372 





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for C. linoides, Linn., and equally consistently used the name 

 G. linoides for C. linoides /3 subulata, E. Mey., which is that portion 

 of G. gracilis in which the calyx-lobes are narrow and elongated. 



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printed 



labels, is the name consistently used by Ecklon for G. emarginata ; 

 the name C. tenuifolia for the form of G. gracilis with shorter 

 calyx-lobes was not issued on Eeklon's printed tickets. It is not 

 impossible that this name G. temiifolia, Eckl., may have been 

 misread by Link for G. tenui flora, and may explain the existence 

 of this citation by Steudel. The suggestion is, however, con- 

 jectural, and until a specimen named by Link is met with, 

 the synonym must remain doubtful. It may be remarked 

 in connection with this that in Herb. Oxford there is a specimen 

 named by Steudel himself which is of interest as showing 

 (1) that Steudel was among those who appreciated that 

 G. linoides, Eckl., not of Linn. (C '. grac His) , and G. uniflora, Eckl., 

 not of Lamk (G. emarginata), are, as Ecklon in the field believed 

 them, distinct species ; and (2) that Steudel had observed that 

 G. uniflora, Eckl., is not the original G. uniflora, Lamk, for he 

 has substituted G. obtusa, Steud., for Eeklon's name C. uniflora. 

 It may also be remarked that the word tenuifolia as a varietal 

 name was used both by Harvey and by Prior in connection with 

 G. baccifera. Their G. baccifera was C. baccifera, var. Burchellii ; 

 to distinguish between this and the form that constitutes the 

 original 0. baccifera of Linnaeus, they used for the latter the 



if era, var. tenuifolia 



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"-*"" «*»*'»«"*«/ w/ «., xaun., is a name mat apparently oniy 



occurs once (Garden for 1893, p. 213) in company with names of 

 several other species of Ghironia, all of which can be accounted 

 tor as being then in cultivation. As the other species mentioned 

 exhaust the list of the then cultivated Ghironiae, the name 

 G. duwthiflora should, by exclusion, apply to Orpkiumf 

 tor which SDecies \h\* mvA^ c^LSULL • *1* ..... 



There 



ich species this garden synonym is not inappropriate. 

 ■,h a a™ Q m T' however > remain an element of doubt, owing to the 

 appl^d any Specimen of the P lant to which the name was 



Chironia, Linn. (1737) emend. R. Br. (1810). 

 amoena, Salisb. Prodr. 137 (1796) = linoides. 

 angolensis, Gilg in Engl, Bot. Jahrb. xxvi. 101 (1898) 



Afr. trop. 



a TiX^- Sch ° Ch in Bot ' Cen tralbl. Beih. xiv. 228 (1903) 

 angolensis; purpurascens. 



<»WMfolia, Sims Bot. Mag. t. 818 (1805) = Orphium frutes- 



Mey. Gomm. PI. Af 



Afr. austr. 



ft- 



Sem gg Verzei <*n. Pfl. Nachtr. 211 (1824) 

 &2 & ^1- S t « W (1753) ^ au8tr . 



baccifl 



einannnata 



(1845) 



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