Original Articles. 
A REVISION OF THE GENERA DRYOBALANOPS AND 
DIPTEROCARPUS. 
By W. T. Tuisstron Dyn, M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S. 
(Piaves 142-145.) 
vine undertaken the Mies alge’ for the “‘ Flora of British 
India ” I was naturally le af to ex the species which have been 
described from the Mala Bb artralage After d e 
revision of the Indian peitha a set of Beccari’s Bornean collections 
arrived at Kew. These proved to be extremely rich in new species ; 
and as M. De Candolle was kind e none! to forego his intention of 
describing these in my favour, I determin prepare @ monograp 
of the whole Order. I was unable to ae as much progress with 
riese. of. 
the courteou urator of the 5 Herbarium, did not feel himself 
justified in tananitone to Kew the often unique specimens upon 
which these dubious species were founded, and it seemed therefore 
unavoidable to leave them still uncorrelated with the more complete 
materials collected by Beccari, with some of whose plants they must 
almost certainly be identical. 
s being the state of the case, I heard a short fime ago from 
also preparing a 
monograph of the Order, to appear in the ‘‘ Ann. des Sc. N: stool,” 
and I have te seta ea merely to a this o gtk unity of 
genera 
The camped of the Botrisoven established a Bicine | in 1825, 
has sprung, so to say, into scientific existence since the commen ncement 
of the “ [es ” In the first volume (p. 517) a single species, 
Vatiea chinensis, Linn. (= Vatica Roxburghana, Bl.) is enumerated 
amongst the Tiliacee. In the sixteenth volume the monograph of the 
family as limited by Bentham and Hooker ‘Kegpaceeh over nearly forty, 
e following enumeration I have con ibphted | myacl with _— 
citing authorities in the case of species whic been elsew 
adequately described. I have given full Priced oct ae new hi 
and also of those already published, when I have been able to add to 
or correct what has been already stated about them. 
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