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believed the whole family to agree in this respect with 

 BignoniacecB, next to which he had placed it ; and he had 

 at least the proof of the absence of albumen in Roxburgh's 

 figure of his Incarmllea parasitica, in which the structure 

 of ovarium as well as of seeds is correctly given. 



The genera referred by Dr. Jack to this new family are 

 Cyrtandra of Forster, Didymocarpus of Wallich, and [107 

 two other genera for the first time proposed, namely, 

 yEschynanthus, to which Roxburgh's Incaroillea parasitica 

 belongs, and Loxonia. 



Nearly about the same time Mr. Don published his 

 Didymocarpem} a family consisting of two of Dr. Jack's 

 Cyrtandracecs, namely, Didymocarpus and JEschynanthus 

 (his Trichosj^orum), and a new genus Lysionotus. He in 

 like manner depends chiefly on placentation, which is not 

 very clearly described; and he also introduces into his 

 character the absence of albumen, the pendulous position 

 of seeds, and the undivided stigma. From this family he 

 excludes Cyrtandra, which has, he states, erroneously how- 

 ever, a copious albumen ; while CJdrita of Dr. (Buchanan) 

 Hamilton, of which Dr. Jack's Didymocarpus includes at 

 least one species, is doubtfully referred to Scrophularines, 

 chiefly on account of its bilamellar stigma. 



In 1826 Dr. Blume^ refers Cyrtandracecs to the natural 

 order Bignoniacece, distinguishing it as a tribe from true 

 Bignoniacem by its pendulous seeds, and subdividing it 

 into two sections ; the flrst, Trichosporae , with capsular 

 fruit, and seeds either winged or with some other form 

 of appendage; the second, Cyrtandrece, having baccate 

 fruit and seeds without appendage. To each of these sec- 

 tions he has added more than one new genus, but Loxotis 

 and Loxonia are not included in either of them ; though 

 Loxotis, as I have already stated, is probably his BJiincho- 

 glossum, referred by him to Bhinanthece ; and Loxonia, 

 notwithstanding his account of the fruit, may possibly be 

 his Loxophyllum, which he has placed in Scrophidarince ; 



» 'Edinbiirgli Philosopbieal Journal,' vii. p. 83, and ' Frodromus Florce 

 Nepalensis^ p. 121. 

 » 'Bijdragew,' p. 759. 



