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sion of the word Latin in Art. 37 renders Ai'ts. 36 and 39 

 invalid, or at least renders their interpretation doubtful in many 

 cases. By means of Art. 37, it would be possible in a round- 

 about way to force the acceptance of a new species according to 

 Congress rules without a Latin diagnosis. Further, to change 

 the name or authority for a new species because it had not been 

 published with a Latin diagnosis would be to act in flat defiance 

 of Art. 50, and other instances of rules whose effects are difficult 

 to harmonise might be given. 



Nomina Couservanda. — It is gi*eatly to be regretted that the 

 time limit for fhiuiige of name was put so far back as 1753, and 

 that the list of nomina consei-vanda was not greatly extended. 

 To give an instance. Anthistiria L. (Gniiiiinae), 1779, is 

 changed to Themeda, Forst, 1775, by Haeckel in De Candolle's 

 Monograph and in Engler's Pflanzenfamilien. It is impossible 

 to accept any such change of a Linnean name on such slender 

 gi'ounds as a four years' priority, when a name has been univer- 

 sally accepted for over 120 years. Questions of general con- 

 venience oveiTide any such claim in a case of this kind. 



Acacia accola, Maiden and Betche. Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.Wales, 1906, p. 73-1. (Leguniinosae). 



This appears to be .a narrow-leaved and broad-fruited form of 

 A. neriifolia. A specimen from Bailey resembles Maiden's form 

 more closely as regards the fruit and the funicle of the seed, but 

 has the broader phyllodes of A. neriifolia. Probably the future 

 discovery of other intervening forms will render advisable the 

 reduction of this species to a variety. 



ADiiXAXTHos rv(;xoKU.M, Diels. Fragin. Phyt. Aust. Occid., 

 p. 1 38. (Proteaceae). 



This " species " is made to include the A. apiculata of Meiss- 

 ner, and the Drummond specimens of A. sericea. The species 

 is, however, undoubtedly the same as A. *fericea, Benth., a.nd if 

 Dr. Diels had seen No. 788 as well as No. 787, he would probably 

 not have made this error. There can be no doubt that many 

 accepted species of this genus will be ultimately reduced to varie- 

 ties as the result of cultural observations, and hence r rsat care 



