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A double confusion has crept into the history of C. tomentosa. 
The species was based by Linnaeus on a male specimen despatche 
to him from the Cape by Governor Tulbagh on 25 April, 1763. 
This specimen is now in the Linnaean herbarium, where it bears 
Tulbagh’s field number 129; it is written up as “ tomentosa ” b 
Linnaeus himself, and the same name is endorsed by Linnaeus 
opposite this number on Tulbagh’s invoice list. 
Subsequent to the publication of the description of Tulbagh’s 
specimen in the second Muntissa, Linnaeus obtained from Thunberg 
a female specimen of a Cluytia which he wrote up as “ tomentosa 
Mant. femina” ; this specimen is still in the Linnaean herbarium. 
The latter, however, is not the female of C. tomentosa, Linn. ; it has 
glabrous capsules, whereas the capsules of the true C. tomentosa are 
tomentose. What this second plant is has been a matter of debate. 
By Thunberg in his own herbarium a duplicate of this female plant, 
treated as C. tomentosa, doubtless on the strength of Linnaeus’ 
verdict, has been pinned to a sheet bearing a male plant of 
C. daphnoides, Lamk. Sonder, in 1850, while leaving the male 
C. tomentosa, Thunb. non Linn., in C. duphnoides, has 
attributed the female part to a species issued, though with an 
expression of doubt, by E. Meyer in 1843, as C. tomentosa: upon C, 
tomentosa, Ki. Mey., non Linn., Sonder based his species C, Thun- 
bergii, the name chosen having regard to the inclusion therein of 
the female portion of C. tomentosa, Thunb. non Linn, iiller, on 
the other hand, while recognising in 1866, as a distinct variety, 
the form which is C. tomentosa, E. Mey. non Linn., referred the 
female portion of C. tomentosa, Thunb. non Linn., as well as the 
male portion, to C. daphnoides. We have in this paper adopted 
Sonder’s view rather than that of Miiller, though with a feeling 
that perhaps the proper course to adopt is to regard the female 
part of C. tomentosa, Thun inn., as intermediate between 
like the female one of C. tomentosa, Thunb. non Linn. in herb. 
The second confusion, to some extent a corollary of the first, was 
imported into the history of C. tomentosa by E. Meyer. Having 
