from -Monimiew, properly so called, but also from those 
genera which have been more recently Separated by our 
profoundly learned countryman, Mr. Brown, under the 
name of Atherospermee. It equals the last-mentioned 
. group in number of genera, by the addition of CaLycanruus 
precox of Linneus, whose peculiarities appear sufficient to 
entitle it. to become the type of a new family*, as Persoon 
has already hinted. From the very incomplete account of 
Cirrosma in Flora Peruviana, it is impossible to ascertain 
whether it can also be admitted as Jussieu has proposed. 
Bush erect, compact, 3 or 4 feet high. Branches oppo- 
site, brachiate, round or rather angular, younger ones pilose, 
old ones naked, chocolate coloured, opaque, swelling about 
the joints. Leaves opposite, simple, decussate, horizontal: 
stipule none; footstalks short, pubescent, channelled above, 
tinged with red; lamine ovate-oblong or. ovate-lanceolate, 
entire or somewhat toothed, rugose, above shining, rough- 
ish, bright green, with distant immersed veins, beneath 
glaucous, opaque, naked, with the rib and primary nerves, 
which are prominent, somewhat hairy. Flowers scentless, 
terminal, between two leaves, in the room of a branch, 
green purple: bractee none, except the outer segments of 
the perianth, linear, rather pilose. Perianth (formed of 
the confluent ealyx and corolla, without any apparent 
limits to either) one-leaved, pitcher-shaped, many divided; 
the segments imbricate, lanceolate, fleshy, greenish-choco- 
late, the intermediate largest, exterior least, innermost 
shorter than the middle ones, curved inwards at the tip, all 
rather pilose. Stamina about 48, inserted in a great fleshy 
disk connate with the perianth, in four Series, the outermost 
of 12 fertile, the intermediate shorter, innermost least ; 
Julaments thick, extended beyond the anthers in a round, 
obtuse, diaphanous tip, purplish-brown, rather pilose; 
anthers elliptical, adnate, exterior, two-celled, yellow; 
cells approximated, opening lengthwise, in the middle sep- 
tiferous; septum complete, but not united with the 
, Margin 
of the valves; pollen oval. Ovaries many, ovate, straight 
on one side, hairy at the base, inserted on the face of the 
tube of the perianth, like that of the Rose, unilocular: 
* CHIMONANTHUS. Stamina aequalia, persistentia, 5 exteriora fertilia, 
maturitate basibus connatis faucem operi 
ae = ae entia. Frutex (Japonie) ramis 
virgatis. Flores azillares, solitarit, odori, Jlavescentes, intis purpuret. 
Lindley MSS. 
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