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Pacif. 164) and Pampanini (in Annali di Bot. ii. 92 (1905) )— as a 

 synonym of Weinmannia parviflora Forst., in this following 

 Seemann (Fl. Vit. 109) who first printed the name. A comparison 

 of Parkinson's drawings of Tahiti plants, from which the name is 

 said to be taken, shows that Seemann erroneously transcribed it. 

 Solander wrote Merretia, intending no doubt to commemorate 

 Christopher Merrett (1614-95), after whom he subsequently named 

 Merretia lucida {Corynocarpus Icevigata Forst.). Neither Marattia 

 nor Merretia will be found in the Index Ketvensis, from which, by 

 a curious oversight, all the numerous names of Banks & Solander 

 given as synonyms in Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora Nova-Zelandia 

 are omitted. 



Sarcocephalus sambucinus K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanzenf. IV. 4, 59 (1891). In his note on this plant in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 377 (1907) Mr. F. N. Williams says : " The 

 identity of the plant can be traced from the type specimen in the 

 University of Upsala, which is the actual Sierra Leone specimen 

 received by Afzelius from Winterbottom in 1798." Mr. Williams 

 appears to have assumed the existence of this specimen from 

 Haviland's remark in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. 4 (1897) and to 

 have overlooked my correction in this Journal for 1897, p. 338. 

 As I have there shown, the type-specimens are in the National 

 Herbarium; there is no reason to suppose that Winterbottom 

 ever collected any plants, and the specimen in Afzelius's own 

 herbarium at Upsala bears a different name (see Journ. Bot. I.e.). 

 There is indeed no evidence that Afzelius ever called it Sarco- 

 cephalns esculentus, as stated by Sabine (Trans. Hort. Soc. v. 442) ; 

 his specimen in the National Herbarium is named generically by 

 Dryander, and J. J. Bennett added the trivial. 



Tacsonia micradena DC. Prodr. iii. 334. This species is 

 retained as distinct by Masters (in Fl. Bras. xiii. 538 and in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxvii. 628), who, however, says he has not seen it. He 

 didnot recognize that it is identical with T. Purupiiru DC. MSS. 

 which he refers to T. pinnatistipida Juss. in both the papers cited 

 and also on Pavon's specimen in the National Herbarium (from 

 Herb. Lambert) ; on this De Candolle founded the species pub- 

 lished by him as T. micradena and on which, following Pavon's 

 MS. name, he wrote T. Purupuru. 



T. pinnatistipula Juss {3. pennipes DC. I.e. This name is 

 erroneously attributed to Smith by Masters {lice). Smith, how- 

 ever, intended the name as a synonym of P. pinnatistipula Cav. 

 "an uncouth name " which "with great reluctance we have - 

 been obliged to alter." The plant of Menzies cited by Smith 

 was separated from pinnatistipula as a variety {pennipes) by 

 De Candolle ; this was raised to specific rank under Tacsonia by 

 M. J. Eoemer (Syn. Pepon. 194), to whom the Index Kewensis 

 erroneously attributes P. pennipes. The variety stands as : 



Tacsonia pinnatistipula Juss./3. pennipes DC. Prodr. iii. 334. 

 Passiflora pennipes Sm. in Eees Cyclop, xxvi. n. 48 (1813), in 

 part (1828). 



T. pennipes M. J. Roem. Syn. Pepon. 194 (1846). 



