496 kuntze's revisio generum plantarum. 



December, 1891, to December, 1892, visiting Montevideo, Argentina, 

 Chili, Bolivia, Patagonia, Mattogrosso, Paraguay, Uruguay, and 

 Brazil ; and the South African journey, to the Cape, the Orange 

 Free State, the Transvaal, Natal, Portuguese East Africa, and 

 Zanzibar, was taken from January to April, 1894. Patagonia 

 yielded 32 new species, here described; Chili, 13; Bolivia, 146; 

 Paraguay, 24 ; Uruguay, 2 ; Argentina, 57 ; Brazil (including 

 Mattogrosso, etc.), 27; and South America altogetber, 300; the 

 Cape, 44 ; tlie Orange Free State, 1 ; the Transvaal, 8 ; Natal, 44 ; 

 Portuguese East Africa, 5 ; and South Africa altogether 102 newly 

 described species ; the new species of cellular plants have not been 

 reckoned in this summary. The new genera w^ith descriptions or 

 diagnoses are as follows : — Montiopsis 0. Ktze. (Portulacaceae), from 

 Bolivia. Neocracca 0. Ktze. (Leguminos?e), from Bolivia. Atomo- 

 stigma 0. Ktze. (Rosacese), from Mattogrosso. Anisothrix 0. Hoffm. 

 (Composit^e), from the Cape. t<p]mreiipatorium 0. Ktze. = Eupa- 

 torium § Sphsereupatorium (CompositaB), from Bolivia. Eupatoriola 



0. Ktze. = Baccliaris § Eupatoriola (Compositae), from Bolivia. 

 LiabopsisO.liizQ. = Liabum § Liabopsis (Composite), from Bolivia. 

 Sijnedrellupsis Hieron. & 0. Ktze. (Composite), from Argentina; and 

 Tunaria 0. Ktze. (Solanaceae), from Bolivia. 



Some points for remark arise in the course of the enumeration 

 of the species : for instance, Spergularia Pers. (1805) is called B^ula 

 Adans. (1763), as did Dumortier ; but this identification is very doubt- 

 ful, for Adanson gives for his plant " Alsine spergula major seminefoli- 

 aceo Mor. Dill. Eph. Nat. cent. 5. t. 4." Diilenius, in Acad. Caes.- 

 Leop. Nat. Eur. Ephem. v. & vi. pp. 270, 275, t. 4 (1717), describes 

 and figures the plant, which he calls Spergula semine Umbo foliaceo 

 cincto, and in the description he says (p. 276), " vascula .... quin- 

 quefariam dehiscunt"; he also quotes Morison ; this plant is Sper- 

 gula arvensis. Morison in his Plant. Hist. ii. p. 551, sect. 5, tab. 23 

 (1680) calls the plant quoted AUine annua semine foliaceo nigro circuJo 

 meiitbranaceo albo cincto ; this also is Spergula arveyisis, but the figure 

 makes the capsules appear to be 3-valved, an appearance which may 

 have deceived Adanson and misled modern botanists in the identifica- 

 tion of Buda. There is, however, no doubt that Tissa, which Adanson 

 published on the same page and immediately preceding Buda, is 

 Spergularia. Another synonym of the latter is Corion Mitch. 

 (1748, not 1746 as given by Dr. Kuntze), but the name is rejected 

 by Dr. Kuntze, not because it was published prior to 1753, but on 

 account of Coris L. (1737), which he considers as the same name 

 and applicable to a perfectly distinct genus. There is again 

 another competitor for the proper name of the genus, namely 

 Alsine L. (1753), the claims of which require careful consideration. 

 In Sp. PI. (1753), p. 272, Linnaeus placed only two species under 

 Alsine J namely A. media and A. segetalis ; the former is Stellaria 

 media With. (1796), and the latter is a Spergularia. Stellaria L. 



1. c. pp. 421, 422 had seven species under that genus, all but the 

 last of which are congeneric ; it seems therefore best to retain the 

 genus Stellaria and to include Alsine media in it ; Alsine thus re- 

 mains available to stand for Corion (1748), Tissa (1763), Spergularia 



