68 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



CUMBIA. 



This name was published, as cited in the hidex Kewensis, by 

 Francis Bnclianan (afterwards Hamilton) in his Jounien from 

 Madras, iii. 187(1807). The entry stands simi'ly as '^ Ciunhia. 

 The Pelon of the Hort. Mai.'' =•' ; but this citation of a good figure 

 and full description, which has always been recognized as repre- 

 senting the plant usually known as Careya arborex, is sufficient to 

 justify the retention of Cmnbia, and to prevent its being regarded 

 as a novien nudwn. That Hamilton liimself intended to establish 

 the genus is clear from his statement in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 96 

 (1827), where, while adopting Roxburgh's name Careya for the 

 tree, he says : '*I had previously called it Ciinibia, and under this 

 name gave specimens and a drawing to Sir J. E. Smith." He 

 here (L. c. 97) adds a specific name to his genus (wrongly citing it 

 as from Mysore, iii. 187), and calls the tree Cumhia\ ConeancB. 

 The name of the Australian species will be Cumbia australis. 



'^ Nelitris. 



As pointed out by Trimen (Fl. Cejdon. ii. 339), '*the genus 

 Timoniiis dates only from [DC. Prodr. iv. 461] 1830, and should 

 rightly be superseded by Xelitrh [Gaertn. Fruct. i. 134] (1788); for 

 Gaertuer's figure of the fruit (t. 27, f. 5) shows that this was the 

 plant intended. He has in the text, however, confused it with 

 some Eugenia, the specimens having been named ' Wal-jambu.' 

 The name thus became applied by De Candolle to a genus of 

 Myrtaceffi (properly Decaspermum. Forst.)." 



The type of the genus is N. Jambosella Gsertn. I.e. (T.Jamhosella 

 Thw. Enum. 153 (1859)), a name erroneously given in the Index 

 Kewensis as a synonym of I\ Kceniyii ; the widely distributed T. 

 Humphii, with which as an Australian plant J am concerned, may 

 be called N. Timon, that being the earliest specific name ; it is the 

 Erithalis Timon of Sprengel (Pugillus, i. 18 (1813) ). 



Niebuhria. 



Niebuhria of Necker (Elem. i. 30 (1790)) must, I think, replace 

 the generally accepted Wedeiia of Jacquin. 



In his Iter Hispanicum (1758), Loefling describes two genera — 

 Wedelia (p. 180) and AUionia (p. 181). In 1759, Linnaeus (Syst. 

 ed. 10, 890) united the two genera under the latter name, and gave 

 trivial names to each, calling Loefling's AUionia, A. violacea, and 

 his Wedelia, A. incarnata. The latter has been accepted as the type 

 of the genus AUionia, of which indeed it is the only species retained 

 in the Index Kewensis, where the genus is referred to " Loefl. Iter, 

 181 (1758); Linn. Syst. ed. x. 890(1759)." 



Loefling's AUionia = Oxybaphus of L'Heritier and of authors, 

 for which it has been restored by recent North American botanists 



* Vol. iii. p. 85, tab. 36. 



t It appears from Hamilton [1. c.) that Cumbia was formed by him from the 

 native name Kumb or Kumbi. 



