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unpublished drawings of species described by Swartz, some of which are 

 rare and have not been found of late years. There is a description of 

 Lavenia deciunbens, but no drawing, and a drawing of Forthindia 

 coccinea without the description. 



This interesting volume has now been acquired by Prof. C. Lind- 

 man, of Stockholm. We have referred in our Flora of Jamaica 

 to the drawings it contains as " Swartz Icones IneditiB." 



Ternstr(emiace^. 

 Eroteum Swartz. 



The genus Eroteum was founded by Swartz (Proch'O)nus, 85 ; 

 1788) on two species — U. the(Boides from Jamaica, and E. undulatum 

 from the Lesser Antilles. Swartz contributed a longer description of 

 the genus to Schreber's Genera Plantarum, ii. 807 (1791), but in his 

 Flora India; Occident alls, 971 (1800), changed the name, which he 

 states Avas originally called Eroteum by Solander (see Solander MSS. 

 in Department of Botan}^) to Freziera, in memory of a botanist who 

 travelled in South America, retaining the same two species. 



These two species are now generally regarded as belonging to 

 different genera, and are cited as Clcyera theoides Choisy and Fre- 

 ziera undtilata^w., most botanists having followed Swartz in neglect- 

 ing his original name Eroteum, which, however, is retained by 

 Eaillon (Hist. Nat. PL iv. 2G5 (1873). The name C%er« was given 

 originally by Thunberg (Fl. Jai-). 12, 224) in 1784 to C.japonica, a 

 species of Ternstroemia, of which Cleyera Thunb. is therefore a 

 synonym. 



De Candolle (in Mem. Soc. Flnjs. Genev. i. 412, 1821) retained 

 Thunberg's Cleyera and added a second species, C. oclinacea, also 

 Asiatic. Choisy (Mem. Ternstrcem. 1855) also retained Cleyera, 

 but extended the genus to include, besides C. ochnacea, several New 

 World species, among them Freziera tlieceoides Sw. ; at the same 

 time he indicated that the original Cleyera japonica Thunb. was a 

 species of Ternstroemia. Choisy also retained the genus Freziera Sw. 

 for F. xindidata Sw. and several allied Tropical American species. 



Presuming that the Old World species, Cleyera oclinacea DC. and 

 others, are congeneric with the New World Freziera theceoides Sw. 

 and allies, the earliest name for the genus is that originally given by 

 Swartz, namel}^ Eroteum, which is thus retained for a portion of 

 Swartz's original genus. The synonymy of his original species is as 

 follows : — 



Eroteum the^oides Sw. Prod. 85 (1788). 



Freziera th^eoides Sw. Fl. Ind. Dec. 972, t. 19 (1800), and 



Ic. Ined. t. 41 ; I>C. Prodr. i. 524. 

 Cleyera theoides Choisy in Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve, xiv. 

 110 (1855). Jamaica, Cuba, Central America. 



Freziera undulata Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 974. 



Eroteum undulatum Sw. Prod. 85. Lesser Antilles, Trinidad. 



Freziera is represented in Jamaica by F. Grisehacliii Kr. & LTrb. 

 in Engl. Pot. Jahrh. xxi. 542. 



