Tap. 7816. 
SCHIZOCODON sonpanetuorpEs. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. DiarenstacrE#.—Tribe GALACINEA. 
Genus Scuizocopon, Sieb. & Zucc. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 620.) 
Scuizocopon, soldanelloides ; foliis orbicularibus basi cuneatis v. subcordatis, 
grosse dentatis dentibus apiculatis, supra lucidis, nervis subtus prominulis, 
scapo 4-6-floro, bracteis linearibus, sepalis oblongis obtusis ciliolatis, 
corolla rosea, staminodiis linearibus pubescentibus, stylo crasso persis- 
tente. 
S. soldanelloides, Siebold & Zuce. in Abhandl. Akad. Wi.s. Mun. vol. iii. p. 
723, t. 2, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Imp. Petersb. vol. xvi. p. 225, and Mel. 
Biol. vol. vi. p. 273 and vol. viii. p.19. Franch & Savat, Enum. Pl. 
Japon, vol. i. p. 298. Mig. Prolus. Fl. Japon, p. 253. Journ. Hortic. Ser. 
3, vol. xxvi. p. 28, f. 55, Gard. Chron. (1893), vol. i. p. 415, £..59. 
The beautiful little plant here figured is of great botani- 
cal interest, as belonging to a very small Natural Family of 
doubtful affinity, consisting of six genera, of which three 
are represented by single species, and the other three 
having each only two species. The Order is divided into 
two tribes, of which one, Diapensiew, consists of the two 
genera, Diapensia, Linn. (see Tab. 1108) and Pywidanthera, 
Mich. (Tab. 4592), with a persistent corolla and no 
staminodes ; the other, Galacinex, of four genera, having a 
deciduous corolla, and five staminodes, contains Shortia, 
Torr. and Gray (Tab. 7082); Galax, Linn. (Tab. 754); 
Berneuxia, Decne. a Tibetan genus hitherto unfigured ; and 
Schizocodon. The great interest of the Order centres in the 
Galacinee, because of the singular distribution of the genera 
between the Floras of Japan and Eastern North America, 
which has, as pointed out by A. Gray, afforded such strong 
evidence of an early botanical affinity between those 
countries, which can only be accounted for by the hypothe- 
sis that the genera inhabited a country far north of 
their present abiding places, to which latter they were 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1893. 
