CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM OF 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
New Series.— No. XXV. 
SupPLEMENTARY LEAFLET. 
ON THE GENERIC NAMES URBINELLA AND 
ALTAMIRANIA. 
After my paper “New and otherwise noteworthy Angiosperms 
from Mexico and Central America” (Proc. Am, Acad. xxxix, 
69-120) had passed through press and was being bound, a copy 
of Britton & Rose’s valuable paper “New or noteworthy North 
- American Crassulaceae ” (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. iii. 1-45) reached 
the Gray Herbarium. On examining this pamphlet, received 
September 24, although dated September 12, I find that these 
authors have also dedicated new genera to Messrs. Urbina and 
Altamirano. The generic names proposed by them are Urbinia 
and Altamiranoa. Of these Urbinia is so different in form from 
my Urbinella that there can certainly be no question of the validity 
of the latter, just as Hatonelia is valid although there is an Eutonia, 
and certainly Urbinella is less likely to be confused with Urbinia 
than the latter is with the older Urbania. On the other hand the 
names Altamiranoa and Altamirania are merely different spell- 
ings of the same word and would according to recent rules be 
regarded as homonyms. On this account I here propose the 
name Aspiliopsis, n. gen. of Verbesineae, for the plant which I 
had described as Altamirania. 
J. M. GREENMAN. 
Gray 7 mM, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 
ssued 25 September, 1903. 
