58 APPENDIX. 



cessary to indicate the proper position of the remaining species 

 in the manner following : 



2. Witheringia macrophylla, H, B. K, est Brachistus macropbyllus, nob. 



{huj, voL p. 8). 



3, Sellowiana^ Sendt, = Saracha Sellowiana, nob. 



4. acuminata, Dun. = Brachistus acuminatus, nob. 



5. stramomfolia, H. B, K. = — — stramonifolius, nob. {Jiuj. 



vol, p. 7). 



6, lanceolata. Dun. = verisimiliter Solani species. 



7, aspera, Spr. = potius Borraginea ut suspicat 



cl. Dunal- 



Witheringia ciliatay H. B. K. j W. dumetorum^ H, B. K.; W. 

 mollis^ H. B. K. ; W. rhomhoidea, H. B. K. ; W. riparia^ H. B, K., 

 and W. diversifoUa, Klotsch, referred by M. Dunal to his genus 

 Fregirardia^ had been long before placed by me in Brachistus 



{huj, vol. p. 8-13). 



The Witheringia of Von Martins, which I had proposed to 

 restore for a group of plants of which the type is W. picta^ Mart._, 

 must consequently be suppressed, and we shall presently see to 

 what genus these must now be referred. This last-mentioned 

 plant has been oddly arranged by M. Dunal in Withaniuy for 

 what reason it is difficult to conjccturCj as it offers no analogy 

 whatever with that genus : it is associated with other kindred 

 species, placed by Dr. Scndtner in his genus Athenaa^ which is 

 made to form a distinct section of Withania under that name 

 (Prodr. p. 458-459). The Witheringia hirsuta, Gardn. (No. 239), 

 from Tejuca, a plant that I collected in company with that active 

 botanist, was long ago shown by me {huj. vol. p. 2) to be iden- 

 tical with the Witheringia pid a, Mart. {Withania picta, Dun. 

 Prodr, p. 458). This same plant however is again referred byM. 

 Dunal to Bassovia under the name ofB. Gardneri (Prodr, p. 409). 

 I was always struck by the strong analogy between the Withe- 

 ringia pictay Mart., and the drawing of Bassovia sylvestris (AubL 

 tab. 85), but in the absence of more precise evidence in regard 

 to the latter plant the reflection was passed over, as I found this 

 species had been referred by M. Dunal to the genus Solanum 

 (Dun, Syn. 22). Now, however, that Bassovia has been restored 

 by this distinguished botanist, and its characters displayed at 

 some length, this reflection returns with additional force, especially 

 as the genus Aureliana of Dj*. Sendtner is at the same time made 

 to be identical with it. If we compare the Aureliana velutina, 

 Sendtn. (Flor. Bras. tab. 19) with the figure oiAthencEa anonacea^ 

 Sendtn. (tab. 18 of the same work), and these again with the 

 Witheringia picta, Mart. (Nov. Gen. et Sp. tab. 227)^ and my de- 

 tails of Gardner's plant {ante p. 5 and figured in pi. 35), and 

 keep in recollection that the same species has been referred by 

 M, Dunal, at the same time, both to his section Athem^a of 

 Withania and to the genus Bassovia of Aublet, we must come to 



