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collection now which bear the name “alaternoides.” One of these 
is a sheet on which are fixed two very different specimens ; these 
specimens bear the numbers 115 and 127; they were collected by 
Governor Tulbagh and sent by him to Linnaeus on 25 April, 1763. 
The sheet in question has been written up by Linnaeus himself, and 
an examination of Tulbagh’s invoice list shows that upon it also 
Linnaeus has, against these two numbers, placed the endorsement 
Clutia alaternoides. The two plants not only differ from each 
other; both of them differ from the first of the three different 
which reached Linnaeus from Thunberg. The specimen it bears 
is the plant figured by Commelin as Alaternoides africana, etc., but 
the name “alaternoides” on this sheet was written up, not by 
Linnaeus, but by his son. 
so far as concerns the conception which Linnaeus may posst 
have formed of the limitation of the species; the specimen which 
he has himself written up belongs to the species figured by 
Commelin as Frutex aethiopicus portulaceae folio, ete. But if he 
has not in this instance created confusion as to identity, Linnaeus 
has shown that he entertained a somewhat indefinite conception as 
to the distribution of the species. This is one of the two instances 
where Linnaeus has pinned two sheets together; the undermost 
sheet, on which the specific name has not been written, bears in 
Linnaeus’ hand-writing the word “ India.” 
(3.) polygonoides: two sheets pinned togéther by Linnaeus. The 
two specimens are conspecific, though only the uppermost has been 
written up by Linnaeus ; on one of the sheets is an indication that 
at which Linnaeus acquired either specimen, but it seems clear 
that at least one of them had reached him before 1763; it is 
two species involves. We find from his herbarium that though 
innaeus, as soon as he had an actual specimen before him, realised 
under two different names, he had nevertheless formed the same 
imperfect conception of the limitation of Burmann’s second species 
that he had of Burmann’s first one. This plant, represented by the 
two specimens whose sheets are pinned together, has polished leaves 
with revolute margins borne on perfectly glabrous twigs. But, on 
