PUBLICATION OF NEW NAMES. 



28525. Tritoma northiae (Baker) Skeels. 



28526. Tritoma tuckii (Baker) Skeels. 



28526 (in note). Tritoma sarmentosa (Andr.) Skeels. 



28663. Lebeckia cuspidosa (Burch.) Skeels. 



28673. Echeveria hoveyi Rose n. sp. 



28729. Ophiobostryx volubilis (Harvey) Skeels. 



28730. Mondia whiteii (Hook, f.) Skeels. 

 28740. Pectinea pauciflora (Thouars) Skeels. 

 28766. IIelygia paddisoni (Baker) Skeels. 

 28781. Melocanna baccifera (Roxb.) Skeels. 

 287^3. Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels. 



28868. Iris halophila sogdiana (Bunge) Skeels. 

 19897. X AssoNiA cayeuxii (Andre) Skeels. 



(Dombeya cayeuxii Andre, Revue Horticole, vol. 69, p. 545, 1897.) 



The name Dombeya (Cavanilles, 1787) seems to have been quite generally used to 

 designate a genus of sterculiaceous shrubs or small trees, but as the same name was 

 originally used (L'Heritier, 1784) for a genus belonging to the family Bignoniaceae, 

 for which the name Tourretia (Fougeroux, 1787) was later proposed, it should not be 

 applied to the genus established by Cavanillee. In fact, the latter author on a pre- 

 vious page of the same work in which he published Dombeya established the genus 

 Assonia with the single species A. populnea (Tertia Dissertatio Botanica, p. 120, pi. 

 42, fig. 1, 1787). This species is now recognized as congeneric \\'ith the various species 

 referred to Cavanilles's Dombeya, and Assonia should therefore be considered the valid 

 name for the genus in question. It should be noted that both the names Assonia and 

 Dombeya were proposed by Cavanilles in 1786 (Secunda Dissertatio Botanica, app.), but 

 without mention of species. 



Cuttings of the species listed were received in 1907 as "Dombeya spectabilis{?) " 

 and were later distributed. Dr. Franceschi of the Montarioso Nursery, Santa Barbara, 

 Cal., who received some of the cuttings, called attention to the identity of the plant 

 with Dombeya cayeuxii Andre. 

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