S86 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



are the closest affinities in the floral organisation. A. L. de Jussibu,^ 

 after many others,^ it is true, had united in one and the same order, 

 the TerebinthacecB^ not only the species, of Jnacardium he knew, but 

 also seyeral Rutacece., as AmyriSj Toddalia, Spathelia., Bimdba, Ailantus, 

 Cneorwm^ Brucea, Zanthoxylon, and Ptelea ; the Juglans ; the Sapin- 

 dacece, like Dodoncea ; the Connaracece, such as Bourea, Cnestis, and 

 Connarus ; a leguminous plant then badly known, Toluifera, and 

 Averrhoa, which is inseparable from the Sorrels. It was Xunth 

 who, in 1824,^ gave the most complete table of TereUnthacece, eom- 

 prisiug : 1st. the Anacardece of E. Brown,* that is to say, the genera 

 Anacardium^ BMnocarpus, Mangifera^ Camhessedea, Semecarpus^ Bhus, 

 Buchanania^i Mauria, Pistacia, Schinus^ Duvaua, Astronium, Como- 

 cladia, and 8orindeia ; 2nd. Juglandeoe {Juglans^ Carga, Pterocarya^ and 

 (?) Decostea) ; 3rd. The Burseracece, comprising Elaphrium, Boswellia, 

 Bahamodendrum, leica, Protium, Bursera, Marignia, Colophonia, 

 Canarium, and Hedwigia ; 4th. The Amyridece.^ that is to say, the single 

 genus Amyris (which he already suspected to be more allied to the 

 Aurantiacece) ; 5th. The Pteleacece, i. e. Ptelea, Blackburnia, Toddalia, 

 Cneorum, Spathelia, and (?) Ailantus ; 6th. The Connaracece, with5rM- 

 neUrn, and Brucea, which he doubtfully joined with it ; 7th. Spondiacece 

 (Spondias and Poupartia). He excluded Rumphia of Linnjetjs,^ a 

 genus yet very little known at that epoch ;^ Toluifera, reckoned as 

 congenerous to Myroxylon, that is to say, with the Leguminacece ; 

 Tapiria, which he was without doubt unable to study ; Simaha and 

 Zanthoxylon, whose true place he recognised amongst the Rutacece; 

 Dodonea, of which he made a Sapindacece ; Averrhoa, whose affinity with 

 Ozalis E. Beown had shown; Stylohasium, which he joined to the Chry- 

 solalanecB ; Heterodendron, also supposed by him to be more allied to 

 the Sapindacece. A year later De Candolle reckoned very nearly 



1 Gen. (1789), 368, Ord. 12. no one taa teen able up to the present to study 



- Their opinions are given in full, in a special an authentic specimen. Its flowers are described 



work by Mabohand : Sistory of the ancient as trimerous, with a tubular calyx, 3-fid, three 



Group of TereUnthacea>{VBxis,W69i). We must petals, three exserted stamens alternate -with 



principally cite amongst the predecessors of A. the petals, and a triagonal ovary, surmounted 



L. DE JussiEU, his uncle B. de Jussieu {Gen. by a simple style. Its fruit is drupaceous, 



lex. Terebinti) and Adanson (Fam. des Fl. ii. with a 3-locular and S-spermoos stone. It is 



(1763), 332, Fam. ii, Pistacia). a tree from Malabar, with simple, alternate, 



3 In Ann. Sc. Nat. s&, 1. ii. 333. dentate, aromatic leaves and flowers in racemes. 



* Congo, 431 (1818) ; Misc. Works (ed Benn.), S. amboinensis L. {Syst. i, 92) or E. tilicefolia 

 i- 111- Lamk. Diet. vi. 352; III. t. 26), wfll be the 



* Gen. n. 47. Tsiemtani of Rheede {Sort. Malab. iv. 25, t. 

 6 It is again assigned now, though with 11). It has also been supposed that it may 



doubt, to the Anacardiacete, Spondias tribe, by be a badly described Eup}iorUace<e. 

 BsNiBAM and Hooseb {Gen. 428, n. 43) ; but 



