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has since, however, at the suggestion of R. Brown (in the Ap- 
pendix to Tuckey’s ‘ Congo’), been reduced by DeCandolle in his 
‘Prodromus’ to Cassipourea ; and I described as such, in the ‘ Niger 
Flora,’ a West African species, which, as I there mentioned, may 
not improbably be the Congo Cassipourea referred to by R. Brown. 
In the mean time Gardner met with a plant in Ceylon, which he 
did not immediately recognize as belonging to this group, but 
conceived to be allied in its fimbriate petals to Eleocarpee. Не 
accordingly described and figured it in the ‘ Calcutta Journal’ as 
a new genus of that order, under the name of Anstrutheria. Sub- 
Sequently Major Champion, in a note addressed to Dr. Gardner 
ш 1849, pointed out its relation to Cassipourea, and in the Hook- 
erian herbarium it is identified generically with Richeia both by 
Sir W. Hooker and by Planchon. Under these circumstances, the 
genus, if maintained as distinct from Cassipourea, should have re- 
tained Dupetit Thouars’ name of Richeia, were it not that it may 
be considered as too close, both in sound and derivation, to the 
previously published Richea in Epacridee. Its union with Cassi- 
Pourea can only be effected with propriety, in the present state of, 
Our acquaintance with these plants, by uniting into one genus all 
the Legnotidew with a free or superior ovarium, from Gynotroches 
to Cassipourea. If that view be adopted, the six genera here 
characterized may be considered as so many sections, and Anstru- 
theria will still be the name to be preferred, whether for a section 
ora genus. The three species it comprises are evidently closely 
allied to each other. I have seen abundance of good specimens 
of the Ceylonese one, which varies with broadly ovate, almost 
membranous leaves, or much narrower and more coriaceous ones. 
From the latter form, the West African specimens, which I have in 
fruit only, and in very young bud, appear scarcely to differ, except 
in the size of the flowers, which appear to have been considerably 
smaller; and I have seen no specimen of the Madagascar one. | I 
am therefore quite unable to give at present any distinetive dia- 
gnosis of the three species, if such they be. 
BLEPHARISTEMMA. 
The history of the name and original specimen of the only 
Species constituting this genus has been already given. It was 
also collected in the Indian Peninsula by Hochstetter, and has 
been distributed with his Canara plants under the name of Dryp- 
topetalum membranaceum, Miq: It is, however, much nearer re- 
lated to Cassipourea than to Gynotroches ; it scarcely differs indeed 
