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4 inches long, with alternate pedicels 1-1| line long; the flowers 
have eighteen sepals, of which the six more internal are ovate 
and 1 line long; the petals, half their length, are six, in two 
series, of which the inner three are 2-auriculate at base. 
9. Anamirta. 
This genus was proposed in 1819 by Colebrook for the typi- 
cal species, of which he had only seen the male plant : the male 
and female plants were afterwards described, with more pre- 
cision, and figured by Dr. Arnott : but there are some few inac- 
curacies in those details; for the anthers in the male flower are 
aggregated upon a scarcely elevated receptacle, not raised upon 
a stipitated column, as is there shown, and in the female flower 
the monadelphous ring of 10 sterile stamens is altogether over- 
looked, as is likewise the 5-lobed raised gynsecium. Anamirta 
resembles in the aggregation of its numerous stamens 
upon a receptacle, their number varying in different species 
from 15 to 55. It is stated by Dr. Arnott, as well as by the 
authors of the ‘ Flora Indica,' that the female flower bears 3 
ovaries ; I have found constantly 4 or 5, and have never met 
with a smaller number 'in the many flowers I have examined. 
The normal number would seem to be 5, judging from the pro- 
portion of the sterile stamens that surround them, these being 
invariably 10, in a single series, united in an annular ring (not 
9, as stated by those authorities). The number of sepals is in- 
constant in the same panicle of flowers, varying from 7 to 12, 
including 3 minute basal bracts, which also vary in number and 
size; they are much imbricated. There are no petals. The 
drupes are fleshy and gibbously oval, the persistent stigma 
being very excentric, and much nearer the base than the apex : 
here the gyniecium by subsequent growth is converted into a 
stout cylindrical carpophorum *, which becomes divided at its 
summit into 2, 3, or 4 forks, answering to the number of drupes 
perfected, leaving cicatrices corresponding with the number of 
abortive ovaries — a development similar to that I have described 
in Tiliacora and Sciadotenia. The putamen is oval, with a short 
reniform sinus on its ventral face ; it is of a thin corneous tex- 
ture, its smooth surface is grooved in a net-like form, the grooves 
being filled with capillary fibres, from which it may be inferred 
that in a fresh state its mesocarp consists of aggregated masses 
like those observed in Anomospermum ; on the side of the rem- 
* It would be well to confine the use ’of the term carpophorum to those 
kinds of development resulting from the growth of the torus, leaving the 
word carpodium to designate the stipitate support where it is an incre- 
ment of the fruit itself. 
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