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Laplacea or Lindleya. 



Sprague (Kew Bull. 1921, 175) has pointed out that the name 

 Wikstrccmia cannot be adopted for this genus, as suggested by 

 S. ¥. lilake (Contrib. Gray Herb. liii. 1918), owing to its being 

 reserved in the list of nomina conseruaiula of the International llules 

 for the well-known genus of Tliymelceacece. Sprague goes on to say 

 that the genus of Ternstroemiacece should be called Laplacea. There 

 is however an earlier name, Lindleya Nees (Flora, iv. May 21, 1821, 

 299). Laplacea H.B.K. Gen. Nov. & Sp. v. 207, dates from February 

 1822, though the date on the titlepage is 1821. Nees gives a short 

 description of his genus which he assigns to Tiliacew, and merely 

 refers without name to his unpublished description and Hgure of a 

 species. In the following number of Flora (June 7, 1821, 328) 

 Nees says " Wickstroemia fruticosa Schr. ist Lindleya semiserrata 

 m.," thus identifying his genus with Wikstroeinia Schrad. published 

 just previously (Goett. Gel. Anz. 1821, ii. 710, May 5, 1821). There 

 is therefore no doubt as to the identity of Lindleya Nees. 



Ternstroemia calycina, sp. nov. Arbor 10-30 ped. alta. Folia 

 5-9 cm. ]., obovato-elliptica, apice rotundata v. obtusissima, basi 

 rotundata v. cuneata et subito in petiolum contracta, supra, sub lente, 

 ruguloso-granulata, margine parum recurvata, coriacea, nervo medio 

 supra non v. vix impresso, subtus prominulo, nervis 6-8 utrinque 

 subconspicuis et plus minus prominulis ; petioli 5-8 mm. 1. Pedun- 

 culi 1*5-2 cm. 1. Bracteolce 7-9 mm. 1., ovatse. ^epala 17-13 mm. 

 1., 11-9 mm. lat., ovato-elliptica, coccinea, margine glanduloso-denti- 

 culata aut integra. Fetala non visa. Ovarium 2-loculare ; stylo 

 (tioris petalis delapsis) 9-12 mm. 1., stigma te 2-punctato. 



Rah. Peckham, Clarendon, 2500 ft., Rarris 10,979, 11,035. 



The size of the crimson sepals at once distinguishes this from the 

 other Jaiuaican species. 



SHORT NOTES. 



The Type-species of Bignonia (see p. 236). Mr. llelider has 

 kindly drawn my attention to an article in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. 

 Ges. 1913, 262, in which he maintained that the type-species of 

 Bignonia was B. radicans. He considered that the Hower in 

 Tournefort's plate of Bignonia was undoubtedly B. radicans : after 

 re-examining the evidence, however, 1 remain convinced that it was 

 B. capreolata. It seems desirable to give my reasons. Tournefort's 

 s^^stem of classification was based on the corolla, and his figure of the 

 corolla of Bignonia agrees with B. capreolata and differs from 

 B. radicans in the relatively short tube, which is suddenly enlarged 

 above the basal cylindric portion and bent forwards, and in the re- 

 flexed posterior corolla-lobes and patulous anterior ones. The calyx 

 is shortly campanulate as in B. capreolata, whereas B. radicans has 

 a tubular-campanulate calyx. The ovary is slightly sunk in the 

 hollowed upper surface of the disc as in B. capreolata, instead of 

 being conspicuously stipitate above a convex disc as in B. radicans. 

 The result is the same whether we compare Tournefort's figures of 



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