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and rather strikingly in foliage, should not be merged without distinc- 
tion in O. ornithopoda, yet the differences are of slight moment and the 
divergence between the extremes is very largely bridged by intermedi- 
ates. Thus the specimen collected at Agiabampo by Palmer (no. 
781) has the leaf-segments ranging down to 6 mm. in breadth, being 
therefore considerably nearer to the form from San Luis Potosi than 
to Mr. Brandegee’s plant from Culiacan, which has leaf-segments no 
less than 3.5 em. wide. Accordingly, the varietal rank here seems 
preferable to the specific. 
LANTANA ACHYRANTHIFOLIA Desf. Cat. Pl. Hort. Reg. Par. ed. 3, 
392 (1829). To the synonymy of this species may be added Lippia 
fimbriata Rusby, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, iv. 244 (1895), and Lantana 
macropodioides Greenm. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. ii. 339 (1912). 
Stachytarpheta fruticosa (Millsp.), comb. nov. Valerianodes 
fruticosa Millsp. Field Columb. Mus. Bot. Ser. ii. 178 (1906). 
Priva aspera HBK. Nov. Gen. et Spec. ii. 278 (1817). While 
this species is known to me only by descriptions, I fail to find any 
distinction by which P. orizabae Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xxiii. 282 
(1888) can be separated from it. 
Rhaphithamnus venustus (Phil.), comb. nov. Citharexylum ve- 
nustum Phil. Bot. Zeit. xiv. 646 (1856). Rhaphithamnus longiflorus 
Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 98 (1870); Reiche, Fl. Chil. v. 306 
(1908). R. serratifolius Miers, 1. c. 99. Citharexylon elegans Phil. ex 
Miers, |. ¢. 98 (1870). 
Vitex Bakeri, nom. nov. V. diversifolia Baker in Thiselton-Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 323 (1900), not Kurz, “Andam. Rep. App. A 45; 
B 14” (18702); C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 585 (1885). 
Vitex viticifolia (DC.), comb. nov. V. montevidensis ? multi 
nervis Cham. Linnaea, vii. 374 (1832). Psilogyne viticifolia DC. Rev. 
Fam. Bign. 16 (1838). V. multinervis (Cham.) Schauer in DC. Prod. 
xi. 688 (1847), also in Mart. Fl. Bras. ix. 297 (1851). The earlier 
specific name is here restored in accordance with Art. 49 of the Inter- 
national Rules of Botanical Nomenclature. 
Caryopteris odorata (Hamilton), comb. nov. Volkameria odorata 
Hamilton ex Roxb. Hort. Beng. 46 (1814). Clerodendron odoratum 
(Hamilton) D. Don, Prod. FI. Nepal. 102 (1825). Caryopteris Walli- 
chiana Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 625 (1847); Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 597 (1885). : 
Sphenodesme involucrata (Presl), comb. nov. Congea ungui- 
Wall. Cat. n. 1736 (nomen). C. ferruginea Wall. 1. c. n. 1737 
(nomen). @. paniculata Wall. 1. c. n. 1739 (nomen). Symphorema 
