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specimens— from Durban Road, near Cape Town, not from Natal 

 —are the same. The Muizenberg specimen is G. maritima, Eckl. 

 The Lowry's Pass specimen is G. tabularis (Meyer's G. jasminoides). 

 bchlechter n. 9393 is G. tabularis, var. confusa (Grisebach's 

 described G. jasminoides and the Caledon part of G. jasminoides, 

 Cham.). Tlie Knysna and Plettenberg Bay plant is G. melam- 

 pynfoha, Lamk (the plant described as G. jasminoides by Thun- 

 berg) ; so, too, is Rust n. 314 from Riversdak Schoch has made 

 a conscientious and very nearly successful attempt to include, 

 under his G. jasminoides, every form to which the name had been 

 applied by Thunberg, Meyer, Chamisso, and Grisebach ; at the 

 same time he has expressly excluded G. jasminoides, Lamk, which 

 alone happens to be also the true G. jasminoides, Linn. 



Ghironia tetragona, Schoch (1903), has been treated more 

 nearly as it was treated by Grisebach in 1845 than as it was bv 

 Meyer in lb3i or by Grisebach in 1839. Three varieties have been 

 recognised : (1 ) var. ovata, Schoch, narrowed as compared with 

 var. ovata L. Mey. (] 837), by the exclusion of all specimens except 

 those with ovate leaves ; (2) var. linearis, Schoch, which is prac- 

 tically identical with var. linearis, Griseb. (1845), and is therefore 



n a «^i a !, com P ared with the original var. linearis, E. Mey. 

 S' 0Y t he . exclusion of G. tetragona, var. brevifoha, Griseb. 

 (icMy) and of G. unijloia, Lamk. (1783). All specimens inter- 

 mediate between these restricted varieties, ovata and Zme«m,have 

 been treated by Schoch as his (3) typical G. tetragona. While it 

 ht T S M n • ^f% P referabJ e to adopt the treatment proposed 

 3L5 '■ % e l ] n 18J7 ' llnder which only two varieties are recog- 

 nised in G. tetragona, there is something to be said in favour of 



SL^ • iaS° pose : 1 b y G ™ebach in 1845, and amended by 

 w £ m r , mider which three varieties are recognised. It 

 Si 0WeVer ' to . be noted tha t G. viscosa, Zeyh., which Grisebach 

 K n IT hnean *> but which Schoch has transferred to his 

 Z o t'J i' !JOn [ 1 ' cloes not helon S to this species ; it is a form 

 fnrrw £ v ?° ng the s P ec »nens cited by Schoch, it has 



2 >„ T il p 6 ™T T % e<i , that ScWechter n. 9614 is not G. tetra- 

 not b SLn °' tc ? mlari «> Pa ge ; also that Bolus n. 4182 is 



^ W S ™- l '^ris, E. Mey., but G. tabularis, var. 



name G mI h ' Vf *° be noted that the incidence of the 

 Schoch iJrivTTS Sch0ch ' is err o.ieous ; it is the form which 

 orSal G 2/S tetm V™ a > var - ovata, that alone constitutes the 

 than of to? "?' L T n - f * ; if the recognition of three rather 

 whatSehnrj anetlesbe , ^cepted, the correct appellation of 

 wnat hchoch has considered to be tvnical G tetraamia \* G tetra- 

 ffona. var. hrp.m.fnU» n..;„..v K>P«-»i u. leuagona is u. mra- 



(1903) 



Sti'm Z U ± ™? l J S > ?? boch ( 190 *), is partly G. nudicaulis, 



(G 



mainly G. jasminoides, 



in 1839 has bepn M Jf iety , y , r '" >ine ^ established by Grisebach 

 **w, ha* been transferred by Schoch to G. lychnoides. 



%£??& #S*5 Schoch (1903) 



) var. subulata, Schoch ; (3) 



ouiXTt toCluJtt V Vh * G ' Cities, Schoch, Is precisely 

 H to G. luchnouks, Cham. & Schlecht.. not of Bern. 



