﻿Sida abutilifolia Mill. = Sida veronica-folia Lam. 



Sida gkewoides Guill. & Perr., var. B. ovata A. Terraciano in 

 Ann. del Ins. Bot. di Koraa, Ann. v. Fasc. 3, p. 112. 8. ovata 

 Forsk. Desc. pi. Aeg. p. 124, No. 84 ; Garcke in Eichler und Garcke 

 Jabrb. Kon. bot. gart. Berl. ii. p. 331. 



Hab. North-east Africa. 



Sida Bakekiana Rusby MSS. in PI. Bolivian© Distr. 1893. 

 Hab. Bolivia. Mapiri, No. 1477, M. Bang ! 

 Allied to Sida glomerata Cav. 



Wissadula MUCHONtTLATUM A. Gray; Torrey Mex. Bound, p. 39. 

 Abutilon umcronulaturn A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. v. p. 175. 



Hab. Mexico 1 Mexican Boundary. 



I rather doubt this being distinct from W. zeylanica Med. 

 Horsfordla Purismas Brandegee = H. rotundifolia S. Wats. 



Abutilon hastatum Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. pt. 9 

 p. 279 (1893). 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, at Kwala Berar. 



Sph^balcea Orcutth Rose in Contr. Nat. Herb. vol. i. No. 8, 



p. 289. 



Hab. California, C. R. Orcutt, No. 2210. 



The carpels of this plant are 1 -seeded, with a minute terminal 



Dr. Otto Kuntze, in his Revisio Genera Plan tar urn, p. 71, 

 substitutes the name Malveopsis Presl (Bemerk. p. 19) for Mai- 

 vastrum, and in this he has been followed by recent American 

 writers. Presl's genus is founded on Malva anomala Link & Otto, 

 PI. Select, t. 22, a plant which has not been definitely determined 

 (see Flora Capensis, p. 164), but which Dr. Kuntze considers 

 identical with Malvastrum calya'num Gray & Harv. I have referred 

 it doubtfully to Sphasralcea elegans Don (Journ. Bot. 1893, p. 366), 

 and, so far as the figure and description of Link and Otto go, see 

 no reason for altering my opinion. It is certainly not identical, as 

 Dr. Kuntze supposes, with the figures of Malva calycina (Bot. Reg. 

 t. 297) and M. amoma (Bot. Mag. t. 1998) which Gray and Harvey 

 (Fl. Capensis, p. 160) cite for Malvastrum calycinum; nor does it 

 agree with the specimens referred to under those figures which are 

 in the National Herbarium. 



LINOCIERA COTINIFOLIA = CHIONANTHUS VIRGINICUS. 

 By James Britten, F.L.S. 

 For nearly two hundred years the plant which now usually 

 appears in books aa Linociera cotinifolia has, under one or other of 

 its synonyms, encumbered botanical literature, and its identity has, 

 apparently, eluded research. Mr. C. B. Clarke, in the Flora of 

 British India (iii. 611), came so very near the solution of the 

 mystery that it is to be regretted that be did not take the very 



