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and rather strikingly in foliage, should not be merged without distinc- 

 tion in 0. ornithopoda, yet the differences are of slight moment and the 

 divergence between the extremes is very largely bridged by intermedi- 

 ates. Thus the specimen collected at Agiabampo by Palmer (no. 

 781) has the leaf -segments ranging down to 6 mm. in breadth, being 

 therefore considerably nearer to the form from San Luis Potosi than 

 to Mr. Brandegee's plant from Culiacan, which has leaf-segments no 

 less than 3.5 cm. wide. Accordingly, the varietal rank here seems 

 preferable to the specific. 



Lantana achyranthifolia Desf. Cat. Pi. Hort. Reg. Par. ed. 3, 

 392 (1829). To the synonymy of this species may be added Lippia 

 fimbriata Rusby, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, iv. 244 (1895), and Lantana 

 macropodioides Greenm. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. ii. 339 (1912). 



Stachytarpheta fruticosa (Millsp.), comb. nov. Valerianodes 

 fruticosa Millsp. Field Columb. Mus. Bot. Ser. ii. 178 (1906). 



Priva aspera HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 278 (1817). While 

 this species is known to me only by descriptions, I fail to find any 

 distinction by which P. orizabae Wats. Proc. Am. Acad, xxiii. 282 

 (1888) can be separated from it. 



Rhaphithamnus venustus (Phil.), comb. nov. Citharexylum ve- 

 nustum Phil. Bot. Zeit. xiv. 64G (1856). Rhaphithamnus longiflorus 

 Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 98 (1870); Reiche, Fl. Chil. v. 306 

 (1908). R. serratifolius Miers, 1. c. 99. Citharexylon elegans Phil, ex 

 Miers, 1. c. 98 (1870). 



Vitex Bakeri, nom. nov. V. diversifolia Baker in Thiselton-Dyer, 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 323 (1900), not Kurz, "Andam. Rep. App. A 45; 

 B 14" (1870?); C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 585 (1885). 



Vitex viticifolia (DC), comb. nov. V. montevidensis ? viulti- 

 nervis Cham. Linnaea, vii. 374 (1832). Psilogyne viticifolia DC. Rev. 

 Fam. Bign. 16 (1838). V. multinervis (Cham.) Schauer in DC. Prod, 

 xi. 688 (1847), also in Mart. Fl. Bras. Lx. 297 (1851). The earlier 

 specific name is here restored in accordance with Art. 49 of the Inter- 

 national Rules of Botanical Nomenclature. 



Caryopteris odorata (Hamilton), comb. nov. Volkameria odorata 

 Hamilton ex Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46 (1814). Clerodendron odoratum 

 (Hamilton) D. Don, Prod. Fl. Nepal. 102 (1825). Caryopteris Walli- 

 ckiana Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 625 (1847); Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 597 (1885). 



Sphenodesme involucrata (Presl), comb. nov. Congea ungui- 

 culata Wall. Cat. n. 1736 (nomen). C. ferruginea Wall. 1. c. n. 1737 

 (nomen). C. paniculata Wall. 1. c. n. 1739 (nomen). Symphorema 



