176 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
CHUSA PANICULATA, “In apris.” [4. italica Retz. A. pani- 
culata Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 177, is based on Masson’s specimens. | 
TUM. 
HIUM NERVOSUM (cCANDIcANS). ‘In rupibus altis.” [The speci- 
men on faith of which this is included in the list wag (as is shown by 
the MS.) that collected by Downe. M. A. de Co oincy, who is 
monographing the genus, and to whom fragments of Downe’s 
specimen have been submit ted, considers Brown’s identification of 
the plant with candicans inaccurate, and that i t belongs ‘‘incon- 
testablement & VE. nervosum.” It may be worth ‘while to transcribe 
Brown’s MS. deseri ription: ‘‘ Kchium nervosum caule fruticoso foliis 
lane oolatis nervosis ramisque sericeis foliolis calycinis linearibus 
lbs stylis hirtis racemis ovatis. Dow wne, E., candicans Ait. 
Kew. et Willd. Sp. Pl. In enpibis altis 
Maeaiesconois [This is not the staat named thyrsiflorum on 
pp. 144, 175 of Buch’s work, but, according to M. A. de Coi incy, who 
has seen a fragment of Masson’s specimen, F. candicans L. fil.— 
a plant originally described from specimens sent by Masson.] 
EK. vureare, * ubi ique.’’ [Probably E. violaceum L.: E. vulgare 
is not sina te: oceur in “Madeir ira, 
- ORIENTALE [F, Habitat L.] 
Convonvenss ARVEN 
differt.”” ‘Th Brown’s t words stand ‘ Mser. a C es- 
tris differt.”’ C. saxatilis Salisb. (C. Massoni ried Although 
. Massoni is adopted in Index Kewensis, by Lowe, and by authors 
generally, for this plant, “it is clear that Salisbury’ 8 ane, usually 
regarded as a synonym, must stand: the synonymy i 
C. saxatinis Salisb. Prodr. 124 (1796). 
C. Massoni F, G. Dietrich (cited as “A. Dietr.” in Index 
roars Nachtrag zum Vollsp. Lexikon, ii. 877 (1816), 
C. supraticoon [Dryand. in] se Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 881 
1810), and in Herb. Banks!; Bot. Reg. t. 183 (1816) ; 
non Desf, 
C. shiva: Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. 10 (1813), 
nomen ; W, herb. Pics Syst. i. 597 (1825). 
C. Dryaudri Spreng. 
C. rupestris? Br. in Bash Canar. Inseln, 198, n. 201; non 
Pall. nec Willd. 
C. ? solanifolius Lowe, Prim. 22 (1881). 
C. Ma ges Herb. Banks! a ‘oe Fl. Mad. ii. 60 (1872). 
neh epilis Herb. Banks! e e, lie 
The earlier C. pres Vahl pts ili. 388, 1794) is referred to 
Cc. (ahactaiiis Desy. (1 . 
{mah us. ‘*¥Foliis cordatis, palmato- lobatis, glabris, lobis 
pandis, pedunculis unifloris, caule volubili.” [C. althaoides 
B virescens Lowe, Fl. Mad. ii. 59. Solander suspected the identity 
is C. fleauosus (a name given by Banks in the earliest list, but 
208 entered for this plant in Indea Kewensis): he says in his MSS., 
