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Notes on the Gamopetalous Orders belonging to the Campanu- 

 laceous and Oleaceous Groups, By George Ben¥ham, F.R.S. 



[Read March 4, 1875.] 



It is now more than thirty years since the volumes of the ' Pro- 

 dromus * containing the above orders were published ; and during 

 that period the great additions made to our knowledge, especially 

 of tropical vegetation, have in many instances required consider- 

 able modifications of their tribual as well as generic arrangement. 

 I have endeavoured to carry this out in preparing them for the 

 forthcoming part of our ' Genera Plantarum ;' but there is much 

 of detail respecting the reasons which have induced me sometimes 

 to depart from the principles adopted by former monographists, 

 which the limits of that work prevent me from there entering 

 into, and which I should therefore be desirous of placing on re* 

 cord in the ' Journal of the Linnean Society/ 



1. Campanulaceae and their allies. 



The orders constituting this generally recognized and well- 

 defined group are usually reckoned as seven — Stylidiese, Goodeno- 

 vieae, Brunoniaceae, Lobeliaceae, Cyphiaceae, Campanulaceae, and 

 Sphenocleaceae. They would appear to me to be more naturally 

 and clearly defined if reduced to three — Stylidieae, Goodenovieae 

 and Campanulaceae ; for the exceptional characters upon which 

 Brunonia, Cyp}iia y and Sphenoclea have been isolated do not 



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