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A REVISION or SALMEA anp some ALLIED GENERA. 
. By 8. F. het A.M. 
previously been described s Linnzeus (sal mea scorniose L) DC.) 
and Swartz (S. hirsuta (Sw.) DC.) under the genus Bidens, while 
f ote 
Robert Brown (Trans. Linn. Soe. xii. 112) g an emended 
ae character, and added the new Species s oe viflora with 
ery brief description, which has since led to confusion in the 
beatles of this and one or two related ere species. In the 
Genera Plantarum of Bentham & Hooker fil. S. curviflora was 
24, t. 246 (1794) ) and Salmia of Willd. (Gesell. ‘gpg nae ote 
Mag. v. 399 (1811)); but as neither of thes e gen 
accepted, the name Salmea is still valid by the Te coal eae 
of Nomenclature. 
In 1827 three new species (S. grandiceps, S. parviceps, S. op- 
positiceps*) were described by Cassini from fragments in the 
Jussieu Herbarium. Alchotelte efforts have been made by so ome 
authors to retain one or rapa of them, all are now gener 
referred to the synonymy o et ies ite the pis of 
S. Mg oa a De Ganvollo and the L ewensis to S. hirsuta 
hic 
from deoeripeles b to be a form o s. Gacedoae: was described from 
material grown at the Jardin des Plantes. Du uring the ’sixties a 
revision of the genus ee known in the West Indies was given by 
Grisebach, and five new species were published by him and by 
Charles Wright. 
In 1873 Bentham described in the Genera Plantarum two new 
ied to 
Salmeopsis, from Brazil, whose only species was also described 
and figured in 1873. Hemsley, is 1881, listed from Macion and 
Central America three species of ‘Salmea, one of which was new, 
and amended the character of Otopappus by including in it 
O. curviflorus (R. Be} Hons msl. and the new species O. epaleaceus 
and O. robustus. n 1887 Salmea nitida Sch. Bip. MSS. 
gl Rat bable that the specimens W which these ific names were 
no longer in upon sich Parts Her 
in existence. M. F. of the barium, 
writes mmo (ander date : Matob 28rd, W915) nas there are are no specimens of Salmea 
in the Jussieu Herbarium. — | 
JouRNAL OF Borany. Vote 58. es 1918) q 
