336 THE JOrUXAL OF EOTAXY 



Chelsea, and fresli specimens to Mr, Sovverbv, for his Eiujlii^li Botany ; 

 hut the latter were luckily not in a sutHcientlv ])crfect state to be 

 drawn. I say luckili/, for this ill-fated Mentha ]iroves after all to 

 be a non-entity, a casual inspection of the Linnean Herbarium having 

 lately satisfied me, that it is neither more nor less than Ciinila 

 liuli'tjio'ntesr 



]t will be observed that Smith speaks of his inspection as *' casual," 

 and the resemblance between the two plants is so striking that at 

 first sight they might well be regarded as identical. In order that 

 the matter might finally be laid at rest, I asked Mr. Wilmott — who 

 had examined the B:inksian specimens and stated (Journ. Bot. I. c.) 

 that the flowers showed conclusively that the ])lant was correctly 

 referred to Fnlcc/iuni as opposed to Mentha — to examine the speci- 

 men from Miller which is the type of Linnjeus's exigiia and at 

 the same time to see the specimen in Smith's herbai-ium on which he 

 determined it to be CuniJa puleciioiden. Mr. Wilmott finds that the 

 latter determination is correct, but with regard to M. exigua the 

 Linnean specimen is identical with the Banksian specimens but not 

 with the Cunila. The plant will therefore retain the name bestowanl 

 upon it by Hudson (Fl. Angl. ed. 2, 25-1) — Mentha Pulegium L. 

 /5. exigua. 



Smith's paper contains an interesting note as to the provenance 

 of the specimens from Miller which are in his herbarium. Miller's 

 collection, as is well known, was bought by Banks (see Journ. Bot. 

 1913, 182), but Smith tells us (Z. c. 20) that Banks, " not solicitous 

 to encumber his herbarium with doubtful s])ecimens, very obligingly 

 ])resented me with a number of unsettled mints from Miller's herba- 

 rium." Among them was a plant wqth an inscrii)tion in Buddie's 

 hand, which " there can be no doubt [was] the original specimen 

 gathered by Buddie in conijiany with Mr. Francis Dale " at Stoke 

 Nevvington, as mentioned by Dillenius in R. Syn. ed. 3, 232, n. 2. 



TliOPICAL AMERICAN RUBIACEiE.— X. 

 Br H. F. Wee^iam, D.Sc, F.L.S. 



(Contiiiued from p. 285.) 



Am()N(i the ]»lants of Triana's herbarium sorted under Psgchotria 

 I liavc found the following, w^hich closer examination has revealed to 

 be a new genus. In Triana's manusci-ipt list it is assigned to Ber- 

 tiera, which it resembles in some res]iects, and I have a(h)pted for its 

 name an anagram of Bertiera ; it belongs undoubtedly to the same 

 tribe {llanieliece) as my previous genus PHeiidolunneh'a, wdiich 

 is its nearest affinity. Yyo\\\ this genus it is readily distinguished 

 l)y the inllorescence, a forking cymose panicle, by the pentamerous 

 flowers with narrow linear corolla-lobes, and by the length and in- 

 sertion of the stcimens. 



Raritebe Wernhmn. Ifubiaccanim e tribu Hamelicarum novum 

 genus. Calgcis tubus tubulari-camjtanulatus breviter -j-dentatus. 



