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another sheet in his erie Biase bears a specimen with 
similarly polished leaves, Linnaeus has again written the name 
* polygonoides,” though in this icbaiée the leaves of the plant 
have Si: margins and are attached to twigs which are 
puberulou 
(4.) tomentosa a sheet rate the specimen ‘marked - aiid, 
of these, which Linnaeus did not attempt to determine, was referre 
to C. a - the younger is ne ; the other, with which 
Linnaeus did he wrote u “Clutia tomentosa 
femina, CBS.” This endorsement indicates the belief of Linnaeus 
that what Thunberg had given him was the female of wn 
C. —— pepo described in the second aia: Palate 
l e specimen. The capsules of Thunberg’s plant are 
quite ember those of C. tomentosa, Linn., are densely pubescent, 
so that the identification was inexact. 
e have now accounted for eleven of the thirteen specimens in 
the “Clutia” cover of the Linnean herbarium and seen that 
eight of these have been actually named by Linnaeus, while 
two more have received at his hands the ‘identification by 
implication’ which the pinning together of two sheets necessarily 
the younger Linnaeus—not without justification, seeing that the 
gave the name C. Alaternoides, Linnaeus himself has written 
“Clutia” only. On the other, as to the history of which we find 
no clue in the Linnean herbarium, nothing has been written either 
by Linnaeus or by his son. The interest of this latter specimen is 
(a) that it represents a species’ quite distinct from any of the 
species rightly or wreagly identified by Linnaeus: and (6) that it 
is conspecific with a specimen, obtained from Sonnerat, which was 
treated by Lamarck in 1786 (Eneye. Meth. ii. 54) as the basis of 
his species C. daphnoides. 
Before viehiene these specimens of the four South African species of 
Linnaeus, it may be of use to indicate the most appropriate incidence 
of the various Tiasiens names. In doing this it is more convenient 
nn. 
understood by anak 3 in 1 1786, and not to C. tomentosa as under- 
stood, in the light of Linnaeus’ later and erroneous identification, 
