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Vetiveria murtcata Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 559. a 64. 
Indiae Or. ( Ward no. 38) in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gar 
A more complete synonymy may be found in an Fl. Brit. 
Ind. foc. cz. — The older names only are given here, in order to 
show that the one which has priority is A. z7zanzoides (L.). 
CyPERACEAE 
SCLERIA LAEVIS Retz. Obs. 4: 13; Mig. FI. Ind. 
Bat. 3: 141 
After seeing the original of Miquel, we can state that even this 
type specimen has the teeth of the disk sometimes a little dentate. 
This is in opposition to the description of Miquel and we believe 
that it is an error of this author who has seen only entire teeth. 
There is no doubt about the naming, and Mr. Clarke also ascertained 
the determination of Miquel. 
BROMELIACEAE 
PITCAIRNIA MEGASEPALA Baker, Journ, Bot. 19: 229. 1851° 
Mez, in DC. Mon. 9: 402, pro parte. 
Nova Sige La Paila (ffoltom 21, TI, 1853, zo. 753) in 
Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. and Kew. 
This ee the first number quoted by Baker it must be consid- 
ered as the type. Compared with the type of 2. arazeosa Baker it 
is distinctly different. But there is an analogy between the two spe- 
cies. Therefore it happened that Baker himself named megase- 
pala a specimen of Halbreyer no. 667 which is P. araneosa 
without any doubt. That error induced Mez, who saw the Kew 
specimens, to identify P. araxeosa and P. megasepala, and he wrote 
on the sheet of Kaléreyer no. 667, ‘*hanca P. aranecosa discernere 
nequeo.” He was right, because, in spite of the name megasepala, 
written by Baker, it was P. araxeosa itself. These circumstances 
show the importance of pointing out clearly what zs the type! 
The first plant quoted by Baker in his original description of 
P. megasepala is Holton no. 153, and the first quoted for P. ara- 
neosa is Schlim no. 139. Therefore they must be considered as 
types. If so, there is no difficulty at all, because they are perfectly 
distinct. Mez never confused them, if he took the types alone into 
consideration. But he also admitted as a type the Kalbreyer speci- 
men named by Baker later on and byerror, P. megasepala. That 
