MALPIQHIAOE^. 445 



the genera Galphimia, Plabellaria, Tetrapterys ; G^eetnee, the genus 

 Hiptage ; Jacquin, the genus Eircea. In 1789, A. L. de Jtjssieu had 

 well established an order of Malpighiece ; but he only included the 

 three genera of Linnjeits, and, as types allied to the series, Trigonia 

 {Polygalacece) and Erythroxylum (Linacece). When in 1843, A. de 

 JussiEU published his monograph' on this family, to which he is 

 supposed to have given the most care, he found twenty genera esta- 

 blished by his predecessors, and added nineteen; which, without 

 counting two genera still very doubtful,^ raises the total number at 

 that epoch to thirty-nine. Ten new genera have been added since 

 then : Flabellaria of G-^etner, confounded by A. L. de Jussieu with 

 Triaspis, has been distinguished anew by Bentham and Hookbe,^ 

 who have also separated the Sphedamnocarpus of Planchon from 

 Acridocarpus. The genus Ftilochoeta had been proposed by Tuecza- 

 NiNOW in 1843 ; Lasiocarpus, by Lbibmann in 1854, and Henleo- 

 phytum, by Kaesten in 1860. But the author who latterly has 

 most occupied himself with this family, especially in editing the 

 Flora Brasiliensis of Maetius, A. H. E. Geisebach, has also pub- 

 lished most of the new genera of Malpighiacece : Acmantheraj Blepha- 

 randra^ Glonodia, Biacidia, Glandonia, etc. Altogether we keep forty- 

 eight genera, contaimng nearly six hundred and thirty species, and 

 all are American except some fifty. These latter are divided among 

 the seven genera belonging to the old world, all the others belong- 

 ing to the new. The most widespread, as to geographical distribu- 

 tion of the types of the old world, are Tristellateia and Acridocarpus. 

 They are principally African, and both exist in Madagascar. The 

 latter is also met with in tropical western Africa ; but, singularly 

 enough, both of them are represented by a species in the warm parts of 

 Oceania. A Tristellateia has even been seen in Australia, and a species 

 of Acridocarpus belonging properly to New Caledonia. Flahellaria^ 

 Sphedamnocarpus, and Triaspis are found only in Africa, Aspidop- 



^ Monographie des MalpigMac&s, ou exposition — Walp. iJep. t. 357). 2nd. Bembix (Lour. Fl. 



dea caractires. . . Paris (1843), i(i-4. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 282;— Endl. Gen. u. 6595, 



2 1st. Camanthus (Fos.as.,Fl. JEg.-Arai.91). 6877; B.H. Gen. 251). A genus whose decan- 



A genus which appears to approach Flabellaria drous flower is said to have nearly the charac- 



in most of its characters, hut it has not its fruit, ters of that of the Malpighiaoem, hut with a tri- 



and which ought, it is supposed, to he referred partite calyx. The fruit is small, fleshy, tidlo- 



to Aneulophus (pp. 61, 66) of the famUy of the cular. 



Linaeea (Endl. &en. n, 5594 ;— B. TS..-Gen. 251 ; 3 (j^„_ 247, Ord. 36. 



