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THE Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xxx., part 2, is almost entirely occupied by Mr. Miers' paper On the Lecythi-daceæ. The author prefers Lindley's proposal of erecting this group into a distinct order rather than making it a sub-tribe of Barringtonieæ, itself a tribe of Myrtaceæ, as Bentham and Hooker have done in their “Genera Plantarum.” The order will then be characterised by its alternate impunelate leaves, epigynous stamens, petaloid appendage to disc on which the stamens are seated, and peculiar fruits and seeds very different from those of Myrtaceæ, and will consist of the following twelve genera:—Gustavi a, Linn. (2 sp.); Couroupita, Aubl. (9 sp.); Bertholletia, H. and Bonpl. (2 sp.); Lecythis, Linn. (42 sp.); Chytroma, nov. gen. (Lecythis in parte auct., 25 sp.); Eschweillera, Mart. (46 sp); Jugastrum, nov. gen. (Lecythis in parte auct., 6 sp.); Couratari, Aubl. (8 sp.); Canniana, Casar. (7 sp.); Allantoma, nov. gen. (12 sp.); Grias, Linn. (4 sp.); and Cercophora, nov. pen. (1 sp.) Many of the species are now described for the first time, and the paperis illustrated by thirty-three beautiful plates, illustrative of each of the genera, and of the fruits and seeds of a large number of the species. The part contains also the Rev. O. P. Cambridge's “Systematic List of the Spiders at present known to inhabit Great Britain and Ireland:” 78 genera and 457 species.
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SCIENTIFIC SERIALS . Nature 11, 77–78 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011077a0
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