436 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosee. [No. 2, 



This is said to be the same species as Atylosia candicans Kurz, in Journ. As. Soc> 

 Beng. xliii. pt. 2. 186. Had such been really the case, the publication of a different 

 MSS. specific name for the plant as a Rhynchosia was obviously unnecessary. And as 

 there are some well-meaning but injudicious bibliographers who will hasten, if 

 they read this note, to change the name, it is necessary to protect them against 

 themselves and explain how matters stand. 



Dr. Wallich issued two separate plants as Dolickos candicans Wall. Cat. 5567 and 

 Cajanus ? candicans Wall. Cat. 5576 respectively. These two plants resemble each 

 other in that both have leaves woolly beneath ; they differ totally in shape of leaflets. 

 Mr. Kurz has however considered them conspecific and has based his "Atylosia 

 candicans " on both. It is true that his description of A. candicans must apply 

 mainly to Cajanus ? candicans, for Mr. Kurz, in disposing of Bolichos candicans, 

 ventured to do so although only one specimen was available to him for study and 

 that specimen has neither flowers nor fruit. 



By the rule that purists in nomenclature are so desirous of applying with 

 Draconic rigidity it follows that the specific epithet " candicans." granted always 

 that both the plants are Rhynchosias, must go to Wall. Cat. 5567 as the earlier 

 number ; Wall. Cat. 5576, the plant under discussion, being congeneric with the 

 other but certainly not conspeoific, had to receive a new epithet and has therefore 

 been named R. avensis by Mr. Bentham. Mr. Kurz, in the Society's Journal xlv. pt: 

 2, 258, has by oversight transposed the citations and has identified R. avensis with 

 precisely the plant that Mr. Bentham did not designate by that name. 



]5. Rhynchosia pilosa Wall. 



Dr. King's collectors have recently sent this from Sagaen, the. locality in 

 which it was originally discovered by Dr. Wallich. The pod is remarkably like 

 the pod of R. aurea and the species must be transferred to § Nomismia. 



20. Rhynchosia bracteata Benth. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — Rhynchosia mollissima Bah. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 186. 



The original specimens on which Mr. Dalzell founded his JR. mollissima are 

 absolutely typical examples of Bolichos bracteatus Wall. Dalzell's name is the first 

 that was given to the plant in its proper genus, but there are at least three other plants 

 to which the name R. mollissima has been applied ; it is therefore better to abandon 

 Dalzell's name and to use Bentham's one, which has the further merit of conserving 

 the oldest specific epithet. 



21. Rhynchosia acutissima Thwaites. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Sikkim ; Terai at Bamanpokri, 

 Gamble ! Assam ; Brahmaputra Valley, Mann ! 



22. Rhynchosia densiflora DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Burma ; Sagaen, Wallich 5499 E ! 

 King's Collectors ! Shan Plateau, common everywhere. 



85. FLEMINGIA Roxb. 

 Subgen 1. Ostryodidm Desv. 



Mr. Baker has reduced all the forms of this section, except F. Chappar, to F. 

 ftrobiUfera R. Br. j the impossibility of adopting this course is obvious to those 



