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and Carallia, all of which are found in the equinoctial 

 part of New Holland, form a distinct natural order which 

 may be called EJiizophorece. This order agrees with Cu- 

 noniacese in its opposite leaves and intermediate stipulse, 

 and with great part of them in the aestivation of its calyx, 

 and in the structure and cohesion of the ovarium. Prom 

 these it differs chiefly in the want of albumen and greater 

 evolution of its embryo. Jussieu^ has combined Rhizo- 

 phora and Bruguiera'with Loranthus and Viscum, neglect- 

 ing some very obvious, and, as they appear to me, import- 

 ant differences in the flower^ and probably never having 

 had an opportunity of comparing the very distinct struc- 

 tures of their ovaria ; the affinity too of Rhizophorese to 

 Cunoniacese is unquestionable, and it will hardly be pro- 

 posed to unite both these tribes with Loranthus, which I 

 consider as even more nearly related to Proteacese. 



HALORAGE^. The greater part of the genera of 

 which this order is composed, have been referred to Ona- 

 grariae, to certain parts of which they no doubt very nearly 

 approach ; but it must appear rather paradoxical to unite 

 Puchsia in the same family with Myriophyllum and even 

 Hippuris, and it would be in vain to attempt a definition peo 

 of an order composed of such heterogenous materials. By 

 the separation of the order here proposed it becomes at 

 least practicable to define Onagrarise. It is still, however, 

 difficult to characterise Halorageae, which will probably be 

 best understood by considering as the type of the order the 

 genus Haloragis, froan which all the others differ by the 

 suppression of parts or separation of sexes. Thus Meio- 

 nectes, an unpublished genus of New Holland, is reduced to 

 half the number of parts both of flower and fruit. Pro- 

 serpinaca is deprived of petals and of one fourth of all the 

 other parts. Myriophyllum, which is monoecious, has the 

 complete number of parts in the male flower, but in the 

 female wants both calyx and corolla ; what several authors 

 have described as petals being certainly bractea?. 



• Amahs da mus. 12, p. 288. 



