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ship of Balanophore i ; 
of ft, though ‘i een oe ee cpa Bartling seems to have taken a comprehensive view 
cee. Avistolochize, Outi must have been scanty. He regarded Balanophoree, Raflesia- 
oa , Cytinee, and Taccee as forming a closely united class (into which h inclined 
epenthes i ; j 
. a vdablct ? : lt 2 ree ae _ This class he termed Aristolochiee, and Seas it Seon his 
oe leading botanists have paises Sela werce tte onticety but aed ae if ies a 
urnished proofs of its gen | EAS aL Bae Mo ae Med Sa 
together wants Class Rheoathen, Dae. pire dieriddees ele hai ew Benet seems: 
Led APISstol nthee in his Class | re $ 
aie sp ae eae ae, are ae ee with Aristolochive. Meisner and Lindley (Veg. ‘King. 
mn ) : iews. - Brongniart, again, showed a greater leaning towards Bartling’ 
opinion, grouping together in his Class Asarinee, Balanophoree, Rafflesi “tas poe} 
Aristolochiee, whilst retaining Tacca amongst Monocot edo ‘Gri Marcas ee Sr A 
associated Aristolochiee with Cytinee (ineludin Pesinces), placed Be ee Se eee tere 
neighbourhood, though in a different ae Caetty aera ea ceeAdaT ants a hb ane oe 
seracee and Sarracensacee, and incorporated Taccee with the Fascas: i G. A ardh (Theor se Oh ea 
to a great extent Bartling’s view of the relationship of Taccee Aristoloohiee ‘6, tinee opie at aca 
Balanophoree. J. Hooker and Bentham (Gen, Plantarum) have not yet dealt with this ae =f ae : 
though, as they have passed Haloragee, and not inserted Balanophoree and their allies den thee "age 
will probably place them at the end of the Incomplete. The relationship between Yaccee and Ari fe g 
lochiee was suggested long ago by Brown and Blume; and the objection, that Tacea has no coe 
dons, and can therefore not be placed in Dicotyledons, is removed when we remember that Groban 
always been admitted amongst Monopetale, although it has no cotyledons. I would therefore urge the 
adoption of Bartling’s Class Aristolochiee to include Balanophoree, Cytinee, Rafflesiacee, Ne, enthea,* 
and Aristolochiee proper. The chief objection formerly entertained to a closer union of Nehontioa with 
their superior ovary, and Aristolochiee with their inferior ovary, is in a measure removed by our knowin 
that the Oeratasarum section of Asarwm (Heterotropa, A. Gray) has a semi-inferior, almost superior ovary 
Granting that the Orders just mentioned are natural allies, the question arrives near what other 
Orders should they be placed in the system. Duchartre, who lately worked up the Aristolochiee for De 
Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus,’ is silent on this point. Klotzsch, in his paper on “ Aristolochiee” (Proceedings 
of the Berlin Academy, 1859) assigns to the Aristolochiee, Nepenthea, Cytinee, and the genuine Rafflesia- 
ae ais oe eee riA (Laccee he does not take into consideration), and from that opimion I am not 
inclined to dissent. 
1. Balanophora, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 50; Hook. fil, in Linn. Trans. vol. xxii. p. 380. Fl. ¢: 
Perianthium 8-6-phyllum. Stamina connata; anthers extrorse. Fl. 2: Perianthium 0, Stylus 
1. Pistilla bracteolis clavatis intermixta v. pedicellis bractearum inserta.—Rhizoma tuberosum v. 
ramosum; pedunculis nudis v. squamosis, capitulis 1- v. 9.sexualibus; floribus 1-sexualibus.—Cy- 
nopsole, Endl. Gen. n. 718. Cynomoriui, Willd. Spec. vol. v. p. 177. Acrodlastum, Sol. Prim, FI. 
Ins. Pacif. p. 310 (ined.). 
1. B. fungosa, Forst. Char. 
Bot. (1833), t. 15; Hook. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxii. 
Gen. t. 50; Prodr. n. 333; Icon. (ined.) t. 253; Rich. Hlém. de 
p. 46. t. 8; flavo-albida; rhizomate tube- 
roso lobato granulato; pedunculi squamus alternis v. imbricatis; capitulis bisexualibus ovoideis sub- 
globosisve; antheris 3-6 bilocularibus.—Cynomorium australe, Waild, Spec. Plant. vol. v. p. 177. 
Acroblastum pallens, Sol. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 310, et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 91 
(ined.).—Moala, up a small brook (Milne). Also found in Tana, New Hebrides (W. Anderson! in 
Mus. Brit.), in the Society Islands (according to Solander’s notes and Parkinson’s drawing), and the 
east coast of New Holland (M‘Gillivray !). 
Milne, in Captain Denham’s Expedition, gathered a Balanophora on Moala (see Hooker’s Kew Mise. 
vol, vii. p. 152), which, however, does not seem to have reached the Kew Museum, where most of Milne’s 
specimens were sent ; and I myself did not see Balanophora fungosa in Fiji, but at the proper season the 
plant, a pale-yellow parasite, is doubtless not rare, growing as it does on the widely-diffused Hibiscus tilia- 
Ne ee ee 
b thes : a : so, Korth., found b 
* The only representative of this singular Order in Polynesia 1s Nepenthes Bongso, pe 
M‘Gillivray in Die spots near running streams in the Isle of Pines, off New Caledonia, and by Strange 
in New Caledonia itself, according to specimens preserved at the British Museum. I believe these loca- 
lities are the most southern as yet recorded of any Nepenthes. 5 
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