140 THE I»LANTS OF WELWITSCh's APONTAMENTOS. 



lislied near the close of the year 1859, not earher than the middle 

 of November, notwithstandhig the fact that this was the non-official 

 part of the Annaes do Conselho Ultramarino of the Portuguese Govern- 

 ment, the official date of which was December, 1858. I am aware 

 that this publication has been and is frequently claimed as belonging 

 to the year 1858 ; but, as practically conclusive against this claim, 

 I quote the following extract from a translation of a letter from the 

 author. Dr. Welwitsch, addressed to Sir W. J. Hooker, and dated 

 "Equatorial West Coast of Africa, S. Paulo de Loanda, 4 April, 

 1859": — "The abstract of my investigations within a circuit of 

 80 pagiras will shortly be printed at Lisbon by the care and at the 

 cost of the Lisbon .... and as soon as the brochure is printed 

 I shall have the honour of offering you a copy." The translation 

 of this letter was printed in London as an exhibit in 1873 in course 

 of the Chancery suit, The King of Portugal v. Carruthers, which 

 was brought to settle a dispute as to the destination of the "Welwitsch 

 Collection ; and the brochure mentioned therein could have meant 

 no other work than the Apontamentos. By order of the court in that 

 action, and by agreement between the parties, it fell to my lot to 

 make the separation and distribution of the collection, and to com- 

 plete the assignment of the numbers to be given to the various 

 gatherings ; the whole of the vast herbarium thus passed through my 

 hands, and I made and retain numerous memoranda relating to it. 

 The succeeding notes being supplementary to those of Mr. 

 Britten, the plan of his arrangement is adopted ; but the subject 

 is not treated exhaustively : — 



MoNODORA Angolensis Wclw. The publication of this name, in 

 letters of Welwitsch to W. W. Saundurs, printed in the Juiunal 

 ijj the Linnean Sucietij of London, vol. iii. pp. 151, 154 (1 Febr. 

 1859), antedates that of the Apontamentos, pp. 582, 687, n. 43, 

 for the same plant. 



Actinostigma speciosnm Welw. does not appear to be specifically 

 identical with the other Clusiacea which Welwitsch referred to 

 his genus TJactijlanthera ; on the other hand, he considered them 

 generically different, for his words, Apont. pp. 559, 5G0, are, 

 "Ambas as especies arboreas formam novos generos." 



Dactylanthera Welw. Apont. 560, sub no. 189, is apparently Garcinia 

 PUNCTATA Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 107 (1868) ; Welw. Herb. 1050. 



Hugonia viacrocarpa Welw. is H. Afzelii R. Br. var. melanocalyx 

 (Welw.) ex Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 270, 271, and is neither of 

 the plants called H. angolensis by Welwitsch in his herbarium ; 

 Welw. Herb. 1586 ; Coll. Carp. 293, 294. 



Seshania sericea Welw. This name, thovigh not found in Welw. 

 Herb., occurs in Coll. Carp. 887. 



Cassia graciUiina Welw. Apont. 590, n. 88 = C. mimosoides L. ; 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 280, 281 (1871) ; Welw. Herb. 1712, 1713 ; 

 Coll. Carp. 479. 



Rhipsalis JEt/dopica Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 152 (1 Febr. 

 1859) = R. Cassutha Gaertn. ex Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxvii. 85 (1869) {Cassyta); Welw. Herb. 876-878. This and 

 the one preceding are omitted by Mr. Britten. 



