428 DECADES PLANTAKUM NOVARUM AUSTRO -AFRICAN ABUM. 



A note may be added on the nomenclature of the plant. Mr. 

 Hemsley (in Joimi. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 43, copied without acknow- 

 ledgment by Mr. A. W. Sutton in Jouni. Royal Hart. Soc. xiii. 100) 

 says, " The names sinensis Sabine and prceidtens Ker, were published 

 in the same year, and the latter probably earlier in the year than 

 the former"; but he contends that, "as almost every author and 

 gardener has adopted Sabine's name, it seems better to retain it." 

 This ground for retaining sinensis is insufficient, but as a matter of 

 fact it is the earlier name, as part ii. of Lindley's Collectanea, in 

 which it occurs, was published on April 1, 1821, while pranitens 

 Ker {Bot. Mag. t. 539) dates from the 1st of May of the same 

 year. Loureiro's Primula sinensis, which is of course much earlier, 

 has never been identified, but the description shows that it is not a 

 Primula ; the existence of Loureiro's name, however, induced Ker to 

 substitute /)/v2»/i('?is for Sabine's sinensis, and his action will commend 

 itself to those who adopt the rule "once a synonym always a 

 synonym." 



It may be noted that the plant from Terra del Fuego, mentioned 

 by Ker {loc. cit.) as "recorded in the Banksian Manuscripts as 

 Primula antarctica " (a name not taken up in the Index Kewensis) 

 is P. magellanica Lehm. 



DECADES PLANTARUM NOVARUM AUSTRO- 

 AFRICANARUM 



AUOTORE R. SCHLECHTER. 



(Continued from p, 345.) 



DECAS VI. 



51. Phylica chionophila, sp. n. Fruticulus erectus ramosus, 

 fere pedalis ; ramulis, primum puberulis, demum glabratis, teretibus 

 dense foliatis ; foliis erecto-patentibus patentibusve brevissime 

 petiolatis, linearibus subacutis, primum puberulis mox glabratis, 

 marginibus revolutis, 0'5-0-8 cm. longis ; capituhs subglobosis 

 niveis ad apices ramulorum, 1-1-2 cm. diametientibus ; involucri 

 foliolis linearibus vel lineari-lanceolatis subacutis sericeo-puberulis, 

 margine villoso-ciliatis, apice subpenicillatis, vulgo floribus sequi- 

 longis ; bracteis linearibus dimidio superiore paulo dilatatis, villosis, 

 flori fequilongis ; bracteolis calyci basi adnatis, angustissime lineari- 

 bus villosis, calyci paulo brevioribus ; calyce c. 0-5 cm. longo, extus 

 dense sericeo-villoso, segmentis erecto-patentibus segmeutis ovatis 

 subacutis, apice iutus incrassatis, intus glabris, 0-2 cm. longis ; 

 petalis e basi breviter unguiculata rhomboideo-rotundatis, obtusis 

 subcucullato-concavis, glabris, 0-1 cm. longis ; autheris rotundatis 

 obtusis, filamentis subulatis glabris, ?equilongis ; stylo crassiusculo 

 cylindrico, 0-1 cm. longo, stigmate capitato, basin antherarum vix 

 excedente. 



In regioue austro-occidentali : In saxosis montis " Mostertshoek- 



