COLLECTED BY MR. SPRUCE IN BRAZIL. Rs 
by the baccate fruit. To this genus Cambessèdes unfortunately mis- 
applied the Linnæan name of Su/acia. This error having been corrected 
by Wight and Arnott, Endlicher has taken up, on the authority of 
CambessSdes, Aublet's name of Tontelea, but this course can hardly be 
justified until Aublet’s character shall have been shown to be erroneous 
from the examination of authentic specimens. In the meantime, it 
would appear better to follow Martius in taking up the name of 4n- 
thodon (not Anthodus, as written, apparently by mistake, in Schultes’ 
‘Systema °), proposed by Ruiz and Pavon for a Peruvian species, gene- 
rally supposed to have baecate fruit. This fruit, however, has not 
been seen, either by Ruiz or Pavon, or by Kunth, who both have 
described in detail and figured the original species; and as a Guiana 
plant closely allied to it in foliage and inflorescence (n. 710 of Schom- 
burgk's first collection) is certainly a Hippocratea, it is probable that 
Ruiz and Pavon's Anthodon decussatus must also be reduced to that 
genus. But even should this prove to be the case, the name of Antho- 
don becomes otherwise unoceupied and may be applied as proposed by 
Martius. Among the other synonyms enumerated by Endlicher, Rad- 
disia, described as having two-celled anthers, would be transferred to 
Salacia ; Sicelium has evidently found its way here from a clerical or 
. typographical error of Poiret's writing Tontelea for Tontanea ; Antho- 
discus is another clerical error for Anthodus or Anthodon. Clercia, 
Vell., is the only one of the long list free from doubt, but at the same 
time it is the most recent, and only made known by a rude figure. A — 
careful revision of the whole Order, and a determination of the real 
limits of the genera, is much wanted. The followiag are the a : 
new species above mentioned :— 
1. Salacia dulcis, sp. n.; foliis oblongis sublanceolatisve obtusis grosse 
pauciserratis, cymis petiolo paulo longioribus, petalis oblongis 
subintegris calyce triplo longioribus, staminibus intra discum 
sertis, ovulis geminis collateralibus, bacca depressa 4—6-sperma.- 
Affinis videtur S. campestri (Calypso campestris, Camb. in St. Hil. 
Fl. Bras. Mer. vol. ii. p. 110. t. 104), sed elatior, folia: majora, sæpius 
4-5-pollicaria, paniculæ breviores, potius cymoso-corymbosæ quam | : 
oblongæ, calyces breviores, petala angustiora et integriora. Bacca — 
depresso-globosa, 1-14 poll. diametro. Semina omnia v. rarius 4-5 
tantum perfecta, pendula, subglobosa, testa levi crustacea, pe 
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