ROBINSON. — SPERMATOPHYTES, NEW OR RECLASSIFIED. 409 



f. Fl. N. Z. i. 104 (1853). Pelaphia grandifolia Banks & Soland. ex 

 Hook, f., 1. c. 



Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.), n. comb. Canthium quadrifidum 

 Labill. Nov. Holl. PI. i. 69, t. 94 (1804). Marquisia Billardierii A. 

 Rich. Mem. sur les Rubiacees, 112 (1829), & Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. 

 Par. v. 192 (1829). Coprosma Billardieri Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. 

 Jour. Bot. vi. 465 [bis] (1847). Coprosma microphylla A. Cunn. ex 

 Hook, f., 1. c. 



Richardia muricata (Griseb.), n. comb. Richardsonia muricata 

 Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 143 (1866). Spermacoce {Borreria) ricliardsoni- 

 oides Wright in Sauv. Fl. Cub. 73 (1873). 



Crusea hispida (Mill), n. comb. Cruciamlla Mspida Mill. Diet, 

 ed. 8, no. 4 (1768). Spermacoce rubra Jacq. Hort. Schunb. iii. 3, t. 

 256 (1798). Crusea rubra Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea, v. 165 (1830). 



Borreria asperifolia (Mart. & Gal.), n. comb. Diphragmus scaber 

 Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 81 (1844), not Borreria scabra (Schum. & Thonn.) 

 K. Schum. Spermacoce asperifolia Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. 

 pt. 1, 132 (1844). 



Borreria nesiotica n. sp., suffrutescens glaberrima 4 dm. vel ultra 

 alta ramosa ; ramis ascendentibus subteretibus parte superiori 4-angu- 

 latis basim versus foliosissimis saepe purpurascentibus ; foliis oppositis 

 anguste lanceolatis basi apiceque attenuatis laevissimis etiam ad mar- 

 gined paulo revolutum 2-4.5 cm. longis 3-12 mm. latis modice venosis 

 subtus paululo pallidioribus axillis saepe proliferis ; verticillis plerisque 

 4 distantibus 9-12 mm. diametro hemisphaericis a bracteis 2 majoribus 

 oppositis 1-2 cm. longis ovato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis basi ampliato 

 setoso-dentatis et ca. 4 minoribus ovatis obtusis 5 mm. longis suffultis ; 

 calyce glabro breviter et subaequaliter 4-lobato cum dentibus interme- 

 diis brevissimis ; corolla glabra ; staminibus exsertis ; stigmate bre- 

 vissime bilobato ; seminibus papillosis nigris non transverse sulcatis. — 

 Spermacoce (Boneria), sp. Vasey & Rose, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xiii. 

 148 (1890). Spermacoce sp. Brandegee, Zoe, v. 27 (1900). —Socorro 

 Island (of the Revillagigedo Group), A. W. Anthony, 1897 (type, in 

 Gray Herb.) ; previously collected by C. H. Townsend, March, 1889 ; 

 and later by F. E. Barkelew, 27 May to 3 July, 1903, no. 208. In 

 habit somewhat resembling B. verticillata (L.) G. F. W. Mey., but 

 readily distinguished by its 4-lobed calyx. Also somewhat like forms 

 of the highly variable B. tenella (HBK.) Cham. & Schlecht., but hav- 

 ing much shorter calyx-lobes (about one third the length of the tube), 

 glabrous foliage, etc. 



Borreria rhadinophylla, n. sp., gracillima ramosa prostrata, cauli- 

 bus elongatis valde flexuosis obsolete quadrangularibus foliosis tenuiter 



