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Tilland's Icones Nova, 110, represent it, but is a tolerable figure 

 of our V. canina. What we have had to determine is not what 

 was the plant of Gerard, which differs in the two editions of his 

 Herbal, but what was really intended by Linnaeus. I fully agree 

 with Fries in believing that the type of the Linnean V. canina is 

 the plant which he and I and most of the Continental botanists 

 so name." 



The answer to this position is simple. First, Fries said there 

 was no type, his words being " Planta Linnjeana manifeste est 

 collectiva," Mant. 1. c. ; secondly, the species was not founded in 

 the Hortus Clijfortianus ; again, the "character" there given fZoes 

 apply to V. sylvatica Bab. ; and finally Linnasus, in his Flora 

 Anglica (1754), p. 23, says that his Viola canina is Eay's V. canina 

 sylvestris, which Babington himself admits to be V. sylvatica. 



Hence, if the Linnean name V. canina must be retained, and 

 there would appear to be no escape from this position, it should 

 be used for the plant which has since 1823 been called V. Rivi- 

 niana, retaining the name V. ericetorum Hayne, Arzneigeiv., back 

 of index to vol. 3, as the name for the dog violet {V. canina Echb. 

 non Linn.). 



ALABASTKA DIVERSA.— Part XXI. 



By Spencer le M. Moore, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



acanthace^ africans nov^.''- 



Thunbergia (§ Euthunbergia) Gossweileri, sp. nov. Herba 

 ascendens, verisimihter satis humilis, ramis tenuibus quadrangu- 

 laribus glabris, foliis parvis subsessilibus ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis 

 obtusis basi cordatis trinervibus membranaceis glabris, floribus 

 parvis axillaribus sohtariis pedunculis sat longis glabris insidenti- 

 bus, bracteolis inter se liberis ovato-oblongis obtusis margine 

 distanter ciliatis ahbi scabriusculis, calycis dentibus paucis abbre- 

 viatis deltoideis vel subulatis, corolloo tubo bracteas circiter sequante 

 dimidio superiore dilatato, antheris apice mucronatis loculis basi 

 barbatis paris postici loculo altero calcarato altero mutico paris 

 antici loculis ambobus muticis, stigmate bilabiato, capsula parva 

 minute pubescente, seminibus ovoideis a dorso compressis verru- 

 cosis ventre breviter excavatis. 



Hab. Angola, in open thickets at Kossuango, Kuivivi ; Goss- 

 weiler, 4188. 



Folia 2-5-3 cm. long., 1-2 cm. lat., in sicco viridia ; petioU 

 1-2 mm. long. Pedunculi 1-5-2-5 cm. long. Bracteolaa 12-15 mm. 

 long., humectattc arete reticulatic, in sicco reticulum cerni non 

 potest. Calyx totus 1-25 mm. long., hujus dentes summum -6 mm, 

 long. Coroilic tubus 15 mm. long., ima l)asi oogre 2 nun., triente 

 inferiore 1-25 mm., sursum circa 5 mm. lat. ; limbus circa 15 mm. 

 diani. Antlierarum loculi fere 2-5 mm. long. Ovarium 3-5 mm. 

 long. Stigmatis lobi inter so propemodum icqualcs, ovati, circa 



The specimens described are in the National Herbarium. 



