286 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



are the closest affinities in the floral organisation. A. L. de Jussieu,^ 

 after many others," it is true, had united in one and the same order, 

 the Tcrehinthacece, not only the species of Anacardium he knew, but 

 also several Muiaceœ, as Jmi/ris, Ihdda/ia, Sjuithelia, Simaba, Ailantus, 

 Cneorum, Brucea, Zanthoxylon^ and Ptelea ; the Juglans ; the Sapin- 

 daceœ, like JJodonœa ; the Connaraceœ^ such as Rourea^ Cnestis, and 

 Connarus ; a leguminous plant then badly known, Toluifera^ and 

 Averrhoa^ which is inseparable from the Sorrels. It was Kunth 

 who, in 1824,^ gave the most complete table of Terehinthaccce, com- 

 prisiag : 1st. the Anacardeœ of E. Browtst,* that is to say, the genera 

 Anacardium, Rhinoearpus, Mangifcra, Camhessedea, Semecaipus, Rhus, 

 Buchanania, Mauria, Pistacia, Schinus, Duvaua, Astronium, Como- 

 cladia, and Sorindeia ; 2nd. Juglandeœ {Juglans, Carya, Pterocarya, and 

 (?) Dccostea) ; 3rd. The Burseraceœ, comprising Elaplirium, BoswelUa, 

 Balsamodendnmi, Idea, Protium,'" Burseru, Marignia, CohpJwnia, 

 Canarium, and Hedwigia ; 4th. The Amyridcœ, that is to say, the single 

 genus Amy lis (which he already suspected to be more allied to the 

 Aurantiaceœ) ; 5th. The Ptclcaceœ, i. e. Ptelea, Blackhurnia, Toddalia, 

 Cneorum, Spathelia, and (?) Ailantus ; 6th. The Connaraceœ, with^rw- 

 nellia, and Brucea, which he doubtfully joined with it ; 7th. Spondiaceœ 

 {Spondias and Poupartia). He excluded Rumphia of Linntetjs,^ a 

 genus yet very little known at that ejioch ; " Toluifera, reckoned as 

 congenerous to Myroxylon, that is lo say, with the Lcguminaceœ ; 

 Tapiria, which he was without doubt unable to study ; Simaba and 

 Zanthoxylon, whose true place he recognised amongst the Rutaccœ ; 

 Dodonea, of which he made a Sapindaccœ ; Averrhoa, whose affinity with 

 Oxalis E. Brown had shown; Styhbasiiun, which he joined to the Chry- 

 sobalancœ ; Hetcrodendron, also supposed by him to be more allied to 

 the Sapindaceœ. A year later De Candolle reckoned very nearly 



1 Gen. (1789), 368, Ord. 12. no one has been atle up to the present to study 



- Their opinions are given in full, in a special an authentic specimen. Its flowers are described 



work by Marchand : Sistori/ of the ancieiii as trimcrous, with a tubular calyx, 3-fid, three 



Q-roupof Terebiiithaceœ {J?3xis,lii&'è). We must petals, three exserted stamens alternate with 



principally cite amongst the predecessors of A. the petals, and a triagonal ovary, surmounted 



L. DE JussiEU, his uncle B. de Jussieu {Gen. by a simple style. Its fruit is drupaceous, 



lex. Tereiinti) and Adanson (Fam. des Fl. ii. with a 3-locular and 3-spermous stone. It is 



(1763), 332, Fam. 44, Pistaciœ). a tree from Malabar, with simple, alternate, 



' In Ann. So. Nat. sér, 1. ii. 333. dentate, aromatic leaves and flowers in racemes. 



•• ConffOjiSl {ISIS) ; Mise. JTot'A-s (ed Benn.), F. ambohicnsis L. {Si/st. i, 92) ox F. tilUefolia 



i. 111. Lamk. Fict. vi. 352; III. t. 25), will be the 



* Gen. n. 47. Tsicmtaiii of Rheede {Hoi-t. Mnluh. iv. 25, t. 



6 It is again assigned now, though with 11). It has also been supposed that it may 



doubt, to the Anacardiacem, Spondias tribe, by be a badly described Eiiphorhiaceœ. 

 Bbnthah and Hookeb ((?««. 428, n. 43) ; but 



