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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



placed it in his class Frangidacece ; Bentham & Hooker 1 between 

 Bixacete and Tremandrea. 



XI. BiBESiEiE. — Isostemonous Saxifragads, with a pulpy, fleshy, 

 inferior fruit. 2 



XII. Bauere^e. 3 — Flowers 6-10-merous. Stamens some multiple 

 of the petals (double or more). Ovary only inferior at its base. 

 Capsule 2-celled, polyspermous leaves opposite, sessile, 3-foliolate. 

 Lateral leaflets simulating broad stipules (1 genus). 



XIII. CuNONiEiE. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves opposite 4 or rarely 

 verticillate, simple 3-5-foliolate, or imparipinnate. Petals imbricate 

 or absent. Flowers grouped in cymes, simple or compound racemes, 

 or racemes of cymes (10 genera). R. Brown 3 separated this group 

 from Saxifragacece as a distinct order. A. L. de Jussieu 6 only knew 

 the two genera Cunonia and Weinmannia, which he placed as genera 

 Saxifragis afjinia. Endlicher 7 made the Cunoniece a suborder of 

 Saxifragacece, therein following De Candolle, who makes them a 

 tribe of the order. He knew in 1830 five genera: Caldcluvia 

 {Dieterica), Weinmannia, Lamanonia (Belangera), Cunonia, and Cerato- 



petalum. 8 Lindley, 9 following E. Brown, admitted in 1846 a dis- 

 tinct order, Cunoniacece, comprising, besides the above, the nine 

 genera: Callicoma, Acrophyllum (Calycomis), Aphanopetalum, Schizo- 

 meria, JPlafglop/ius, Anodopetalum, Ackama, Gumillea, and Geissois. 

 Since then the following new genera have been made : Spirceopsis, by 

 Miquel, 10 Spirceanthemum by A. Gray ; u Gillbeea}* and Davidsonia™ by 

 F. Mueller. We have, moreover, referred to this series the genus 

 Tetracarpcea of J. Hooker." 



XIV. ComEiE. — Cunonice with simple, 15 opposite, or verticillate 

 leaves, possessing caducous stipules, and flowers in globular capitula 

 (3 genera) ; thus serving as a link to Liquidambarea, Bruniece, &c. 



1 Gen., 130, ord. 18. 



2 Grossulariece DC, Fl. Fr., iv. (1804), 406, 

 — Grossulacea Mirb., Mem., ii. (1815), 897. — 

 Ribesice A. Rich., Elem., ed. i. (1823), ii. 487. — 

 Ribesiacece Endl., Gen., (1839), 823, ord. 171.— 

 Grossalariacece Lindl., Yeg. Kingd. (1846), 750, 

 ord. 287. — Saxifrag Oceanian trib. Ribesiece 

 B. H., Gen., 654. — Cactorum gen. J., Gen. 

 (1789), 310. 



3 H. Bn., in Adansonia, vi. 9. — Baueracece 

 Lindl., Yeg. Kingd., 569 (ed. prior, 1830, n. 40). 



4 Alternate (?) in the single genus Gumillea. 



5 In Flind. Yog., Rot. (1814), 548; Misc. 



Works (ed. Benn.), i. 20.— Don., in Fdinb. N. 

 Phil. Journ. (June, 1830). 



6 Gen., 309. 



? Gen., 817. 



8 Without counting Codia and Calliconia, 

 nor Arnoldia (synonymous with Weinmannia). 



9 Yeg. Kingd. (1846), 571, ord. 216. 



10 Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. i. (1855). 



11 In Unit. St. Expl. Fxp., Rot., 666 (1854). 



12 Fragm., v. 17 (1865). 



13 Op. cit., vi. 3 (1867). 



14 In Hook. Icon., t. 284 (1840). 

 13 Except in Pancheria ternata. 



