480 SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. 



UMBELLIFEBJE. New genus from Lord Auckland's Archipelago : Aniso- 

 tome J. D. Hook. (Antarct. Voy. p. 76, t. 8-10). The Umbellifene, Crassu- 

 lacese, &c. proposed in the ' Phytographia Canariensis,' will be passed over 

 until the work is completed. 



EPACBIDACE^E. New genus : Androstoma J. D. Hook., from the Auckland 

 Islands (Autarct. Yoy. p. 44, t. 30). 



MYRSINACE^E. New genus: Labisia, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 48), 

 from Penang, differing in the induplicate aestivation of the corolla. 



BiGNcraiACEJE. In the Prodromus, this family is treated of by De 

 Candolle, jun., in conjunction with the Sesamese (vol. ix), in accordance with 

 the description prepared by De Candolle, sen. The Sesamese, which in this 

 work also include the Pedalinese, appear only to be separated from the 

 Bignoniacese, because the type of the fruit is assumed to be quinary. The 

 African species are separated from Sesamum, as Sesamopteris. The fol- 

 lowing genera are distinguished from Bignonia : Pachyptera, 

 =B, uncinata Mey., Anemoptegma Mart., Distictis Mart., 

 Mart., Cybistax Mart., Adenocalymna Mart., Sparratosperma Mart., Hete- 

 rophragma = B. quadrilocularis Roxb., Craterocoma Mart. The Cres- 

 centieae, which are arranged by Endlicher among the Gesneriaceae, form, in 

 this work, the second tribe of the Bignoniaceae, being characterised by the 

 indehiscent fruit and the wingless seeds, found principally in Madagascar : 

 Tanaecium pinnatum W. is separated from Tancecium, as Kigelia. Parmentiem 

 is a new genus from Mexico. The position of Bravaisa= Bignonia bibrac- 

 teata Bert, remains doubtful. 



GESNERIACEAE. The Gesneriacese having appeared earlier in the Prodro- 

 mus, the Cyrtandracese form an independent family in the ninth volume, the 

 elder De Candolle having left them prepared. Ramondia2tfidiHaberlea,w\t\\ 

 Conandron from Japan, are correctly brought into this family as a distinct 

 group, on account of the septicidal dehiscence of the capsule. 



ACANTHACE^E. New genera : Lankesteria Lindl., from Sierra Leone (Bot. 

 reg. Miscell., 1845, p. 86?; Whitjieldia Hooker, from the same source (Bot. 

 Mag., p. 4155) ; Salpixanthia Hook., from Jamaica (ibid., p. 4158), 



SCROPHULARIACEJS. Bentham's Monograph fills the greater part of the 

 tenth volume of the Prodromus. With the exception of the Salpiglossidea?, 

 which, notwithstanding the stamens being anisomerous, would have been 

 more properly excluded, and placed among the Solanaceae, all the genera 

 possess an imbricate aestivation of the corolla. The position of the fourth 

 and fifth petals, which form the upper lip in those furnished with labiate 

 flowers, separates the two principal tribes, being external during aestivation in 

 the Antirrhinea?, whilst in the Rhinanthese they are included. New genera. 

 Salpiglossideas : Leptoglossis, from Peru. Antirrhinea3 : from the west of 

 North America, Chioniphila and Eunanus = Mimulus nanus Hook, and others; 

 from Chili, Melosperma. Rhinanthea3 : Triclioloma (near Limosella), from 



