376 ON PTEROCARYA STENOPTERA. 
ON PTEROCARYA STENOPTERA, Cas.DC. 
By Henry F. Hance, Pu.D., &e. 
E five or six years ago the Rev. R. H. Graves, of the American 
Baptist Mission, Lapa during an excursion into the province of 
Kwangsi, a few small winged fruite, which he gave to Mr. Sampson, 
who sowed ntti and was grati ied to find one come up and grow 
pies. at the eter of 1872, enabled me, however, to ascertain 
that it is Juglandaceous, and I thought se pee tage: bs 
ocarya stenoptera, Cas.DC., a tree discovered wher 
Southern ing di Be M. Ca alléry, the sinolo ais ‘ead: "niieeln tig, 
“mens ii rved there. This verification was ayia 
e du Botaniste Herboris ant,” who Eni: so obliging as to detach 
Pai ay use about a dozen fruits from Calléry’s own specimens.* 
*In transmitting these, es expressing an opinion as to the probable 
ea of the plant I was enquiring about with pe Serine in the ‘* Prodro. 
audin proceeds :—‘‘ Cependant, M. Verlot me fait observer que les 
simi e n’ont pas le rachis 
este 
pire suffisant pour séparer spécifiquement des plantes ge se aoe 
tant sous d’autres rapports.” There is some confusion here M. Verlot 
plan ven for forms 8 
species. was given, in 1824, by Kunth, who founded the genus on 
Michaux’s Juglans pterocarpa ; but, as the tree had been named Juglans fraxini- 
folia by Lamarck a few years previously, M. Spach rebaptised it, in 1834, 
Pteroe ia. ose Ww e ongrés I i 
de ue” as a scien umenical Counci i 
inspired by d ine affatus, will, in obedience to Article 57 of 
the ‘‘ Lois dela Nomenclature i ” promulgated by that august assembly, 
t the latter name. Botanists o anus or Quirinus-like turn of min 
however, like the humble writer of this article, who look on this decision of the 
“ Patres” as mischiev ‘ous, use needlessly and arbitraril the 
phased ak ha of our science, by the resuscitation of ‘‘ obsoleta et extincta nomina, 
sepe falsis nominibus genericis proposita,” as Fries excellently 
