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Aniizoma, Clypea, Peraphora, and others of the Cissampelida, 
while in several genera of the family the floral parts are found 
in numbers varying between two and seven, or even beyond 
this. When I published the synopsis of the genera (Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. xiii. p. 124; vide supra, p. 18), 
a separate section was made to include all those of which 
(for want of sufficient evidence) the tribe to which they belong 
could not be determined; to this section Antitaxis was then 
referred. Since that time I have seen its fruit, which closely 
resembles that of Pycnarrhena and other genera of the Pachy- 
gonece ; consequently Antitaxis must now find its place in 
that tribe : its wood is unmistakably of Menispermaceous 
structure. The authoi’s of the ‘Nova Genera’ (i. p. 33), in one 
sentence, expel this genus and Odontocarya from this family, 
because they appeared to them to off'er no character distinct 
from the Euphorbiacece, and because they differ from Meni- 
spermaceee in their inflorescence and in their habit. The strong 
evidence afi^orded here and elsewhere completely disproves all 
these inferences. 
Antitaxis, nob. — Flores dioici. Masc. Sepala 8, per paria 
decussatim opposita, 2 exteriora bracteiformia, extus longe 
pilosa, 2 sequentia late obovata, apice truncata, ciliato-fim- 
briata, 4 interiora paulo majora, aequalia, suborbicularia, 
concava, carnosula, glabra, sestivatione imbricata. Petala 2, 
tenuiora, obovata, apice truncata, sepalis 2 interioribus alterna 
et paulo breviora. Stamina 4, cruciatim disposita, petalis 
opposita et paululo breviora; filamenta carnosula, sursum 
gradatim incrassata ; antherce filamenti vertici semiimmersse, 
subglobosse, carnosae, 1-lobae, subextrorsae, rima subobliqua 
transversim et bivalvatim hiantes. Ovarii rudimentum nul- 
lum. — Faem. Flores ignoti. Drupa 3, aut abortu pauciores, 
subglobosae, exsiccae, velutinae, styli vestigio facie ventrali 
notatae; putamen subreniformi-ovatum, tenuiter chartaceum, 
fragile, 1-loculare; condylus parvus, internus, intra loculum 
sinum versus paulo intrusus aut fere obsoletus. Semen reni- 
formi-globosum, exalbumiuosum ; inteyumentum niembrana- 
ceum, sinum versus chalaza majuscula notatum : embryo reni- 
formi-globosus, loculum implens, cotyledonibus magnis, car- 
nosis, crassis, accumbentibus, curvatis, radicula minima su- 
pera ad styli vestigium spectante multoties longioribus. 
Frutices Asiatici, forsan scandentes ; ramuli pubescentes, demum 
glabri, cupuloso-nodosi ; axillis approximatis ; folia oblonga 
vel oblongo-lanceolata, glaberrima, nervis imparipinnatis •, pe- 
tiolo subbrevi, imo apiceque subtumidulo : pedicelli ^ axillares, 
plurimi, fasciculati, gracillimi, \-flori, internodiis sapius tequi- 
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