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Telopea speeiosissima Br.' "To the President of the Lihnean 

 Lociety of London, this drawing of a Blue Mountain Waratah is 

 most respectf Uy presented by their bumble servant Geo. Sutter, 

 F.L.S. Pan ; atta 20th of Nov. is.");.*' Signed " W. Griffith, 

 H857.?' 



As supplementing the I). N. B. account, it may be noted that 

 fossil as well as recent Cycads shared Yates's attention ; it was in 

 connection with his work on the former that Mi'. Carruthers dedicated 

 to him the fossil genus Yatesia. A paper by Yates on Zamia qigas 

 and other fossil species is published in the Proceed 'i nqs of the York- 

 s/nre Philosophical Society for 1849 : others of similar character are 

 enumerated in R. G. C. vi. 465. At the Linnean Society in 1849, 

 and again in 1853, Yates exhibited specimens and made communi- 

 cations of some length to the Linnean Society (see Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 ii. 15-22, 258-255) ; and he contributed a large collection of living 

 plants to the International Horticultural Exhibition held in London 

 in 1806. 



A letter to Seemann on the explosion of a cone of Encephalartos 

 horridus was published in this Journal for 1863 (p. 73). 



NOTES ON JAMAICA PLANTS. 

 By William Fawcett. B.Sc. and A. B. Rendle. P.P. 8. 



(Continued from p. 19.) 

 TitlTJMFETTA. 



Li>~>^:us adopted Plunder's genus Triumfetta (Gen. PI. 344; 

 1737), and described both calyx and corolla apparently from Plumier's 

 rough drawing (Nov. PI. Anier. Gen. t. 8). Later in the same 

 year he described at length (Hort. Cliff. 210), under the same generic 

 name, a plant growing in Clifford's garden, which led him to alter his 

 description (Gen. PL ed. 2, 243, 1742) and state that the perianth 

 was single — not with both calyx and corolla. The description in 

 Hort. Cliff, was cited in Species Blantarum (444, 1753) for the 

 single species there named, Triumfetta Lappula. 



In Flora Zeylanica (77, 1748) Linnaeus had already founded a 

 genus Bartramia on a plant in Hermann's herbarium (now in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit.) with both calyx and corolla, and on an earlier page of 

 the Species Plantarum (389) he gave the plant the specific name 

 B. indica. Six years later (Syst. ed. 10, 1044) Linnaeus included 

 Bartramia in Triumfetta and altered the trivial, naming the species 

 T. Bartramia. The earliest trivial is therefore indica ; hut as 

 Lamarck subsequently described (Encyc. iii. 420, 1789) a Triumfetta 

 indica, the identity of which is doubtful, we have adopted the 

 Linnean name T. Bartramia. De Candolle (Prodr. i. 508) remarks 

 " T. Bartramia (Linn. sp. 638) indeterminata manet, cum synonyma 

 omnia ad diversas species pertineant," and adopts Jacquin's name 

 T. rhomboidea (Enum. 22 ; 1760). Later botanists followed T)e Can- 

 dolle, although there is no difficulty in ascertaining exactly what 

 Linnseus's species is, namely the plant in Hermann's herbarium. 



