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TS^T 8 c °J. lected bv Eck * on in the plains under the mountains 

 of Winter Hoek, Uitenhage. These specimens represent the 

 plant named O. uniflora by Lamarck ; they therefore belong to 

 C. tetragona, ft linearis, E. Mey. (1837). 



Ghironia scabrida, Griseb. (1839), is a valid species. The 

 solitary specimen on which the species is based is at Beriiu ; 

 this form has never been collected again. The usual form or 

 variety of this species is the plant named by Grisebach G. Jos- 

 mmo/des, ft lychnoides. It has long been known, for it is among 

 the oldest plants at Leiden and bears there the unpublished 

 name (7. dblusi flora. Old specimens of the same form, now at 



the British Museum, bear another unpublished name, 0. liqnli- 

 foha, Salisb. 



Ghironia perfoliala, Griseb. (1839), is G. perfoliate, Eckl., South 

 Afr. Quart. Journ., i., p. 370 (1830), and is therefore G. melam- 

 pynfolia, Lamk. 



Ghironia linoid-es, Griseb. (1839), is divided into two forms, a 

 typical and a variety ft longifolia. G. linoides, Griseb., is not 

 0. linoides, Linn., but is exactly equivalent to G. lychnoid.es, 

 Cham. & Schlecht., not of Berg. (1826) ; it therefore includes 

 0. gracilis, Salisb., and G. emarginata, Jarosz. Grisebach knew 

 and distinguished these two component forms, for G. uniflora, 

 Eckl., not of Lamk, which he has cited, is identical with G. emar- 

 ginata; he did not, however, think them, as Chamisso did in 1831, 

 varietally separable. G. linoides, ft longifolia, Griseb., is G lych- 

 noides, Berg., and therefore is the true G. linoides, Linn. In this 

 case, therefore, as in the case of G. frutescens, Linn., Grisebach has 

 adopted the treatment proposed by Chamisso and Schlechtendal 

 in 1826, except that he has transferred the name G. lino ides, Linn., 

 from the plant to which it really belongs and has attributed jt to 

 the combination of forms which constitutes G. lychno ides, Cham. & 

 Schlecht., not of Berg., nor of Linn. 



Chi 



pai 



ia baccifera, Griseb. (1839), is partly G. haccif 

 haccifera, var. Burchellii ; the latter he recog 



lie recognised as a 



form but not as a variety. Grisebach has recognised as a variety, 

 ft grandiflora, a local form from Uitenhage, quite entitled to 

 varietal rank. 



Ghironia serpy Hi folia, Griseb. (1839), is G. serpylli folia, Lehm. 

 hid. Sem. Hort. Hamb., p. 16 (1828). Grisebach has added two 

 varieties ft laxa, and y microphylla ; neither variety is very 



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among grasses ; y microphylla may only be a somewhat depauperate 

 condition due to its presence in poor soil. 



In the second monograph Grisebach has accepted Meyer's genus 

 Orphium, so that Ghironia frutescens, with its variety angustifoha 

 of 1839, became in 181") Orphium frutescens, with a variety 

 ft cmgustifolia, Griseb. 



Grisebach also accepted Meyer's genus Phcnndra and bis 

 P. purpurascens (1815) is P. purpurascens, E. M<>y. {^ u L'' onm 

 purpurascens, Bth. & Hk. f.). But P. albens, E. Mey. (183<), uaa 



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