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properly so called, ejust both at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Canary 

 Islands.* 



MagnoUacece and Cedrelece, which are common to America and India, have 

 not been found on the continent of Africa, nor on any of the adjoininff Islands. 



GuttifercB and Hesper'ideoe exist, though sparingly, on other parts of the 

 coast. 



A few plants really belonging to MeUacece have been found on other parts 

 of western equinoctial Africa, and a species of Leca (or Jquilicki, for these 

 are only different names for the same genus) which was formerly refeiTed to 

 this order, occurs in the herbarium from Congo. 



M. de Jussieu, who has lately had occasion to treat of the affinity of Aqui- 

 licia,-f- does not venture to fix its place in the system. Its resemblance to 

 Viniferae in the singular structure of seeds, in the valvular aestivation of the 

 corolla, in the division of its leaves, the presence of stipules, and even in 

 inflorescence, appears to me to determine, if not its absolute union, at least its 

 near affinity to that order. Of Viniferce, Vitis is at present the only 

 certain genus; for Cissus and Ampelopsis having, as Richard has already 

 observed, exactly the same structure of ovaiium, namely, two cells with two 

 erect collateral ovula in each, should surely be referred to it ; nor is there any 

 part of the character or description of Botria of Loureiro, which prevents its 

 being also included in the same genus. 



Lasianthera o( M. de Beauvois,j referred by ns author to Apocineas, but 



* To the first section belong Myrsine, Ardisia, and Bladhai. The second, including 

 Embelia,zw\ perhaps also Olhera of Tluuiherg, differs from the first merely in its corolla 

 being polypetalous. Mgiceras may be considered as forming a third section, from the 

 remarkable evolution of its embryo and consequent want of albumen. In the xstivation 

 of calyx and corolla it agrees with Jacquinia, which together with Theophrasta, (or 

 Clavija of the Flora Peruviana,) forms the fourth section ; characterised by the squaras, 

 more or less distinct, of the faux of the corolla, and by generally ripening more than 

 one seed. The fifth, includes only Bteobolrys of Forster (the Mmsa of Forskal) which, 

 having ovarium inferum and five barren filaments alternating with the segments of the 

 corolla, bears the same relation to the other geueraof this order, that Samolus does to 

 Primulacei. On the near affinity, and slight differences in fructification, between this 

 family and Myrsines, I have, formerly made a few remarks in the Prodr. Flor. Nov. 

 Holl. l,p. 533. 



t Mim. du Mus. d'Hist. Nat. 3, p. 437 et 441. + Flore d'Oware, I, p. So. 



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