306 NOTES ON THE INDEX KEWENSIS. 



Chamncistus Oetler 1761 (not only S. F. Gray 1821 !) = Loiseleuria 

 Desv. 1813. 



Coin/zodes Moehr. 173G (not only DC. 1887!) = Carpesium L. 

 1741/G" 



Corallodendron L. 1735 (not only Hall. 1745 !) = Erythrina L. 

 1737. 



Conjuihurchis Thonars 1809 (not only Bl. 1855 !) = Corymbis 

 Lindl. 1847 " Tliouars 1822." 



Draco Heister 1748, Ad. 1756 (not only Crantz 1768!) = 

 Dracaena "Vand. 1762." 



Guajava Moehr. 1736 (not only Ad. 1763 !) = Psidium L. 1737. 



loHthlaspi Sieg. 1736 (not only Ad. 1763 !) = Clypeola L. 1737. 



Ilia Pers. "Kicli." 1805 (not only Hedw. 1806 !) = Fimbristylis 

 Vabl. 1806. 



Irldorchis Thouars 1809 (not only Bl. 1858 !) = Oberonia Ldl. 

 1830. 



Liliastruia Ludw. 1737 (not only Link 1829!) — ParadiseaMazz. 

 1811. 



Meadia Catesby 1748 (not only Mill. 1752 !) = Dodecatheon 1751. 



Nyniphodcs Ludw. 1737 (not only Med. 1789!) = Limnanthemum 

 Gm. 1769. 



PentcK/onla Moehr. 1736, Sieg. 1737 (not only Vent, ex Steud. 

 1841 !) = Specularia Heist. 1748. 



Pentiigonocarpus Targ.-Tozz. 1748 (not only Pari. 1872 !) = 

 Kosteletzida Presl. 1831. 



Putamopithys L. 1735 (not only Ad. 1763 !) = Elatine L. 1737. 



Sagus Kumph. 1741, Ad. 1763 (not only Gaertn. 1788) = 

 Metroxylon 1783. 



Securidaca Sieg. 1736, Ludw. 1737, non L. 1742 (not only Mill. 

 1752 !) = Securinega DC. 1805. 



Urcc'olaria Mol. 1782 (not only 1810!) = SarmieutaR.&P. 1794. 



The date 1737 of Linnaeus Hortus Cliftbrtianus is to be corrected 

 always in 1738 ; see Eev. gen. pi. page cxxxiv and the date 1809 of 

 R. Brown's Monograph of Asclepiadaceae in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. is 

 also wrong; for that paper was not published before 1811 as 

 indicated in K. Brown's Misc. Works (german edition). But Hoya 

 and Dlschidia K. Br. were already published 1810 in E. Brown's 

 Prod. fl. Nov. Holl. and have a doubtful not yet settled priority 

 towards Spedinyia and Colyris Vahl 1810. Velloso Flora fiuminensis 

 appeared 1835, not 1827. 



The Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, Mr. Thiselton Dyer, has 

 given 1895 a presidential address to the Botanical Section of the 

 British Association, '■= also with remarks on nomenclature, saying 

 scarcely anything new thereabout, if not the following remark : 

 "But it is a mistake to suppose that .... it (the Kew Index) 

 expresses any opinion of the validity of the names themselves." 

 That must not be forgotten, for in regard to the honest and 



* Eepiinted in "Erythea" 1896: 5-15, and in german translation but only 

 partly by Mr. Rtapf in " Bot. Centralblatt " 1896 : U-iO. [See also Journ. Bot. 

 1890, 114.] 



