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tinguished from this latter order by the position of their style and ovules and 
by the relation which is borne to the axis of inflorescence by the odd lobe of 
the calyx being the same as found in Rosacese. Brown remarks {Congo, 434), 
that the greater part of the order has the flowers more or less irregular, and 
that the simple ovary of Parinarium has a dissepiment in some degree analo- 
gous to the movable dissepiment of Banksia and Dryandra ; but we now know, 
from the more recent observations of this learned botanist upon the ovule, 
that this dissepiment arises differently. The analogy of structure, as to the 
dissepiment of Parinarium, is to be sought in Amelanchier. 
Geography. Principally found in the tropical regions of Africa and 
America ; none are recorded as natives of Asia ; but there is reason to believe, 
from specimens of large trees seen in the forests of India, without flowers or 
fruit, by Wallich, that one or two species of Parinarium are indigenous in equi- 
noctial Asia ; and Royle’s genus Prinsepia, founded upon a spiny plant from 
Nipal, is apparently referable to this order. One species of Chrysobalanus is 
found as far to the north as the pine-barrens of Georgia in North America ; 
a climate, however, as in all the regions bounding the Gulf of Mexico on the 
north, much more heated than that of most other countries in the same parallel 
of latitude. 
Properties. No medicinal properties have been ascribed to Chrysobala- 
naceae. The fruit of Chrysobalanus Icaco is eaten in the West Indies, under the 
name of cocoa plum ; another is brought to market in Sierra Leone (C. luteus) ; 
and the Rough- skinned, or Gray plum of the same colony is the produce of 
Parinarium excelsum. The kernel of Parinarium campestre and montanum is 
said by Aublet to be sweet and good to eat. The seeds of Prinsepia utilis 
yield by expression a useful oil. Royle , , 
Chrysobalanus, L. 
Moquilea, Aubl. 
Couepia, Aubl. 
Acioa, Aubl. 
Ada, Willd. 
Dulada,. Neck. 
GENERA. 
Parinarium, Juss. Licania, Aubl. Stylobasium, Desf. 
Parinari, Aubl. Hedycrea, Schreb. Prinsepia, Royle. 
Dugortia, Neck. Thelyra, Pet. Thou. Cycnia, Lindl. 
Petrocarya, Schreb. Hirtella, L. 
Grangeria, Commers. Causea, Scop. 
Cosmihuena, R. et P. 
Order CXIII. CALYCANTHACEJE. 
The Carolina Allspice Tribe. 
Calyc ANTHER, Liudl. inBot. Reg.fol. 404. (1819) ; DC. Prodr. 3. 1. (1828). — 
Calycanthin^, Link.Enum. 2. 66. (1822). 
Essential Character. — Sepals and petals confounded, indefinite, imbricated, com- 
bined in a fleshy tube. Stamens indefinite, inserted in a fleshy rim at the mouth of the tube, 
the inner sterile. Anthers adnate, turned outwards. Ovaries several, simple, 1 -celled with 
one terminal style, adhering to the inside of the tube of the calyx ; ovules solitary, or 
sometimes 2, of which one is abortive, ascending. Nuts enclosed in the fleshy tube of the 
calyx, 1 -seeded, indehiscent. Seed ascending; albumen none; cotyledons convolute, with 
their face next the axis ; radicle inferior. — Shrubs, with square stems, having 4 woody 
imperfect axes, surrounding the central ordinary one. Leaves opposite, simple, scabrous, 
without stipules. Flowers axillary, solitary. 
Affinities. Jussieu originally placed this order at theendof Rosacese {Gen .) ; 
he subsequently referred it to Monimiaceae ; and I afterwards formed it into a 
particular family. With Monimiaceae it is less nearly related than it appears 
to be, the principal points of resemblance being the disposition of several nuts 
