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sufficient excuse for the great disturbance resulting from the re- 

 placing Linnseus's Adelia by the new name Ricinella in order to 

 restore the post-Linnean name Adelia to the Forestiera of Poiret 

 or Adelia of Mich 



In taking up old forgotten names, monographists should be 

 specially careful in ascertaining for themselves that they have 

 been properly published and wrongly overlooked ; for it is usual 

 to rely on the accuracy of the bibliographical researches of mono- 

 graphists without repeating them for floras or other such works. 

 The genus Homalanthus (Omalanthzis), well characterized by 

 Jussieu and figured in the ' Botanical Magazine,' was referred to 

 Carumbium of Eeinwardt by Miquel, who was blindly followed 

 by Mueller; and I adopted the latter name in the ' Plora Austra- 

 liensis,' haviug no reason to suppose that so careful a worker as 

 J. Mueller, having such rich libraries at his disposal, had not as- 

 certained for himself its right of priority. This turns out, how- 

 ever to have been a mistake of Miquel's. The reference given for 

 the name is "Eeinw. Hort. Buitenz. 108;" but Eeinwardt pub- 

 lished no catalogue of the garden of Buitenzorg. The work quoted 

 under the above half-translated title is by Blume, in which the 

 Carumbium, Eeinw., is entered as a name only, without any cha- 

 racter, and therefore is no publication of the genus, especially as 

 the plant had been similarly entered by Noronha in a much 

 earlier catalogue under the name of Duania. Beinwardt's 

 Carumbium was first published as a genns in the ' Sylloge Plan- 

 tarum ' of the Batisbon Society two years later than Jussieu's 

 Homalanthus. Again, Joannesia of the Brazilian botanists (Anda, 

 Juss.) is altered to Johannesia, under the supposition that Vel- 

 lozo so spelt it in his ' Alografia,' where the genus was first pub- 

 lished ; but on turning to that work I find that Yellozo spelt it, 

 like other Portuguese authors, Joannesia, as, indeed, was to be ex- 

 pected, as there is no h in the Portuguese name* Joanna. So, also, 

 Galearia, ZolL, is suppressed in favour of Bentiettia, Br., because 

 the date of the ' Plantge Javaniese rariores ' is taken, not from 

 the book itself, but from PritzePs l Thesaurus,' first edition, which 

 only refers to the first part of the work ; the last part, contain- 

 ing Bennettia, was only published several years after Pritzel s 

 first edition. Eoxburgh's Gelonium has been suppressed by Bail- 

 lon in favour of Suregada of the same author, which, strictly 

 speaking, has the right of priority, having been published by 

 Willdenow in the * Neue Schriften ' of the Berlin Naturalists' 



