336 NATURAL HI8T0BY OF PLANTS. 



and some supplementary memoirs,' in which he divided the Myrtacece, 

 according to the consistence of their fruit, into XerocarpiccB and 

 ChymocarpiccB. Lindlet ^ similarly divided them into Leptospermece 

 and Myrtece, and relegated to distinct orders the Ghamcdauciece^ and 

 the Lecythidece* [Barringtoniece). In4840, Endlicher^ reunited in 

 one family the five suh-orders of GhamcBlauciece, Leptospermece, 

 Myrteoe, Barringtoniece, and Lecythidece, adding to it Granateoe as 

 allied to Myrtacece, that is to say, besides the types which have been 

 excluded from the family, a total of sixty-seven genera (of which 

 about a dozen are duplicates). In 1865, Bentham and Hookee® 

 described or indicated seventy-eight genera of Myrtacece, some of 

 which had just been established in France,' in America,* and in 

 Australia,' but especially in Germany, by O. Bbrg,'° the author who, 

 in our day, tas most studied this family. Bentham and Hookee 

 have, besides, considered as doubtful genera of Myrtacece, Foetidia, 

 Gatostemma and Fropiera, and reunited to the Lythrariadece the 

 genera Punica and Sonneratia. By attaching to other generic types, 

 previously established, Astartea, Kunzea, Lamarchea, Begelia, Phy- 

 matocarpus, Syncarpia, Tepualia, Xanthostemon, Galycolpus, and 

 CupKceanthus, which they retained as distinct, and by restoring to 

 this family (not without some doubt) the two genera Sonneratia and 

 Faetidia, we reduce the number of genera '^ it includes to sixty-four 

 distributed in the six following series : 



I. Mtete^.*^ — Fruit fleshy (or very rarely drupaceous). Ovarian 

 cells 2-co ,'3 disposed regularly around the axis. Leaves opposite, 

 punctuate. — 19 genera. 



II. Leptospeemej].'* — Fruit dry, generally capsular. Ovarian 

 cells 2-00 disposed regularly around the axis. — 18 genera. 



III. Cham^laucie^.^^ — Fruit indehiscent, generally monosper- 



' Mv. Act. Nat. Cur. xxi. p. i. m Linncea, xxvii. xxiz. xxx. xxxi. ; Mart. Fl. 



- Veg. Kingd. (1846) 734, Ord. 282. Sras. faso. 18 (1857, 1868). 



» Op. cit. 721, Ord. 276. n Including about 1800 species. JpJuino- 



* Op. cit. 739, Ord. 283. mgrtm (MiQ. M. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 180) is a 



5 Gm. 1223, Ord. 269. doubtful genus (B. H. Gen. 696). 



6 Gm. 690, 1006, Ord. 67. 12 DC. Prodr. iii. 230.— Chimoearpiete Schau. 



7 Especially by A. Brongniaet and A. Gris, loc. cit. 



for the little studied New Caledonian types " Sometimes only one in Fenzlia. 



{Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, ii. 124 ; iii. 210), and pre- H DC. he. cit. 209.— Xerocarpiea, trib. 2, 



viously by P. MoNTBOuziEit {Mem. Acad. Lyon, Zeptospermete Schatj. 



X.), for plants of the same country. 16 DC. he. eit. 208; Diet. Class. cPSist. Nat. 



8 By A. Gkay {Acicalyptus). xi. {1&20). —Xerocarpico), trib. 1, Chamalaueieis 

 « By F. Mdeller {Lysicarpm, Osbornia, Thy- Scbau. —ChammlamiaeecB Ldidl. Veg. Kingd. 



matocaipusj Somalocalt/x, etc.). (1846) 721. 



