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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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shores, in the parallel of 15° South, having a remarkable 
pinnatified fimbriated calyx. 
Of the related family ZvoofiiYLLEiE ; (an order proposed 
by Mr. Brown to be separated from the Rutaceae of Jussieu,) 
Tribulus is frequent on the tropical shores of New Holland, 
and a species of Zygophyllum, with linear conjugate leaves 
and tetrapterous fruit, was remarked upon an island off 
Shark’s Bay, on the West Coast. 
Meliace^. — ^The several genera of this order, whose 
maximum is in the equinoctial parts of America, differ from 
each other in the form of the remarkable cylindrical necta- 
rium, the situation or insertion of the antherae upon it, as 
well as the character of its almost wholly capsular fruit. 
This structure of nectarium is most striking in Turraea, of 
which a species was observed upon the East Coast, far 
within the tropic ; where also, as well as on all the other 
equinoctial shores of the continent, Carapa, more remark- 
able on account of the valvular character of its capsules, 
and the magnitude and irregular figure of its nuts, is very 
general, and probably not distinct from the plant (C. moluc- 
censis, Lam.) of Rumphius, who has given us a figure in 
his Herbarium Amboinense, vol. iii. tab. 61, 62. 
Sapindacea^. — Of the very few plants referred to the 
family in the Herbarium, two genera are only worthy of 
remark here, the one an Ornitrophe, found on the East 
Coast, in about latitude 35°, as also within the tropic ; and 
the other, which appears to belong to Stadmannia, was dis- 
covered upon the same coast, in latitude 31° South, the 
type of the genus being the bois de fer of the French 
colonists, a timber tree indigenous at the Island of Mau- 
ritius. 
