336 ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
orders 125 are already known in Madagascar. Only one of them, 
Chlenacee, is — oe far as published material goes, as peculiar 
to the island, and o of its five genera we have in the Ke 
corymb of flowers, like those of a csi te two or three inches in 
couple of inches in diameter when ex ed. In Behiectahia there 
ure two flowers to olucre, ows ut in the fruiting 
nm inv and it o 
stage, and is laciniated at the edge like that of Cotton. In the 
three other genera the flowers are smaller and aggregated at the 
end of the oes in dense corymbose panicles. The total — 
species known in ‘ 
In the tad altogether the cue a of genera now pare is 
about 700. Of these about 80, of which the following is 
approximate catalogue sands under the natural oo be 
supposed to be endemic, so far as present knowledge exten 
ENISPERMACEEX.—Rhap — Spirospermum, Bursaia. 
SrercuLicexZ.—Cheir 
Trm1acex.— 
erronamareetn mers A Polycardia, 
Saprnpace®.—Macphersonia. 
ANACARDIACER.—Micronychia, Baronia 
Leeuminos2.—Chadsia, Bauken, Colvillea. 
CRASSULACER. —Kitchingia. 
HamMaMELIDZ.— neo 
F PHOREEZ.—Mae 
MeE.astTomace. smh biethid; Veprecella, ae Gravesia. 
Samypacem.—Calantica, Nisa, Asteropeia, cia, Myriantheia 
pa a —Deidamia, Physena. 
Rus — Breonia, Carphalia, ——. Chapeliera, Nema- 
tostylis, Loris Saldania, Hymenocnem 
Composit.—Centauropsis, Rochonia "Gl ycideras, Henricia, Syncho- 
dendron, i sais abadiinl NS a Micractia, Epallage. 
Loseniace ®.—Dialypetalw 
on. 
Saporacem.—Cryptogyne. 
Oteace®.—WNoronhia. 
Apocynace®.—Craspidospermum, Plectaneia, Mascarenhaisia. 
Ascieprapace®.—Pentopetia, Camptocarpus, Harpanema, Pyeno- 
neurum, Decanema, Pervillea,. 
TIAN —Tachiadenus. 
ConvoLvuLace®.— Bonamia. 
