CONNARAOEZ. 11 
order, but unfortunately added’ Zhysanus, Hurycoma, Suriana, Cneorum, 
and Heterodendron. Linpuxy’ only retained the first two of these 
genera, and that doubtfully. In 1850 Puancnon*® undertook the 
revision of the whole of the order, from which he finally excluded 
the genera Hurycoma, Cneorum, Suriana, Heterodendron, Brunellia, 
Brucea, and Ailanthus. At the same time he included both 
SotanpEr’s genera Manotes and Agelea, and created three new 
generic types—Cnestidium, Rouwreopsis (which is only a Rourea), and 
Bernardinia (also referred by us to Rowrea). In the same year 
Brvmr* created his genus 7richolobus for some plants from the Indian 
Archipelago. The genera proposed latterly are due to J. Hooker 
and to Miguzi; to the former belong Hemiandrina’ (later on 
restored by him to Agelea), Teniochlena, and Ellipanthus, which last 
we only make a section of Zricholobus ; to the latter Zroostwyckia, 
which does not differ from Hemiandrina, and Nothocnestis,’ whose 
organization is imperfectly known, and whose natural relations are 
even at this moment under discussion. 
AF¥INITIES.—ENDLICHER® has so well summed up all the affinities 
recognised by previous authors that we cannot do better than 
quote his very words :—“ Anacardiaceis, mediante Buchanania, et 
Zanthoxyleis per Brunelliam propius accedunt, embryone antitropo 
diverse, hine per Cnestin, mediante Averhoa, Oxalideis, dl/inc Legu- 
minosis Detarieis, viz nisi ovariorum numero, embryonis situ et 
stipularum defectu distinguendis, accedunt.”® In fact, Buchanania, with 
its free carpels and diplostemonous androceum, only differs from Con- 
Only as genera affinia, it is true. 
Veg. Kingd, (1846), 468, Ordo clxxv. 
Iu Linnea, xxiii. 412. 
Mus. Iugd.-Bat., i. 236. 
In Trans. Linn, Soc., xxiii. 171, t. 28 (1860). 
6 Gen., 433, 434, n. 10, 11 (1862). 
7 The Sumatran plant which is the only 
whose partite calyx is in part persistent about 
the fruit ; there is an annular disk, around which 
are inserted the stamens, five (?) in number, and 
a fruit of a solitary central follicle whose dorsal 
and ventral sutures project both outside and 
inside, but especially inside, to form a very 
incomplete spurious dissepiment. The unilateral 
1 
2 
a 
4 
5 
member of this genus, belongs according to 
Bentroam & Hooker (Gten., 431) not to Con- 
naracee but to Leguminosee. Still Miqurn 
who established the genus in 1861, in the Flor. 
Ind.-Bat., Suppl., i. 531, in 1867, still maintained 
in the Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat., iii. 88, that it 
should be left in the former order, and made 
some corrections in his original description. We 
can pronounce no opinion on. this subject, having 
been unable to study the very imperfect specimens 
in the herbarium of Leyden. We only know 
through MiQvEt, that WV. sumatrana is a tree 
with simple entire leaves and pentandrous flowers, 
dehiscence of this fruit frees a seed inserted 
somewhat obliquely on a basilar placenta, almost 
entirely enveloped in a succulent membranous 
aril, and containing an embryo surrounded by a 
thin layer of albumen, 
8 Op. cit., 1139. 
9 AGaRDH on the whole admits the same 
affinities, considering as he does (Theor. Syst. 
Plant., 229) that the Connaracee by the form of 
their fruits form a transition between Legu- 
minose and Terebinthacee, and that Detariee, 
as they possess a corolla, are a more perfect form of 
Connaracee. 
