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For the purpose of preparing the present paper, the great 
collections both in this country and on the Continent have 
been examined. 
The economic properties of the various members of the 
order are fully described. 
The head-quarters of the family is India, where the species 
are numerous, but of the 5 genera which compose the family 
only 2 (though these are by far the largest genera) occur in the 
whole of the East Indian regions. Two genera are peculiar to 
the continent of Africa, and one, a new genus, is peculiar to 
the island of Madagascar. Not a single species is indigenous to 
Europe; one however is naturalized in the countries bordering 
on the Mediterranean Sea; this one species is indigenous to the 
Steppes-region of Asia and to China and Japan. Tropical 
Africa, including Natal, has above 40 species; the Kalahari 
region of South-west Africa south of the tropic and north of 
the Orange river has 6 species; and the Cape of Good Hope 
has above 20 species. Australia has about 16 species, none of 
which occur on the western coast. The Forest region of the 
Western Continent of Griesbach has only Diospyros virginiana, 
L.; the Prairie region has 2 species: the Californian coast- 
region none; the Mexican region 8; and the West Indies 
6 species. The South American region north of the equator 
has about a dozen species; the region of equatorial Brazil 9; 
and the remaining portion of Brazil 14 species. Madagascar 
has “23 species; the Mascarene Islands 6; the Seychelles 2; 
Sandwich Islands 2; Fiji Islands 2; and New Caledonia 11 
species. 
Lists are given, arranged in numerical order, of collections 
of Ebenacez made by the principal botanical travellers. 
A chronological list is also given of the published specific 
names, with references and localities. 
The natural orders bearing the closest affinities to Hbenacew 
are Olacinew, Styracewe, Anonacee, Ternstremiacee, Sapotacee and 
