LINAGEJE. 55 



place as tlie type of a tribe iu the family Linaeete, in tlie work of 

 general revision publislied in 1847-48 by Planclion.^ He there 

 divided the Linacete into three sections : Eulinccv^ a large division 

 compriskig the three genera Badiohi., Liniim, and Reimvardtia^ which 

 he preserved distinct ; Hufionieœ, a small group in which are united 

 the three genera Hugonia^ Dnramlea, and Roiicheria (these two last 

 then newly made) ; and Jn/sadeniece, constituted by the simple 

 genus Jiiimden/'a, established in 1828 by Wallieh and generally 

 until then placed with the Frankeniaccœ.^ 



In 1862, Benth. and Hook.' left this family with nearly the same 

 limits, only enlarging it by one new tribe to which the Erythroxylons 

 give their- name * and which contains with them the two new genera 

 Aneulophiis and Hcbcpctulum. At the same time they separated the 

 old group Hufjonieœ into two tribes, only leaving in one^ Rouchcria^ 

 with nur/onia, and placing in the other with Ixonanthcs ^^ from 

 which it draws its name,^ Durandea^ and three more genera then 

 almost new and yet incompletely known, Oclitliocomxus^^ Phjlhcos- 

 nms^"^ and Savcotheca}^ In this latter work, the number of genera 

 in Linacecc was then raised to fourteen. In reviewing them lately, ^^ 

 we had added to the family one more Houmiri,^* a genus formed 

 by us from all the Humiriaccœ'^''' yet known, and which at the 

 first glance seems clearly distinguished from the Flaxes, from which 

 it is separated by all other authors. But thanks to the numerous 

 gradation of types which some or other of the Hiigonieœ represent 

 among them, on one side the Erijthroxi/lece., and on the other the 

 Ixonantheœ. connect them so naturally that it is better, we think, to 

 attach the Houmiri to this family than to place them alone. But while 



• In Hook. Loud. Jotirii. tï. 5S8; vii. 1G.5, Ve;/. Ki'iigd. S97). 



473. ' Tl. "P- <■'■<• vi. (1847). 



- Enbl. Gen. 1420. '" Benth. in Hoo/c. Zand. Journ. ii. (1843). 



3 Gen. 241, Ord. 34 [Linea). " Kl. in Abli. Ale. Berl. (1856). 



■* Erythroxyka: K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 175 '^ ji/:„,,, Ludg.-Hat. i. (1851.) 



(1824).— DC. Frodr. i. 573, Ord. 38.— Endl. " In Adunmnia, x. 368-371 (1873). 



Gen. 1065, Ord. 229. — Eri/thro.xi/taceœ Lindl. >•' Aubl. Guian. 564 (1775). 



Veg. Kindcj. 391, Ord. 140. '^ Hiiniiriacew'MAXi:. Nor. Gen. et Spec. ii. 147 



= Hngoniem Pl. he. cit. vi. b^Z.—Eugoniaceœ (1820). — A. Juss. in A. S. S. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 



Endl. Gen. 1016. (1829), 87.— Endl. Gen. 1039, Ord. 222.— Lindl. 



" Pl. loc. cit. vi. 141 (1847). Iiitrod. ed. 2, 103 ; Vrg. Kingd. 447, Ord. 164. 



" Jack ex Hool:. Bat. Mag. Comp. i. (1835). — H. Bn. in Adansonia ii. 208 ; in Payer Fum. 



«Ixonanthece (Gen. dub. Cedrclaceis aff. Endl. Nat. 202, Fani. 122.— B. H. Gen. 240, Ord. 35. 

 Gen. 1055 ; — Ternstrœmiaceariim gen. Lindl. 



