1 — x, usually pendulous j raphe and chalaza 
