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and the much later Senecio curvatus Bak. was recently noticed by the 
writer on successively examining the types preserved in the DeCandol- 
lean and Kew herbaria a The identity appears to have been 
previously inferred by Dr. F. W. Klatt, for after determining Hilde- 
brandt’s no. 3626 as Mikania pyrifolia in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xii. Beibl. 
27, p. 22 (1890), he later cites the same number as Senecio curvatus 
Bak, in Ann. k. k. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien, vi. 299 (1892). Although 
_ the name Senecio pyrifolius was used in manuscript by von Martius 
for a Brazilian species, it was published only as a synonym of 
Senecio bane DC. Prod. vi. 420 (1837) by Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
vi. pt. 3, 318 (1884). This use of the name, especially as unaccom- 
panied by independent description and therefore incapable of revival, 
seems in no way to preclude the new combination here made for the 
plant of Madagascar. 
Saussurea baicalensis (Adams), comb. nov. Liatris baicalensis 
Adams, Mém. Soc. Nat. Mose. v. 115 (1817). Carphephorus baica- 
lensis DC. Prod. v. 132 (1836). Sausswrea pycnocephala Ledeb. Ie. 
Fl. Ross. i. 15, t. 59 (1829), Fl. Alt. iv. 14 (1833), & Fl. Ross. ii. 661 
(1845-46), which see for detailed synonymy. As Adams’s original de- 
scription of this species is excellent and detailed there seems no reason 
why according to present nomenclatorial rules the earliest though long- 
neglected specific name should not be restored as indicated above. 
association of the species with Liatris, to which it has considerable 
habital resemblance, was not unnatural at a time when the relatively 
obscure tribal distinctions of the Compositae were unknown. 
