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“Bamsos Arunpo Soland. Fl. Ins. Ocean. Pacif. 217.” 
olk may be puzzled to trace this name, which the Index 
Kewensis prints as above, as given b Munro in Tra inn. Soe. 
xxvi. 137, in the synonymy of his Schizostachyum glaucifolium. 
Solander’s work was never published, and the name intended 
appears in the MS. as Arundo Bambos—the Linnean name for 
ambusa arundinacea Willd., to which Solander erroneously re- 
ferred his plant. Seemann (FI. Vit. 323) similarly transposed the 
generic and specific names, but correctly added “ined.” to the 
reference. 
Coxvotvunus roseEvs Mill. Dict. ed. 8, n. 18 (1768). 
Choisy (in DC. Prodr. ix. 380) places this as a synonym of 
Ipomea fastigiata Sweet on the authority of a specimen from’ 
Miller in the National Herbarium. There is indeed in the 
Herbarium a specimen from Miller so labelled, but a very slight 
PHARBITIS ROSEA comb. nov. 
* Convolvulus roseus Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8, n. 18 1768). 
C. americanus Nicols. Hist. Nat. Saint-Domingue, 260 1776). 
Ipomeea cathartica Poir. Suppl. Encycel. Méthod. iv. 633 (1816). 
Pharbitis cathartica Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 349 (1845), 
¢. syn. 
C. africanus, originated by Poiret, has been followed by subse- 
ndex Kewensis—so 
of his work, was a D 
St. Domingo : he wrote the book in 1773 (see p- 16). 
DaPHNE AMERICANA Mill. Dict. ed. 8 (1768). 
_ This plant, identified in Index Kewensis as « Daphnopsidis sp:” 
is, a a ee opin ty herbarium shows, Strumpfia 
mariiima Jacq. Pl. Carib. 28 (1760). Mj ised i i 
het rites. +. Ca (1760). Miller raised it from seed in 
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