27G THE .TOURXAL OF BOTANY 



misleading, for all that appears about Callitrichacea) is a sliort para- 

 graph introductory to the Order on the last page, which, as the paging 

 of the volumes is not continuous throughout the work, might, we 

 think, have been deferred to the next instalment, to which it belongs. 

 The species now first described in English are not large, and have 

 alreadv been printed in Latin in this Journal in compliance with the 

 rule which demands that diagnoses of new plants should be published 

 in that language. There are several new combinations, some resulting 

 from the long-dekyed recognition of Philip Miller's work in the 

 eio-hth edition of his Gardener's Dictionary, but these have never 

 been wantonly made : Seshania Seshan comes dangerously near the 

 duplication which has been generall}^ condemned. 



The substitution of FitlieceUohiinii for Pithecolohiuui (p. 14G), 

 Avhich at first suggests a misprint, should, we think, have been ex- 

 plained. Mr. Fawcetfc kindly gives us the following note : 



"■ J: itliecellohium was founded in Hortus 3Ionacrnsis (1829) 

 188, by Martins, who gives as its equivalent * Affenohrring.' He 

 assio-ns'the name to certain species of I?ir/a mentioned, namely cyclo- 

 carpum {Inq. W.), inundaium, and Vnguis-cati. Willdenow founded 

 his Inga ci/clocarpa on Mimosa cydocarpa (Jacq. Fragm. Bot. 30, 

 t. 34, f. 1) ; the figure shows the pod as a complete ring. In Flora, 

 Beiblatter, ii. 114 (1837), Martins spells the word PifltecoUobiuin, 

 and savs of it : ' genus Ingas auctorum amplectens a me in Horto Reg. 

 Monac. constitutum [1829, ]). 188] Brasiliensibus dicitur Brincos de 

 SaJioi/, Aftenohrring germanice, unde nomen graecum petitum .... 

 Hue pertinent inter alias multas : Inya exceha Kunth, JJngiiis-cati 

 W., higemina W., cyclocarpa W., coclileata W., contorta Grab.' 

 ' Brincos ' is Portuguese for ' eari-ings,' but ' Sahoy ' is certainly 

 not the usual word for 'monkey,' and is more probably the name of 

 a place. Possibly the women of Sahoy wore the cyclocarpa pods 

 round their ears." 



The substitution of Loureyro for the usual spelling of the name is 

 in accordance with his autograph MS. in the library of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany ; Necker's commemorative name Lourea was due to 

 the misspelling of the younger Linnieus, who based his Hedysartnn 

 i^espertiJionis — the type of the genus — on a plant sent from Cochin- 

 China by " lo de Lourei." 



On p. XV is an important " Note on Dr. Patrick Browne's JS^afural 

 History of Jamaica'" which is in danger of being overlooked; it 

 should,' we think, have been referred to in the preface. It is as 

 follows : — 



"Dr. Patrick Browne published his Natural History of Jamaica 

 in 1756, three years after the appearance of Linnseus's S^^ecies 

 Plant arum. Browne did not adopt the binomial system of Linnaeus, 

 but quoted as synonyms of his own diagnostic names the diagnoses 

 of the Species PI an tar um. In his own copy of the History, now in 

 the library of the Linnean Society, Linnaeus added the binomial as a 

 marginal note. 



" Linnseus acquired Browne's herbarium in 1758, and has under- 

 lined in his copy of the History the first letter of those species of 

 which there was a s])eeimen in Browne's herbarium. In some in- 



