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33495. Aristotelia chilexsis (Molina) Stuntz. 



{Cornus chilensis Molina, Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili, p. 173, 

 1782.) 



Seeds of this small evergreen tiliaceous tree from Chile were received under the 

 name Aristotelia macqui L'Herit. (Stirpes novae, p. 31, pi. 16, 1784). The earliest 

 name given to the plant, however, was Cornus chilensis, published by Molina in 1782. 

 It is necessar\-, therefore, to make the new combination, Aristotelia chilensis. 



33507. AssoxiA calaxtha (Schum.) Stuntz. 



This tropical African sterculiaceous shrub was received under the name Dombeya 

 calantha Schumann (Engler Monog. Afr. Pfl. vol, 5, p. 28, 1900). It has been shown, 

 however, in Inventory 24 of this series (Bur. PI. Ind. Bui. 223, p. 64, 1911) that 

 Assonia is the correct name for this genus, and it is therefore necessary to use that 

 name for this species. 



33550. Prosopis chilensis (Molina) Stuntz. 



{Ceratonia chilensis Molina, Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili, p. 172, 

 1782.) 



(Mimosa juUflora Swartz, Prodromus, p. 85, 1788.) 



(Prosopis juZ-i^ora (Swartz) DC, Prodromus, vol 2, p. 447, 1825.) 

 Seeds of this mimosaceous tree from Chile were received under the name Prosopis 

 juliflora (Swartz) DC, based on Mimosa julijlora Swartz. The earliest name given 

 this plant, however, was Ceratonia chilensis Molina, published in 1782, which specific 

 name it is necessary to adopt. 



33551. Acacia scorpioides (L.) W. F. Wight. 



This plant was received under the name Acacia arahica (Lam.) Willd., under which 

 name it had been listed in pre\'ious numbers of these inventories. The earliest name 

 given this plant was Mimosa scorpioides L. (Species Plantarum, p. 521, 1753), as was 

 recognized by Mr. W. F. Wight in 1905 (Useful Plants of Guam, Contributions from 

 U. S. National Herbarium, vol. 9, p. 173). 



33563. Cerbera thevetia L. 



Seeds of this species were received under the name Thevetia nereifolia Juss. The 

 earliest name for this plant was Cerbera thevetia L. (Species Plantarum, p. 209, 1753). 

 The type of the genus Cerbera, as determined by the references in Linnaeus's Genera 

 plantarum, 1754, is C. ahouojL. (Species Plantarum, p. 208), with which C. thevetia ia 

 universally regarded as congeneric. For this reason the original generic name Cer- 

 bera should be retained for this species as well as for C. ahouaj, which is generally 

 known as Thevetia ahouaj. 



33570. GUILANDINA BONDUC L. 



(Caesalpinia bonducella Flem., Asiatic Researches, vol. 11, p. 159, 

 1810.) 



The name generally applied to the gray-seeded nicker nut is Caesalpinia bonducella 

 Fleming. Trimen, in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 24, p. 141, 1887, has 

 identified as Caesalpinia bonducella the specimen of Flora Zeylanica, Xo. 156, on which 

 Linnaeus based his Guilandina bonduc in Species Plantarum, p. 381, 1753. Accord- 

 ing to the present rules of botanical nomenclature, it is necessary to adopt this earlier 

 name for this species. (See Science, vol. 37, p. 921, 1913.) 



33614. Chaetochloa intermedia (Roem. and Schult.) Stuntz. 



(Setaria intermedia Roem. and Schult., Systema Vegetab ilium, vol. 2, 

 p. 489, 1817.) 



The seeds of this Indian grass were received as a species of Setaria and were iden- 

 tified as Setaria intermedia, which seems not to have been heretofore transferred to the 

 genus Chaetochloa. 



