Ig2 KOUINSON. 
at the apex, bhiisli- or brownish- green on the upper surface, paler or 
glaucous beneath, 7-16 cm long, 3-().l cm .vide, witli 8-12, most fre- 
quently 0, pairs of primary veins, arched-anastomosing and forming a 
conspicuous inner and a less distinct outer marginal vein, secondary and 
tertiary venation also fairly conspicuous. 
Type collected at Sax River, Di^^trict of Zamboanga, Mindanao; by R. S. 
Williams, no. 2306, in flower, February U, 1905. Also represented by For, Bur, 
d>VJ Whitford d Hufclinson, from Port Banga in tlie same district, in flower, 
Januarv 2, 1908. 
CAPPAIUDAOE^. 
CLEOME Linn. 
Cleome gynandra Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 671. 
C. pcntai^lnjUa Linn. Sp. PI. e<l. 2 (1703) 938. 
Biimpiatrum peniaphyUuni :\re(lic. ex Index Kew. 2 (1895) 914. 
Pedicellaria pentaphylla Schrank in Roemer & Uateri Bot. Mag. 3 (1790) 8,^10. 
Qynandropsis pentaphylla DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 238. 
This was described by Linnaeus in the first edition of the Species Plantaruni 
as the second species of Cleome, but in the second edition be apparently con- 
sidered that he had united three species under this name, and divided it accord- 
ingly, making C. pentaphylla the second of the three, but retaining under it 
every word of description and every reference cited under 0. gynandra. The 
latter name was dropped altogether, but should be restored under the law of 
priority as now accepted. 
The generic complications are so serious that no new combination will be 
proposed for it here, the object being rather to call attention to the position in 
which the matter appears to be placed according to the codes adopted at 
Washington and Vienna. 
The only reference cited by Linnaeus in the fifth edition of the Genera Plan- 
tarum (1754) is Simipisinim Tournef. 116. This is not cited by him in either 
edition of the Species Plantarum, but it has been universally conceded to 
represent C. gynandra. Following the American code this would seem to be the 
type of the genus Cleome and no further departure would then be necessary than 
to revert to the original Linnauan name. Tint it would be obligatory^to change 
the generic name of all tlie species now known as Cleome. 
Under the Vienna code the state of affairs is even worse. In the list of 
exceptions, it is stated that Gynandrop.^is, although later, is to be preferred to 
the earlier Pedicellaria of Schrank. As always, it i- not stated for what it is 
to be used, but that does not create any difficulty in the present case. How- 
ever, no reference is made to Hinapistrum of Medicus in Philos. Bot. 1 (1789) 
108, which antedates both Pedicellaria and (Jynaudropsis, and is not itself 
antedated by any genus of the same name as itself, published after the time 
of Linnaeus. The generic name Hinapistrum is accompanied by a diagnosis, 
and a single species is cited as referable to it, .C7come pentaphylla L. But 
1X0 binomial was actually created under the new genus until and presum- 
ably inadvertently in the Kew Index. To those who consider that the absence 
of a binomial imder a proposed new genus is a bar to its publication, the 
difficulty disappears, and a new combination will have to be created under 
the genus Oynandropsh. However, a desiiiption such ns that of ^Nfcdicus is not 
generally so discarded, and as iiinapxsirum is not rejected by the letter of the 
Vienna code, however repugnant it may be to its sjiiiit, it would be possilde 
