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readily distinguished by its less unequal, more nearly entire leaves, 
smaller, thicker-walled vescicles, and especially by its sessile flowers, 
Cynoctonum oldenlandioides (Wall.), n. comb. Mitreola olden- 
landioides Wall. Cat. no. 4350 (1828), without description; G Don, 
Syst. iv. 172 (1837), where distinctions are slightly indicated ; ADO. 
Prod. ix. 9 (1845), where described and distinguished chiefly by the 
widely divergent lobes of the fruit ; Hook. Ic. t. 827 (1852), where 
admirably figured. The change from Mitreola to Cynoctonum becomes 
necessary under the Vienna Rules, though it is certainly to be Te 
gretted that the well established J/itrecla was not included in the list 
of nomina conservanda. ; 
Cynoctonum paniculatum (Wall.), n. comb. Mitreola paniculata 
Wall. Cat. no. 4349 (1828), without description ; G. Don, Syst. 1v. 
171 (1837); A.DC. Prod. ix. 9 (1845) ; Progel in Mart. Fl. Bras. v. 
pt. 1, 266, t. 71 (1868). 
Cynoctonum pedicellatum (Benth.), n. comb. Mitreola pedicel- 
lata Benth. Jour. Linn. Soc. i. 91 (1857). 
Centaurium Beyrichii (Torr. & Gray), n. comb. Erythraea tri- 
chantha B angustifolia Griseb. in DC. Prod. ix. 60 (1845). #. Beyricht 
Torr. & Gray ex Torr. in Marcy, Expl. Red Riv. 291 (1858). 
Centaurium cachanlahuen (Molina), n. comb. Gentiana Cachan- 
lahwen Molina, Sagg. Chil. 147 (1782); also in the German edition 
_ by Brandis, 310 (1786). G. peruviana Lam. Encycl. i. 642 (1786). 
Chironia chilensis Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1067 (1798). Erythraea chilensis 
Pers. Syn. i. 283 (1805). E. Cachanlahuan Roem. & Schultes, Syst 
iv. 167 (1819). 4 
n. comb. Erythraca i 
macrantha Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 438 (1841). E meqicamt 
es (Greenm.), n. comb. Hrythraea ™ — r , 
‘¢rantha Greenm. Proc. Am. Acad, xxxix. 83 (1903). a 
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