116 NAIURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



1866, Seemanni had the credit of restoring in one and the same 

 genus Phaleria [Brymispermum) and Leucosmia of Bentham;^ a 

 union fally adopted by this conscientious observer.^ Miquel long 

 since, in 1861 and in 1863, enriched this series with the genera 

 Skaphium^'^ Lachnolepis^ and Gonistylus^^ the two former of doubt- 

 ful position, and the last intermediate, in the form and dimensions 

 of the floral receptacle, between the Aquilariece formerly known 

 and the genus Octolepis proposed some years since by Oliver.^ 



The thirty-three genera whose autonomy we admit comprise 



about two hundred and sixty species. Not two are common to 



both worlds, and a dozen of them are American. The greater part 



are monotypes and their total represent only some thirty odd 



species, whilst about two hundred and fifty are peculiar to the old 



world, and are distributed in twenty-one genera. None of the 



Aquilariece (some score of species grouped in half-a-dozen genera) 



belong to America, and all, except Octolepis which is African, are 



natives of the warmest parts of south-eastern Asia and tropical 



Oceania. The American Thymelece are nearly all from South 



America. Only a couple of Daphnopsis and Dirca are from North 



America. The three genera Daphnopsis^ Lagetta and Hargasseria^ 



are found in the Antilles, and the two latter are met with nowhere 



else. Coleophora^ Funifera^ Lophosfoma and Schoenohihlus have been 



observed only in Brazil ; Lasiadenia in the north of Brazil and in 



Yenezuela ; Goodallia in Guyana ; Ovidia in the Columbian Andes 



and Chili ; Drapetes in the Magellanic region. Among those that 



belong to the old world there are genera, not rich in species, the 



geographical distribution of which is quite as limited. Thus Ped- 



diea is exclusively from Southern or Western Africa ; Dicranolepis^ 



from tropical Western Africa ; Bynapiolepis^ from Zanzibar ; Stephana- 



daphne, from the eastern isles of Africa ; Passerina and Jrthrosolen, 



from southern Africa ; Darthron, from central Asia ; Dais, from 



Madagascar and the Cape ; Kelleria, from Oceania ; Linostoma, from 



» Fl. Fit. 207. * Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 134. 



• HooJc. Lond. Journ. ii. 231. ^ Atm. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. loc. eit. t. 4. 



* Fl. Austral, vi. 37. ' Journ. Linn. Soc. viii (1865). 

 < Fl. Ind.'Bat. Suppl. i. 367. 



