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little tongues without anthers ; the disk surrounds by a largo and 

 high tube all the quiuquclocular ovary ; and the capsular bristling 

 fruit is septifragal. They are Oceanian plants with alternate and 

 opposite leaves, punctate, compound-pinnate or 1-3-foliolate. 



The family of MeUaccce was established by A. L. de Jussieu,' but 



in a very vague manner, since it included some 3IagnoUacece as 



Canella, some Ampelidecc as Leea, some Clusiacece as Stjmphonia^ and 



even some Ericaccce as Clethra. Adanson had placed Mdia and 



TrichiUa in his family of Pistachios. R. Brown " had separated 



Cedrelece from the other 3Ieliace(c, as a family ; they were reunited 



by A. P. de Candolle,^ who, in lS2i, admitted among 3Ieliacece 



three tribes and sixteen genera, of which only thirteen now belong 



to the family ; he was wrong in introducing Strigilia and Iloumiri. 



As to the genus Geruma^ we do not know sufficiently well at present 



to what group to unite it, and it remains provisionally, with some 



others,' among the doubtful Meliacece. In 1830, A. L. de Jussieu^ 



made known his researches on the group of McUaceic, to which he 



attributed four tribes or secondary subdivisions, and thirty-six 



genera, one of which belonged to Tenistroemiacecc and twelve ought 



to be thrown aside as being a useless repetition. Twenty-one genera 



remain to which contemporary botanists have added only a very 



small number. Elutheria of Rceher ^ was recently reinstated 



among Swieteniece. Turczanin )W discovered in 1868 ^ the Dasy- 



coleuin of the Philippines, a genus to which we have just added a 



new species from Borneo. J. Hooker^ established in 1862 the 



genus Bcddnima ; F. Mueller the genera Owenia and Ileaniia, in 



1857"^ and ISG-j." We'- have proposed the new African genus 



Tunoeopsis ; which, for us, raises the number of generic types tothirty- 



' Gm. (1789) 263, Ord. 11 ; Mfm. Mua. iii. Benn. Sorfs. Pl.Jav. Rar. 185), an Australian 



436; V. 226. — Bartl. Ord. iVa(. 335. — LiNDL. plant which is perhaps Ttirrita pubescens 



Inlrod. eil. 2, 101; Veg. Kiiigd. 463, Ord. 173. Heli.eN.— 2. Piptosnrcos (TuRcz. Jliill. Mose. 



— Endl. Gci. 10-16, Ord. 225.— Ao. Tlimr. Hi/xt. (1858), i. 415;— B. H. Gcii. 330. A genus (of 



Plant. 225. — H. Bx. Pcti/er Fain. Nat. 404, Trichilie:e r) little known. 



Fam. 178. ^ Memoire sur it: Groitpc dvs Meli iccfs (in Mtnt. 



^ Flind. Voy. (1814), 61; Misc. Wurks (cd. J/«s. xix. 153). 



Benn.) i. 71. ' SijmpH. 122 (1846). 



' Prodr. i. 619, Ord. 44. " Bull. Misc. (i.) 414. 



< FoRSK. Fl. yEij.-Arab. 62.— J. Oeii. 264.— ' Gen. 336. 



E.VUL. Gen. n. 4570.— B. It. Gen. 330 (" Euphoi- '" Hook. Kew Jviirn. ix. 



4m«o?") 387. (Celastracei) I' I-"). n Fiagm. v. 



' They are : 1. LejHup/iraj/nui (II. IJit. i;t '^ Adaiitonia, xi. (1874). 



