96 General Notes. 



NEW NAMES FOR TWO RECENTLY DESCRIBED GENERA OF 



PLANTS* 



Through the kindness of Oswald H. Sargent of York, West Australia, 

 my attention has been called to the fact that my Harperia is a homonym, 

 Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald having recently published the name for a new genus 

 of Baloskionaceae. His description appeared in the first number of a new 

 journal started in West Australia. This journal, of which only one part 

 seems to have been issued, has been overlooked by me, as by the Interna 

 tional Catalogue of Scientific Literature and the Botanisches Centralblatt. 

 For the name Harpcria a substitute is proposed such as to conform to botan 

 ical usage and still to carry out my desire to honor the collector, Roland M. 

 Harper. This genus belongs to the Apiaceae or Umbelliferae. 



The name Donnellia was used fora genus of mosses more than twenty- 

 five years ago, which of course precludes the use of it as recently proposed 

 by Mr. C. B. Clark for a genus of Commelinaceae. The substitute for 

 this name is likewise so chosen as still to commemorate the name of 

 Captain John Donnell Smith, who has done such admirable work on the 

 Central American flora. 



Harperella Rose. 

 Harperia Rose, Proc. Nat. Mus. 29: 441. 1905, not Harperia Fitzgerald, 



Journ. West Australian Nat. Hist. Soc. [1] : 34. 1904. 

 Harperella nodosa Rose. 



Harperia nodosa Rose, Proc. Nat. Mus. 29: 441. 1905. 

 The type sheet is No. 514,914 in the U. S. National Herbarium. 

 Heretofore this species has been known only from two localities in Geor 

 gia. In 1905 Mr. Harper discovered the plant at two stations in Alabama 

 as follows : 

 Rocky bed of Town Creek on Sand Mountains near Chavres, DeKalb 



County, November 24, 1905 (No. 8). 



Rocky bed of Little River on Lookout Mountain, De Kalb County, No 

 vember 25, 1905 (No. 14). 



Neodonnellia Rose. 

 Donnellia Clark, Bot. Gaz. 33 : 261. pi. 11, not Donnellia Austin, Bull. Torr. 



Club 7 : 15. 1880. 

 Neodonnellia grandiflora (Donnell-Smith) Rose. 



Callesia grandiflora Donnell-Smith, Bot. Gaz. 31 : 125. 1901. 

 Donnellia grandiflora Clark, Bot. Gaz. 33 : 261. pi. 11. 1902. 



/. N. Rose. 



A BAT NEW TO THE UNITED STATES. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam has recently submitted to me for identification a 

 leaf-nosed bat taken by Mr. Philip Waughtall in the Chiricahua Mount 

 ains, eight miles west of Paradise, Arizona, August 17, 1904. The speci 

 men (No. 134,442, United States National Museum, Biological Survey 

 collection) represents a species and genus, Chceronycteris mexicanaTschudi, 

 not hitherto found in the United States. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 

 * Published with the permission of the Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



