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renna zeylanica Gaertn., and Stylocoryne webera A. Rich. as 
synonyms; the proper specific name for the species would seem 
to be Tarenna asiatica (Linn.) O. Kuntze. 
However, Tarenna is not the first name proposed for this 
group, as Cupi Adanson‘ is manifestly congeneric with Gaert- 
ner’s Tarenna. This generic name, being objectionable in form, 
and being published without a binomial, has little claim to rec- 
ognition, and I believe that it should be discarded in favor 
of Tarenna. Later (1830) de Candolle modified the name to 
Cupia. Cupit Adanson was based wholly on Cupi Rheede® 
which is manifestly a Tarenna as here interpreted. 
Hooker f.° retained the generic name Webera, but included 
under it two sections: Huwwebera, including those plants having 
two or more ovules in each cell of the ovary, namely Tarenna; 
and Pseudixora, those species having but one ovule in each cell 
of the ovary. It is exceedingly illogical to include in the Ru- 
biaceae one-ovulate and several-ovulate species in the same genus, 
and it is not considered that Hooker’s description of the species 
is correct. King’ recognized that the grouping of EHuwebera 
and Pseudixora in a single genus is incorrect, retained Webera 
for Hooker’s section Euwebera, and placed the species of Pseu- 
dizora under Stylocoryna Cav.; however, the type and sole 
species described by Cavanille under Stylocoryna is a Randia, 
R. racemosa (Cav.) F.-Vill., so that Stylocoryna King non Cav.. 
becomes a synonym of Tarenna. The general conclusions re- 
garding Tarenna, Cupi, and Cupia are in conformity with those 
of Wernham.* 
The Philippine species of Tarenna are as follows: 
TARENNA ACUMINATA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, circiter 5 m alta, partibus junioribus et in- 
florescentiis et foliis subtus ad costa nervisque perspicue ciliatis ; 
foliis oblongo-oblanceolatis, membranaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, 
usque ad 17 cm longis, apice tenuiter acute acuminatis, basi 
cuneatis, hervis utrinque 9 ad 12, perspicuis; infructescentiis 
brevibus, circiter 3 em longis, breviter pedunculatis, corymbosis ; 
“Fam. Pl. 2 (1768) 158. 
* Hort. Malabar. 2 (1679) 37, t. 28. 
°F. Brit. India 3 (1880) 101. 
"Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 727 (1908) 108. 
ee bg H. F., The nomenclature of Tarenna, Journ. Bot. 51 (1913) 
