G8 MB. J. MLERS ON" THE 3C H6 KPF IB JB .VXD OKRTA-NTBSIB^. 



Pandanus Motleyanus, Sohlms Laub. in Linncea xlii. (1878) 21. 

 • Hab. Borneo. 



Pandanus unguifer, Hook. fil. Bot. Mag. t. 6347. 



Is Pandanus minor. Wall. 



P. Yvanii, Sohlms Laub. in Linncea xlii. (1878) 20. 

 Hab. Malacca, 



On the Schoepfiece and Cervant/siece, distinct Tribes of the Sty- 





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raceae. By Johx Miers, F.B.S., F.L.S., &c, Diguit. and 

 Commend. Ord. Imp. Bras. Bosae. 



[Read February 21, 1878.] 

 (Plates I.-IV.) 



The first of these tribes may be distinguished by the following 

 brief diagnosis : — 



Schoepfie^e, tribus Styracearum. Flores calyculati. Calxj cuius parvus, 

 margine inrequaliter divisus ; calyx persimilis, calvculo inclusus, 

 utraque facie liber, margine lacinulatus. Ovarium, fructus et semen ut 

 in Sty race l . Genera 2. 



1. Schoepjia: species 8, omnia Americanae. 



2. Schoepjiopsis : species 4, omnia Asiaticae. 



Schoepjia was established in 1789 by Schreber, who then gave 

 an outline of its generic character, without reference to any spe- 

 cies or to the country in which it originated 2 . Vahl, probably 

 unaware of this fact, published in 1792 3 and 1794 4 an account 

 of his Codonium arborescens, a plant evidently congeneric with 

 Schreber' s Schoepfia. 



The opinions of botanists since that period have been singu- 

 larly at variance in regard to its affinity, and not less in respect 

 to the details of its structure ; so that up to this time the genus 

 has not found a satisfactory or permanent resting-place. 



In 1794, Vahl (loc. cit., sub Codonium) considered the genus 

 should rest between Caprifolium and Lorantlius. 



1 'Contrib. Bot. i. p. 177, pis. 29, 30. 



* Linn. Gen. Pi. edit. 8vo, p. 189, no. 323 (1789). 



3 Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Hafniensis, xi. p. 208, tab. 6 (1792). 



4 Symbols, part iii. p. 36 (1794). 





