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CiiLORAXTiius iNXONspK'urs S\v. ill Phil. Trans. Ixxvii. 359 (1787). 



*' Viva allatii fuit e China in Angliam a Jac. Lind. J). M. anno 

 1781. Floruit (luin navis ^//r/s adveheret " (L'Heritier, vSert. Angl. 

 i. p. 3(5). We have in Herb. Banks a specimen endorsed bv Solander 

 '• Floruit in nave Atlas sub itinere." Swartz's descri])tion and ti;^ure 

 (1. c.) were from specimens in the, Hoyal Garden, Kew. to which it 

 was introduced by Lind. There is a very full description bv Drvander 

 in the Solander MSS. Cultivated specimens from Hort. Ivew (1782 

 & 178-1) and one from Lom'ciro {Creodus odorifer Lour. Fl. Coch. 

 89) are also in the Herbarium. 



Euphorbia heleniaxa Thellung & Stapf. 



This endemic species, first described in Kew Bull. 1916, 201, was 

 collected by Banks and Solander at St. Helena in M:iy, 1771, from 

 whom two specimens are in the Herbarium. It ap])ears in their MS. 

 list of the plants of the island as -E'. CliamcBS}ice,^vA is fully described 

 under that name by Solander (Sol. MSS. xi. 405), avIio prefaced his 

 description by the note : " Planta in Insula Stae Helense lecta in 

 paucis discrepat & forte distincta species, tota glaberrima " — 

 "•labrescence "omnium partium " is one of the characters by which 

 Thellung and Stapf distinguish the plant from E. Chamasi/ce. It 

 may be worth while to transcribe Solander's description, which, as 

 comparison with that published in the Kew Bulletin will show, 

 includes other of the points relied on for difTerentiation : — 



" Caides teretes, ramosissimi, subdichotomi (videntur annui etsi 

 pro])e basin lignosi). .Rami alterni, patentes, subdichotomi. Folia 

 opposita, petiolata, patentia, ovalia, obtusa, obsoletissime serrulata, 

 saepe integerrima, kevia, plana, subsucculenta, hrte viridia, immaculata, 

 subtus glaucescentia, tres lineas longa. Petioli brevissimi (semi- 

 lineares). Stipulce interpetiolares, utrinque bina? e basi latiscuhe, 

 subulata3, apice setacea?, longitudine petioloi,'.um, decidual. Pedunciili 

 e dichotoiniis axillares, solitarii, capillares, unitlori, petiolis paulo 

 longiores. Fructiis glaberrimi." 



Dr. Hemsle}^ in the valuable but extravagantly printed and badly 

 arranged volume devoted to the Botany of the Voi/age of H.M.S. 

 Challenijor (part ii. p. 82), noted that he was unable to match the 

 plant, wiiich he placed doubtfully under F. Chamcesyce, but hesitated 

 to found a new species " upon what may be only a slightly altered 

 state of some well-known one, or even exactly the same as a described 

 species." It is the only member of the genus in Dr. Hemsley's list, 

 but we have a specimen of E. Hdioscopia, collected by B:inks and 

 Solander — of course introduced, but not mentioned by Melliss, who 

 includes E. Pephis. 



The statement in Mr. Guppy's Plants, Srrds, and Currents 

 (]i. -M,)0) that there is "no indigenous species of Eupliorhia in 

 vSt. Helena " is thus inaccurate, but the record in the Bulletin was 

 not published until after his book was printed. 



Edward Hudge's Herbarium. 



The collections of Edward Kudge (1763-1846), consisting of a 

 general herbarium of 4318 specimens and 772 ])lants collected in 

 Guiana by ^lartin, were presented to the British Museum by his 

 widow in 1847, and have been incorporated witli the National 



