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*PhyUanthus (Kirganelia) microcarpus, J. Mull, in DC. Prod. xv. 

 343. (=Cicca microcarpa, Benth. Fl. Hongh 312.) 



•PhyUajithus (Cathetus) fasciciilatus, J. Mull, in DC. Prod. xv. 



350. (=Phyllanthus cinerascens, Hook, and Am. ; Benth. Fl. Hongh. 



311.) 

 J. Miiller,. acting on the objectionable Rule 57 of tbe Paris 

 Congres International, has rebaptized this, because it is Lou- 

 reiro's Gathetus fasciculataf. According to my ideas of pre- 

 cedence in nomenclature, it should have retained Sprengel's 

 name of Phyllanthits cochinchinensis, which is its oldest specific 

 one in the genus ; but, as Muller describes Loureiro's TricaryvMi 

 cochinchinense as P. cochinchinensis, to insist on this would 

 involve the creation of another new name, which is a greater evil 

 than the acquiescence in a false canon of nomenclature. 



*Pliyllanthus (EmbUca) Emblica, lAnn.; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 312; 

 J. MW. in DC. Prod. xv. 352. 



•Phyllanthus (ParaphyllantlvTis) maderaspatensis, lAnn. ; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. 311 ; J. Mull, in DC. Prod. xv. 362. 



•PhyUanthus (Paxaphyllanthus) urinaria, Linn. ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 310 ; J. Mm. in DC. Prod. xv. 364. 



*Phyllantlius (Euphyllanthus) simplex, Retz.; J. Mull, in DC. 

 Prod. XV. 391. (=P. anceps, VaU; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 311.J 



*Phyllaiith.us (EuphyUanthus) Niruri, Linn.; Benth. Fl. Hongh. 



311; J. Mull, in DC. Prod. xv. 406. 

 *PliyUanthus (Eriococcus) leptoclados, Benth.; J. Mull, in DC. 



Prod. XV. 422. 

 ♦Melanthesopsis fniticosa. J. Mull, in DC. Prod. xv. 437. (=Melan- 



thesa chinensis, Blume ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 313.) 

 *Aporosa microcalyx, Hassk. ; J. Mull, in DC. Prod. xv. 471. (=A. 



fruticosa, Benth. Fl. Hongh. 117.) 

 A. lepfosfachia, Benth., MoUer regards as a mere form of this ; 

 but Blume's A. fruticosa, of which he had examined authentic 

 specimens, is, he states, a quite distract spex;ies. 

 *Croton orassifolius, Geisel. Monogr. Croton. \9,fide J. Mull, in DC. 



Prod. XV. 588. ( = C. chinense, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 309.— C. tomen- 



tosus, J. Mull. I. c.) 

 t " Priora reeusoitare pra;oipue ineptum est, Bi primus obsoleti noimnis vendi- 

 tor sub alieno et ssepe falso nomine generico proposuerit ; qui sub novo geuerico 

 nomine extinctum iUud, sigla sua modo adponendi gratia, restituunt, tempori 

 male patrissant."— Fries, Praf. in Mantiss. Nov. Fl. Suec. 



