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The synonymy is :— 
CRUSEA HISPIDA comb. nov. 
Crucianella hispida Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 4 (176 
Spermacoce rubra Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 3, t. 156 (1798). 
S. strigosa Herb. Banks! ex Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1558 (1813). 
Crusea rubra Bartl. in Linnea, xiv. litt. 125 (1840 
- Macrocatyx Miers. 
This is one of the genera of which the name alone has been 
published, and which can only be identified by reference to the 
author’s specimens. It stands in Index Kewensis as “ Macrocalyx 
cog ex Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 764 (1847) Rubiacew sone ?)”? and 
no further information has appeared concerning it. While in- 
pein g the Miers collection with the National Herbarium I 
ame across Miers’s ae Hs the plant and found in MSS. 
wing and notes; Mr. Spencer se was able to 
Scleessbts with Faramea aleve ora A. Ric Miers “idedtified 
his plant with Sutera macrocalyx Mart., whic he considered 
synonymous with Psychotria fluminensis Vell., but Miller (fl. 
Bras. vi. 5, 267-8) retains these as distinct species of Psychotria— 
the former as P. melanocalyx Muell. Arg. 
RUELLIA LONGIFLORA Vahl. 
In his Symbole Botanice (i. 45, t. xv. (1790)) — oe and 
describes as a Ruellia a se which “errore editori e 
placed by Forskal (Fl. Aigypt. Arab. ecxvii. 126, 1775) under 
Camellia. It is ng from Forskal's full description that he could 
not have meant to place the plant in the class Icosandria, where 
it stands in his book, and his full description accords well with 
Ruellia ; but on the other hand several species of Ruellia occur 
together elsewhere (cxv. 111). The specific name 
access, is uncertain; the view is supported by the fact that his 
specimen in Herb. Banks was written up by Banks “ Ruellia 
longiflora Forsk.” If the correction of rape i. Ruellia be 
accepted, Forskal’s published trivial will have to be retained, as 
it antedates R. grandiflora “ Poiret (Encyel. Meth. vi. 340, 1804), 
but under the circumstances I refrain from making the new com- 
bination. e Banksian arieetnete: of the plant, which does not 
seem to e been met with by recent collectors, corresponds 
admirably with Vahl’s figure. 
XERANTHEMUM ORIENTALE Banks & Sol. 
“ Xeranthemum orientale; herbaceum, foliis lanceolato-ob- 
longis, calycibus inermibus, semineum paleis denis. Xeranthemum 
annuum y. orientale Linn. Sp. Pl. 1201,’ Russ. ape ii. 263. 
This is Chardinia xeranthemoides Desf., but the e specific name 
will have to be changed in accordance with the Vienna Rules. 
The synonymy is as follows;— 
