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intended to do and Burchell actually did. Nor is the reason for the 
action of these authorities difficult to understand. Being without 
access to the Linnaean herbarium, they had not learned that this plant 
is not the one which there serves as a representative of C. Alaternoides, 
Linn., or that Linnaeus, when he did finally obtain specimens o 
this plant, had not ventured to write it up as C. Alaternoides. 
that they did know, and all that they had to guide them, was the 
circumstance that the plant with which they were dealing was the 
plant to which Commelin had given the name— Alaternoides—which 
{Linnaeus used for it. In 1858 Baillon, again independently, reached 
the sound conclusion of Poiret and of Krauss, for C. floribunda, 
Baill., is identical with C. africana, Poir. In 1862 Baillon was still 
of the same opinion because, though he abandoned the name 
C. floribunda, his specimens show us that what he took to be 
C. heterophylla was not the true C. heterophylla of Thunberg but was 
C. africana, Poir. Krauss in 1845 separated from the others as var. 
major those specimens of C. africana with very large leaves ; Sonder 
in 1850 recognised a variety, a latifolia, of C. alaternoides, Linn, 
Miiller in 1866 adopted both the variety latifolia of Sonder and the 
variety major of Krauss. Inso doing Miiller treated Sonder’s latifolia 
as the equivalent of C. Alaternoides, Krauss, non Linn., and took 
C’. Alaternoides [3 major of Krauss to be the precise equivalent of 
Commelin’s plant named by Poiret C. africana, This was an error 
of refinement. There is no doubt that what Sonder termed C. 
Alaternoides a latifolia was intended to include, and his specimens 
show that it did include, both C. Alaternoides, Krauss, non Linn., 
and C, alaternoides [3 major, Krauss. On the other hand there is 
no doubt that except in size of leaf there is no difference between 
Krauss’s two varieties and that both belong to the plant figured by 
Commelin and named C. africana by Poiret. The action of Pax, 
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which C, africana has been so greatly contused. 
14. Cluytia Alaternoides, Lznn., Sp. Pi. 1042, syn; Burm. t. 43, 
fig. 3 et syn. Comm. exel. [Clutia] (1753), et ibid ; ed, 2, 1474, syn. eadem 
excl. (1763); Burm. f. Prodr. Fl. Cap. 27 bis [31] (1768) ; Lamk 
Encyc. Meth. ii. 54, syn. Comm. excl. (1786) ; Ait. Hort. Kew, iti. 419 
(1789); Willd. Hort. Berol. 50, t. 50 (ante 1805), et Sp. Pl. iv. 2, 
879, partim (1805) ; Pers. Synops. ii. 636 (1807); Ait. Hort. Kew, 
ed. 2, v.422 partim (1813) ; Spreng. Syst. ii. 49 (1826) ; . Mey. in 
Drige, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 174, quoad a a partim et quoad c (1843); 
Dietr. Synops. vy. 455 (1852); Baill. Adansonia, ni, 150, quoad syn, 
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