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rea a Stipule minute, breviter et anguste triangulares, 1:5 mm 
ong eduncult 
disco 2 cm. diametro, margine angusta circa 1 mm. lata bracteis 
multis valde inequalibus linearibus apice acai vel bilobulatis 
instructa, quorum 10 2-4 cm. long., intermediis brevioribus 
interdum dentiformibus. Flores masculi 38-andri, perianthio 
3-lobo; flores foeminei sparse, Ae bifido exserto. 
Hab. Cameroons. Batanga, Bates, 386! Herb. Kew; Herb. 
Near D. Lwuye De Wildem., but distinguished by the propor- 
Honey longer narrower leaves with obtuse base and the receptacle 
ma ah bracts exceeding its diameter in length. 
14 Bucwanantt Engl. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xx. 142. 
Var. ANGRPRVRNOUTANS, var. nov. . Planta ut apparet quam 
specie minor, circa 15 dm. alta, pedapealis 5 cm. longis vel etia 
longioribus, receptaculo circa 13 mm. BRO: bractea superiore 
5-75 ¢ ae a, inferiore circa 2°5 cm. lo 
ab. rbuguese East Africa. Near Be Nyasa, Johnson, 
494! Horb, how 
DorsTENIA CRISPA Engl. Mon. Morac. Afric. 27. Var. LANCTI- 
FOLIA, var. nov. A typo differt foliis preeee oe vel 
oblanceolatis il basin ut 5°5-6'5 cm 
longis, 1-1-3 cm. lat 
Hab. British East Africa. Ngomeni, dry Se Scott Elliot, 
6279! Herb. Kew, Herb. Mus. Brit. 
NOTES ON ‘THE NOMENCLATURE OF FUNGI.—I. 
By J. Ramssortom, M.A., F.L.S. 
In this series of notes it is proposed to consider points in 
nomenclature which arise in connection with the treatment of 
Botanists is different. I am strongly of the opinion that it 
would have been wise to have commenced all botanical nomencla- 
ture with is binomial system as introduced by Linnzus in his 
aug —— rather than that the idea of dates is be given 
nee.* The International Rules of aaa lesen 
é. ‘Fungi: soe S Ustlnciarke and Gasteromycotes, 
801 (Perso n, Synopsis methodica Fungorum). 
Es Fungi eee “182 ~32 (Fries, Systema mycologicum). 
* Art. 49 bis. ong Fungi with a pleomorphic life-cycle 
the different aes states of the same species (anamorphoses, 
* In this way the difficulty with regard to the accidental binomials 
occurring in works which, though appe gi gel 1753, retain pre-Linnaean 
nomenclature would not have to be consid 
