Botany and Zoology. 825 
Ill. Botany AND Zoouoey. 
Meliacece, cum tabulis ix. Paris, Masson. June, 1878. pp. 779, 
nt 8vo.—In this form and way we may hope to see the Monoco- 
tyledonous orders elaborated, and some of the earlier Dicotyle- 
onous ones re-elaborated. e middle of this volume is filled 
by the monograph of Restiacew, by Dr. Masters. This is an order 
allied on the one hand to Juncacec, on the other to Cyperacee, of 
a tropical order. The stamineal tube in the monadelphous 
ed, 
two more are obscure or doubtful. There are thirty-eight pages 
of prefatory generalia, in DeCandolle’s best manner. We are 
— to find that he keeps up the specific phrase, and with true 
nnean curtness, relegating all particulars, not truly diagnostic 
under the sections and other divisions, to the description. In dis- 
cussing the nature and characters of the leaf (which in its general 
Sense is called “récentement et assez inutilement phyllome”) the 
morphology of the petiolar tendrils has to be considered; the 
conclusion is that these i 
and the articulation, in some species well marked, between the 
Specific characters, which have been overlooked. e umbels are 
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centrifugal or cymose. To distinguish, as is here done, the peri- 
Perigone will then have no raison détre. Whatever the number 
and position of the stamens, the carpels are superposed to the 
Sepals, as indeed is the case in most Monocotyledons. It is perti- 
