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the genera Galphimia, Plabellaria, Tetraj^tcrys ; G-îîrtnee, the genus 

 Hiptage ; Jacquin, the genus Hirœa. In 1789, A. L. de Jussieu had 

 well established an order of Malpighieœ ; but he only included the 

 three genera of Linn^us, and, as types allied to the series, Trigonia 

 [Poh/galacece) and Eryiliroxylmn [Linaceœ). When in 1843, A. de 

 JussiEU published his monograph ^ on this family, to which he is 

 supposed to have given the most care, he found twenty genera esta- 

 blished by his predecessors, and added nineteen; which, without 

 counting two genera still very doubtful," raises the total number at 

 that epoch to thirty-nine. Ten new genera have been added since 

 then : Flahellaria of G^rtnee, confounded by A. L. de Jussieu with 

 Triaspis, has been distinguished anew by Bentham and Hookeb,^ 

 who have also separated the Sphcdamnocmyus of Planchon from 

 Acridocarims. The genus Ptilochœta had been proposed by Turcza- 

 NiNOW in 1843 ; Lasiocarpus, by Leibmann in 1854, and Henleo- 

 phytum, by Karsten in 1860. But the author who latterly has 

 most occupied himself with this family, especially in editing the 

 Flora Brasiliensis of Maetius, A. H. E. Geisebach, has also pub- 

 lished most of the new genera of Malpiglùaccœ : Acmanthera, Blepha- 

 randra^ Clonodia, Diacidia, Glandonia^ etc. Altogether we keep forty- 

 eight genera, containing nearly six hunch'ed and thirty species, and 

 all are American except some fifty. These latter are divided among 

 the seven genera belonging to the old world, all the others belong- 

 ing to the new. The most widespread, as to geographical distribu- 

 tion of the types of the old world, are Tristellateia and Jcridocarpus. 

 They are principally African, and both exist in Madagascar. The 

 latter is also met with in tropical western Africa ; but, singularly 

 enough, both of them are represented by a species in the warm parts of 

 Oceania. A Tristellateia has even been seen in Australia, and a species 

 of Acridocarpus belonging properly to New Caledonia. Flahellaria., 

 Sp)hedamnocarpus., and Triaspis are found only in Africa. Aspidop- 



' Monographie dis Malpighiaeées, ou exposition — Walp. licp. v. 357). 2nd. Bembix (LouR. FI. 



des caractères. . . Paris (1843), m-4. Cochiiich. (éd. 1790), 282;— Endl. Gen. n. 5595, 



2 1st. Caticanthus (Forsk, i*'/. ^K/.-^Jrai. 91). 6877; B. H. Gen. 251). A genus whose decan- 



A genus which appears to approach Flahellaria drous flower is said to have nearly the charac- 



in most of its characters, hut it has not its fiuit, ters of that of the MalpigJiiaceœ, hut with a tri- 



and which ought, it is supposed, to be referred partite calyx. The fruit is small, fleshy, tiilo- 



to AneidopIiHs (pp. 51, 56) of the famUy of the cular. 



Z(«ffre<?- (Endl. Oen. n. 5594 ;— B. H.-*». 251 ; ^ (;,,„_ 247, Ord. 36. 



