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ALANGIACE.E. 



[Epigynous Exogens. 



Common iu the southern parts of India, whence they extend along the Malayan 

 Peninsula to Cochin China, northward along the forest-clad base of the Himalaya. The 

 Nyssas are natives of the United States. 



Alangium decapetalum and hexapetalum are said by the Malays to have a purgative 

 hydragogic property. Their roots are aromatic. They are said to afford good wood 

 and edible fruit. — Royle. Dr. Wight says that the fruit of the Alangiums is eatable, 

 but not palatable, being mucilaginous and insipid. That of Nyssa capitata or candicans 

 is subacid, the size of the Olive, and sometimes called the Ogechee Lime, because it is 

 used occasionally as a substitute for Lime fruits. The timber of the Nyssas, called 

 Tupelo trees, is difficult to split, in consecmence of the fibres of its wood being much inter- 

 woven, but it is of little value. 



GENERA. 



Alangium, Lam. 

 Angolam, Allans. 

 Angolamia, Scop. 



iMarlea, Roxb. 

 Stylidium, Lour. 

 Stylis, Poir. 



Paittsavia, Juss. 

 Diaciecarpium, Bl. 



Nyssa, Gronov. 



Tupelo. Adans. 

 Mastixia, Bl. 



Numbers. Gen. 3. Sp. 8. 



Cornacece. 

 Position. — Combretacese. — ALANGiACEiE. — Chamadauciaeeafe. 



Myrtacea. 



See Bluine, Mus. Lugd. Bat., 286, &c, and Hooker, Journ. N. S„ II. 129. 



Blume thinks Polyosma (a supposed Escalloniad) more nearly related to this 

 Order, but as it differs from both it and Cornels, he proposes it as ths type of an 

 Order, Polyosmacese {Mus. Lugd. p. 258). 



