Amsinckia. 217 



Genus excludendum. 



Bothriosp er murrt Bunge, Enum. pl. Chin. Bor. (1832) 47; DC. et A. DC. in DC. 

 Prodr. X. (1846) 116; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sei. St. Petersbourg XVII. (1872) 454; 

 Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. II. (4 876) 853; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. brit. India IV. (1883) 

 167; Baillon, Hist. pl. X. (1891) 376; Gurke in Engl. u. Prantl, Püzfam. IV. 3a. (1893) 

 101; Dalla Torre et Harms, Gen. Siphon. (1904) 427; Johnston in Contr. Gray Herb, 

 n. ser. LXXII. (1924) 72, LXXIV. (1925) 16, LXXV. (1925) 44. — Nuculae ovoideae 

 vel reniformes gynobasi planae cicatrice basali magna affixae, facie interiore umbilico 

 falso ornatae. — Fig. 1 Q. 



* ' Bothriospermum Bunge, as arranged and characterised by Bentham, Gen. PL, 

 would appear to have essentially the same carpological strueture as the typical Plagio- 

 boihrys, and therefore to supersede the latter. But this comes from one of the very 

 rare oversights of the late Mr. Bentham, who, unmindful of the correct description by 

 Bunge and afterwards by De Candolle and Maximowicz, misstook the ventral false 

 umbilicus for the areola of insertion, which is basal. Tbis mistake remains uncorrected 

 in the Flora of British India." Auch in die > Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien« ist der Irrtum 

 übergegangen. Die Gattung gehört zweifellos zu den Lithospermeen. 



Addenda. 



S. 193 bei 5. Eritrichium Howardii (A. Gray) Bydberg sind folgende Synonyme 

 nachzutragen: Oynoglossum Howardii A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. II. 1. (1878) 188. — 

 Omphalodes Howardii A. Gray, 1. c. (188 6) 423. 



