286 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



are the closest affinities in the floral organisation. A. L. de Jussieu,^ 

 after many others,'-^ it is true, had united in one and the same order, 

 the Terehinthacece ^ not only the species of Anacarclium he knew, but 

 also several Rutacew^ as Amyris, Toddalia, Spathelia, Simaba, Ailantus^ 

 Cneorum, Brueea, Zanthoxjjlon^ and Ptelca ; the Juglans ; the Sapin- 

 daccce, like Dodoncca ; the Connaracecc^ such as Rourea, Cnestis, and 

 Connariis ; a leguminous plant then badly known, Toluifera, and 

 Averrhoa, which is inseparable from the Sorrels. It was Kunth 

 who, in 1824,^ gave the most complete table of Terebinthacece, com- 

 prising : 1st. the Anacardece of E. Beown,^' that is to say, the genera 

 Anacardium, Ehmocarpus, Mangifera^ Cambessedea^ Semecarpus, Rhus, 

 Buchanania, 3fatina, Pisfacia, Schinus, Duvaua, Astro7iium, Como- 

 cladia, and Sorindeia ; 2nd. Juglandece {Juglans^ Carya, Pterocarya, and 

 (?) Decosteci) ; 3rd. The Burseracece, comprising Elapkrium, Bosivellia, 

 Balsamodendrum, Icica^ Protium, Burscra, Marignia, ColopJionia, 

 Canarium^ and Hcdwigia ; 4th. The Amyridece, that is to say, the single 

 genus Amyris (which he already suspected to be more allied to the 

 Aurantiacece) ; 5th. The Ptelcaccw^ i. e. Ptelea, Blackburnia^ ToddaUa^ 

 Cncorum., Spathclia., and (?) Ailantiis ; 6th. The Connaracece, withi>y7<- 

 nellia, and Brucca, which he doubtfully joined with it ; 7th. Spondiacece 

 (Spondias and Poupartiu). He excluded Riimphia of Linn^us,^ a 

 genus yet very little known at that epoch;*' Toluifeva, reckoned as 

 congenerous to Myroxylon^ that is to say, with the Leguminacem ; 

 Ta'piria^ which he was without doubt unable to study ; Simaba and 

 Zanthoxylon^ whose true place he recognised amongst the Rutacece ; 

 Dodonea, of which he made a Sapindacece ; Averrhoa^ whose affinity with 

 Oxalis E. Brown had shown; Sfylobasmm, which he joined to the Chry- 

 sobulanecv ; Hetcfodcndron, also supposed by Mm to be more allied to 

 the Supindaccce. A year later De Candolle reckoned very nearly 



1 Qcn. (1789), 368, Ord. 12. no one has teen able up to the present to study 



- Their opinions are given in full, in a special an authentic specimen. Its flowers are described 



work by Marchand : Historij of the ancient as trimerous, with a tubular calyx, 3-fid, three 



Group of Tcrebinthacea {^axis, 1^6^). We must petals, three exserted stamens alternate with 



principally cite amongst the predecessors of A. the petals, and a triagonal ovary,"" surmounted 



L. DE JussiEU, his uncle B. de Jussieu {Gen. by a simple style. Its fruit is drupaceous, 



lex. Terehinti) and Adanson (Fain, des Fl. ii. with a 3-locidar and 3-spermou3 stone. It is 



(1703), 332, Earn. 44, P(sYffc/«;). a true fi-om Malabar, with simple, alternate, 



•■' In Ann. Se. Nat. ser, 1. ii. 333. dentate, aromatic leaves and flowers in racemes. 



■• Congo, 431 (1818) ; Ilise. Works (ed Benn.), M. amhoincnsis L. [Si/st. i, 92) or R. tiliirfolia 



i. 111. Lamk. Diet. vi. 352; III. t. 25), will be the 



* Gen. n. 47. Tsieintani of Rheede {Hort. Mahth. iv. 25, t. 



6 It is again assigned now, though with 11). It has also been supposed that it may 



doubt, to the Anacnrdiace<c, Spondias tribe, by bo a badly described Euphorbiacece. 

 Bbniham and Hookeu [Oen. 428, n. 43) ; but 



