336 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



and some supplementary memoirs/ in wliich lie divided the Myrtacece^ 

 according to the consistence of their fruit, into XerocavpiccB and 

 Chywocarpicce, Lindley ^ similarly divided them into Leptosjpermeoe 

 and MyrtecBy and relegated to distinct orders the Ghamcelauciece^ and 

 the Lecythidece'^ {Barringtoniece). In 1840, Endlicher^ reunited in 

 one family the five sub-orders of Ghamcelauciece, Leptospermece, 

 Myrtece, Barringtoniece, and Lecytfiidece, adding to it Granatece as 

 allied to Myrtacece, that is to say, besides the types which have been 

 excluded from the family, a total of sixty-seven genera (of which 

 about a dozen are duplicates). In 1865, Bentham and Hooker^ 

 described or indicated seventy-eight genera of MyrtacecB, some of 

 which had just been established in France,^ in America,^ and in 

 Australia,^ but especially in Germany, by O. Berg,^° the author who, 

 in our day, has most studied this family. Bentham and Hooker 

 have, besides, considered as doubtful genera of Myrtacece, Foetidia, 

 Gatostemma and Fropiera, and reunited to the Lijthrariacece the 

 genera Punica and Sonneratia, By attaching to other generic types, 

 previously established, Astartea, Kunzea, Lamarchea, Begelia, Phy- 

 matocarpus, Syncarpia, Tepualia, XantJiostemon, Galycolpus, and 

 Cuphceanthus, which they retained as distinct, and by restoring to 

 this family (not without some doubt) the two genera Sonneratia and 

 Fcetidia, we reduce the number of genera ^^ it includes to sixty-four 

 distributed in the six following series : 



I. Myrtej:.^^ — Fruit fleshy (or very rarely drupaceous). Ovarian 

 cells 2-cx) ,^^ disposed regularly around the axis. Leaves opposite, 

 punctuate. — 19 genera. 



II. Leptospermej].^* — Fruit dry, generally capsular. Ovarian 

 cells 2-00 disposed regularly around the axis. — 18 genera. 



III. CHAM^LAUCiEiE.^'^ — Fruit iudehisccnt, generally monosper- 



1 Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xxi. p. i. ^^ Linneea, xxvii. xxix. xxx. xxxi. ; Mart. Fl. 



2 Veg. Kingd. (1846) 734, Ord. 282. Bras. fasc. 18 (1857, 1858). 



» Oi?. ci^. 721, Ord. 276. "Including about 1800 species. Jphano- 



4 Op. cit. 739, Ord. 283. mtjrtus (Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 180) is a 



« Gen. 1223, Ord. 269. doubtful genus (B. H. Gen. 696). 



6 Gen. 690, 1006, Ord. 67. 12 dc. Ptodr. iii. 230.— Chimocarpiccs Schau. 



7 Especially by A. Brongniart and A. Gris, loc. cit. 



for the little studied New Caledonian types 1^ Sometimes only one in Fenzlia. 



{Ann. So. Nat. ser. 5, ii. 124 ; iii-. 210), and pre- H DC. loc. cit. 209. — Xerocarpicce, trib. 2, 



viously by P. Montrouzier {Mem. Acad. Lyon^ LtptospermedR Schau. 



X.), for plants of the same country. i* DC. Ice. cit. 208; Diet. Cla-:s. d'Eist. Nat. 



^ By A. Gray {Acicalyptm). xi. (1826). — Xirocarpicce, trib. 1, ChamcBlauciea 



9 By F. Mueller {Lysicarpm, Osbornia, Fhy- Bohau. — ChamcelauciacctB Lixdl. Veg. Kingd. 



nil 



atocarpus, ffomalocalgx, etc.). (1846) 721. 



