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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 



33615. Chaetochloa lutescens (Weigel) Stiintz. 



(Panicum lutescens Weigel, Observationes botanicee, p. 20, 1772.) 

 Seeds of this species have been listed in previous numbers of these inventories as 

 Chaetochloa glauca (L.) Scribner, based on Panicum glaucum L. (Species Plantarum, 

 p. 56, 1753). The type of Linnseus's species has been determined as Pennisetum 

 glaucum (L )R. Br., hitherto listed in these inxentories as Pennisetuvi americanum (L.) 

 Schum. It is necessary, therefore, to adopt for the plant under discussion the earliest 

 specific name, lutescens. 



33786. Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf. 



(Andropogon citratus DC.) 

 This species and the next (No. 33787) have been listed in previous numbers of these 

 inventories as Andropogon citratus and A. nardus, respectively, but recent students 

 of grasses, and especially Stapf, who has published a monograph of the oil grasses, 

 recognize the two as belonging to the distinct genus Cymbopogon. 



33854. Helenium glaucum (Cav.) Stuntz. 



(Cephalophora glauca Cavanilles, Icones, vol. 6, p. 80, pi. 599, 1801.) 

 Seeds of this asteraceous plant from Chile were received under the name CepTia- 

 lophora glauca Cav. Since Cephalophora is now considered merely a section of the 

 genus Helenium, it is necessary to use the name Helenium glaucum, which seems 

 never to have been published. 



33871. Flaveria bidentis (L.) Kobinson. 



{Ethulia bidentis L., Mantissa, p. 110, 1767.) 



{Milleria contrayerha Cav., Icones, vol. 1, p. 2, 1791.) 



{Flaveria contrayerha (Cav.) Persoon, Synopsis, vol. 2, p. 489, 1807.) 

 Seeds of this asteraceous biennial from Chile were received under the name Flaveria 

 contrayerha (Cav.) Persoon. The earliest name to be applied to the plant, however, 

 is Ethulia bidentis L,, as shown by Robinson (Proc. Amer. Acad., vol. 43, p. 42, 1907.) 



33928. Saloa hieronymi (Urban) Stuntz. 



{Blumenbachia hieronymi Urban, Jahrbuch K. Botanisches Garten, 

 Berlin, vol. 3, p. 249, 1884.) 



Seeds of this loasaceous plant from Argentina were received under the name Blu- 

 menbachia hieronymi. The generic name Blumenbachia was first used by Koeler in 

 1802 (Descriptio graminum, p. 28) for a genus of grasses, based on Holcus haleppensis, 

 thus invalidating its use in 1825 by Schrader (Commentationes K. Gesellschaft Wissen- 

 Bchaft Gottingen, vol. 6, p. 92) for the present loasaceous genus. As no other name has 

 been given to this genus, the name Saloa, anagram of Loasa, to which the plant was 

 formerly assigned, is here adopted as the generic name, the type being Saloa insignis 

 (Blumenbachia insignis Schrad.) 



33946. CoMBRETUM FRUTicosuM (Loefling) Stuntz. 



{Gaura fruticosa Loefling, Iter Hispanicum, p. 248, 1758.) 

 (Combretum laxum Loefling, Reise, p. 320, 1766.) 

 (C. micropetalum DC, Prodromus, vol. 3, p. 19, 1828.) 

 (C loefiingii Eichler, in"Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, vol. 14, pt. 2, p. 110, 

 1867.) 



Seeds of this South American shrub were received under the name Combretum 

 micropetalum DC. Eichler, however, in 1867, in his revision of the Brazilian species 

 of the genus Combretum gives the plant the name C. loefiingii, based on the C. laxum 

 of the 1766 edition of Loefling's travels, not of Jacquin (Enumeratio Plantarum 



