122 DR. Il. F. HANCE’S SUPPLEMENT TO 
I have retained the oldest specifie name, not recognizing the 
right of a botanist to give a new one because some prior author 
had used it when describing the plant under another genus f. 
*Claoxylon indicum, Hassk.; J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 782. (=C. 
parviflorum, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 305.) 
J. Müller states that Adrien de Jussieu's C. parviflorum is a 
perfectly distinct species. 
*Alchornea trewioides, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 901. (=Stipellaria 
trewioides, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 305.) 
*Mallotus Apelta, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 963. (=Rottlera chi- 
nensis, A. Juss. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 306.) 
*Mallotus paniculatus, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 965. (=Rottlera 
paniculata, A. Juss. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 307.) 
*Mallotus Furetianus, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 968. (=Hancea 
murienta, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 306.) 
Wight's Claoxylon muricatum is, according to J. Müller, a di- 
stinet species. This plant exhales, while alive, a most powerful 
odour of liquorice—so strong, that I have been often guided io 
it by that alone—and retains it also for years in the herbarium. 
*Mallotus Hookerianus, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 975. (=Hancea 
Hookeriana, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 306.) 
The primary veins of the leaves are stouter and more nu- 
merous in this than in the last. 
*Mallotus philippinensis, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 980. (= Rottlera 
tinctoria, Roxb. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 307.) 
*Mallotus repandus, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 981. (=Rottlera ? cor- 
difolia, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 307.) 
*Macaranga Tanarius, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 997. (= Mappa Ta- 
naria, Spr. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 304.) 
*Excecaria (Triadica) sebifera, J. Müll. in DC. Prod. xv. 1210. 
(=Stillingia sebifera, Michz.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 302.) 
t I have read with the greatest satisfaction the following judicious remarks 
on this subject—which exactly represent my own opinions—by Dr. R. H. C. 
C. Scheffer, at present in charge of the splendid Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, 
in Java. “Haud necesse videtur speciei a duobus auctoribus sub generibus 
et nominibus specificis diversis edite, ubique nomen specificum antiquius sub 
genere haud servato datum restituere in locum ejus quod sub genere genuino 
datum fuit. Cur v. e. Baliospermum axillare, BL, a Willdenow antea sub Ja- 
trophe montane nomine editum, nune B. montanum vocaremus? Ita etiam 
absque necessitate synonymorum numerus augetur."— Observ, de Euphorb. 
Archip. Ind., in Mig. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-.Bat iv. 119. 
