NOTICES OF BOOKS. 89 
We have before animadverted* upon the unfortunate and 
misleading practice of quoting as if from the ‘Genera Plantarum’ 
names which are not to be found in its pages. Both Sir Joseph 
Hooker and Mr. Clarke constantly sin in this manner. Thus 
we have— 
** Alyxia gracilis Benth. in Gen. Pl. i. 697 [698] . o 
‘© Rauwolfia densiflora Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 697.” 
‘* Baissea acuminata Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 719.” 
“ Rhynchodia Wallichit Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 720.” 
None of ba names are to be found in the ‘Genera.’ Of co 
Mr. Dayd 0 co will take care to set all this right in Sis ink new 
: Stendel’ a all botanists will be glad to know is making 
iene eee but people who crate - the ‘Genera’ to refer 
to, or are content to take their names as the authority of the 
: rations of British India,’ will append “ Benth. ” to these names as 
a matter of course, although ‘Hook. f.”’ is the real authority. 
Mr. Clarke (p. 588) names two species of ‘Symplocos thus :— 
*S. Henscheli Benth. in Gen. Pl. 1. 669. Cordyloblaste Henscheli 
Moritzi.” 
‘* S. Maingayi Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 669.” 
We turn to the reference, and find “ Sect. 2.. Cord: yloblaste”’ of the 
genus Rag consisting of two species, ‘‘ Cordyloblaste Moritz. 
m Bot. Zeit. 1848, 604, et species nova a Maingayo lecta.” Even 
Matigayi? 
In dealing with the Primulacee Sir Joseph Hooker appears to 
have reves 3 a paper by Klatt, on the species collected by the 
brothers De a in High ray in 1855-57, published in 
this Journal fo 8, pp. 120-125. In this paper is described and 
figured (t. 78) a new species of Primula, P. (Aleurita) Telemachica 
Klatt, which finds no 2 vitae n the ‘ Flora of British India.’ 
—— evalvis Wall., is said “ be ‘“ <1 ire identical with 
e- Lik Fewwin oat Hance MSS.’’; but this latter 
species W was 5 tally described by Dr. Hance in this ‘Journal for 1877 
(p. 855), where it is said to ‘a * closely allied to L. ramosa Wall.” 
. evalvis is scentless, but certainly seems otherwise to correspond 
very closely with Dr. Hance’s specimen of L. Fenum-grecum in the 
ns Herbarium. Under L. javanica Bl. are cited as syno- 
is “ L. consobrina Hance MSS., L. decurrens Hance Herb.” 
L — was published by Dr. Hance in 1866 (Ann. Sci. Nat., 
ser. V. d d 
5 Sér and has since been reduced by him (Journ. 
Bot., 1877, ‘eh to L. decurrens Forst.—an See a which is 
borne out by Forster’s type- specimen in in the ional Herbarium 
and apparently accepted by Sir Joseph Hooker, os includes New 
* «Journ. Bot.,’ 1882, p. 187. 
