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*Phyllanthus (Kirganelia) microcarpus, J. Miill. in DC. Prod. xv. 
343. (=Cicca microcarpa, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 312.) 
*Phyllanthus (Cathetus) fasciculatus, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 
350. (= Phyllanthus cinerascens, Hook. and Arn. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
311.) 
J. Miller, acting on the objectionable Rule 57 of the Paris 
Congrés International, has rebaptized this, because it is Lou- 
reiro’s Cathetus fasciculatat. According to my ideas of pre- 
cedence in nomenclature, it should have retained Sprengel’s 
name of Phyllanthus cochinchinensis, which is its oldest specific 
one in the genus; but, as Müller describes Loureiro’s Zricaryum 
cochinchinense as P. cochinchinensis, to insist on this would 
involve the creation of another new name, which is a greater evil 
than the acquiescence in a false canon of nomenclature. 
*Phyllanthus (Emblica) Emblica, Linn.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 312; 
J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 352. 
*Phyllanthus (Paraphyllanthus) maderaspatensis, Linn.; Benth. 
Fl. Hongk. 311; J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 362. 
*Phyllanthus (Paraphyllanthus) urinaria, Linn.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
310; J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 364. 
*Phyllanthus (Euphyllanthus) simplex, Retz.; J. Müll. in DC. 
Prod. xv. 391. (=P. anceps, Vahl; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 311.) 
"Phyllanthus (Euphyllanthus) Niruri, Linn.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
311; J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 406. 
"Phyllanthus (Eriococcus) leptoclados, Benth.; J. Müll. in DC. 
Prod. xv. 422. 
*Melanthesopsis fruticosa, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 437. (=Melan- 
thesa chinensis, Blume; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 313.) 
*Aporosa microcalyx, Hassk.; J. Müll.in DC. Prod. xv. 471. (=A. 
fruticosa, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 117.) 
A. leptostachia, Benth., Móller regards as a mere form of this ; 
but Blume’s A. fruticosa, of which he had examined authentic 
specimens, is, he states, a quite distinct species. 
*Croton crassifolius, Geisel. Monogr. Croton. 19, fide J. Müll. in DC. 
Prod. xv. 588. (=C. chinense, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 309.—C. tomen- 
tosus, J. Müll. 1. c.) 
t “ Priora resuscitare precipue ineptum est, si primus obsoleti nominis yendi- 
tor sub alieno et spe falso nomine generico proposuerit ; qui sub novo generico 
nomine extinctum illud, sigla sua modo adponendi gratia, restituunt, tempori 
male patrissant."— Fries, Pref. in Mantiss. Nov. Fl. Suec. 
