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very widely from DeCandolle for he groups the whole under his class, Trrepintnacra: the 
definition of which however can be of little use in practice as its negative and positive characters 
ane doubtfully, Juglandeae—(the walnut. family), ‘Ubis arrangement has the advantage of 
forming in some respects a very natural group, but has the disadvantage, of bringing together a 
placed in a different. 
eisner retains the order as left by Kunth and DeCandolle with the exception of a few 
genera referred to Zanthoxylaceae. He distributes the order under two primary divisions, 
namely—Ist, those having a single ovary or at least containing only one perfect cell: and 2dly, 
belong. Such is a brief but 1 fear imperfect exposition of the order as it relates to Indian 
Botany, given in the most recent work to which I have access, from which it will be seen, on a 
comparison with our distribution, that itis nearly the same throughout, so far as our work 
extends, 
With the slender materials in my possession I cannot venture to give a complete character 
of an order, embracing according to Meisner, six tribes and upwards of 60 genera, I shall 
therefore content myself with copying from our Prodromus for the benefit of those who may 
not have access to the work itself, our characters of the three suborders under which we hare 
