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R. BROWN’S LIST OF MADEIRA PLANTS. 
By James Brirten, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 46.) 
JASMINUM AZORICUM, 
J. oporatissiuuM. ‘In rupibus mariti 
Oxvea EURoPHA. ‘Sp. valde similis Ole siatittl Fructus parvi 
subrotund. Stylo sorenpente coronali” atau a ti]. [O. europea 
B maderensis Lowe. O. 9 a Herb. s= O, exasperata Jacq., 
as stated by Lowe in eee “Camb, Phil. Boe. vi. 537 Bans 
O. Excetsa [Notelea err Webb & Berth. The original de- 
scription in n Ait. H ort. ite . 14, is based on Masson's eesti 
SIDEROXYLON coin xs. “In nerme, ser ecu a ie 
glabris nebulae, balvcitdd tomentos [This e must, 
I think, stand as pubtiaher as, ‘although it 7 7 Beit A derived from 
the local name of the plant, Brown’s MS. shows that he adopted 
the form printed in Buch. Lewe ‘(Pritt aay pinta it S. Mer- 
mulana, quoting “sg. Mermulano Herb. Banks” as a synonym, and 
appears as Mermulana in DC. Prodr, viii. 181; in Fl. Mad. 
ii. 18, Lowe alters the spelling to Marmulano. This is the form 
retained in Indea Kewensis, where it is erroneously cited as of 
in T . Soe. i i 
[1818]’’ as synonymous with this; if this were so it would rank 
as first publication of the name, though only as a nomen nudum ; 
but the plant stands in Tuckey’s book as ‘ S. marmulana?,” and 
is, according to Lowe (Fl. Mad. ii. 19), identical with Sapots mar- 
ginata Decaisne. Sir Joseph Hooker (Banks’s Journal, p, 12) says, 
in a footnote to the word mirmulano, ‘ probably Apollonias canart- 
ensis’’; but this of course is an error. In Banks’s 4 ~ the 
tree appears under the wg name ew opt d as genet 
chiefly philosophical; s some, h bebe were botanical, eT ae 
0 
could be antes in flower.” Of this vag ane I have no further 
knowledge, nor do I know his Christian name; he is occasionally 
adeiran pl 
M. Patusrris 
