298 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



restored the Gassipourece to the Bhisophorece ; ' according to him as 

 also to LiNDLET, it was only the genus Grossostylis of Forstee that 

 ought to be transferred to another family, that of Myrtacece. After 

 many labours, particularly by Blumb, Arnott, Korthals, and A. 

 Gray, the Gassipourece, considered as a tribe of the Bhizophoracece 

 were, in 1858, the subject of a special memoir by Mr. BEiirTHAM:,^ 

 who reunited in this group the nine genera CaraUia, Pellacalyx, Ha- 

 plopetalum, Gy7iotroches, Grossostylis, Anstrutheria, Blepharistemma, 

 Dadylopetalum, and Gassipourea. The Bhizophorece, on the other 

 hand, after the labours of Wight and Arnott,^ comprised the four 

 genera BMzophora, Bruguiera, Geriops, and Kandelia. In 1862 we* 

 recognized that the genus Macarisia of Dupetit-Thouaes, referred 

 to various families, in particular to the Bhamnacece, to the MeKacece, 

 to the LinacecB,^ was allied to Gassipourea ; that Anisophyllea 

 presented closer floral analogies to Garallia ; that Anstrutheria 

 belonged to the old genus Weihea of Spkengel, and that certain 

 species of Grossostylis ° did not differ generically from Eaplopetalum . 

 of A. Gray. At present we do not think it possible to refer Plcesi- 

 antha of J. D. Hooker to the genus Pellacalyx as an apetalous type, 

 and we restore to Garallia its primitive name of Barraldeia, which 

 dates from 1806. Consequently, wo provisionally retain in this 

 family only fourteen genera, distributed in four series in the 

 following manner : 



I. RnizoPHOEEiE. — Receptacle concave and ovary partly or entirely 

 inferior. Style simple. Seed exalbuminous, with macropod embryo, 

 germinating in the fruit and on the tree. — Trees of the sea coast ; 

 leaves opposite, entire, with interpetiolate stipules. — 4 genera. 



II. Barealdiej). — Receptacle concave and ovary partly or entirely 

 inferior. Style simple. Seed furnished with albumen surrounding 

 the embryo which does not germinate in the fruit. — Trees and 

 shrubs ; leaves opposite, generally entire, with interpetiolate stipules. 

 — 4 genera. 



III. MACAEisiEiE.^ — Receptacle concave or convex and ovary free 

 sessile or shortly stipitate. Seed albuminous arillate or winged. — 



1 Op. cit. 1184, Ord. 263.— DC. Prodr. iii. 31. 6 Notably C. muUiflora, Ad. Bk. et Gk. a new 

 — Rliaophorace(B Lindl. op. cit. 726, Ord. 279. Caledonian species. 



2 Synopsis of Legnotideai, a tribe of Rhizopho- ' Legnotidem Baetl. Ord. iVB<.— Endl. Oen. 

 racea {Journ. Linn. Soc. in. 65). 1186. — Cassipourece Meissn. Gen. 119.— Lindl. 



3 Ann. Nat. Bist. i. 359.' Vcg. Kingd. (1846) 604.— J. a. Ag. Tkcor. Syst. 

 ■* Adansonia, iii. 15. Plant. 246. 



* Pl. ex B. H. Gen. 246. 



