THE PLANTS OF WELWITSCH's APONTAMENTOS. ?1 



depositetl, and at the British Museum, where there is a set scarcely 

 if at all inferior to that at Lisbon, with copies of all the notes. 

 Several of the names are nomina nuda, but in most cases a short 

 diagnosis is attached, and these at any rate must take precedence 

 over any subsequently published for the same plants, when those 

 have been described as new. 



With a view of making Mr. Jackson's great work as complete as 

 possible, I have for some time been in the habit of noting in our 

 copy of the Apontamentos such identifications as came in my way, 

 and have lately completed the list, in order that it may be included 

 in the appendix to the Index Kewensis. This has involved a con- 

 sultation of Welwitsch's specimens in many instances, and as his 

 numbers are now widely distributed, and many new species of his 

 collecting have been described, I have found, as might have been 

 expected, many recently published names for plants already named 

 and more or less defined in the Apontamentos and Synopse. Both of 

 these works are uncommon, and it seems worth while to publish 

 the identifications of the plants named in them in a form which 

 will allow more information to be given than is possible in Mr. 

 Jackson's Index. 



It has seemed to me convenient to bring all the names into one 

 series, following the order of Bentham and Hooker. I have given 

 first the name as it was published by Welwitsch ; when, as often 

 happens in the Apontamentos, he cites " Welw. Herb.," I have 

 supplied the herbarium number before quoting the paper. When 

 he gives no such reference, but the specimens in his herbarium are 

 also named by him, they are referred to immediately after the 

 citation of the Apontamentos; when no specimen bears the name, 

 but the identity is clearly established by a comparison of diagnosis, 

 locality, &c., 1 quote the herbarium number at the end of the 

 paragraph. I have also cited the numbers under which the plant 

 occurs in Welwitsch's carpological collection ("Coll. Carp."). The 

 names to be retained on the ground either of priority or reduction 

 are printed in small capitals ; in the few cases in which the names 

 have not been taken up or reduced, they appear only in italics. 



Some of the plants enumerated in the Apontamentos are there 

 referred to well-known species ; others have no names attached. 

 Neither of these are included in the following list. My object is 

 not to publish what is already well known, or to describe novelties, 

 or to enlarge our synonymy ; I only wish to bring together and to 

 correlate material which may be, and has been, overlooked. 



It will be observed that two names, Dactyladenia and Gigan- 

 themum, antedate respectively the received genera Griffonia and 

 Camoensla. I must leave it to others to decide whether the notes 

 published by Welwitsch in connection with his names are so meagre 

 as to justify their being set aside on the ground of insufficient 

 diagnosis ; but there can be no question as to the priority of these 

 names, and no doubt as to the plants intended by them. I am 

 glad to note that Dr. Kuntze, whose eccentricities have prevented 

 due recognition of the large amount of careful work contained in 

 his lievisio Gencrum, has restored {I.e. 797) Welwitsch's earlier 



