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there assumed that " Linnaeus must have been well acquainted 

 with D. sativa and his reference to it of these specimens of the 

 very different ' Kasa-kinda/ Tinospora cordi folia, must be re- 

 garded as an inadvertence. " The specimens have been the 

 subject of other inadvertences. In 1893 Trimen himself became 

 responsible for one of these in his statement (Handb. Flor. Ceyl. 

 pars i. p. 40) that Linnaeus referred the specimens to the species 

 which in 1753 he named D. alata; this is not the case, the cita- 

 tion- under D. (data (Sp. PL ed. 1. p. 1033) are in the work of 

 1747 given under the next succeeding one (Flor. Zeyl. n. 359). 

 Again in 1898 Hooker, overlooking the fact that the specimens in 

 question (Flor. Zeyl. n. 358) had already been dealt with under 

 Tinospora cordifolia, repeated their citation under I), sativa 

 [Handb. Flor. Ceyl.. pars iv. p. 278). 



The subjoined brief summary of the results of our biblio- 

 graphical study, checked by an examination of such herbarium 

 material as is available, . shows hovr the name D. sativa has been 

 employed by various authors since 1753. 



Conspectus of usage of the name 1). Sativa, Linn. 



1). sativa, Linn. (1753) includes D. sativa [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]; 



D. sativa, Linn. (1754) is applied to I), sativa [6]; 



D. sativa, Linn. (1759) includes D. sativa [1] [2] [3] [4] 



D. sativa, Burm. (1708^ includes D. sativa [1] [2] [3] [4] 



C 5 H 6 3 5. 



D. sativa, Mill, (1 * G8) is restricted by description and geo- 

 graphy to D. sativa [4] ; 



I), sativa, Thunh. (1784) is applied to D. bulbifera, Linn. 



(1753) [1]; 



I), sativa, Gaertn. (1788) is restricted by description and illus- 

 tration to D. sativa [4] ; 



\J) sativa,'] Lamk (1789) is restricted to D. sativa [1] and em- 

 ployed as a synonym of the newly proposed name D. Clif- 

 Jortiana, Lamk f 1789) ; 



D. sativa, Rodsch. (1796) is applied to a Guiana plant after- 

 wards described as D. lutea, Mever (1818); 



D. sativa, Willd. (1806) includes D. sativa [1] [2] [3] [5] 



[6] while [4] is omitted ; 



D. sativa, Ait. (1813) is restricted bv geography to T). sativa 



D. sativa, Sieb. (1821) is applied to a species of Anredera. 



D. sativa, Poir. (1823) is restricted by illustration to D. mtdva 



[3] [4] but is by inadvertence treated as a synonym of 

 D. sativa [11 under the name D. Cliifortiana, Lamk 



(1789); 

 D. sativa, Bowd. (1825) is applied to a Tamvs of Madeira, 

 D. sativa, Presl (1827) is applied to a Peruvian plant whose 



identity is not known, but which may be allied to D. lutea. 



Meyer (1818); 



D. sativa, Blame (1827) is applied to a Javanese plant whose 



identity is uncertain, but which may be D. bulbifera, 



Linn. [1] ; 



