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Leoiiutis Raineriana Vis. L'Orto Bot. Padova, 1842, p. 142, 

 n. 47 ; this is L. veliitina Fenzl, /3 / Raineritma Bentb. in DC. Prodi*, 

 xii. p. 535 (1848). 



It may be noted tbat on p. 477, n. 13, Leiicas Pechuelii Baker 

 sbould have been ascribed to Giirke in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. 135; 

 also that on p. 481, n. 30, L. lanata Baker is not the same plant as 

 the East Indian L. lanata Benth. in Wall. PI. As. Bar. i. p. 62 

 (1830), and in DC. Prodr. xii. p. 525, n. 8 (1848), although Giirke 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxii. p. 135, n. 36, seems to assume that it is 

 the same. It appears that L. lanata Baker will require a new name, 

 but the question whether this is so or not may form a difficult 

 problem in nomenclature, if certain principles now in fashion on 

 the Continent or in America are allowed to prevail. 



Ocijmuni iiwnadelphnin and Leucas a [finis of E. Brown ni Salt, 

 Voyage to Abyssinia, Appendix iv. p. Ixiv (1814), are names only, 

 and as such have no claims for recognition ; they are not noticed in 

 the Flora, but the latter is quoted by A. Richard, Tent. Fl. Abyss. 

 ii. p. 199 (1851), as synonymous with L. urticafolia (printed 

 L. urticifulia by Baker, p. 489). Ocymiun monadelpham R. Br. is 

 Coleiis conwsns Hochst. Specimens of each, named by Brown, are 

 in the National Herbarium. 



Without any attempt to supply a list of omissions of plants or 

 names belonging to the other orders comprised in the volume, from 

 the appendix, the curious want of any mention of the Somaliland 

 genus, Hceniacanthtis S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1899, p. 63, t. 4026- 

 (Sept.), may be noted. References in the appendix to the prior 

 pages of the volume, showing where the added species belong, would 

 have been a practical advantage. The change made in the trivial 

 name of Miniulopsis Thutnsuni C. B. Clarke, p. 55, which has the 

 synonym Epidastopebna rflandulosiuin Lindau is obviously calculated 

 to provoke a change of nomenclature on the part of foreign botanists 

 and might have been wisely avoided, although the earlier trivial would 

 not be very distinctive under the older generic name. 



While appreciating its sterling value, it is impossible to look 

 through the volume, even cursorily, without being impressed with 

 the numerous and important contributions made by foreign botanists 

 to this Flora ; and these contributions are mostly of recent dates. 

 From a purely scientific standpoint, it matters not at all to what 

 nationalities workers belong ; but the book is printed in English 

 with the belief that this language would be most generally con- 

 venient ; many of its readers therefore will feel a certain sense of 

 shame that the plants of a part of the world where British rule and 

 influence largely prevail are not systematically elucidated in corre- 

 sponding proportions by English botanists. It must be conceded 

 that supremacy in this kind of scientific work is being steadily lost 

 by Britain ; it is no longer adequate, as in former times, to rely 

 much on voluntary efforts to cope with foreign competition ; and, 

 unless the British Government takes to heart the present tendency 

 of things, organizes its botanical establishments to the highest state 

 of efficiency, and enlarges the supplies, it will inevitably discover 

 that the best original work on the botany of its colonies and other 



