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Opuntia cereiformis Web., Schumann in Monog. Cact, 660, 
1898, Synonymy, Grusonia cereiformis, Cereus Bradtianus, O. 
Bradtiana, 
Prof. Schuman therefore has deliberately given priority to an 
undescribed catalogue name. No doubt cevezformis is the prefer- 
able name and the use of uneuphonious personal names for 
species is a crying evil, but no such reason could have influenced 
the author of &. Strausianus, Froelichianus, Soehrensit, O. Schwer- 
tntana, C. Lauterbachit, C. Damaziot, etc. 
The real reason, probably, is the one given in Monog. Cact. 
under JZ. centricirrha, which is adopted in spite of a dozen older 
names, because the plant is best known under that name in Ger- 
many. ‘The few people living outside of Germany apparently do 
not count. 
A NEW CALAMINTHA. 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE, 
Calamintha Chandleri. Stems frutescent, branching, 1 m. 
high, forming clumps, upper parts pubescent: leaves orbicular or 
broadly ovate, with truncate or cuneate base, obtuse, crenate- 
serrate or entire, 1 cm. long and broad, slightly pubescent on the 
upper face, more so on the lower: petioles pubescent, 5 mm. 
long: flowers single or in 2-4-flowered cymes in the axils of the 
leaves; peduncles and pedicels 1-2 mm. long: bracts linear- 
lanceolate: calyx tubular-campanulate, slightly bilabiate, 6-7 
mm. long; the teeth about 1 mm. long, triangular, acuminate, 
those of the lower lip slightly longer: corolla 13 mm. long, 
pubescent outside, cream-white; the tube straight, as long as the 
calyx; lobes of the lower lip 3 mm. long and broad, the middle 
one largest, those of the upper lip short: stamens conniving in 
pairs: style bearing a few scattered hairs nearly its whole length. 
Collected by H. P. Chandler near San Diego, California, on 
Mount San Miguel, May 21, 1904. 
AuGusT 19, 1905 
