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ourselves obliged to return to one single family, J/alvacee, in distin- 
guishing twelve series whose distinctive features are the following :— 
I. Srercurima®.—F lowers polygamous, apetalous, calyx often 
coloured. Stamens supported by a common central column, with 
extrorse anthers. Carpels independent in the flower and fruit. 
Seeds with or without albumen.—(5 genera.) 
IT. Hericrereæ.—Flowers generally hermaphrodite, and with 
polypetalous corolla. Stamens inserted towards the summit or 
upon the sides of a central column below the gynæceum. Anthers 
extrorse, one or two-celled, all fertile, or accompanied by five stami- 
nodes. Carpels united or free, whether in the flower or fruit.— 
(6 genera.) 
III. Dompryes.—F lowers hermaphrodite, petalous. Stamens 
five, or arranged in five bundles with two-celled introrse anthers, 
often alternate with five sterile staminodes inserted under a sessile 
gynæceum. Seeds albuminous. Cotyledons 5-fid—(7 genera.) 
IV. CHIRANTHODENDREÆ. — Flowers hermaphrodite, apetalous. 
Calyx coloured. Androceum monadelphous, isostemonous ; anthers 
two-celled extrorse. Filaments inserted under a sessile gynæceum, 
monadelphous in their lower part. Fruit capsular. Seeds albumi- 
nous, arillate.—(1 genus.) 
V. Hermannie&. — Flowers hermaphrodite, petalous. Andro- 
ceum formed of five fertile stamens oppositipetalous with two-celled 
anther, and sometimes of five alternate staminodes. Gyneceum 
sessile or slightly stipitate, with 1-5 carpels united or free to a more 
or less advanced age.—(3 genera.) 
VI. Buzrineriex. — Flowers hermaphrodite. Petals generally 
cucullate at the base, rarely squamiform, often ligulate at the 
summit. Stamens fertile, solitary opposite each petal, or united by 
2-o ; the bundles alternate with the alternipetalous staminodes 
rarely absent (and in this latter case with more than one fertile 
stamen within each petal). Anthers two-celled, extrorse (rarely three- 
celled). Ovary plurilocular. Fruit capsular or fleshy.—(12 genera.) 
VII. Lastoprrarex.—Flowers hermaphrodite, apetalous or pro- 

distinction is generally easy to understand in MyrodiaandQuararibea, the Kydias and the He- 
practice, in trusting to it, we are exposed to  Lictereæ, the Bombacee and the Dombeyeæ, &c. 
placing in two different families types like the 
