Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott var. anti- 
quorum (Schott) Hubbard & Rehder, comb. nov. 
Colocasia antiquorum Schott in Schott & Endlicher, 
Melet. Bot. 1 (1882) 18. 
Authors in general, who separate this variety from 
the species, have made it the species and have reduced 
C. esculentum (L.) Schott to varietal rank. While there 
is hardly any doubt that var. antiquorwm is the phylo- 
genetic type of the species, it is nomenclaturally in- 
admissible to reduce an older specific name to varietal 
rank under a name of later date of publication. — In 
consequence the ranks must be reversed and C. esculenta 
become the species with a variety antiquorum. 
Dipteryx panamensis (Pittier) Hubbard & 
Rehder, comb. nov. 
Coumarouna panamensis Pittier in Contrib. U. S. 
Nat. Herb. 18 (1917) 236. 
The genus Dipteryx Schreb. is conserved over 
Coumarouna Aubl. ‘The transfer of this species makes 
a new combination. 
Gardenia jasminoides ///is in Phil. ‘Trans. 51, 
pt. 2 (1761) 985. 
Varneria augusta Stickman in Linnaeus, Amoen. 
Acad. 4 (1759) 186, nomen. 
Gardenia florida Linnaeus, Sp. Pl., ed. 2 (1762) 
305. 
Gardenia augusta Merrill, Interp. Rumph. Herb. 
Amb. (1917) 50, 485, 547. 
Merrill undoubtedly went too far when he accepted 
Stickman’s Varneria augusta as valid publication. 
According to the International Rules, it can only be 
considered as a nomen nudum as the Rhumphius refer- 
ence given is to a plate lacking analytic details and 
furthermore at the time of publication the genus to 
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