408 
27. Cluytia Dregeana, Scheele in Linnaea, xxv. 513 (1852); Baill. 
Adansonia, iii. 153 (1862). C. heterophylla, Sond. in Linnaea, xxiii. 
128, pro parte maxima, sed syn. Bernh, et var. B exclus. oS 
nequaquam Thun, C. Sonderiana, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr 
2, 1051, var. amb. inclus. (1866); Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. a 
Cluye 72, var. omn. inclus. sed excl. ac Krook 915 ac syn. C. hetero- 
phylla, Paz in Ann. Hofmus. Wien. (1911). C. similis, Pax in 
Engl. Pflanzenr. ee Ss partim et quoad Bachmann 750 tantum 
(1911); nec Mill. A 
Coast Region : icshage Alexandria and Albany Divs., and in 
British Kaffraria 
Kastern eich: Transkei and Natal. 
~Cluytia Dregeana, a very distinct shrubby species, though it is 
one of Faisse first collected by Drége, was not taken up by E. Meyer 
in 1843. In 1850, as his specimens show, this species was confused 
by Sonder with the St C. heterophylla, Thunb., nor was 
it duly recognised as the separate species that it is until 1852. 
Miiller in 1866 modified Scheele’ s treatment of 1852 as the result of 
his examination of the material in Sonder’s herbarium. Into 
Miiller’s statement of this result some inadvertence has crept, 
because he has indicated (DC. Prodr. xv. 2, 1051) that the male 
and the female specimens of Drége 8229 in that herbarium belong 
to different species, and has asserted that the ovary in the female 
specimen of Brae of 8229 is not glabrous. There seems to the 
writer no justification for the idea that the two specimens in question 
are other than conspecific ; the statement as regards the ovary of 
the female specimen of Drége 8229 is incorrect. This inadvertence - 
on Miiller’s part, however, is found on examining Sonder’s herbarium 
not to be due to any error of observation, but to be attributable 
either to some imperfect register of that observation or to a 
lapse of memory. For there is still in herb. Sonder the actual 
it was not named either e Scheele or by Sonder. The net outeenas 
of Miiller’s misreading of labels has been that Miiller, who has been 
followed subsequent authors, has been led to create for C. 
"Sehecle a new and unnecessary homonym C. Sonderiana, 
and has transferred Scheele’s name to C. Kr ookit, Pax, a plant that 
is probably best treated as a variety of C\ hirsuta, E. Mey. For 
the recognition of the two varieties proposed by Miiller there is no 
necessity ; they represent merely varying states of the same plant. 
28. Cluytia hirsuta, /. Mey. in Drege, Zwei Pfl. Documente, \74 
Sombie (1843) et ex Sond. in Linnaea, xxiii. 129 (1850) ; Miill. 
Arg. i » Prodr. xv. 2, 1046 (1866) ; Par in Engl. Pflanzenr.— 
Biplrt Chu, yt. me (1911). C. heterophylla, 8 hirsuta, Sond, l.c. 
(1850). C. a Baill, Adansonia, iti. 150, partim et quoad syn. 
E. Mey, tantum (1862) ; nec Sond. C. heterophylla, Pax in Ann. 
ofmus. Wien. xv. 49 (1900); nec Thunb. C. Schlechteri, Pax in 
Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxiv. 373 (1909). C. hybrida, Pax et K. Hoffm. 
in Engl. Pflanzenr. |.c. 60 (1911). C. Sonderiana, a pubescens, 
Pax in Engl. Pflanzenr. \.c. 73, quoad Krook -915 tantum (1911) ; 
nec Mill. Arg. 
