318 INDEX GENEBUM PHANEROGAMARUM. 



dacece 



Valetonia = Martia T. Valeton, non Benth. 

 Strailia = Cercophora Miers, non Fresenius. 

 Nostolachma — Lachnostoma Korth., non H. B. K. 

 Buseria = Leiochilus H. f., non Kn. et Westc. 

 Lagoa = Zyqostema E. Fourn., non Benth. 

 Thtispeinantha = Tapeinanthus Boiss., non Herb. 

 Lophotocarpus = Lophiocarpus M. Micheli, non Turcz. 

 Boeckeleria = Decalepis Bock., non W. et A. 



The other new genera are — six proposed by Bacllkofer in Sapin- 

 ,*> — j+h„„»„„ a~i Melanodiscus m ~-^ -- rr: : ~ 



v * _i j 7 -j 7 J. , 



and Conchopetalum — and one (Schwackcea) by Cogniaux in Melasto- 

 macece. Prof. Kadlkofer has appended a short diagnostic phrase to 

 each of his novelties, which will entitle them to be quoted by future 

 writers ; but Schwackcea is a nomen nudum. The Sapotacece are 

 revised by Kadlkofer, and Beccari's help is acknowledged for the 

 Palms. The authors who have monographed for the ■ Suites au 



followed 



now publishing in parts, ' Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien,' has 

 been consulted for the Palms, Grasses, and other groups. 



The Appendix of " Genera dubise sedis vel non satis nota," 

 occupies six pages, much less than might perhaps have been 

 expected. One or two names may be removed from it, in addition 

 to Aphloia, which must have slipped in by accident, as it is duly 

 placed in the body of the book. Micrcea of Miers has already been 

 shown in this Journal* (on Mr. Miers's own authority) to be iden- 

 tical with Rudlia dulcis Cav. " Leptophragma E. Br. et Benn., PI. 

 Jav. Ear. 185," = Turraa Broivnii C. DC, Mon. Phan. i. 442. We 

 have in the Department of Botany, (1) Brown's MS. description of 

 the plant, which was first referred by him to Ticrrcea, and afterwards 

 separated as Leptophragma, the fruit being " essentially different " 

 from that of Turraa ; (2) a specimen collected by Brown, and 

 named by him " Turraa;' with a reference to the above MS. 

 description; ^3) a beautiful drawing by Bauer, labelled Lepto- 

 phragma denudatum, to which Brown refers in the above MS. A 

 specimen collected by Banks in the Bay of Inlets, to which 

 Dryander has attached the above name, may be a different species. 



a m G > are at ^ e ^ atlira l History Museum specimens of some of 

 Aublefs and Loureiro's doubtful genera, which, although mostly of 

 a fragmentary nature, may help to throw light upon some of these. 

 We are glad to see that the Gymnosperms occupy their proper 

 position, after the Monocotyledons. 



-The following table of the numbers of orders, genera, and 

 species—the latter such as were considered " bene distinctae, lin- 

 neanaB dicta"— will be noted with interest : 



Order. Genera. Species. 



tv ,. , , (Polypetalaj . 90 3050 28,800 



Dicotyledones . jGamopetahe . 46 2885 37,800 



(Monochlamydea 36 849 12,100 



172 6784 78,200 



* Joum. Bot. 1882, 21. 



