14 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
B. fruticosa L. is referred to Wulfia stenoglossa (Cass.) DC. 
(= W. baccata (lL. fil.) Ktze.). In 1907 pee (Sym. Antill. 
v. 265) transferred Verbesina fruticosa L. Narvalina as 
N. fruticosa, displacing N. domingensis see . and in a 
. BK. Schulz definitely referred Bidens fruticosus ss (sic) to N. 
fruticosa (L.) U 
Meanwhile, ag true plant of Linneus and Miller had been 
described by Bentham from Oersted’s Costa Rican collection as 
exmenia costaricensis Benth., transposed into Z. nicaraguensis 
by C. Mueller a few years later ; and in 1877 a more a 
form of the species was es das a villosa Polakows 
discussion (Bidens fruticosa L.) to i i otpee ge sae or can 
Bidens Lecwansied Mill. be taken up, arte “ still-born,” ae as 
a Bidens, the species already bore the valid name B. fru ruticosa Li. 
Couiieaiuaiitiy Zexrmenia costaricensis Benth. must continue to be 
used for this species. It may be noted in passing that Roeeins 
fruticosa (L.) Urban must fall, leaving N. domingensis Cass. t 
valid designation of that species, since Verbesina tcosa Li. 
of the ite eet pays of the Species was based primarily on Bidens 
fruticosa L. of the first, to which, in the interval, a synonym 
belonging to poet genus had been mistakenly referred. The 
synonymy of dl two forms of Zermenia costaricensis will then 
stand as follow 
ZEXMENIA COSTARICENSIS Benth. Vidensk. Meddel. 95 (1852) ! 
Bidens fruticosa L. Sp. ii. 833 (1753) !, not 7. fruticosa Rose, 
tr. 1891). 
n 
Verbesina fruticosa L. Sp. ed. 2, ii. 1271 (1763), in part 
excl. syn. Plum, which = Narvalina domingensis Cass.). 
Bidens sfrutescens Mill. Gardn. Dict. ed. 8, no. 4 (1768)! 
(sti me). 
pes Sb naitigierte “ Benth.” ex C. Muell. in Walp. Ann. 
vy. 226 (1858) (sphalm.). 
Narvalina fruticosa (L.) Urban, Page Antill. v. 265 A eted bf as 
to name-bringing synonym only, in part; O. E. Schulz, in 
Urban, l.c, vil. 144 (1911), as to name- bring ging synonym. 
Stem glabrous or glabrate; leaves usually rather sparsely 
‘nberenlake above, lepidote in age, usually nearly glabrous 
beneath ; peduncles oa aie often densely so, the hairs 
appressed or ascending. 
Z. COSTARICENSIS Benth. var. VILLOSA (Polak.) Blake. . 
4. villosa Polak. tiboas xli. 579 (1877) ! 
Stem pilose-tomentose with rusty hairs; leaves strigillose- 
scabrous above, more or less hispid-pilose beneath, particularly 
along the sine aber: shortly sprea ane es with whitish 
hairs; otherw as in the species, toward which it varies. 
or Rica: San fees Noy. 28, 1875, Polakowsky 466 (cotype 
of Z. villosa: Br. Mus.); Cartago, alt. 1417 m., Nov. 1894, 
Brolley ‘(Pittier 8991: .s Mus.). 
