(from ἀνίσος, unequal), a prefix to several terms in natural history, implying some kind or degree of inequality of parts: as, for example, aniso-dactylous birds, i.e., having toes of unequal length; aniso-dynamous plants, i.e., having flowers which grow with more vigour on one side of their axis than on the other; aniso-stemonous flowers, i.e., having a greater or a less number of stamens than there are sepals in the calyx.

ANJAR, a fortified town of Hindustan, and the capital of a district of the same name, in the native state of Cutch. The country is dry and sandy, and depends entirely on irrigation by means of wells. The town is situate nearly ten miles from the Gulf of Cutch. It suffered severely from an earthquake in 1819, which destroyed a large number of houses and occasioned the loss of several lives. One half of the town situated on low rocky ridges suffered comparatively nothing. In 1820 the population was estimated at 10,000.

The town and district of Anjar were both ceded to the British in 1816, but in 1822 they were again transferred to the Cutch government in consideration of an annual money payment. Subsequently it was discovered that this obligation pressed heavily upon the resources of the state, and in 1832 the pecuniary equivalent for Anjar, both prospectively and inclusive of the arrears which had accrued to that date, were wholly remitted by the British government. Lat. 23. 6. Long. 70. 3.

ANJENGO, a small seaport town and fortress of Hindustan, in Travancore, nearly encircled by a deep and broad river, at the mouth of which it is situated. The fort was built by the English in 1684, and it was retained till 1813, when the factory was abolished on account of the useless expense attending it. Anjengo is infested with snakes, scorpions, and centipedes; those animals finding shelter in the matted leaves of the cocoa-tree, with which the houses are mostly thatched. Here and at Cochin are manufactured, of the fibres of the Laccadive cocoa-nut, the best coir cables on the Malabar coast. The exports are pepper, coarse piece goods, coir, and some drugs.

ANJOU, a province and duchy of France before the Revolution, bounded on the east by Touraine, on the south by Poitou, on the west by Bretagne, and on the north by Maine. It now forms the department of Maine and Loire, and parts of Sarthe, Mayenne, and Indre and Loire. It is 90 miles in length, and 60 in breadth. Through this province runs the Loire, which divides it into two parts. Angers was its capital.