INTERNATIONAL RULES FOR BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE 11 
me on a eat me with a dried plant without printed or 
sogeaphed dia, 
Plate is seabipanied with analyses are equivalent to a descrip- 
tion; but this applies only to plates published before January 1st, 
1908. 
Exam ples. The fo ollowing are valid publications: Onobrychis 
ieiychiden Boiss. F’. Or. ii. 546 (1872), published with Geacitoit 
anax nosstbiensis Drake in aren een Hist - Phys. Nat. et Polit. de 
description or reference to a previous description under another 
name ; Ornithogalum undulatum Hort. Berol. ex Kunth, Enum. Pi. 
iv. 348 (1843), quoted as a synonym of M: yogalum Boucheann 
ese i. c., the name adopted by the author, is not a v pu 
when drahaferbod’ to Orn eee this paler eat be 
eet Or. nithogalum Boucheanum Aschers. in Osterr. Bot. cages 
of Micropteryx Bietitane Walp. in Li innea, xxiii. 740 (1850). is 
not a valid publication; the mnslack in question, when Seat ‘a 
the genus Hrythrina, must be called Erythrina Poeppigiana O. F. 
Cook in U.S. Dep. Agr. Bull. no. 25, p. 57 (1 901); Nepeta Sieheana 
Hausskn., which appears without diagnosis in an exsiccata (W. 
Siehe, Bot. Reise nach Cicilien, no. 521, 1896), is not valid, 
Article 38. A genus or any other group of oe rank than 
one named or announced without being characterized con- 
ably ‘to Article 37, cannot be regarded as effectively published 
faa nudum). The mere indication of species as belonging to a 
ew genus, or of genera as belonging to a higher group, does not 
allow us to accept the genus or group in question as characterized 
and effectively sible hed. An exception is made in the case of the 
generic names mentioned by Linneus in the Specie s Plantarum, 
ed. 1, 1753, names which we — weg the diveriotionn: in the 
Genera Plantarum, se at 1754 (see Article 
Examples. The following are valid pabiien tions: Carphalea 
tee Gen. ~ — 0789), published with a description; Thuspei- 
anta Dur. Ind. Gen. Phaner. p. x (1888), tec with a reference 
10 escribed ; 
uw 
lished seit clas diagnosis or a Min e to iption previously 
ape under another Acosmus Desks mentioned incidentally 
a synon 8 dapicrp Rich. Bl De role (Prod) 
