371', NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



This family is also formed "by connection," and such very nearly, in 

 the preceding account, as it was conceived by Blume,^ in 1847. He 

 united together, in fact : 1 st. Sajnndacece properly speaking, divided 

 into seven tribes,^ with flowers, some regular and others UTegular ; 

 2nd. Dodoneacecv ; 3rd. Accrinecc ; 4th. Hippocastancw ; 5th. Me- 

 liosmecB (Sabiiv). In this group then are confounded the two 

 families which had, in 1789, been distinguished by A. L. de Jussietj ^ 

 under the names of Sapindi and Accra, but to which unfortunately he 

 allied some Malplgldacece as Tryallh, some Celastracece as Hippocratecv , 

 and some Ternstroemiacece as Pekca; whilst Dodoncea was classed 

 among Terebintkacccv, and Staph?/ka among the Bhafnni. In 1821, 

 KuNTH * divided the Sapindaceiv of equinoctial America into three 

 sections: PaulUniacea', iSapmdaceca proper and i)o(7(y«t'«cc«', distinguish- 

 ing them from one another by the presence or absence of a scale 

 interior to the petals. De Candolle^ preserved in 1824 this mode 

 of grouping which has absolutely no value, even for separating the 

 genera. Cambessedes,^ who resumed in 1829 the monographic study 

 of the Sapindacecv, only divided them into Sapindcw and Dodoncce, in 

 M'hichhe was closely followed by Endlicher''' in 1838,andbyLiNDLET,^ 

 whose Sapindacece comprise all the groups admitted by Blume, excejDt 

 Acerece. The Staphulecv, long included amongst Cdaatrucecv, were 

 finally separated by Baetling ^ and Lindley,^" but as a distinct order, 

 and remained such until the epoch when Bentham and Hooker '^ 

 made them only a tribe of Supimhtcccv. With them, this family con- 

 tains five sub-orders : Sapiiidew, Acur/'iie.t', Dodonece, Melianthecv, and 

 Stujyhylece. The Melumthcw had, before them,^- been approached, in 

 preference, to the Rutacece and Zijijophijllew. In this family, such as 

 they understand it, are united seventy-four genera,i^ and they exclude, 

 as a distinct family,^* the Sahiacew, formerly classed in England ^^ 

 between 3Icmspeimace(B and Lardlsabalew and lu'eviously placed by 



1 Rumpldii, iii. 91. " Ord. Nat. 381. 



2 1. Sapindeje ; 2. AUophylleai ; 3. Moli- '» Si/iiops. (1829) 75 ; Ve</. Kiiigd. 381, OrJ. 

 cocceaj j 4. CupauieiB j 5. CossignieEO ; 6. Paul- 135. 



linieie; 7. Thouinieje. " Gen. (1862) 392, 409, Subord. 5. 



=" OcH. 246, 250, Ord. 6, 6. '- A. Juss. in Mem. Mtts. xii. 459. — Enul. 



" H. B. K. Gen. Nui\ H Spec. v. 99. Geii. n. 6043.— Eindl. Viy. Kingd. 478. 



' Priidr. i. 601. '•' Reduced for us to sixty-two. 



" Mem. Miis. xviii. (1829), i. " Ooi. 413, Ord. 52. 



? Oeii. lOGli, Ord. 230. '* Hook. f. & Thoms. Ft. lid. i. 206. 



» Veij. Kiiigd. (1846) 3S1, Ord. 135. 



