MALPIOHIACEJE. 445 



the genera Galphimia, PlahcUaria, Tctraj)terys ; G^eetntie, the genus 

 Hiptage ; Jacquin, the genus Eircea. In 1789, A. L. de Jussieu had 

 well established an order of Malpighicw ; but he only included the 

 three genera of LiNNiEUs, and, as types allied to the series, Trigonia 

 {Polygalacew) and Erjjthroxyhan {Linacc(v). When in 1843, A. de 

 Jussieu published his monograph' on this family, to which he is 

 supposed to have given the most care, he found twenty genera esta- 

 blished by his predecessors, and added nineteen; which, without 

 counting two genera still very doubtfid,^ raises the total number at 

 that epoch to thirty-nine. Ten new genera have been added since 

 then : Flabellaria of G^rtnee, confounded by A. L. de Jussieu with 

 Triaspis, has been distinguished anew by Bentham and Hookee,^ 

 who have also separated the Sphedamnocarpus of Planchon from 

 Acridocarpus. The genus Ptilochceta had been proposed by Tuecza- 

 NiNow in 1843; Lasiocarjms^ by Leibmann in 1854, and Henleo- 

 phytum, by Kaesten in 1860. But the author who latterly has 

 most occupied himself with this family, especially in editing the 

 Flora Brasiliensis of INIaetius, A. H. E. Geisebach, has also pub- 

 lished most of the new genera of Mulpigliiaccm : Acmanthcra, Blepha- 

 randra, Clonodia^ Diacidia, Glandonia, etc. Altogether we keep forty- 

 eight genera, containing nearly six hundred and thii-ty species, and 

 all are American except some fifty. These latter are divided among 

 the seven genera belonging to the old world, all the others belong- 

 ing to the new. The most widespread, as to geographical distribu- 

 tion of the tyi^es of the old world, are Tristellatcia and Acridocarpus. 

 They are principally African, and both exist in Madagascar. The 

 latter is also met with in tropical western Africa; but, singularly 

 enough, both of them are represented by a species in the warm parts of 

 Oceania. A Trkidlaleia has even been seen in Australia, and a species 

 of Acridocarpus belonging properly to New Caledonia. Flabellaria., 

 Sphedamnocarpus^ and Triaspis arc found only in Africa. Aspidop- 



' Monixjraphie (Its Malpighiac&a, ou cxpusi/ion — Wali'. Itep. v. 357). 2nd. Bsmhix (Lour. Fl. 



dm caiactiies. . . I'aris (18-t3), m-4. Cochiiich. (ud. 1790), 282; — E.ndl. Ge». n. 5595, 



- 1st. Caiicanlhus (FousK, Fl. .Kf/.-Arub.Sl). C877; B. H. 6-Vn. 251). A genus whose decan- 



A genua which appears to approach Flubilliiria di'ous flower is said to have nearly the charac- 



in most of its characters, hut it has not its fruit, ters of that of the Maljiiglnacece, hut with a tri- 



and which ought, it is supposed, to be rcferricl partite caljx. The fruit is small, fleshy, trilo- 



to Aneulophus (pp. 51, 5G) of the family of the cular. 



Liuacece (Endl. Gen. n. 5594 ;— B. H.-«h. 251 ; •"• (Jtii. 247, Ord. 36. 



