AMYRIDA'CLE, a natural order of dicotyledonous or exogenous plants, consisting of trees and shrubs, natives of tropical countries, remarkable for the abundance of their fragrant balsamic or resinous juice. They have compound leaves, occasionally with stipules and pellucid (lots. The flowers are in racemes or panicles; the calyx persistent. with 2 to 5 divisions; the petals are 3 to 5; aestivation valuate or imbricated. The stamens are twice or four times as many agthe petals. The ovary is superior, sessile,1 to 5 celled, Inserted in a large disk; the style solitary and compound, or wanting; the stigmas as many as the cells of the ovary; the ovules in pairs, anatropal. The fruit is hard and dry, 1 to 5 celled, its outer rind often splitting into valves. The seeds are exalbuminous. About 40 or 50 species are referred to the order; but many of them are still very imperfectly known. Some species afford valuable timber; but the principal products of the order are fragrant resins and balsams, as Myrrh (q.v.), and different kinds of frankincense (q.v.), olibanum (q.v.), elemi (q.v.), bdellium (q.v.), tacamahac (q.v.),
balsam of gilead (q.v.), etc. Among the more important genera of the order may be named amyris, balsamodendron, bosteellia, and idea. Canariuns commune, a native of ' Java, which yields a gum similar in its properties to the balsam of conaiva (q.v.), produces also triangular nuts, which are eaten both raw and dressed, and from which an oil is extracted for the table and for burning. Balanites egyptiaca is cultivated in Egypt for its fruit, a drupe, which is eaten, and from the seeds of which a fat oil is expressed, called zachun.
KNA, a termination added to the names of remarkable men, to designate collections of their sayings, anecdotes, etc.; as in the works entitled Baconiana, Johnsoniana. Such titles were first used in France, where they became common after the publication of Seuligerana by the brothers Dupuy (Hague, 1606). In English literature there are many works of this kind. America, also, has its Washingtonian& A tolerably complete catalogue of works with such titles may be found in Namur's Bibliographie des Ouvrages publi;.s sous le Nom. d'Ana (Brussels, 1839).