NOTE ON EITCIITEA. 279 



remeraher it by, being never intended for publication." Be this as 

 it may, published it was, and the plant must be known as JR. ccqipa- 

 roides. The following may stand as a statement of the position of 

 genus and species : 



RiTCHiEA K. Br. in Narrative of Travels by Denham and 



Clapperton, 225: 1826, {nomen)'\ G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 276: 



1831 {Richiea). 

 R. CAPPAEOiDES comb. nov. 



Cratceva capparoides Andr. Bot. Hep. t. clxxvi. (1801). 



C.fragrans Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 596 (Oct. 1, 1802). 



C. moschata Herb. Banks ex Sims 1. c. 



liifcliiea fragrans R. Br. ex G. Don, 1, c, et auct. : Gilg in Engl. 

 Bot. Jahrb. xxxiii. 208 (1902), liii. 176 (1915). 



Gilg (1. c.) queries the locality Sierra Leone, but our specimen 

 from Afzelius is so endorsed. There was no specimen from Ritchie 

 in Brown's herbarium. 



TROPICAL AMERICAN RUBIACE^.— IX. 

 By H. F. Weexham, D.Sc, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 254.) 



Palicourea acanthaceoides, sp. nov. Frutex ramulis rectis graci- 

 liusculis, minutiuscule in novitate pubescentibus demum glabrescentibus 

 Isevibus, superioribus saltem sub nodos valde modo Acanthacearum con- 

 strictis, in inflorescentiis angustissime necnon longissime cylindrico- 

 pyramidalibus terminantibus laxiusculis cymularum racemosis. Folia 

 angusta lanceolata utrinque longe leniterque acuminata, supra glabra 

 subtus in venis patente-pubescentia, crassiuscula coriacea, venis subtus 

 prsesertim principal! prominentibus, secundariis utrinque ca. 15 ; 

 stipulce persistences basi subvaginantes late necnon breviter oblongse 

 pubescentes aristis 3 distantibus lanceolatis instructse rigidiusculis 

 acutis. Tuflorescentice rachis elongata validiuscula striata ferrugineo- 

 pubescentis, hracteis parvis setaceis necnon conspicuis, cymulse late- 

 rales pedunculate pauciflorse laxiusculse. Calyx minimus late rotunde 

 lobatus ; corollce tubus latiusculus cylindricus extus sparse rufo- 

 pilosus glabrescens, lobis brevibus anguste oblongis obtusis erectis. 



Peru : Mathews 1946 ! 



Allied to P. angustifolia H. B. K., from Avhich it differs in the 

 much more ample and longer inflorescence, and in the shorter, rela- 

 tively stouter and more tubular flowers. Leaves 11-16 cm. x 3- 

 3*7 cm., drying a very bright vivid gi-een, with petiole 4-10 mm. 

 long; stipules, sheathing basal part 2-3 mm., prongs about the same 

 length. The branchlets run directly into the median rachis of the 

 inflorescence, and the lowest branch of the latter may arise imme- 

 diately above the last leaf-node. The rachis may grow to nearly 

 30 cm. in length ; the width of the inflorescence at the base is about 

 8 or 9 cm. Corolla rarely much more than 1 cm. in length and 

 -+- 3 mm. wide. 



