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Trib. HifPOCRATEE^E Williams 



(— Hippocraticeœ Juss. ; = Hippocrateaceœ H. B. et K. ; = Hippocrateœ 

 Benth. and Hook. f. [1862]). 



718. Salacia flavescens Kurz. — Kedah (Curtis, n. 2653). 



Var. dumosa King, Mat. Fl. Malay Penins. p. 655, ex Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1896. — Kedah (Curtis. n. 2654). 



719. Salacia polyantha Korth. — Kedah (Curtis. n. 2574). Island of Junk 

 Seylan (Curtis, n. 2917). 



Fain. 87. PERIPTERYGIACEJE Williams 



720. Peripterygium quinquilobum Hassk. — Bangkok (Schomburgk, 

 n. 311). 



The new family here proposed has heen suggested by Sir George King in his 

 Mat. Fl. Malay Penins. p. 620 (1893). He puts forward clear reasons for remo- 

 ving Cardiopteris from the family of Icacinaceae, Pteleocarpa from the family of 

 Olacacese, and Dodonœa lamponga Miq. from the family of Sapindaceœ, to be 

 included in a new natural family. Cardiopteris (or as Engler and Prantl cor- 

 rectly write it « Cardiopleryx ») is a manuscript generic name in Wallich's List, 

 whose characters were not defined, and therefore has to give way to the pro- 

 perly established genus Peripterygium Hassk., in Hoeven et de Vriese, Tijdschr. 

 Nat. Gesch. Physiol. X. p. 142 (1843); et Hassk., Cat. Hort. Bogor. alt. p. 234 

 (1844). Engler and Prantl place « Cardiopleryx » as the sole genus of Cardiopte- 

 rygoideae, one of the three subfamilies of Icacinaceae. The new family here 

 proposed includes the subfamily of Cardiopterygoideae, with the addition of 

 Pteleocarpa Oliver and Dodonœa lamponga Miq., as suggested by Sir George 

 King, and its name is formed on that of Hasskarl's genus. Blume (in Rumphia 

 III, 1847, p. 205) had already founded a new natural family, Cardiopterideœ, 

 for the single genus Cardiopteris, affeer carefully studying its dislinclive charac- 

 ters ; and had thus lo some extent. with restricted material, anticipated Sir 

 G. King's views. After examining the spécimens of Pteleocarpa Malaccensis 

 Oliver, and of the Bornean Pteleocarpa longistipa Becc, in Herb. Kew., I am 

 in füll accord with them. 



With the présent species the catalogue of the Siamese members (as far as at 

 présent known) of the Polypetalous Families comes to an end. 



