CLUSIACE.E. 413 



In 1789 A.-L. de Jussieu ' established the family of Ghittiferce, 

 which he placed between the St. John's Worts and Oranges. Beside 

 the new genera Olusia, Garcinia, Tovomita, Quapoya, Moronobea, 

 Mammea, Mesua, Rheeclia, and Calopln/Uum, which belong to it, he 

 placed seven foreign types, viz. : Grias of the Myrtacece, 2 Valeria 

 and Vatica of the Dipterocaipeœ, Allopkyllus of the Sapmdacece and 

 Elceocarpus of the Tiliaccœ ; and in addition the three genera of 

 Aublet, Macahanea, 3 Macoubea* and Singaua, 5 the place of which 

 is still to be found, as also that of several types imperfectly known, 5 

 erroneously attributed to the Glusiaceœ. Later, 7 he further added 

 Venana, now referred, under the name of Brexia, to the Saxifragaceœ. 

 From 1822 to 1824, Choisy, 8 who on several occasions devoted him- 

 self to the study of the Guttiferœ, included among them Havetia of 

 Kunth, Ochrocarpus of Dufetit-Thouars, with a certain number of 

 Ternstrœmiaceœ and Canella. In 1828 Cambessedes, 9 taking in 

 hand the study of the genera constituting the group of Guttiferce, 

 reduced them to ten, 10 viz. : Tuoomita, Clusia, Havetia, Moronobea, 

 Chrysopea (Symphonia), Mammea, Rhcedia, Garcinia, Mesua, and 

 Calophyllwm. By Endlicher u were added to it Pentadesma of Don, 

 Kayea of Wallich, and Platon in of Martius, wrongly referred to 

 Canellaceœ. 12 In 1836 Lindley 13 gave to the family the name of 

 Glusiaceœ. Besides the types enumerated above, he placed in it 

 Chrysochlamys and Rengifa of Fieppig, Reuggeria of Martius, and 

 Galysaccion of Wight. In 1849 Choisy, 14, treating of the Indian 

 Guttiferce, admits the same genera, aud adds Gochlanthera. The 

 number of generic types is still more considerable, for it amounts to 



1 Gen. 255, Ord. 9. Fl. Jan. Diphroc.'), a genus proposed for Vattria 



2 See p. 376, n. 55. flexuosa Lock. [Fl. Coch. 334), a tree with alter- 



3 Auel. Guian. Suppl. 6, t. 371. — J. Gen, 257 nate leaves, very different from the Clmiaeeœ. 

 (Macanea). — Pi., et Tri. Ann. Se. Nat. see. 4, Miers (Contrit, i 114, not.) has also noted under 

 xvi. 318. These authors consider this plant a the names of Perissiis and Catalissa, two genera 

 Hippocratea (TonUlea). The fruit, numbered 1, of Clusiaceec from tropical America, of which we 

 2, in the plate of Aublet, much resembles that know only the names. 



of a Ur<i< i<i. 7 Ann. Mus. xx. (1813). 



4 Acbl, Guian. Suppl. 17, t. 378— J. Gen. 257. 8 Man. Soc. Mist. Nat. Far. i. p. ii. ; DC. 

 Planchon and Triana think that the fruit re- Prodr. i. (1824) 557, Ord. 35. 



presented in this plant is also that of a Tontelea. 9 Mem. 3Iits. xvi. 370, t. 17, 19. 



5 Aubl. Guian. 574, t. 230. Bentham (Gen. 10 To say nothing of the synonyms which do 

 465) thinks that this plant belongs perhaps to double service. 



Stuartzia (Tounatea). Endlicher classed it u Gen. 1024, Ord. 216 (Clusiacece). 



with the Capparideœ. '- Loe. cit. 1029. 



« Especially Soala (Blanco, Fl. Filip. 437), 13 Introd. (ed. 2) 74. 



which in certain characters resembles the Ano- ' ' Mt m. Sue. Hist. Xat. Geneve, xii. 

 nace<e and Barringtonice ; Stelechospermum (Bl. 



