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the second Mantissa in 1771 a fourth species C. tomentosa. So far 
as the three species of 1753 and 1763 are concerned we know, from 
the corresponding names must be taken rather as representative 
examples than as types in the modern sense of that term. It is 
only in the case of the fourth species that the Linnean herbarium 
aie Bes the actual specimen upon which the specific description was 
ased, ven in this case, as we shall see, Linnaeus in effect 
ultimately treated that specimen as a representative and not as a 
cal one. Dealing with these species in detail we find that :— 
(1.) Alaternoides, Sp. Pl. 1042 (sphalm. alaternoides) includes, 
according to the cited figures, three very distinct S. African plants, 
(a) Burmann’s Chamaelea foliis oblongis nervosis “ash Sex 
Phat alis of 1738 (Rar. Afr. 116, t. 43, fig. 1 
(6) Burmann’s Chamaelea foliis latis oblongis jah ity ex alts in 
spicam erectis, also of 1738 (Le. 118, t. 43, fig. 3); 
c) Commelin’s Alaternoides africana telephii legitimi imperatt 
folio of 1701 (Hort. Amst, ii. 3, t. 2): 
as belohells Sp. Pl. 1042, was based upon the plant figured by 
ommelin in 1697 as Frates aethiopicus portulaceae folio, flore ex 
Ne anne (Le, dahl 1, be 4) 8 
sj SS Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1475, was created in order to 
accommodate the second of the three distinct species to which 
the name Alater notes had been applied; though, by an oversight, 
Linnaeus, while making Burmann’s second figure the basis of his 
new species, also left the synonym where it had been placed by him 
in 1753: while 
(4.) tomentosa, Mant. ii. 299, was based on a specimen collected 
by Governor Tulbagh (Tulbagh 129) and despatched by him to 
Poa on April 5. 1763—-too late therefore to find a place in the 
second edition of the ‘Species Plantarum 
When we turn to the material of the genus Cluytia in the 
Linnean herbarium which illustrates the foregoing arrangement, 
we find that there are fifteen sheets in the ‘ Clutia’ cover. Three 
of these represent species of Linnaeus’ Clutia which do not belong 
to the genus as now understood, and so do not here further 
concern us. Of the roibaintne twelve sheets one bears two distinct 
plants so that in all there are thirteen specimens. In two instances 
two sheets have been pinned together by Linnaeus hiiusell, only one 
sheet of the pair having been written up by him. aking t the 
(1.) Alaternoides : a sheet written up ik “ais as “1. alater- 
noides,” which, as we know from Jackson (Ind. Linn. Herb. 59), was 
already in his possession in 1753, Whence Linnaeus obtained this 
specimen is not indicated ; the plant itself is one descri ant 
figured by Burmann in 1738 (Rar. Afr. 116, t. 43, fig. 1). This 
is the i specimen of C. Alaternoides possessed by Linnaeus in 
1753. There are, however, two other sheets in the Linnean 
