Of the very few plants referred to the family in the Herbarium, two genera are only worthy of remark here, the one an Ornitrophe, found on the East Coast, in about latitude 35 degrees, as also within the tropic; and the other, which appears to belong to Stadmannia, was discovered upon the same coast, in latitude 31 degrees South, the type of the genus being the bois de fer of the French colonists, a timber tree indigenous at the Island of Mauritius.
MALVACEAE, Juss.

Tiliaceae, Juss.

Sterculiaceae, Vent.

Buttnericeae, Brown.

These several families, of which the first is by far the most extensive, have been viewed by Mr.Brown, as so many allied orders of one natural class, to which the general title of Malvaceae might be applied.
About thirty-six species of these orders collectively, are preserved in the present Herbarium, referable at least to eleven genera, of which nine are most abundant in (and form a characteristic feature of) the botany of India, and the equinoctial parts of South America.