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ON ONE OF THE SO-CALLED HONEYSUCKLES OF 

 LORD HOWE ISLAND. 



By J. H. Maiden, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



Professor Radlkofer, of Munich, described a 'plant in Sitzungs- 

 herichte der Kbnigl. hayr. Akad. 1878, p. 326, from imperfect 

 material (male flowers only) collected by Fullagar, as Atalaya 

 coriacea. 



Later on he described the same plant from more perfect 

 material received from my predecessor, Mr. Charles Moore, as 

 Guioa coriacea in his " Monograph ise generis Serj anise Supple- 

 mentum" {Ahhandl. der K. haijr. Akad. 1886, p. 60). 



Already at that time Professor Radlkofer regarded it as 

 identical with Cupania anacardioides, F.v.M., {not A. Rich.), in 

 Fragm. ix., 91, 1875, collected by Fullagar. Hemsley apparently 

 overlooked this in his "Flora of Lord Howe Island " (Ann. Bot. 

 X., 234, 1896), and mentions Cupania anacardioides, F.v.M., and 

 Atalaya coriacea as different plants. The Neplieliitm (Cupania) 

 semiglauca mentioned by Hemsley in the same work as from 

 Lord Howe Island, is evidently only a fruiting specimen of Guioa 

 coriacea. 



Tate {Macleay Memorial Volume, 220) mentions Cupania 

 anacardioides, Rich., (should be F.v.M), and Neplielium semi- 

 glaucum, F.v.M., (a slip of the pen) for "a plant allied to N. 

 semiglaucum.^^ 



See also my paper, " Observations on the Vegetation of Lord 

 Howe Island," in these Proceedings, 1898, in which, at p. 126, 

 I describe a Cupania under the name C. Howeana. 



After examining the evidence and such specimens as are avail- 

 able to me (Lord Howe specimens labelled Atalaya or Guoia 

 coriacea by Prof. Radlkofer are not in the Melbourne herbarium. 



