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1831. George Don (Gen. Syst. i. 684, 647) raised De Candolle’s 
section Anomalopter is to generic rank, and gave short diagnoses of 
three spec He gave the name Anomalopteris spicata to De Can- 
dolle’s Sash opteris ? Snee enews and described two new species : 
A. obovata from ners a Leone, and A. longifolia from Guinea 
(Island of St. Thomas). 
1834. Arnott im Sci. Nat. sér. 2, ii. 286) pointed out that the 
genus Acridocarpus the same as dnomalopteris, and observed 
that Acridocarpus Ly aonterts Guill. et Perr. was apparently iden- 
tical with Anomalopteris obovata G. Don 
18 drien de Jussieu (Archiv. Mus. d’Hist. iii. 482, t. 15) 
published his monograph of the Malpighiacea, in Avy he extended 
the limits of the genus Acridocarpus so as to include three new 
species, which differed from fecal ee i in having opposite 
leaves, umbellate inflorescence, and three styles ; the three e species 
are A. angolen sis, A. galph Goin and A. pruriens; they consti- 
tute Jussieu’s second section of the genus. 
Jussieu enumerated, in his first section, nine species belonging 
to typical ss fia four of rape were new—A. natal itius 
(Krauss, No. 261), A. adenophorus, A. tentalis, @ nd A. excelsus. 
Jussieu are 4. plagiopterus, As Ras kaas. A. Cavanillesti, A. 
givens: 2 and A. zanzibaricus. A. Cavanillesii was founded b 
ussieu on the description and ey of the fruit of Banisteria 
Leona ve he stated that it was “allied to A. Smeathmanni, from 
which it differed i in the shape of the samara. ['The other parts = 
Cavanilles’s Banisterta Leona were considered by 4 Jussieu to belon 
to a species of Heteropteris, which he named H. africana.] Z. 
seat was founded by Jussieu on material communicated to on 
by which he identified with Malpighia alternifolia Schum 
fae. 2 and A. zanzibaricus was founded on Banisteria pai ica 
i ee stated that Guillemin and Perrottet had referred Mal- 
pire gle wide to A. plaaiope” us; he remarked -that it was nearer 
o A. Sm nanni, and that it di ffered from both A. plagiopterus 
ai ye Secribaeaa in the aus and thickness of the leaves, which 
had larger glands on the lower surface than in the other two speieee 
As a Satie of fact, Guillemin and Perrottet referred M. a 
nifolia, doubtfully, to 4. Smeathma oe above 
na note under A. guincensis, Jussie added a suggestion that 
Anomalopteris Jed aes G. Don was oganty referable to Acrido- 
carpus guin 
Finally, he he tonctal: at the end of the genus, a doubiful species, 
A.? argyrophyllus, from Madagascar; the specimens examined b 
Jussieu had male flowers, which made him doubtful as to the pro- 
prey placing the species in Acridocarp pus 
Hochstetter (in Flora, xxvii. 206) described Krauss, 
No. ‘261, asa new species of Banisteria, B. ussiana, being evi- 
dently unaware that Jussieu ps in ea. previous year, founded 
Acridocarpus natalitius upon the sa: um 
1848. Planchon (in Hook. Ic. "Pl. viii. . 774) described and — 
