290 ON THE NATURAL ORDER TACCACEA. 
them as a suborder of Amaryllidacea, declared it as his opinion that 
this was not their true place, but that they formed a distinct 
; fo : 
and Peliosanthee,** but in a subsequent publication between 
Tamacee a seals adding to them Thismiee.t+ According to 
Kunth the family stands between Dioscoreacee and Amaryllidacea ;}} 
whilst cae, reduced tats it and Amaryllidacee to mere tribes 
of Liliaceae. §§ . G. Agar writes :——‘‘ Taccacee sunt Aristolochieis, 
we, Aspi 
distreis proxime collaterales, formam superiorum Karendhsnsasame 
Cryptocorynearum, ut videtur, constituentes.’’|||| Miquel poe 
Taccacee between Dioscoreacee and Iridacee ;{{i J. D. Hoo 
merges them in Burmanniacea, stationed between Amaryllidacea 3 
Dioscoreacee ;*** and in Alexander Braun’s classification, now a 
good deal followed in ay cen they stand between Dioscoreacee 
and Hemodoracee.+++ In his very original system of classification, 
Mr. Benjamin Clarke places Taccacee in st same alliance with 
Burmanniacee, in his Orchidal group o carpous endorr 
rchidacee.t{tt Simultaneously also Baillon, as the result 
flowers.§§§ Le Maout and Decaisne, following a 
Juss, ranged the order between Iridacea and 5 ah a II {| ! 
paper on Aristolochia, Dr. Masters showed that, regard bei 
had to a number of the most important characters which they 
possess in common, Taccacee hold a lg the ene relation to 
Aristolochiacee as Santalacee and Ara but agree less than do 
Dioscoreacee 319% but he of course acted that th ibs dicotyledonous 
orders were ipso facto removed from close affinity. M. Lerolle, ina 
at note on the arrangement of Monocotyledons, places T’accacee 
e Amarylloideous alliance of his petaloid Monocotyledons, next 
Amaryllidacee, 45, 48, 63, 333 (1836 || Theor. syst. plant. 33 1858 
; wry Plant. 139 (1836); Enchir. «EP q Fl. In a hot. 4 iii. 576 Ay 
. 93 (1841). ss ida Thuaites’s Enum. pl. Zeyl. 
avis regn. veg. 14 note (1838). 32 
§ Affin. of Plants, 92 (1839). ttt Given in Sachs’ s Text-book of 
i} ee d. genr. de pl. xv. (1843). Bot. 555 (1864). 
4 ‘lant. vase. gen. 403 (1848). ttt New arrangem. of cea: Pl. 
Tetractys Nature, 23 (1843). 10, tab. 1 vee 
t Stal monogr. Scitam. 4, note (1872). i § Adansoni 1a, V 42 (18 66). 
tt Enum. plant. v. 457 (1850). |||] Traité gén. v6 es 572 (1868). 
§§ Grundr. d. syst, Bot. 164 (1854). “| 4] Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 491 (1875). 
