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dubiety with regard to the identity of the species until the appear- 

 ance of Thunberg's account of the genus (Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 vol. vii.). The description given by Thunberg does not apply to 

 the Linnean plant ; the specimens in Thunberg's herbarium, 

 which, through the courtesy of Professor Juel, we have had an 

 opportunity of examining, show that the species to which Thun- 

 berg intended to apply the name is G. melampyrifolia, though 

 with this he mixed a form of typical G. tetragona and, to a 

 greater extent, C. tetragona var. linearis, E. Mey., giving an 

 example of the latter to the younger Linnaeus, which is now 

 in the Linnean Herbarium. Grisebach has in part followed 

 Thunberg, since his C. jasminoides typica includes G. melampyri- 

 folia, though the plant mainly intended by him is G. tabidaris, 

 var. confusa, which was first included in C. jasminoides by 

 Chamisso. Edwards, or Ker-Gawler, in the Botanical Register and 

 E. Meyer have, on the other hand, applied the name (7. jasmin- 

 oides to the plant which Page, almost simultaneously with the 

 appearance of the. description in the Botanical Register, treated as 

 a distinct species, G. tabular is. 



(7. melampyrifolia, Lamk., has been similarly misunderstood. 

 Thanks to the courtesy [of Prof. Lecomte, we have been able to ascer- 

 tain that C. rnelampyrifolia is the plant which in the first instance 

 Lamarck tentatively referred to C. lychnoides (Encyc. Meth. i. 736), 

 but which, on his discovery that it was not that species, Lamarck 

 distinguished as a new species (111. Gen. i. 479). The name given 

 by Lamarck was applied bv E. Meyer, who in this has been 

 recently follow 

 described as G 



makes it clear that (7. melampyrifol , 

 species subsequently taken bv Thunberg for G. jasminoides, Linn., 

 and still later described in turn by Ecklon as C. perfoliata, by 

 E. Meyer as C. speciosa, and by Paxton as C. glutinosa. 



970. Dorstenia (Eudorstenia) Smythei, Sprague [Urticaceae- 



Moreae] ; affinis D. altae, Engl., a qua nervis lateralibus foliorum 

 numerosioribus et receptaculis minoribus recedit. 



Frutex 2-24 m. altus, ramulis gracilibus circiter 1/5 mm. 

 diametro superne puberulis interne glabrescentibus, novellis 

 tantum pubescentibus, internodiis 2*5-3 cm. longis. Folia oblan- 

 ceolato-vel obovato-oblonga, apice subabrupte longiuscule acumin- 

 ata, obtusa vel subacuta, basi cuneata, 11-14 cm. longs, 3'3-5 cm. 

 lata,' superne leviter subundulato-dentata, supra sparse lepidota, 

 nervo medio et lateralibus panllulo prominulis, subtus sparse 

 puberula nervis satis prominentibus ; nervi laterales utrmque 

 9~10; petioli puberuli, 0-5-1 cm. longi. Stipvlae oblique ovato- 

 oblongae, acutae, ciliolatae, extra sparse puberulae praecipue in 

 nervo medio, lirceptucida in axillis superioribus solitana, in 

 pedunculos puberulos circiter 11 mm. longos angustata, navicuh- 

 formia, bicrura, 1-2 cm. longa, cruribus 1*6-1-7 cm. longis recfis 

 ascendentibus linearibus ab apice in basin leviter angustatis 

 puberulis demptK 4 mm. lata, medio 4 mm. alta, puberula, 

 margine integro 0'75 mm. lato. Flos femineus in centro receptaculi 

 solitarius, perigonio tubulari 0'75 mm. prominente extra valde 

 papilloso. Ovarium oblongum, 2-5 mm. longum, stylo ei sub- 



fed by Schoch, to the plant that has since been 

 I laxa, Gilg. Lamarck's original type, however, 



