352 J. F. Rock. 
LXXIX. Revisio plantarum Hawaiiensium a Léveillé 
descriptarum 
by J. E. Kock!) 
(Originalarbeit.) 
Introduction. 
During the year 1909 and 1910 Abé Faurie from Amori Japan 
visited the Hawaiian Islands for the purpose of collecting plants. 
The Phanerogams of his collection he sent to Mr. H. Léveillé- 
Le Mans, who described them rather too eagerly in Fedde, Repertorium, 
Vol. X, and Vol. XI. 
When the writer first saw Léveillés work in Honolulu he came 
at once to the conclusion that the outcome of Léveillés work will be on 
apalling synonomy and will result in an awful chaos into which our 
highly specialized Flora did not deserve to be thrown. I therefore found 
it my duty to rescue our Flora from the contamination of such Euro- 
pean and cosmopolitan weeds as Léveillé tried to put into rank and 
file as endemic species with our other endemic genera. For example 
Léveillé tried to force on our famous flora the following cosmopolitan 
weeds as endemic species, — Crepis japonica as C. molokaiensis, 
Solanum nodiflorum first as belonging to our endemic genus Nothocestrum 
later as Solanum Fauriei, Cirsium arvense as Cnicus hawaiiensis, Gnapha- 
lium japonicum as Leontopodium sandwicense, Herpestis monniera as Her- 
pestis Fauriei all new to science; Momordica charantia as Sicyos Fauriel, 
Veronica arvensis as V. hawaiiensis etc. These plants are all weeds of 
course, which have been imported accidentally during the last 10 or 
20 years, by the cattle estates with grass seeds. Some of these large 
estates range from sea-level up to 10000 feet elevation, and many more 
species of weeds can be found there than Mr. H. Léveillé described 
as new from Hawaii. 
If one looks at the real Hawaiian plants it is not surprising to find 
a Solanacea described and published as a Rutacea, a Cyrtandra as a new 
species of Viola, a Sideroxylon as a Suttonia, the common Calpidia Bru- 
noniana as an endemic Labordia, species of Malvastrum as new species 
of Sida and others too absurd to be mentioned. I think it is highest 
time that such work is being brought to the attention of the botanical 
world, and consequentiy any previous and future work of Mr. Léveille 
should not be taken serious. 
1) An dieser Stelle möchte ich noch einmal ausdrücklich bemerken, dass 
alle Autoren von Originalarbeiten für Form und Inhalt ihrer Artikel 
voll und ganz selbst verantwortlich sind. Auch bitte ich beachten zu wollen 
dass ich als Herausgeber des Repertoriums mich grundsätzlich unparteiisch 
verhalte und bei Unstimmigkeiten beiden Parteien mein Blatt in gleicher 
Weise offen steht. Fedde. 
