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Bertoloni's plant has already been placed by Giii-kc in Fl. Bras. xii. 

 iii. 568. This, by the way, should date from 1820 (Bertol. Ex- 

 cerpta, 13). 

 Ipecacuanha officinalis. Ipecacuanha preta. Koster, 497. 



= Psychotria Ipecacuanha Stokes, Mat. Med. i. 365 (1812). The 

 Index Keicemis has needlessly increased synonymy by including 

 Arruda's vernacular names : thus — 



''Branca, Arruda, Diss, ex Koster, Trav. Braz. 497 = lonidium 

 Ipecacuanha. 



"Preta, Arruda, I.e. = P. Ipecacuanha." 

 KoANOPHYLLON TiNCTORiA. Anil ch PemaDihucu. Koster, 495. 



= FAipatorium. lave DC. " This is a shrub which grows to the 

 height of twelve feet or more. It is of the class syngeuesia ; the 

 leaves are from two to three inches in length, and of proportionate 

 breadth ; it is enough to soak a piece of cotton cloth in its juice for 

 it to become green, and from this colour it is changed to blue by the 

 absorption of the oxygen of atmospheric air." — Koster, /. c. The only 

 composite yielding blue dye mentioned in Fl. Bras, is FAipatorium 

 Iccve DC, of which it is said, " foliis tincturam offert cseruleum, ei 

 Indif/nfercB Anilis similem " (/. c. vi. iv. 412) : and with this Arruda's 

 description agrees. It is curious that Hahn distributed this plant 

 (PI. de la Martinique, n. 396) as '' Eupatorium tinctoriuni L." — a 

 name which I do not find elsewhere. 



KORDELESTRIS SYMPHILITICA. Cavoba. [500. 



KoRDELESTRis UNDULATA. Caroba viiuda, or Casco de cavallo. Koster, 

 The former = Jacaranda procera Spreng., fide Mart. Mat. Med. 

 Bras. 66 : the latter is transferred by iSteudel to Jacaranda ; A. P. 

 DeCandoUe (Prodr. ix. 233) says of it, " nomine tantum nota." 



LiNHAREA TINCTORIA. Catiuija Pranca. Koster, 493. 



Miers (Cat. Woods) identifies this with Nectandra Gardner I 

 Meissn. Arruda describes another species, "Canella do Mato, 

 Linharia aroiiiatica," which I cannot identify. The spelling Lin- 

 harea is the correct one, as he says, "I have given the name Linharea 

 in memory of D. Rodrigo de Souza Coutiuho, Conde de Linhares, 

 the cultivator and protector of letters" (p. 493). 



Meleagrinex Pernambucana. Pitomheira. "Quid?" Jacks. Index. 

 = Sapiudus esciilentus St. Hil. ; fide Allemao, Brev. Not. 27 (same 

 local name quoted), and Miers, Cat. Woods. " If turkeys eat of the 

 kernels they die immediately ; from this circumstance I took the 

 name of the genus, of which I have only found two species." — 

 Koster, /. c. 496. 



Mimosa virginalis. Parbatiinaw. Koster, 500. 



= Stryphnodendron Parbatimaiu Ma^rt. The local name, according 

 to Miers and Allemao, Brev. Not., is " Barbatimao," and this spelling 

 is used for the specific name by Bentham in Fl. Bras. xv. ii. 284 : 

 Martins, however, firstpublished the species as S. Barbatimam in Flora, 

 xx..Beibl. ii. 17 (1837). I think Mimosa cochliacarpos B. A. Gromes,''= 



• In Index Kewemis the name is usually spelt Gomez, but incorrectly. 



