207 
Veronica Americana erecta frutescens, Herm. Parad. p. 241, 
t. 241; but in 1748 he made the latter the type of a new genus 
Scoparia.t 
Little need be said of the history of Capraria since 1753. 
Ruiz and Pavon re-described C. peruviana, and made it the type 
of a new genus Xuarezia on account of its flowers being pent- 
androus ;§ and the same character led W. J. Hooker to describe 
it as a new species of Witheringia (Solanaceae).\| 
A third species was described by Miller in 1768 from Vera 
Cruz, Mexico, as Erinus frutescens,| was re-named Capraria 
cuneata by Robert Brown,** and re-described as C. saxifragaefolia 
by Chamisso and Schlechtendal in 1830.t+ On the last was based 
the genus Pogostoma, Schrad.,{t now regarded as a synonym of 
Capraria. 
The fourth species, C. integrifolia, Mart. et Gal.,§§ was not 
published until 1845. It was collected by Galeotti on the 
Cordillera of Oaxaca, and does not appear to have been re-dis- 
covered. The leaves are described as entire, and the corolla 
as hardly longer than the calyx. 
Bentham described a fifth species, C. mexicana, Moric., in 
1846.||| This has lanceolate acute corolla-lobes, twice as long 
as the tube. 
Capraria lanceolata, Vahl (1789) and C. hirsuta, H.B.K. 
(1817), appear to be mere forms of C. biflora, which is very 
variable, according to Pennell. 4/{] 
_ There remain nearly thirty names under Capraria which 
are referable to other genera and families. These will be found 
in the list of excluded species at the end of the article. 
Capraria, [Herm. Parad. Bat. Prodr. p. 319 (1689); Parad. 
Bat. p. 110 (1698); Feuillée, Obs. ii. p. 764 (1714); Linn. Hort. 
Cliff. p. 320 (1737), partim] Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 628 (1753); 
Gen. Pl. ed. 5, p. 276 (1754); Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 429 
(1846); Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 959 (1876). 
* Linn, Hort. Cliff. p. 320 (1737). 
+ Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 628 (1753). 
¢ Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 6, p. 87 (1748); Sp. PI. ed. I, p. 116; Gen. Pl. 
ed. 5, p. 52. 
§ Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. ii. p. 13, t. 123, fig. a (1799). 
|| Hook. Bot. Mise. ii. p. 231 (1831). 
{{ Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8, No. 4 (1768). 
* Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. p. 45 (1812). 
+t Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnaea, v. p. 105 (1830). 
ti Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gott. 1831; Linnaea, viii. Litt. p. 34 
(1833). 
SS Mark et Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. xii. pars 2, p. 20 (1845); Walp. 
Rep. vi. p. 645. : 
\|'| Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 429 (1846). 
{| Pennell in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1920, p. 147. 
