C0NNABACE2E. 1 1 



order, but unfortunately added 1 Thysanus, Eurycoma, Suriana, Cneorum, 

 and Heterodendron. Lindley 2 only retained the iirst two of these 

 genera, and that doubtfully. In 1850 Planciion ' undertook the 

 revision of the whole of the order, from which he finally excluded 

 the genera Eurycoma, Cneorum, Suriana, Heterodendron, BruneUia, 

 Brucea, and Ailanthus. At the same time he included both 

 Solander's genera Manotes and Agetaa, and created three new 

 generic types — Cnestidium, Roureopsis (which is only a Rourea), and 

 Bemardinia (also referred by us to Rourea). In the same year 

 Blume 4 created his genus Tricholobus for some plants from the Indian 

 Archipelago. The genera proposed latterly are due to J. IIookkr 

 and to Miquel ; to the former belong Ileiuiandrind' (later on 

 restored by him to Agehea), Ta?nioc/dcena, and Ellipanthus, 6 which last 

 we only make a section of Tricholobus ; to the latter Troostwyckia, 

 which does not differ from Ilemiandrina, and Nothocnestis, 1 whos 

 organization is imperfectly known, and whose natural relations are 

 even at this moment under discussion. 



Affinities. — Endlicher 8 has so well summed up all the affinities 

 recognised by previous authors that we cannot do better than 

 quote his very words : — " Anacardiaceis, mediante Buchanania, et 

 Zanthoxyleis per Brunelliam propius acceduut, embryone antitropo 

 diverse, hinc per Cnestin, mediante Averhoa, Oxalideis, Mine Legu- 

 minosis Detarieis, vix nisi ovariorum numero, embryonis situ et 

 stipularum defectu distinguendis, acceduut."' In fact, Buchanania, with 

 its free carpels and diplostemonous androceum, only differs from Con- 



1 Only as genera affinia, it is true. whose partite calyx is in part persistent about 



2 Veg. Kingd. (1846), 468, Ordo clxxv. the fruit ; there is an annular disk, around which 



3 In Linnaa, xxiii. 412. are inserted the stamens, five (?) in number, and 



4 Mus. Lvgd-Bat., i. 236. a fruit of a solitary central follicle whose dorsal 



5 In Trans. Linn, ^oc, xxiii. 171, t. 28 (1860). and ventral sutures project both outside and 



6 Gen., 433, 434, n. 10, 11 (1862). inside, but especially inside, to form a \ i rjj 



7 The Sumatran plant which is the only incomplete spurious dissepiment. The unil 

 member of this genus, belongs according to dehiscence of this fruit frees a seed inserted 

 Bentham & Hooker (Gen., 431) not to Con- somewhat obliquely on a basilar placenta, almost 

 naraceas but to Leguminosea: Still Miquel entirely enveloped in a succulent membra 

 who established the genus in 1861, in the Flo,: aril, and containing a., embryo Burrounded bj . 

 Ind.-Bat., Suppl., i. 531, in 1867, still maintained thin layer of albumen. 



in the Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bal., hi. 88, that it 8 Op. <•//., 1139. 



should be left in the former order, and made ,J AGABDH on the whole admit- the 



some corrections in his original description. We affinities, considering as he .lee- i/ 



can pronounce no opinion on this subject, having Plant., 229) that the I <*'■»' 



been nnable to study the very imperfect specimens their fruits form a transition bet« 



in the herbarium "of Leyden. We only know min„.w and Terebinthaceas, and thai V 



through Miquel, that N. sumalrana is a tree as they possess a corolla, are a more perfect 



with simple entire leaves and pentandrous flowers, Connaract a . 



