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essential points, his characters and descriptions will generally 
be found excellent. The only circumstance which appears 
unintelligible is his total neglect of the above-mentioned 
paper of his own, inserted three or four years previously in 
the Linnea. Not only does he republish many species 
under new names without quoting his former ones as syno- » 
nyms, (which might have happened occasionally from not 
having retained specimens), but if he does now and then 
refer to his former names, itis as * mihi olim in herb. Eck- 
lonis," treating his published paper as if it had no existence,* 
which unfortunately for the overloaded synonomy, other 
botanists do not and will not agree to do. 
At a later period, in the 13th vol. of the Linnea, Dr. 
Walpers attempted to consolidate into one Enumeration all 
the Cape species published, adding several new genera and 
species from materials in the Berlin herbaria. But his paper 
does not bear evidence of sufficient precision or care to su- 
persede the necessity of going over the same ground again ; 
indeed, the only genera of his which stand the test of re- 
examination, are those which he took up from the MS. 
observations of the late lamented Dr. Vogel, and many of 
his hasty alterations are but so many needless additions to 
the synonomy. 
Dr. Meissner again in this Journal, (vol. 2. p. 60), has 
published Krauss's Cape plants with considerable care and 
exactness, but, having, as above mentioned, claimed for E. 
Meyer the priority over Ecklon and Zeyher, he has made a 
great number of changes in nomenclature which will not be 
generally adopted. Thus there are now perhaps very few 
sets of plants which have so great a mass of synonyms, cer- 
tain or doubtful, as the six or seven hundred South African 
Papilionacee, And it is with great regret that I have found 
* Can it be possible that Dr. Meyer, living at a considerable distance, 
was not really aware that his paper had been actually printed, especially 
as, by some singular mistake, it is not inserted in the table of contents of 
the volume which contains it, 
