TWO NEW SPECIES OF MYRIANTHUS 355 
ciliolatis, quam perianthio brevioribus. Perianthit segmenta 4, 
peene ad basin libera, obovata, superne latiora et concava, vix 
m. longa. Stamina 3-4, libera, perianthium equantia. Flores 
feminee circa 20 in caput globosum 1:25-2 cm. diam., pedunculo 
15-3 em. longo, bracteolis anguste oblongis vel oblanceolatis basi 
angustatis, dorso pubescentibus, 2 mm. longis. Perianthiwm 
anguste ovoideum, 5-6 mm. longum, hirtellum, ad orem angus- 
tatum, stigmate lineari-lanceolato exserto. Fructus ovoidei 4—10, 
in capite 4-5 cm. diam. connati, perianthio carnoso et apice 
rostrato inclusi. 
ab. South Nigeria, Oban and Eket districts, Mr. and Mrs. 
P.A. Talbot! Cameroons, Bipinde, Zenker, 1100! (with immature 
male flowers only). Herb. Mus. Brit., Herb. Kew. 
Distinguished from the other members of the section Dicrano- 
stachys by the compound leaves with 5-8 leaflets, and the ovoid 
ut compressed strongly beaked fruit. 
CORRECT NAME FOR ATRIPLEX ARENARIA Woops. 
arenarva Woods, I had occasion to look critically into the na 
which this species ul r in accordance with the Inter- 
national Code of Nomenclature. Woods’s name (Phytol. iii. 593 
‘ ‘P a lnneu © : 
British Flora (ii. 179, t. 185 (1914)) Dr. Moss and Mr. Wilmott 
have adopted for it the name A. sabulosa Rouy (Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Fr, xxxvil. p. xx (1890) ), and refer to it as a straight i A 
iti ‘ Atriplex 
Continental ones certainly appertaining to A. laciniata L. as now 
taken, the name A. maritima L. must be considered to cover both; 
that is, it is merely a nomen abortivum, to be referred to the 
synonymy of A. laciniata sensu L. 
* Rhodora, xvii. 83-86, f. 1-2 (1915). G 
