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gynous ones. Achille Richard places it between Rhamneae and Euphorbiaceae: Blume how- 
ever continues to follow Jussieu in uniting them to Rhamneae. As all these eminent Botanists 
seem agreed on the one point, that this order forms the transition from the hypogynous to the 
perigynous divisions of DeCandolle’s arrangement, the one adopted in this work, it seems evi- 
— that it is most judiciously placed in its present situation as the connecting link between 
the two. 
GeocrapuicaL Distrigetion. This is a very widely distributed order, species being met 
with in the warmer regions of every quarter of the globe, but much more abundantly beyond 
than within the tropics. The Spindle tree, Kuonemus Europaeus isa native of the north of 
Europe, and has several congeners in the Himalayas, and also in the alpine districts of this 
Peninsula. I have two species from the hills about Courtalium, and excluding one or two, which I 
am as yet unable to determine, two from the Neilgherries. Celastrus in like manner has a wide 
range in India, extending from the southern extremity of Ceylon up to the Himalayas, several 
species occurring at either end of these distant limits. Species of both of these genera are 
found in Java and China, as well as in America, and of the latter, in Africa. Celastrus corea- 
ceus of Senegambia, seems indeed almost identical with our C. montana. Elaeodendron has 
fewer species and a more limited range, being confined to the East and West Indies, and has 
one species in Norfolk Island. The tribe J/icineae of which the [Holly is the type has recently 
been removed from this, and placed as a separate order among the monopetalous orders, where 
itranks near the Ebony’s and Olives. Dr. Wallich’s genus Auwrrimia is found in Silhet and 
_Ceylon, from the last of which stations I have two species. According to Wallich’s list there 
are about 70 species, natives of India, referable to this order. 
Properties AnD Uses. But little is known of these. The berries of Huonemus Euro- 
paeus are said to he violently emetic, and to prove poisonous to sheep. Of the Indian species, 
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not one is mentixned by Ainslie as being used in medicin he researches however o 
« Oveum Nicrum, (Herklots). It remains to communicate such observations as I have made, 
regarding another native remedy of great value, styled by Dr. Herklots, to whom we owe its first 
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