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FLORA IKDICA, 



been remarked. With our 



chiefly indicated bv thn nco 



Greivia, Hippocratea 



-* ' J J. JL -> J. * 



Brucea, Zizyphus, Anogeisms, Blumea, Jasminum, Torenia; and 

 by the prevalence of those tribes of the larger or cosmopolitan 

 families which are especially Indian. This is the case with 

 Malvacea, Euphorbiacea, Terebinthacea, Leguminosm , Rubi- 



chidece. 



Amar 



are 



will be found to exist. The 



occurrence of Delphinium dasycaulon of Abyssinia in the 

 mountains of the Dekhan is one instance j and we have little 

 doubt, notwithstanding that M. Ach. Richard attempts to dis- 

 tinguish it, that Pterolobium lacerans is identical with the 



species 



Aft 



Abyssinia. 



with C. vesiculosa, Hochst., from 

 ace of Oaks and Pines in both 



very strong point of resemblance 



1 here are further examples of American genera, and even 

 species, being found in India, but so few and scattered, com- 

 paratively, as to render it unadvisable to complicate our ar- 

 rangement by the introduction of an American type. As 

 conspicuous examples, it will be sufficient to indicate Adeno- 

 caulon and Oxybaphus, of which genera the Indian species 

 were first described by Edgeworth ; Podophyllum, the section 

 Stylopodium of Meconopsis, and Liquidambar. Gnetum also 

 is a South American genus, which has not hitherto been found 

 in Africa ; and Lardizabala is interesting as a Chilian genus 

 of a small order, the rest of which is entirely East Asiatic. 

 Monotropa uniflora and Brasenia are common to North Ame- 



and 



Wall 



Mitreola 



far as is known, of no intermediate country* 



The West African and East tropical American coasts afford curious exam- 

 pit- of a similar relationship in the identity of species of Schmidelia, and ui the 



