SENOS SAND SekOSS-KREPERENCES: 
URING the progress of the Dicrionary or GArpentnc, I have received many letters 
complaining that certain plants had not been mentioned in its pages. In the 
vast majority of cases, the plants quoted as omissions have appeared under their correct 
names; but the antiquated or absolutely incorrect names have, through various causes, been 
omitted. Frequently, too, it has happened that a plant well-known under some incorrect 
name should have been placed in a genus the initial letters of which had already been 
passed ; in most of such cases, the information as to correct name is given in the body of 
the work—a case in point is Anectochilus Lowi, which is really Dossinia marmorata. The 
cross-references in this list will enable correct names to be readily ascertained. 
The genus Areca furnishes an example of another kind. ‘The plants described in the 
Dictionary under this name are true Arecas, but in gardens and nurseries a number of widely 
different plants are included under the same generic name. Some difficulty might, there- 
fore, arise in the case of those who are not aware of the great changes in nomenclature which 
have occurred amongst Palms, and some time would be lost in referring to the half-dozen 
genera mentioned as containing species formerly placed under Areca. The list of Synonyms 
and Cross-references will render it easy for anyone to arrive at the information they 
seek, e.g., Areca Baueri is referred to its proper genus — Ihopalostylis; A. lutescens to 
Chrysalidocarpus ; A. Verschaffelti to Hyophorbe, &c. 
Not unfrequently the correct name of a plant has been determined when too late to insert 
it after the garden name. Aralia Chabrierii is a case in point; this has not yet flowered in 
this country, and its real affinities might have remained obscure for an indefinite period, had 
not my colleague, Mr. Watson, noticing the resemblance between Aralia Chabrierti of the 
nurseries and a plant in a foreign botanic garden under the name of Hlcaodendron, carefully 
compared, on his return, the material he collected for the purpose, and proved the Aralia 
Chabrierti in question to be no Aralia at all, but EHlcodendron orientale, a native of Mauritius, 
&c. (no origin was published in the nursery catalogues), This list contains many such 
corrections. 
In order to economise space, when the specific name remains unchanged under another 
genus the cross-reference to the genus alone will be given. Synonyms and names of included 
genera to which reference is made are printed in italics. 
Gnrorae NicHonson. 
