76 
Malaisia, p. 789 —Urticacee. 
Mamboga, p. 140—Cinchonacez. , : : 
Manungala, p. 306—Simarubacee? Powerfully bitter ; a specific against 
cholera. 
Palaquium, p. 403—Sapotacee. 
Quilamum, p. 851— ? ? 
Quilesia, p. 176—Olacacee? 
Soala, p. 437—Clusiacee ? 
Sulipa, p. 497 —Cinchonacez ? Placed in Didynamia Angiospermia. 
Tala, p. 484—Scrophulariacee. 
Tayotum, p. 105— Apocynacez. 
For the opportunity of examining this curious work I am 
indebted to the Hon. W. F. Strangways, by whom it has been 
presented to the library of the Horticultural Society. 
PRIMARY DISTRIBUTION OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 
In the present state of Systematical Botany every day 
may be said to throw some new light upon the principles 
of classification, and every new book to contain something 
important with reference to the plan upon which the vege- 
table kingdom is organized. While however improvements 
in the secondary details of classification are thus continually 
indicated, it is only here and there that any step is taken to 
interfere with the classes or primary groups of plants ; indeed 
there can now be little doubt that in their most essential par- 
ticulars these fundamental portions of the natural system are 
but little open to alteration; that the great divisions of 
-Exogens, Endogens and Acrogens are essentially different from 
each other, no botanist will attempt to deny. But it is not 
therefore certain that they do not in themselves contain the 
types of other fundamental divisions, or in other words, that 
they do not represent three great plans of structure, each of 
which includes modifications of a much higher grade than 
such as are employed for the definition of natural orders, If 
this be so, it will be necessary to augment the number of pri- 
mary divisions of the Vegetable Kingdom, and that an ex- 
tended view of vegetable structure shews that necessity to 
exist, may now I think be proved. 
Jussieu admits three primary groups only, namely— 
1. Dicotyledons, 2. Monocotyledons, and 3. Acotyledons, which 
are equivalent to the modern 1. Exogens, 2. Endogens, and 
3. Acrogens. 
