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are found in Ceylon. I have not seen any Madagascar specimens, 

 although species are described from thence. In South Africa is 

 one species ; in West Africa perhaps two, Clausena anisata and Gly- 

 oosmis africana. The specimen of the latter plant is so very bad 

 that I cannot tell whether it be truly a Glycosmis ; no flowers havo 

 been described. Northwards from Cochin China the unifoliate, 

 shining-leaved, shrubby forms prevail ; while in India and tho 

 Archipelago several of the nnifoliolate species are more or less 

 scandent, and, with some piimate-leaved species, pubescent or 

 shortly pilose. In Continental India, Malacca, and Ceylon, and 

 the islands of the Indian Ocean, there are twelve genera. Of these 

 at least nine occur also in the Archipelago and Australia. I can- 

 not give a precise estimate of the Archipelago species. In the 

 islands no marked type is presented, so far as I am aware, differ- 

 ing from those of the main land. Triphasia ylauca of Australia is, 

 perhaps, the most distinct in this respect. 



Unless Papeda of Hasskarl be generically distinct, w T e have no 

 generic type in the Archipelago unrepresented in continental 

 India, where the order evidently finds its focus. No single species 

 has a remarkably wide range, with the exception of the two to 

 which I have alluded (p. 6). Atalantia buxifolia I believe to be 

 an Eastern Asiatic species only, and not a Coromandel plant, 

 as stated in Roxburgh's ' Flora Indica*.' I have seen specimens 

 from Macao, Hongkong, and Formosa. It is a species in cultiva- 

 tion at Kew, and is the Limonia bilocularis of Roxburgh, Seve- 

 rinia of Tenore, and Sclerostylis iuxifolia of Mr. Bentham. 



There are two genera frequently associated with Aurantiacecs 

 which I have not included in this review, though I am by no means 

 prepared to say that they can be appended to any other order with 

 greater propriety than to this. These genera are Casimaroa, LI. 

 and Lex., and Skimmia, Thb. Of the former Central American 

 Bpecies, I have examined flowering specimens contained in Sir "W. 

 Hooker's herbarium ; the fruit I have not seen, but a tolerable 

 figure of it is given in Seemann's ' Botany of the Herald,' (tab. 

 hi.)- It differs from all the species of Aurantiacea that I have 

 examined in its uniseriate stamens (same in number with the 

 petals), and sessile, 5-lobed, discoid stigma. The seeds are de- 

 scribed as exalbumiiious. From the drawing, the succulent tissue 

 forming the mass of the fruit would seem to be derived from the 

 mesocarp. This in itself, however, is comparatively unimportant, 

 * Vol. ii. p. 377, vide infra, p. 26. 



