NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM 315 



Capraria frutescens, comb. nov. 



Eriniis frutescens Mill. Diet. ed. 8, n. 4 (1768), et in Herb. 



Mus. Brit. ! 

 Capraria cimeata Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iv. 46 (1812). 

 C. saxifragcefolia Schlecht. & Cham, in Linnsea v. 105 (1830). 

 Pogostoma saxifragcefolia Schrad. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gott. (1831) 

 ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 430. 



Miller's plant was collected at Vera Cruz by Houstoun. 



Erinus tomentosus Mill. Diet. n. 2, is retained in the 

 Kew Index, but is reduced by Bentham (in DC. Prodr. x. 383) to 

 Stemodia lanata Ruiz & Pavon, which must be called S. tomentosa. 

 This was also collected at Vera Cruz by Houstoun. 



Leuc^na Forsteri Benth, Bentham (Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. v. 94) rightly bases this species on the Miinosa glandulosa of 

 Solander in Forster s Prodromus, p. 92, no. 565 (nomen), on the 

 faith of specimens from George Forster, written up by him with 

 that name and number in the National Herbarium. Seemann (Fl. 

 Vit. 73) refers to these specimens, but says that the name M is 

 not taken up in Solander* s MS. Flora of the Society Islands." 

 Perhaps by this he means that the name is therein misapplied, 

 for it is certainly there (p. 349). But the description shows that it 

 there refers to Serianthes myriadenia Planch., and this is borne 

 out by the fact that the same plant in the Banks & Solander col- 

 lection bears the name Mimosa glandulosa. Leucce?ia Forsteri (the 

 M. glandulosa of Forster) is described on the same page of the 

 MS. as M. littorea and the specimens are labelled by Solander 

 M. littoralis. Neither is mentioned by Seemann as having been 

 collected by Banks & Solander. 



Lysimachia pacifica F. Muell. Phyt. N. Hebr. 18. This name 

 appears in Pax and Knuth's monograph of Priviulacece in Das 

 Pflanzenreich (p. 312) among the " species non visse." It is the 

 Lnbinia pacifica of Seemann (Fl. Vit. 147) — a name not cited 

 in the work referred to, but quoted in the Index Kewensis with 

 11 (nomen)" attached. I think however that the plant is described, 

 although the way in which the description is worded leaves this 

 open to doubt. Here is the passage: ". . . Lubinia pacifica Seem, 

 sp. nov. in Herb. Mus. Brit, from the Isle of Pines (M'Gillivray!). 

 The latter has quite the habit of L. spathulata Went.; spathulate 



,lyx 



axillary 



The flowers 



seem to be white. Calyx-segments ovate-oblong, acute." I have 

 examined the specimen in the National Herbarium, which does 

 not appear to differ specifically from L. spathulata (L. mauritiana 

 Lam.), although it is more lax in habit than any specimens of 

 L. mauritiana that I have seen. It may be noted that L. tenella 

 Wall. Cat. n. 1491, referred by Pax & Knuth doubtfully to 

 Centuncidus minimus is, according to the specimen in the National 



pumilus 



" Mar 



land." This name is given by at 

 least two authors — Drake del Castillo (Illustr. Fl. Ins. Mar. 



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