UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



IN 



BOTANY 



Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 79-152, pis. 10-16 Issued October 7, 1914 



THE SCINAIA AkSSEMBLAGE 



BY 



WILLIAM ALBERT SETCHELL 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



I. Introduction ► 79 



II. Materials and Technique 82 



III. Morj)holo<^y 83 



IV. Taxonomy 88 



V. Synopsis of Genera and Species 122 



YT. Key to Genera and Species 123 



VII. Diagnoses of New Genus and of New Species 124 



YIII. Geographical Distribution 128 



IX. Acknowledgments 133 



X. List of Works Referred to IS.'j 



XL List of Exsiccatae Referred to 139 



XIL Explanation of Plates MO 



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I. INTRODUCTION 



The genus Scinaia was established l)y Raron Antonio Bivona- 

 Bernardi in 1822. The description and plate were evidently published 

 at Palermo in some journal, or other ephemeral publication, entitled 

 L'lride (cf. J. G. Agardh, 1851. pp. 420, 421). It seems to he a very 

 rare publication at present, but the writer was enabled to consult the 

 three uunumbered pages and the single unnumbered plate at the 

 Briti.sh .Mu.seum of Natural History at South Kensington through the 

 kindness of Mv. A. Gepp. There can be no doubt that the genus was 

 founded on the common Mediterranean plant wliicli has usually l)een 

 referred to as Scinaia furccLlata. A ccmden.sed account of the new 

 genus was published in Flora in 1824 (cf. Bivona, 1824), but without 

 the figures. The name Scinaia. however, was lost sight of for a series 



