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If we follow the method of " residue," the result is the same; Of 

 the fifteen genera included in Bignonia L. (1753), twelve had been 

 segregated by the year 1838. B. nnguis-cati and B. aquinoctialis 

 were separated byMiers in 1863 as types of the new genera Doxantha 

 and Cydisfa respectively (Proc. Hort. Soc. iii. 189, 191; 1863). 

 There remained only B. cajpreohita^ which Miers had referred to 

 Doxatitha, but which was segregated by Bureau In 1864 as the type 

 of a new genus Anisostichus. Seemann, in reviewing Bureau's 

 Monograpliie, remarked that " it is really high time that botanists 

 should come to some understanding as to what is to be regarded as 

 the type of Bignonia,'''' and came to the conclu&ion " that the genus 

 Biqnonia would exist no longer, except as a receptacle of species not 

 yet examined by any competent authority " ( Journ. Bot, 1864, 356). 

 It is hoped that B. caj^reolata may now be recognised as the type- 

 species. 



As the names Bignonia and Doxanilia were transposed by 

 K. Schumann in Die Natilrliclien Pflanzenfamilien and in Marfius, 

 Flora Brasiliensis, it seems advisable to give the synonymy of the 

 two genei-a. Miers explicitly stated that B. ttnguis-cati was the 

 type-species of Doxantha ; hence it is inadmissible to use the name 

 ioxantha for a genus in which B. unguis-cati is not included. 



Bignonia [Tourn. Elem. 133, t. 72 ; 1694] L. Sp. PL 622 (1753) ; 

 Gen. PL ed. 5, 273 (1754), emend. 



Anisosticlnis Bur. Monogr. Bignon. 43, t. 6 (1864). 



Doxantha K. Schum. in Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 216 (1894), 

 et in Mart. Fl. Bras. viii. pars. 2, 10, non Miers emend. 



T3'pe-species : B. caiireolata L. 



Judging from the description, B. calif ornica Brandegee {Zoe, v. 

 170 ; 1903) appears to be congeneric. 



Doxantha Miers. in Proc. Eoy. Hort. Soc. iii. 189 (1863), 

 emend. ; Seem, in Journ. Bot. 1864, 356. 



Bignonia Bur. Monogr. Bignon. 40, t. 7 (1864) ; K. Schum. in 

 Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 3 B, 226, et in Mart. Fl. Bras. viii. pars 2, 10, 

 281 ; non L. emend. 



Type-species : B. tmguis-cati L. 



SHORT NOTES. 



An Abnormal Primrose. A primrose with considerably abnormal 

 flowers was found in Culvery Woods, Pensford, Somerset, on April 29th, 

 1922 : calyx deeper coloured than usual, more hairy and not contracted 

 at the throat ; corolla was funnel-shaped with an open throat, green 

 with yellow markings at the throat, while the laminae were wrinkled, 

 glightly emarginate and ciliate ; stamens short, joined to the corolla 

 6 mm. fi'om the base of the tube, the whole length of the corolla 

 beino- 21 mm. ; style much elongated, exceeding by 3-4 mm. the 

 wide throat of the corolla and with longer hairs ; stigma bi-lobed, the 

 lobes sometimes long and bending l)aek to form a crutch ; ovary much 

 elongated, hairy, laterally compressed, with 5 longitudinal ridges. 



