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ROBINSON. — SPERMATOPHYTES, NEW OR RECLASSIFIED. 409 
f. Fl. N. Z. i. 104 (1853). Pelaphia grandifolia Banks & Soland. ex 
Hook. f., 1. ¢. 
Coprosma quadrifida (Labill.), n. comb. Canthium quadrifidum 
Labill. Nov. Holl. Pl. i. 69, t. 94 (1804). Marguisia Billardierii A. 
Rich. Mém. sur les Rubiacées, 112 (1829), & Mém. Soc. Hist. Nat. 
Par. v. 192 (1829). Coprosma Billardiert Hook. f in Hook. Lond. 
Jour. Bot. vi. 465 [bis] (1847). Coprosma microphylla A. Cunn. ex 
Hook. f., 1. ¢. 
Richardia muricata (Griseb.), n. comb. Richardsonia muricata 
Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 143 (1866). Spermacoce (Borreria) richardsoni- 
oides Wright in Sauv. Fl. Cub. 73 (1873). 
Crusea hispida (Mill.), n. comb. Crucianella hispida Mill. Dict. 
ed. 8, no. 4 (1768). Spermacoce rubra Jacq. Hort. Schénb. iii. 3, t. 
256 (1798). Crusea rubra Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea, v. 165 (1830). 
Borreria asperifolia (Mart. & Gal.), n. comb. Diphragmus scaber 
Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 81 (1844), not Borreria scabra (Schum. & Thonn.) 
K. Schum. Spermacoce asperifolia Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. 
pt. 1, 132 (1844). 
Borreria nesiotica n. sp., suffrutescens glaberrima 4 dm. vel ultra 
alta ramosa ; ramis ascendentibus subteretibus parte superior 4-angu- 
latis basim versus foliosissimis saepe purpurascentibus ; foliis oppositis 
anguste lanceolatis basi apiceque attenuatis laevissimis etiam ad mar- 
- ginem paulo revolutum 2-4.5 em. longis 3-12 mm. latis modice venosis 
subtus paululo pallidioribus axillis saepe proliferis ; verticillis plerisque 
4 distantibus 9-12 mm. diametro hemisphaericis a bracteis 2 majoribus 
oppositis 1-2 cm. longis ovato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis basi ampliato 
setoso-dentatis et ca. 4 minoribus ovatis obtusis 5 mm. longis suffultis ; 
calyce glabro breviter et subaequaliter 4-lobato cum dentibus interme- 
iis brevissimis; corolla glabra; staminibus exsertis; stigmate bre- 
vissime bilobato ; seminibus papillosis nigris non transverse sulcatis. — 
acoce (Boneria), sp. Vasey & Rose, Proe. U. 8. Nat. Mus. xm. 
148 (1890). Spermacoce sp. Brandegee, Zoe, v. 27 (1900). — Socorro 
Istanp (of the Revillagigedo Group), A. W. Anthony, 1897 (type, in 
Gray Herb.) ; previously collected by C. H. Townsend, March, 1889 ; 
and later by F. E. Barkelew, 27 May to 3 July, 1903, no. 208. In 
habit somewhat resembling B. verticillata (L.) G. F. W. Mey., but 
readily distinguished by its 4-lobed calyx. Also somewhat like forms 
of the highly variable B. tenella (HBK.) Cham. & Schlecht., but hav- 
ing much shorter calyx-lobes (about one third the length of the tube), 
glabrous foliage, ete. “ alk cai 
Borreria rhadinophylla, n. sp., gracillima Tram str nli- 
bus elongatis valde flexuosis obsolete quadrangularibus foliosis tenuiter 
