88 ROBINSON. 
to be unquestionably an Helogyne probably identical with H. Weber- 
baueri Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. xlii. 32 (1906). The plant there- 
fore should bear the name Helogyne straminea (DC.), comb. nov. 
E. Vaururertanum DC. Prod. v. 159 (1836). By Baker in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. vi. pt. 2, 305 (1876), this species is said to extend from 
Peru to Panama and Nicaragua. Baker, |. c., cites certain specimens 
including Hayes’s no. 589 from Panama and one of Tate’s from Nica- 
ragua. These are subsequently cited by Hemsley, Biol. Cent.-Am. 
Bot. ii. 102 (1881), under E. vitalbafe] DC. As E. vitalbae is a species 
well known and widely distributed from Peru to Nicaragua, while E. 
Vauthierianum is decidedly a plant of Atlantic Brazil, by no one else 
recorded in the Andean countries, there can be no doubt that Baker’s 
note was intended not for E. Vauthierianum but for E. vitalbae, as 
confirmed by Hemsley’s subsequent placing of the same Central 
American exsiccatae. 

