888 NOTES ON NAUCLEE^. 



Macartney; Nauclea Forsteri from Baulcs, Wiles and Smith, and 

 Lay and Collie ; Mitia(ji/na afrkana from Brass and G. Don ; Uncaria 

 setiloha from Christian Smith; U. tomentosa from Pavon; U. guian- 

 ensis from Aublet — these and many similar records, all of ^Yhich were 

 seen by Mr. Haviland and for the most part named by him — should 

 have found mention. 



Mr. Haviland is again unfortunate in his reference to the 

 Museum Herbarium -when he treats of Sarcoccphalus. He says : 

 "A specimen from Africa of Naitdea sanibitcina Winterbottom 

 (1803) was labelled Sarcocephahis escidentus by Afzelius perhaps as 

 early as 1798." But as a matter of fact there is no specimen from 

 Winterbottom in the Museum, nor, I believe, are any plants from 

 him in existence ; while the writing of the name, which he (following 

 Sabine) attributes to Afzelius, is, for the genus, that of Dryander, 

 to which Mr. J. J. Bennett added the specific portion ; moreover, 

 Mr. Hiern informs me that the specimen in Afzelius's own herbarium 

 at Upsala bears a different specific name. Later on (p. 25), Mr. Havi- 

 land seems in doubt as to the whereabouts of the type of the species, 

 yet this can hardly be matter for conjecture. Brown, when first 

 publishing the name (with description) in Tucker's Conyo,'^'- p. 4G7, 

 distinctly refers to Afzelius's specimen in Herb. Banks; and Sabine's 

 description and plate in Trans. Hort. 8oc. (v. 442, t. 18, 1824), from 

 which our knowledge of S. esculentiis dates, are based on George 

 Don's specimens, which are in the British Museum. A reference 

 to this genus which has escaped Mr. Haviland's notice will be found 

 in Hornemaun's paper De indole plantanim Guineensium (1819), 

 p. 18, where it is the former of the "Genera 2 nova facie NaudetB 

 et Psijchotricc.^' 



Mr. Haviland rightly places Loureiro's BesUaria cordata under 

 Uncaria iK'iUcellata , and says that "in referring [the plant] to this 

 species I have relied upon a specimen so labelled which is in the 

 British Museum." But he does not seem to have recognized that 

 the specimen in question is from Loureiro himself, and bears the 

 native name (cited in Fl. Cochinch.) iu his handwriting. 



It is not easy to see on what pnnciple Mr. Haviland has selected 

 the localities which he gives in illustration of the distribution of the 

 species. We are inclined to think that they are for the most part 

 limited to the plants that he has seen in the Kew Herbarium, 

 though this is neither stated nor implied ; and the usual mark of 

 authentication is never employed, so that we do not actually know 

 that the author has seen the specimens. Among the African species, 

 Mr. Hiern often gives a fuller list than Mr. Haviland supplies, 



* The Report by Afzelius to which both Brown and Sabine refer being but 

 little known, it may be worth while to quote the brief clescrii)tion of Sarco- 

 cepludus which is given under the heading "32. Country Figs " : — ■" These in 

 no respect resemble the true Figs, except in the number of their gritty seeds. 

 This fruit is of the size of an apple, nearly round, and agreeable to the taste ; 

 when sufficiently ripe resembling the European Strawberry. The tree is new 

 and non-descript ; it is found growing in the best soil in the woods." (Substance 

 of the Report delivered by the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company, 

 1794, Appendix "by Mr. Afzelius, their Botanist," p. 171). 



