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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
form depression of the putaraen, there are two small circular 
apertures leading into two distinct chambers of the large sub- 
globular condyle, which projects far into the centre of the cell, 
and the integuments of the seed enter into the deep groove along 
its face, and are there firmly attached along the line of the 
raphe. The structure of its seed quite corresponds with the 
rest of the Heteroclinieee, but the fissures of the ruminated albu- 
men do not penetrate so deeply as in many genera : the coty- 
ledons are extremely divaricated, and enclosed iu distinct cells of 
the albumen. 
The authors of the ‘ Flora Indica ’ acknowledge only the 
original type, but A, lemniscata from Java, as well as several 
others here described, are distinct species; they do not admit 
A. jiavesccns, which appears to me correctly referred here by 
Wight and Arnott, and they regard the Ceylon species, A. toxi- 
fera, as being identical with the type; but the grounds on 
which they are considered distinct are fully stated. Concerning 
A. Bauerana of Endlicher, I can learn nothing: it is figured in 
his ‘Atakta ’ — a book I have not been able to consult, nor can I 
find in any botanical work a description of the species. 
Anamikta, Coleb. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 7-12, imbri- 
cata, quorum 2-4 exteriora minora, ovata, concava, submem- 
branacea. Petala nulla. Stamina 15-55, receptaculo parvo 
sessili, pluriseriatim in globum aggregata : filamenta fere ob- 
soleta : antherai 4-lobse, sub-4-locellat8e, rima transversa 2-val- 
vatim hiantes. — Faem. Sepala ut in masc. Petala nulla. 
Stamina sterilia 10, brevissima, carnosula, compressa, apice 
emarginata, effoeta, imo in annulum brevem circa gynseciuta 
coalita. Ovaria ssepius 4 vel 5 supra gynsecium breviter cylin- 
dricum imposita, erecta, gibba, glabra, 1-locularia, ovulo unico 
in angulo ventrali appenso. Stylus brevissimus, crassiusculus. 
Stigma validum, subito refiexum, deltoideum, convexum, papil- 
losum. Drupee 1-5, ovatse, subcarnosse, stigmate valde ex- 
centrico notatse, carpophoro longiusculo lignoso incrassato 
cylindrico apice furcato suffultse, furcis tot quot drupis, iisdem 
articulatis : putamen ovatum, ad ventrem reniformi-excavatum, 
tenuiter osseum, 1-loculare, sutura peripherica, sub-2-valvare, 
indehiscens ; condylus omnino internus, majusculus, globosus, 
2-cameratus, ultra medium loculi protensus, foraminibus 2 
collateraliter sejunctis externe apertis instructus. Semen loculo 
conforme, meniscoideum, facie ventrali valde cavum, et hinc 
ad condylum affixum : integumenta tenuissima, per raphem 
linearem ventralem sulco condyli intrusa : embryo paulo con- 
vexus, intra albumen copiosum fere 2-laminare ventre rumi- 
natum inclusus : cotyledones tenuiter foliacese, lineari-oblongse. 
