CORIAHIACE^ — SURIANACE* — LIMNANTHACEJJ ROSACEA. 193 



here for more than fourteen years, without fl. Fruit eaten in the 

 hills. {Royle.) 



C. atropurpurea, Moc. and Sesse. 5 Mexico. 



ORDER cm.— SURIANACE^.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 142. 

 The only true species of this order is 



* Suriana maritima, L. 5 Sea-coasts of India. — Properties unknown. 



ORDER CIV.— LIMNANTHACEiE.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 142. 



The only species of this order, besides Florkea palustris, Nutt. a N. 

 American plant, is 



* Limnanthes Douglassii, R. Br. ; B. Reg. 20, t. 1673. California, 



ORDER CV.— ROSACE^.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 143. 



THE ROSE TRIBE. 



Herbs or shrubs, excluding Rhinanthera, and adding Hotelia, by Lindl. 

 referred to 35 genera. Of these, DC. pr. and Spreng. syst. assign about 

 154 species for Europe; 100 for N. America; 44 for Siberia; 30 for S. 

 America, Mexico and the W. Indies ; 30 for China and Japan ; 12 for Tauria 

 and Caucasus ; 9 for the Levant ; 8 for Dahuria ; 5 for Greenland ; 5 for the 

 Straits of Magellan ; 4 for Bourbon and Mauritius ; 3 for New Holland 

 and the Society Islands ; 3 for Java ; 3 for Melville Island ; 2 for Persia ; 

 1 for Iberia ; 2 for Abyssinia ; 1 for St. Helena ; 1 for Luzon ; and I for 

 Terra Nova Island. — In S. Africa have been found 1 Geum ; 1 Potentilla ; 

 1 Agrimonia, and several species of Rubus, (Harvey.) — According to 

 our materials, which, in general, do not touch Java, 117 Rosaceae 

 inhabit the E. Indies; viz. of Rosa, 12 (Nepal; a few from the 

 Khassya Mountains, the Neelgherries and the banks of the Irrawaddy) ; of 

 Rubus 38, (Himalayas, Khassya Mountains, Neelgherries, Moluccas) ; of 

 Dalibarda 1 , (Nepal) ; of Fragaria 4, (Gosain Than. Deyra Dhoon. Oude. 

 Java. Penang) ; of Potentilla 38 ; (Nepal. Khassya Mountains. Neelgherries. 

 and 1 Ceylonese ; 3 also common to Siberia, P. catacUnes, multijida and 

 bifurca) ; of Sibbaldia 2 ; (Himalayas, 1 of them, S. procumbens, L. also a 



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