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NATURAL III STORY OF PLANTS. 



The flora of Eastern India is enriched by the genera Cullenia 1 and 

 Decaschistia due to Wight and Arnott, 8 and, later, by the genus Julo- 

 styles, proposed by Thwaites. 3 Korthals 4 had discovered Boschia in 

 the Indian Archipelago. In Australia A. Cunningham 3 made known 

 Jlolirria, and F. Mueller, in his special works upon the plants of 

 the same country, the three genera llamafordia? Howittia? and Lysio- 

 sepalum. 8 The American flora has been recently enriched by the 

 Herrania of G-oudot, 9 the Hampea of Schlectendal, 10 and the 

 Sidalcea of M. A. Gray. 11 Bentham, in the preparation for his 

 Genera otMalvacea and Sterculiacea discovered as hitherto undescribed 

 genera Ccelosteyia, Dicettostyes, C/teirolana 12 and Sclcronema.™ Masters 

 has demonstrated 14 the affinities of the Lepionijclda of Turczaninow 15 

 with the new African genus that he had just described under the 

 name of JScap/iqpetalum. 16 Finally, last year, we made known the 

 characters of the singular Oceanian genus Masters/a. Thus, besides 

 the doubtful and imperfectly known types' 7 which study must re- 

 arrange, the family, such as we define it, comprehends a total of 

 eighty- eight genera. 



9 

 10 



1 Wight, Icon., t. 1761, 1762 (1852). The 

 type of the genus was the Ihirio zeylanica Gardn., 

 according to the text (p. 23) of Wight himself. 



2 Prodr. Fl. Pen. Ind, (1834). 



3 Enum. PI. Zeijl. (1864). 



4 Verhand. Nat.Gescli. d. Nederl., 257(1842). 



5 In Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, iii. (1839). 



6 Fragm., ii. (I860;. 



"In Hook. Journ,, viii, (1856). 

 8 Fragm., i. (1S59). 



In Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 3, ii. (1845). 



In Linncea, xi. (1837). 



11 PI. Fendler. (1848). 



12 Gen., 207, 213, 222 (18G2). 



13 In Journ. Linn. Soc, vi. (1862). 



14 In Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr., i. (1868). 



15 In Bull. Mosc. (1858). 



16 In P. H. Gen., 983 (1865). 



17 These are besides those which have been con- 

 nected, not without hesitation, to some of thet 

 genera previously described : 



1. Arcynospermum Tuecz. (in Pull. Mose. 

 (1858), i. 191), Mexican plant, of which Bentham 

 & Hooker {Gen., 119) says: " Si revera est 

 Malvacea, ad Ureneas pertinet ob stylos ovarii 

 loculis 2-plo plures, sed loculi 3, 1-ovulati di- 

 cuntur et petala a columna staminea libera." 

 (Fttphorbiacece ? ?) 



2. Biasolettia Presl {in Bel. Hank., 141). 

 Placed by Endlicher {Gen., n. 5359) among 



the Buettneriece, in continuation of PhiUppo- 

 dendron syn., according to Bekth. & J. Hook. 

 {Gen,, 217) of Hemandia, ought to be ranged 

 among the Lauracece (vol. ii. p. 449, note 2). 



3. Covilhamia KOETH. {in Ned. Kruik. Arch., 

 i. 307). This genus is considered as related to 

 Slerculia, from which it differs by its 6-mernus 

 calyx and its 3-merous ovary {Fuphorbiacea ? ?). 



4. Periptcr DC. {Prodr., i. 459). A genus 

 proposed lor the Sida periptera Sims (in Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1014; — S. Malvaviscus Sess. et Mot;. 

 — S. rubra Ten. ; — Anoda punicea L^G., Nov. 

 Gen., t. 21), ought, probably, according to Ben- 

 tham {Gen. 199), to be connected with the genus 

 Abuiilon. 



5. Plychopyxis Miq. {Fl. Ind. Bat., Suppl., 

 i. 402). A plant of Sumatra, with exstipulatc 

 leaves compared to those of Shorea, with a cap- 

 sule (" subbaccata") much wrinkled covered out- 

 wardly with folds and various excrescences and 

 with a red down. Attributed doubtfully to 

 Sterculiea>. (B. H., Gen., 217). 



6. Pyrospermum Miq. {loc. cif.). Fam. ? ? 



7. Peltostegia (Turcz., in Bull. Mosc, 

 (1858), i. 223, (B. H., Gen. 217). The cha- 

 racters attributed to the flower seem to be 

 those of the Malvacece ; but what is said of 

 the seed would seem to indicate that it belongs 

 to Turnera, a genus in which the vegetative 

 characters are often those of Malvacerp. 



