192 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
A REVISION OF ACRIDOCARPUS. 
By T. A, reser B.Se. (Edin.), F.L.S. 
Kew material of 8 ora during which it became evident that 
a perian of the genus was needed. Before dealing with te 
of @ more or less controversial nature, it may be well to give 
Aaleate of previous work on the genus. 
History or THz Genus. 
1790. gereniies (Diss. Monadelph. ix, 424, t. 247) described 
and figured, under the name Banisteria Leona , Sierra Leone speci- 
mens in Thouin’ s herbarium, which he stated were given to Thouin 
by Smeathm 
1818. Ro yaa Brown (in Tuckey’s Narrative, omit stated that 
there were three Malpighiacee in Christian Smith’s Congo collec- 
tio One of these is Banisteria spl first described, from 
Smeathman’s specimens, Py. ies, who has added the fruit of 
a very different plant to his figure...., The two remaining plants 
of oe anger in 2 oe Sade with some additio: nal species 
a 
ih two Ra are poiecatays denasietees and A. a tnccleneh 
sami in Sierra eo To receive this <a hot 
‘tion of Heter, opteris, which he named si alot at shales. 
frised by the possession of alternate leaves. 
1827. Schumacher and Thonnin g (Gu nine iske Plant. 222) de- 
scribed, under the name eee Diaeeasfolse, material collected 
by a on the Gold Coa: 
880. J, C. Londo n (Hort. “Brit, 182) published Banisteria zan- 
sari Bojer, wh which, a stated, was introduced into England fro: 
an 
831.* Guillemin and Perrottet (Fl. Senegamb. Tent. 1 128, t. 
we established the genus Acridocarpus, which they distinguished 
rom 
. to 
Acridocarpus, giving it the name Smeathmanni. To A. Smeath- 
manni they referred a specimen in Jussieu’s herba arium, named 
Banisteria Leona by Cavanilles, They also reduced, doebiiully. to 
A. Smeathmanni, Malpighia alternifolia Schum. et Thon 
carpus Guill. et Perr., nomatapteris G. Don, were both pub- 
lished i in a _ fa of 1831; TI rth not succeeded in ascertaining which 
appeared first,—T. 
