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the flower of Bignonia with herbarium specimens of B. capreolafa 

 and B. radicans, or with illustrations such as those given bv Bureau 

 (Bignon. tt. 6, 14). In the same article Mr. Kehder has pointed out 

 that Bignonia stems is the type-species of Tecoma Juss., of which 

 Stenolobium D. Don becomes a synonym, and that Tecoma of Bureau 

 and Schumann (Mart. Fl. Bras. viii. pars 2, 815 ; Nat. Pflanz. iv. 3 h, 

 23(5) should be merged in Tahehuia. Some time ago I came inde- 

 pendently to the same conclusions. — T. A. Speague. 



Epipactis leptociitla Godfr. The editor of the Bot. Soc. & 

 Exch. Club Keport for 1921 (p. 308) represents me as saving that 

 ''Epipactis viridiflora var. Jeptochila (Journ. Bot. 1919, 37) is 

 identical in its morphology and in the functions of the reproduc- 

 tive organs with H. Iat{/'oIia." This is a misapprehension. It is 

 the coiitinental U. viridiflora Rchb., better known as E. latifolia 

 var. viridiflora Irm., which is identical in these respects Avith 

 E. latifolia. E. leptochila differs from E. latifolia both in its 

 vegetative and reproductive organs, as well as in its method of fer- 

 tilisation (see Journ. Bot. 1920, 33), for which reason it can no 

 longer be regarded as a variety of E. viridiflora, and was therefore 

 raised to specific rank.— Ophrys apifera Huds. On p. 317 of the 

 same Eeport, referring to my paper on the fertilisation of this species, 

 the following occurs: — "Contrary to preconceived beHef, the author 

 finds that it Is mainly self -fertilised, although the plant is so specially 

 organised for cross-pollination." The universal "preconceived belief" 

 is that apifera is entirely self-f ertilised : the object of my paper was 

 to show that the mechanism for cross-pollination is still efficient, that 

 insect visits occur to this day, and that its more recently acquired 

 faculty of self -fertilisation has not wholly replaced, but only supple- 

 mented its original organisation for cross-pollination. — M. J. Godfeey. 



ViciA Dex^'ESTana H. C. Watson. — A recent reference to this 

 plant suggests that it may be worth while to put on record the origin 

 of the name, as told me by its donor. F. Dennesiana is described by 

 Watson in Godman's AY??;^raZ Sistory of tie Azores, p. 155 (1870), 

 the name being " adapted from the name of Mr. G. E. Dennes, who 

 was Honorary Secretary to the Botanical Society of London at the 

 time [lSll-8] when some native specimens were sent by Mr. [Thomas 

 Carew^] Hunt for distribution through that Exchange Club. It was 

 found by Mr. Hunt on the mountains at the east end of the island, 

 growing"^on damp earthy precipices, but in one spot only, from which 

 it has smce disappeared through a landslip .... Mr. Hunt unsuccess- 

 fully sought for the plant elsewhere in the same neighbourhood." 

 No'^other collector has found it in any of the isles; Watson grew 

 it his garden from seeds sent by Hunt, and when I was at Kew in 

 1870 it Avas grown there — I think from seeds sent by Watson. So 

 far as I am aware, the plant has not since been found ; should it liave 

 been, the reason for its name, as told me by Watson, would have 

 ceased to exist : the allusion is to the disappearance of Dennes (to 

 Australia?) about 1856 (in which year he ceased to be secretary to 

 the B. S. L.) wherein Watson found an analogy to that of the Vicia. 

 — James Beittex. 



