ON LEFIGONUM KCPiilSTRE VKL RUPICOLA. 81 
(lentatis- paniculis tomento brevi vestitis; petalis lincaribus libei'is ; 
stara. 7; ovar. 7-locul. — Philippine Islands (Cuming! n. 814). 
35. a, Cuminyii, Seem. n. sp. ; foliolis 5 ellipticis v. ovato-ellipti- 
cls longe acuminatis integerrimis 3-pllnerviis ; paniculis terminalibus 
pube stellato albido vestitia ; clrupis obovatis 5-loculuribiis. — Philippine 
Islands (Cuming! n. 800 et 1293). 
36. H. capitatinn. Seem. — Paratropia capitata^ Wight et Arn. Prodr. 
p. 378; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 433. — Eastern parts of Bengal (Wight) ; 
Malacca (Griffith ! n. 2708). 
At first sight looks like a Brassaia, but flowers pedicellate and with- 
out a calyculus. Inflorescence covered with steUate hairs. Leaflets 
in Griffith's specimen 3-4 inches long, having 15-22 veins on each 
side of the midrib. 
Explanation of Pxate XXYII., representing Sciadopanax Boivini, from 
a specimen preseiTed in Sir W. J. Hooker's herbarium. — Fig. 1. Part of the 
inflorescence, 2. Fruit. 3. Longitudinal section of the same. 4. Cross sec- 
tion of the same. Figs. 2, 3, and 4, magnified. 
ON LEFIGONUM RUPESTllE vel RUPICOLA. 
By C. C. Babington, M.A., F.E.S, 
t 
Much discussion has already attended the determination of the true 
name of one of our Lepigona. It was first distinguished, as a species, 
by Lebelj in the Paris Herbarium, as ^^ Spergularia rupeatris (vel rupi- 
cola)" and most succeeding authors have used the former of those 
alternative names for it. But it was apparently known to Lebel that 
Cambessedes described and figured a Spergidaria rupestris in Saint- 
Hilaire's "Fl. Brasilise Meridionalis " (ii. 175, t.llO), in 1S29. That 
was many years anterior to the first publication of Lebel's name in 
Kindberg's *Symbolce Lepigonorum/ in 1836. Cambessedes' plant 
was gathered from rocks near the town of Maldonado, in South Brazil, 
and if it is a distinct species we cannot call the European plant by the 
same name. In his ' Monographia Lcpigonoi-um ' Kindberg quotes the 
S^ rupeslris (Cambes.) as a synonym of Z. manniim (Wahl.), without 
any mark of doubt, or any information concerning his reason for combi- 
ning them; unless his quotation of specimens "in A^merica Australi ad 
