114 DR. H. F. HANCE'8 SUPPLEMENT TO 
*Solanum biflorum, Lour.; Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd-Bat. i. 118. 
(=S. decemdentatum, Rozb.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 242.) 
Though Loureiro's name is not a very good one, the rules of 
botanical nomenclature imperatively require its retention t. 
*Solanum Wrightii, Benth. 
This very fine species, which forms an erect tree about 15 feet 
high, is certainly not a native of Hongkong. I remember being 
told many years ago that it was introduced from New Zealand 
under the name of * Potato tree." Ifso, it must have been from 
some garden, as no such species is known from the Pacific isles. 
Itis curious that the native country of one of the handsomest 
species of the genus should be quite unknown. 
*Adenosma grandiflora, Benth. msc. (=Pterostigma grandiflorum, 
Benth. Fl. Hongk. 247.) 
*Adenosma capitata, Benth. msc. (= Pterostigma capitatum, Benth. 
Fl. Hongk. 248.) 
Mr. Bentham has shown (Fl. Austr. iv. 486) that R. Brown's 
genus Adenosma is the same as Pterostigma, and that it was owing 
to an error of A. Cunningham's that he had supposed it to be 
reducible to Stemodia. Nees von Esenbeck's homonymous acan- 
thaceous genus will have to be called by Hamilton's name of 
Cardanthera, or, as it would more properly be written, Cardianthera. 
*Herpestis Monnieria, H., B., K. 
The flowers of this are always described as pale blue, verging 
on white. As the plant occurs here, the corolla-tube is always 
yellow within and marked with a deep rose-coloured incomplete 
ring at the throat, and the limb is quite white. I have never 
seen the slightest tinge of blue in any living specimen. 
*Vandellia crustacea, Benth., 
has the calyx (I write this with the living plant under my 
eyes) quite as much folded and angular as in any genuine Torenia. 
Either it and V. oblonga, Benth., must therefore be transferred to 
Torenia, or the two genera, as suggested by me five years ago 
(Ann. Se. Nat. Par. ser. 5, v. 232), must be combined. As T. 
parviflora, Ham., and others are in habit and size of flowers quite 
like Vandellie, and there is no character at all but the plication 
t “Ut Medorum et Persarum, ita Botanicorum leges stabiles firmaque se 
vandx ; hoc tantum modo inextricabilis fugienda confusio."—P. B. WEBB, 
Spicil. Gorgon. 153. 
