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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



should form part of the group of Bixacccs ; while the Papayacece x have 

 been rejected far from them near to the Passi/hrea, together with 

 most of the Samydcce? Homaliece? Turnerea* We have just proposed 

 to leave the latter definitely in the same family as the Sawydecs, from 

 which they appear to us inseparable, as Papayaea is, we think, from 

 Pangiece, Cochlospermum, ascribed by us to Cistacece, 6 by others to 

 TernstrcemiacetB? has been introduced by Bentham and Hooker into 

 the family of Bixacece, 7 which (thanks to the separation proposed 

 by Payer, of Homalieee into two secondary series, of which the one 

 with a free gynseceum takes the name of CalanticeaF) really includes 

 ten secondary groups, of the general character of which we will give 

 an epitome. 



I. BiXE/E. — Flowers generally large, hermaphrodite or poly- 

 gamous dioecious. Petals larger than the sepals, or wanting, desti- 

 tute of appendages or inner scale, imbricated or contorted. Anthers 

 linear or oblong, indefinite in number. Fruit dry or fleshy, dehis- 

 cent or indehiscent, generally covered with prominent ribs, tubercles, 

 or prickles. Woody plants, with alternate leaves, and stipules gene- 

 rally small. — (2 genera.) 



II. Flacourtie^e. — Flowers generally unisexual, rarely herma- 

 phrodite, apetalous, with convex receptacle (and hypogynous inser- 

 tion). Anthers usually short, dehiscing by longitudinal clefts. — 

 (7 genera.) 



III. SAMYDEiE. — Flowers generally hermaphrodite, rarely uni- 

 sexual, with petals nil or little developed, nearly equal and analogous 

 to the sepals. Receptacle more or less pateriform or cupuliform 

 (whence the more or less pronounced perigynous insertion of the 



1 Papayacea. Ag., Class. (1824), 20. — Makt., 

 Consp. (1835), 169.— Endl., Gen., 932, Ord. 

 200.— Lindl., Veff. Kingd., 321, Ord. 108.— 

 B. H., Gen., 815 {Passijlorearum trib. 5). — 

 Caricece Tukp., in Diet. So. Nat., Atl. ii. 2, 

 212. — Papayece H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 248, 

 258. 



2 SamydecB Gjebtn. f., Fruct., iii. 238. — 

 Vent., in Mem. Inst. (1807), 143 (part.). — 

 DC, Prodi:, ii. 47, Ord. 58.— Endl., Gen., 

 917, Ord. 194. — Samydacece LlNDL., Introd., 

 ed. 2, 64; Veg. Kingd., 330, Ord. 112.— B. H., 

 Gen., 794, Ord. 71. 



3 B. H., Gen., 795 (Samydacearum trib. 4). 

 — H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 248. — Homalinea 

 R. Bk., Congo, 438. — DC, Prodr., ii. 53, 

 Ord. 59.— Endl., Gen., 922, Ord. 196.— Homa- 



Uacea Lindl., Introd., ed. 2, 55 j Veg. Kingd., 

 742, Ord. 284. 



4 H. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 249, 258. — 

 {Tumeracece H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, vi. 

 123 (Loasearum sect. 2). — DC, Prodr., iii. 345, 

 Ord. 83.— Endl., Gen., 914, Ord. 193.— Lindl., 

 Introd., ed. 2, 150; Veg. Kingd., 347, Ord. 121. 

 — B. H., Gen., 806, Ord. 73. 



5 Lindl., Veg. Kingd., 350. 



6 Endl., Gen., 1017. 



7 Gen., 122, trib. 1. M. Planchon preserves 

 a distinct family of the Cochlospermece (in Hook. 

 Pond. Journ., v. 294; in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, 

 xvii. 90, Ord. 13), intermediate to the Cappa- 

 ridacecB and to the Bixacece. 



s Fam. Nat., 83. — II. Bn., in Adansonia, x. 

 256. 



