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and the much later Senecio curvatus Bak. was recently noticed by the 

 writer on successively examining the types preserved in the DeCandol- 

 lean and Kew herbaria respectively. The identity appears to have been 

 previously inferred by Dr. F. W. Klatt, for after determining Hilde- 

 brandt's no. 3626 as Mikania injrifolia in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. Beibl. 

 27, p. 22 (1890), he later cites the same number as Senecio cm-vatus 

 Bak. in Ann. k. k. Naturh. Hofinus. Wien, vii. 299 (1892). Although 

 the name Senecio pyrifollus was used in manuscript by von Martius 

 for a Brazilian species, it was published only as a synonym of 

 Senecio ellipticus DC. Prod. vi. 420 (1837) by Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras, 

 vi. pt. 3, 318 (1884). This use of the name, especially as unaccom- 

 panied by independent description and therefore incapable of revival, 

 seems in no way to preclude the new combination here made for the 

 plant of Madagascar. 



Saussurea baicalensis (Adams), comb. nov. Liatris haicalensis 

 Adams, M^m. Soc Nat. Mosc. v. 115 (1817). Carpi ephor us haica- 

 lensis DC. Prod. V. 132 (1836). Saussurea pycnocephala Ledeb. Ic. 

 Fl. Ross. i. 15, t. 59 (1829), Fl. Alt. iv. 14 (1833), & Fl. Ross. ii. 661 

 (1845-46), which see for detailed synonymy. As Adams's original de- 

 scription of this species is excellent and detailed there seems no reason 

 why according to present nomenclatorial rules the earliest though long- 

 neglected specific name should not be restored as indicated above. The 

 association of the species with Liatris, to which it has considerable 

 habital resemblance, was not unnatural at a time when the relatively 

 obscure tribal distinctions of the Compositae were unknown. 



