94 OLD AND NEW GENERA OF PLANTS 
Linn. (1753) Sp. Pl. 324. Adenorachts DC. Prod. II, 637 (1825), 
as section or subgenus. 
Adenorachis arbutifolia (Linn.) Nwd. 
Aroma arbutifolia (Linn.) Ell., Bot. S. Car. and Ga., I, 556 
(1821), Mespiuls arbutifolia Linn., Sp. Pl.. 478 (1753), Pyrus 
arbutifolia Linn. f. Suppl. 256 (1781). 
Adenorachis atropurpurea (Robinson) Nwd. 
Aronia arbutifolia Britton, Man., 517 (1901), Pyrus arbutifolia 
var. airopurpurea Robinson, Rhodora, x, 33, (1908). 
Adenorachis melanocarpa (Michx.) Nwd. 
Mespilus arbutifolia var. melanocarpa Michx., Fl. Bor. Am., 
I, 292 (1803) Pyrus melancocarpa Willd., Enum., 525 (1809). 
KYLLINGA A HOMONYM. 
The Ayllinga Rott.’ is antedated by Adanson’s Kullinga? 
the latter a segregate from Athamanta. Though the name is 
slightly different in spelling it is nevertheless the same in sound 
and on the authority of Brevel’ named after the same Peter 
Kylling a Danish Botanist. The next available name not only 
in order but with the same type as that of Ayllinga Rottb. itself 
is Thryocephalon Forst. he other names as given in the Kew 
Index may possibly be attempts at segregation anyhow. Follow- 
ing is the synonmy. 
THRYOCEPHALON Forst., Char. Gen., 129, t. 65 (1776). 
Kyllinga Rottb. 1. c. (1773), not Killinga Adans. 1. c. (1763) 
nor Brevel, 1: c., (1770). 
Thryocephalon pumilum (Michx.) .Nwd. 
Kyllinga pumila Michx. FJ. Bor. Am., I, 28 (1803), Hedychloe 
fragans Raf., Ann. Nat., 16 (1820). 
KOCHIA A HOMONYM. 
Kochia4 Roth, is a homonym because of the previous use of 
Cocchia (Mich.) Brevel,5 (1770). The letters C and K are the 
same in Latin, and by all the systems of pronunciation the name 
* ‘Rottboel; ‘C.F. ‘Deser. Ic. 2, pl. 4, £354, 4 773)). 
? Adanson, M. Fam. des PIl., II, 498 (1763). 
3 Brevel, J. F. B., De Pl. Cult. Mem. Nom., 40 (1770) ‘‘ Killinga 
Adans. Athamanta cret. \.”’ 
4 Roth, Schrader, Journ. Bot. I, 307, pl. 2 (1799). 
5 Brevel, J. F. B., De. Pl. Cult. Mem., 28 (1770). 
