“…Before the advent of modern phylogenetics, Warburg (1897: 102) proposed a 'hypothetical genealogical tree of the genera of Myristicaceae' in his main monograph of the family. Later botanists who contributed to the systematics of Myristicaceae (including Smith, 1937;Capuron, 1972Capuron, , 1973Sinclair, 1958aSinclair, ,b, 1961Sinclair, , 1968Sinclair, , 1974Sinclair, , 1975Rodrigues 1977Rodrigues , 1980Rodrigues , 1981Rodrigues , 1982Rodrigues , 1989ade Wilde, 1979de Wilde, , 1981de Wilde, , 1984ade Wilde, ,b, 1985ade Wilde, ,b, 1986de Wilde, , 1987ade Wilde, ,b, 1990de Wilde, , 1991ade Wilde, ,b, 1994ade Wilde, ,b, 1995de Wilde, , 1996de Wilde, , 1998de Wilde, , 2000 hardly ever made suggestions about relationships among the 21 genera now recognized in the family. Two pre-cladistic views on the origin of the family are, however, worth mentioning.…”