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character (Spec. 985), would have included under his name such 
plants as F’. speciosa and also F’. pallidiflora. And, so far as lam 
aware, both forms were included under it until 1849, when Jordan 
segregated his F’. speciosa, retaining the Linnean name for the other 
form till 1854, when, considering it a source of confusion, he pro- 
posed to drop it in favour of LF’. pallidiflora (F. Schultz, pap 
to F’. pallidiflora, if that plant is regarded as distinct from I’. spe- 
ciosa ; and as recent authors have united them as varieties of one 
species, and Jordan himself admits that they are very closely allied, 
there would seem to be every reason for abandoning I’. pallidiflora as 
a luxuriant form of the other. On the other hand, the differences 
indicated by Jordan appear to be of a more permanent nature, and 
not such as owe their origin to surrounding conditions; and, as 
they seem quite recognizable in the few authentic French specimens 
that I have examined, I regard F’. speciosa and F. pallidiflora as 
worthy of more than merely varietal distinction, and therefore rank 
them as subspecies of the Linnean F’. capreolata. 
Coming to the second name in the London Catalogue, F. Borat 
Jordan, I find that this species was originally described by the 
detail. He writes :— 
‘PF’. racemis . nde adist 
pedicello subpatulo paulo brevioribus; sepalis subrotundo-ovatis, 
acutis, circumecircd inequaliter, et crebrd inciso-dentatis, . . + - 
roseo-albidis, corolle tubo roseo apice atro-purpureo latioribus 
eodemque haud tripld brevioribus; petalo superiore . . . . imo 
apice angustato . . . caleare sepala haud equante vix longiore quam 
lato . . . fructu subrotundo-obovato obtusissimo apicd minuté foveo- 
lato, siccitate leviter ruguloso, stipite angusto brevissimo pedicelli 
crassitiem haud superante (in vivo) preedito. 
‘Species dit vexata et a multis pro F. murali Sond. habita, ab 
hac certissimé differt floribus sepalis fructibusque subdupld majori- 
bus, petalis presertim exterioribus sensim apicé angustatis haud 
