F. N. WILLIAMS. FLORLLA GAMBICA. 371 



p. 850, n. II (Maio 1759); *Mellia m^rw-M Forsk. (1775); * Riiellia nemo- 

 ralis Yahl (1794); B. secunda Vahl (1794); ^Mellia Gangetica Brown 

 Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 478 (1810), — omitled in Index Kewensis; *fiuellia 

 Zq/lanica Koenig {I8i^) ; *fiueUia digüalis Koenig (iS^^); Ruellia qua- 

 terna Sclium. & Thonn. (1830); *Asyslasia plumbaginea Nees (1832); 

 A. Coromandeliana Nees (1832); *A. capensis Nees (1841); * Ruellia 

 biloba Höchst. (1845); *R. filiformis Klein (1847); *jR. secundiflora Bojer 

 (1847); ^-Asystasia Comorensis Bojer (1847); *^. Bojeriana Nees (1847); 

 A. quaterna Nees (1847); A. calycina Benth. (1849). 



A chronological list of synonyms. as far as they affect Ihe African plant, 

 is liere given. as several (marked*) are omitled by Mr. C. B. Glarke in his 

 delailed synonymy in F TA. Y. 131. 



202. Monechma hispidum Höchst. — FTA. V. 214. Balle, on 

 Siiarra Kunda Creek. in Jokadii district (Lester, n. 51 N, as «Schwabea 

 cüiarü » ). 



Syn. — Justicia ciliata Jacq. Hort. Bol. Yindobon. 1. 104(1 776); J. ciliaris 

 L. f. (1781); J. echioides var. ß L. Sp. Plant. 16 (1753). 



Monechma dliatum, which Hochslelter erroneously Ihought was the 

 original plant of Jacquin, = Ecbolium anisacanihus G. B. Clarke, in FI. 

 Trop. Air. Y. 238. an Abyssinian species. 



203. Justicia galeopsis T. Anderson mss. a p. C. B. Clarke in FI. 

 Trop. Afr. Y. 196. — (Skues). 



204. Peristrophe bicalyculata Nees. — FTA. Y. 243; (Boleler). 



Ord. Polemoniales. 

 Fam. 54. CONVOLVULACEjE 



205. Bonamia Thunbergiana Williams comb. nov. — FTA. 

 ly. sect. 2. 80, as „Bonamia cymosa" (Ingram). 



Syn. — Convolvnlus cyinosus Thunb. in Herb. Wijid. n.3682. exPioem. 

 et Schult. Syst. Yeg. lY. 303 (1819); C. Thunbergianus Roem. et Schult. 

 Syst. Yeg. IV. 884 (1819), — a name omitled in the Index Kewensis. and 

 aîso overiooked by Dr. Hans Rallier in his revision of Ihe genus Bonamia ; 

 C. Senegamhiœ Spreng. Syst. Yeg. I. 610 (1825); Ipomœa Senegambiae 

 Choisy (1845) : Bonamia cymosa Hallier f. in Engl. Jahrb. XYIll. 91 

 (22. Dez. 1893); et in Bull. Herb. Boiss. Y. 374 (1. Mai 1897), el 1. c. p. 

 997(1. .Nov. 1897). 



The correct citation for tiie genus Bonamia is Thouars. Hisl. Yeg. Isl. 

 Afr. p. 33, t. 8 (1804). Bolh Ihe Index Kewensis and Dr. Hans Hallier, in 

 révision of the genus in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1897. p. 804, cite il incorreclly, 

 and difTerenlly from one anolher. Dr. Hallier's sélection of the specific 

 name of „cymosa" is unforUinale, as il is based on a slip of the pen which 

 Hoemer and Schuttes duly correct (in the Errata al the end of the volume) 

 to „Thvnbergiauufi" \ having previously pointed oui thaï Convolvnlus cy- 

 mosus Thunb. is quile a différent plant fiom C. cymosus Pesrouss. in 



