Vol. 48 No. 3 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
MARCH, 1921 
Neomillspaughia, a new genus of Polygonaceae, with remarks. 
on related genera 
S. F. BLAKE 
(WITH PLATE 1) 
-The genus Campderia Benth.* of the Polygonaceae was estab- 
lished in 1844, with the single species C. floribunda{ from Tiger or 
Tigre Island, Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras, and was distinguished 
from Coccoloba by the fact that the perigone in fruit was not 
adherent to the achene. In the Genera Plantarum{ it was main- 
tained as a genus with two or three species, separated from Coc- 
coloba by its accrescent calyx lobes and scarcely accrescent tube, 
all essentially free from the trigonous achene. In Coccoloba the 
perianth tube alone was said to be accrescent and often adnate 
to the globose or ovoid achene, In 1890, in his monograph of 
Coccoloba, Lindau§ referred Campderia to Coccoloba as a section 
containing thirteen species, distinguished from Eucoccoloba by 
its not elongating pedicels and by the fact that the limb and 
not the tube of the calyx is accrescent. There can be little ques- 
tion of the propriety of this arrangement. In habit and in all 
major characters except those mentioned Campderia, as exemplified 
by its type species and by those included in it by Lindau, agrees 
[The BuLLeTIN for February (48: 55-76) was issued February 18, 1921-] 
* Bot. Sulph. 159. pl. 52. 18 
1844. 
t Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. 3: 102. 1880. 
§ Bot. Jahrb. 13: 111, 121. 1890. 
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