there are several illustrations representing Herrania 
laciniufolia. These are all in black and white, not in color. 
One plate has a leaf with one complete leaflet and a length 
of stem with several flowers and buds; another plate has 
analytical drawings of the flowers and fruits; a third has 
analyses only of the floral parts. 
The Mutis specimen in Madrid (cited below) is sterile, 
but it is undoubtedly from the tree from which the plate 
was made. In view of the scarcity of collections of Her- 
rania lacinifolia, it is unfortunate that a definite locality 
for the Mutis collection is not available. Both the speci- 
men and the plates agree perfectly with the type and 
later material of this remarkable species. 
Cotompia: Exped. Bot. Mutisii Novae-Granat. (1783-1808) 937. 
Herrania nitida (Poepp.) R. EF. Schultes in Caldasia 
2 (1943) 16, t. p. 17. 
Herrania atrorubens Huber in Bull. Soc. Bot. Genéve, 
sér. 2, 6 (1914) 187. 
Early in my study of the genus Herrania, I published 
(in Caldasia 2 (1944) 829) a note pointing out that with- 
out an examination of the type of Huber’s HZ. atroru- 
bens, it was not possible to evaluate the validity of the 
concept and that ‘‘the colour character alone would 
hardly suffice for the creation of a new specific concept. ”’ 
Now, having completed an extensive study of the clas- 
sical material of the genus, I have been unable to locate 
the type of Herrania atrorubens. One would expect it 
to be preserved in the Museu Goeldi in Belém do Para 
or in the Herbier Boissier in Geneva, but a search in 
these two institutions, as well as in other Brazilian and 
Kuropean herbaria, has not uncovered Huber’s material. 
From an evaluation of the meager characters given by 
Huber and from the geographical data given for the type 
collection, Herrania atrorubens may, it would seem, in 
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