which the species belonged was undescribed. 
Gliricidia sepium (Jacg.) Walpers, Repert. 
Bot. Syst. 1 (1842) 679 — Standley in Contrib. U. S. 
Nat. Herb. 23 (1922) 482. 
Robinia Sepium Jacquin, Enum. PI. Carib. (1760) 28. 
Robinia maculata Humboldt Bonpland & Kunth, 
Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6 (1824) 398 (Quarto ed.), 309 
(Folio ed.). 
Lonchocarpus sepium De Candolle, Prodr. Syst. 
Nat. 2 (1825) 260. 
Lonchocarpus maculatus De Candolle, Prodr. Syst. 
Nat. 2 (1825) 260. 
Robinia variegata Schlechtendal in Linnaea 12 
(1886) 301. 
Gliricidia maculata Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 1 
(1842) 679. 
Gliricidia Lambi Fernald in Bot. Gaz. 20 (1895) 
538. 
There has been considerable difference of opinion 
as to the authority to be given for the combinations 
Gliricidia sepium and Gliricidia maculata. According 
to Index Kewensis 1 (1895) 1038, ‘‘H.B. & K. Nov. 
Gen. et Sp. vi. 393 in nota’’ [Quarto ed.] is given as 
the place of publication of both combinations. Neither 
combination, however, was made in either the quarto or 
folio edition of Humboldt Bonpland and Kunth, Nova 
Genera et Species Plantarum... or in Kunth, Syn. PI. 
4 (1825) 81. 
Urban, Symb. Antill. 2 (1900) 288, and other 
authors refer both combinations to Steudel, Nomencl. 
Bot. ed. 2, 1 (1840) 688. While both combinations 
exist there, they are distinctly synonyms and are cited 
as being made by Kunth [HBK.]. Consequently, as 
they are published in synonymy, they have no valid 
standing. 
