EHAPHIDOSTEOIUM COiSFITOSUM: 89 



Apti/chus lonf/icollisKiimipo ex C. M. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1897, 



p. 213. 

 A. 8e?)utorfulics C. M. o^;. el toe. cit. 

 R. i^eralare Broth, in Engl, Bot. Jahrb. xx. 200 ! 

 Pterogoniella Stuhlmanni Broth, op. cit. j). 208 ! 

 R.pcrlaxum (C. M.) in Dus. M. Canior. ct Par. Ind. p. 1102 ! 

 U. Dicnemonella (C. M.) Broth, in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiv. 273! 

 R. Saidoma (C. M.) Broth, loc, cit. ! 

 R. subcurvulum (C. M.) Broth, loc. cit. I 

 R. Jlumiriule (C. M.) Broth, op. cit. p. 27-l< ! 

 R. clinjsotis (C. M.) Broth, loc. cit. ! 

 R gluti)iosum (C. M.) Broth, op. cit. p. 275! 

 Aptijclius (jrammicarpus C. M. in Malpighia, 1S9G, p. 517! 

 A. coiiciiinus C. M. op. et loc. cit. p. 275 ! 



SCHRANKIA MICROPHYLLA. 

 By James Beitten, F.L.S. 



In the Contributions from the Gray Ilerharium, lix. 9 (Sept. 

 1919) Mr. J. F. Macbride publishes " Schhankia miceophylla 

 (Dryand.) comb, nov." as the name to be substituted for the plant 

 usually known as S. angustata Torr. & Gr. I had made the identirt- 

 cation in a paper on " Smith's Georgian Plants " published in this 

 Journal for 1898 (p. 301), which Mr. McBride has apparently over- 

 looked, but had not made the combination — in those days many of 

 us considered that the first name under the genus should be retained, 

 and Dryander's description was published under Mimosa. It is, I 

 think, evident that S. micropliylla stands, but the circumstances 

 connected with its publication are somewhat peculiar; and as the 

 historj^ which I gave (/. c.) has been somewhat amplified by further 

 observation I will recapitulate here what is necessary of the former 

 note and bring it up to date. 



The description in the Natural History of tlie rarer Lepidop- 

 terous Insects of Georgia, ii. 123 (1797) is prefaced by Smith with 

 the following heading and note : 



" Mimosa miceophylla Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2 ined. The plant 

 in the plate is a species of Mimosa, which will appear in the second 

 edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and for the following specific 

 character and synonym of which we are obliged to Mr. Dryander." 



Neither name nor description appears in ed. 2 of Hortus Kewensis 

 (1813), but their place is supplied by SchranJcia uncinata Willd. 

 (Sp. PL iv. 1043 ;' 1805) whose diagnosis is transcribed, with which 

 Dryander subsequently identified his species. The history of the 

 reduction is shown in the page of the Solander MSS. (xxi. 265) from 

 which the description published by Smith was taken. Although 

 Dryander was doubtless the sender of this, the MS. shows that 

 Solander was the author both of the name and of the diagnosis ; each 

 was founded on a specimen from Bartram, in Banks's herbarium, 

 which bears the name in Solander's hand. At a later period, Dry- 

 ander practically rewrote the description, added synonym}^, and 

 identified the plant with Schrankia uncinata Willd., whose diagnosis 



