148 AKNOTT ON SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS. 



they were sent still retained in the general catalogue, printed 

 in April this year. I presume therefore that E. IVIeyer who 

 has named the specimens, and is engaged in describing them 

 in his Comme?it. de PL Afr. Aust., still adheres to the accu- 

 racy of his determinations, and my present wish is to indicate 

 some points in which I differ from him, and to add some 

 observations on a few other Cape plants. 



I shall commence with the Terebirithacece, p. 26, of the 

 catalogue dated February, 1838; the same names will be 

 found in the catalogue of 1840, at p. 3. 



The first genus mentioned is Anafrenium. From there being 

 a species named A. argenteum^ it seems to me that Meyer 

 intends this to be the Roemeria argentea, Thunb.; and of 

 that there can be no doubt. As the name Roemeria is ap- 

 plied generally to a genus of PapaveracecE^ a change is 

 necessary in the present case; but it had been previously 

 named Heeria, by IMeisner, in his PL Vase. Gen., in 1836, 

 and this name ought to be adopted. Alph. De Candolle and 

 some others, propose to place this genus in Myrsineoe^ but 

 Ecklon and Zeyher appear to me to have properly referred 

 it to Terebinthacece^ subord. Cassuviece. As their generic 

 character is in several respects imperfect, I propose to sub- 

 stitute the following. 



Heeria. Meisn. 

 Roemeria, Thunb. — Anafrenium, E. M. 



Flores polygami. Calyx 5-(nunc 6-) partitus. Petala 5 

 (nunc 6), obionga, recurva, sub disco inserta, aestivatione im- 

 bricata. Stamina 5 (nunc 6), petalis alterna, omnia anthe- 

 rifera, sub disco inserta. Discus cm^xxXsiius. Ovarium inwove 

 masculo abortivum ; in femineo sessile, 1-locuIare ; ovulum 

 unicumjcx apice funiculi e basi loculi orti pendulum. Stylus 

 alte trifidus. Stigmata 3, capitata. CcBtera ut in descr. 

 E. et Z. 



2. Anasillis is the next genus in the catalogue, but dna- 

 sillis angustifolia, E. M,, is Loxostylis alata. Ant. Sprengel in 

 Ecklon et Zeyher, Enumeratio, p. 152, a name which must 



