hand, was inclined to refer it to Saxifragaceae, among 
which Belangera seemed to him toapproach Lucryphia. This 
view was adopted by Bentham in the Flora Australiensis ; 
but in Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum Hueryphia 
was transferred to the Rosaceae-Guillajeae, to which group 
Baillon also assigns it as an anomalous type. Quite 
recently Hallier came to the same conclusion from an 
examination of the morphology and anatomy of the genus. 
Meanwhile Maximowicz had pointed to the Tiliaceae, and 
more especially the Sloaneae and Elaeocarpeae, as possible 
allies. Focke, however, the monographer of the Rosaceae 
in Engler and Prantl’s Natiirliche Pflanzenfamilien, restored 
C. Gay’s Eucryphiaceae as a distinct family allied to 
Ternstroemiaceae and the other members of Engler’s sub- 
series Theineae, and it is accordingly placed between 
Dilleniaceae and Ochnaceae in Engler’s system. Under 
these circumstances, and pending a more comprehensive 
examination of the genus, it seems expedient to follow Gay 
and Focke and treat Hucryphia as a distinct phylum with 
the status of a family. 
Loudon gives 1878 as the year of introduction of 
Eueryphia cordifolia into English horticulture, but G. Don 
has a paragraph containing directions for its cultivation 
and propagation as early as 1831. However that may be, 
it remained practically unnoticed until 1897, when it 
flowered in Messrs. Veitch’s nurseries at Coombe Wood, 
and a figure of it, together with a note by G. Nicholson, 
was published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. The leaves 
are shown here as obtuse and elliptic to elliptic-oblong. 
Subsequently another figure of Hucryphia was produced in 
the same Journal, representing the leaves as very acute. 
The specimen from which it was drawn came from the garden 
of Mr. Gumbleton, who had obtained his plant from the 
Coombe Wood nurseries, whence the branch figured on plate 
8209 was derived. From the dried material at Kew it seems 
that whenever acute leaves appear it is generally the first 
leaves of a shoot which assume the acute shape, and in this 
they resemble the leaves of the seedling plant. 
According to Gay the wood of Eueryphia is much used 
for joinery and light carpenter’s work and also for fuel. 
Description.— Tree, attaining in its native country over 
