NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 43 
Triosteum HirsuTuM Roxb. Fl. Indica ii. 180 (1824). 
This name occurs Acces in vol. iii. of the Flora of British 
India: on p. 8, where it is retained as a species in 
Clarke’s ‘monograph of "Caprifoliacec and is cited as of “ Wall. in 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 180”; and on p. 180, where it 
ynonym of Lasianthus cyanocarpus Jack. That 
this latter determination is the right one is manifest fro m speci- 
‘mens in the National Herbarium named by Roxburgh himself 
Lriosteum hirsutwm ; but it is not easy to understand how it has 
happened that the plant: has been accepted as eaprifoliaceous. It is 
not as though two plants had been confused, for the descriptions in 
the two editions of Roxburgh are identical in every respect, and the 
authority for each, as stated in each description, is Roxburgh. The 
description of the leaves: alone—“ short-petioled, lanceolar, entire, 
acuminate”’—is sufficient to show that Roxbu rgh’s s plant cannot 
be identical, as Mr. Clarke supposes, with 7. himalayanum Wall., 
in which they are “ obovate, acute, connate at the base.” De 
others which Mr. Clarke sees under 7’. hi pi and add “ Quid 
TL’. hirsutum Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 180?” showing that the plant was 
by them regarded as dou btful, 
The final confusion by which T. hirsutum is substituted for and 
considered identical with 7. himalayanum is due to Clarke (I.c.) 
who not only places the latter as a synonym, but gives an explana- 
may, be me See and the confusion finally cleared up. e writes: 
“HA. f. ve been misled by DC. into supposing sist “Wallich 
gave leaf-characters—‘ obovate, acute, connate at the base’’ 
already quoted, which preclude any possibility oe their being 
identical. The localities also stand as cited by D i andolle— 
“ Chittagong” for . hirsutum and ‘ ‘Gosain- Than for T. hima 
i re any “misprint” as to the fruit, of which 
D tes the original dese 
; The pu tecisig au 3 sips Hooker dare staltoli a is 
made also Bs ing & Gamble, Fi. Malayan Penins. no. 15, 113)* 
* The arrangement and pagination of this important work renders it diffi- 
cult to quote, s 
