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Capsules slightly muricate or nearly 
sm : 
Leaves densely softly villous with 
ong hairs ... 40 ... 13. obliqua, A. Juss. 
Leaves almost glabrous ... ... 14, glabrata, Pax & Hoffm. 
Capsules nearly white, their scales 
contiguous or imbricately over- 
lapping, with subentire or entire 
margins ; oth ... § 6. Senegalenses. 
Leaves heterophyllous, dark-green 
and or nearly so 
above, closely hoary or laxly 
woolly beneath gfe ... 1d. senegalensis, A, Juss. 
Leaves uniform in outline, paler 
green, from puberulous to 
woolly above and from closel 
hoary to laxly woolly beneath.. 16. Brocchiana, Vis. 
History or THE Spgcres uNDER Rucrnores. 
When in 1700 Pitton de Tournefort placed the Tournesol in 
his genus Ricinoides, he termed it ‘ Ricinoides ex qua paratur 
Tournesol gallorum’ (Jnst. rei herb. ed alt. app. p. 655), a 
phrase perhaps more accurate than that of the authors of the 
one of the Cyclades. This second species Tournefort in 1703 
published (Cor. p. 45) as Ricinoides ex qua paratur Tournesol 
gallorum, folio oblongo et villoso, taking the opportunity to 
amplify the name of the original species from Southern France 
to Ricinoides ex qua paratur Tournesol eye folio serrato 
non villoso. There is in the Jussieu herbarium an example of 
this plant collected in Melos by Gundel, which has been named 
by Tournefort himself. In the British (Natural History) 
Museum there is a specimen of each of these two species, both of 
them written up by Tournefort. et 
There is in the Jussieu herbarium a specimen originally in 
the herbarium of Danty d’Isnard, which has been written up by 
Isnard himself as Ricinoides memphiticus folio laevi, Lippi. As 
the leaves are pubescent it cannot be the species Lippi had in 
mind when he proposed that name, and a later note accompany- 
ing the specimen, written, it would, however, appear, before the 
specimen itself reached A. L. Jussieu, says:—‘Cette plante 
comparée avec la description de Lippi ne lui convient pas. 
The plant is an example of Chrozophora oblongifolia, A. J uss., a 
species which in Egypt is strictly confined to the Red Sea lit- 
toral. We know, therefore, that, even if there had been no in- 
superable objection on morphological grounds to the identifica- 
tion by Isnard, the specimen did not come from anywhere near 
Memphis. This, however, does not affect the possibility that it 
was obtained by Lippi; the fact that Isnard wrote it up as one 
of Lippi’s plants renders it probable that it had been collected, 
