BOTANICAL NOTES AND PUBLICATION OF NEW NAMES. 



PLANT LISTED IN A PREVIOUS INVENTORY. 



26116. ViLLARESiA CHiLE?^sis (MoHna) Stunt z. 



{Citrus chilensis Molina, Saggio sulla Historia Naturali Chili, p. 171, 1782.) 

 (Villaresia mucronata Ruiz and Pavon, Flora Peruviana, vol. 3, p. 9, pi. 

 231, 1802.) 



Seeds of this Chilean icacinaceous tree were received under the name Villaresia 

 mucronata Ruiz and Pavon. The earliest name applied to this plant, however, was 

 Citrus chilensis MoUna, which specific name it is necessary to adopt. 



PLANTS LISTED IN THIS INVENTORY. 



34167. Warneria thunbergia (L. f.) Stuntz. 



(Gardenia thunbergia L. f., Supplementum Plantarum Systematis Vegeta- 

 biUum, p. 162, 1781.) 

 Seeds of this white-flowered rubiaceous shrub were received under the name Gar- 

 denia thunbergia L. f. In publisliing this name, the younger Linnaeus cited Thun- 

 bergia capensis Montin (Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. Stockholm, vol. 34, p. 288, 

 pi. 11, 1773). Montin, however, merely characterized the genus Thunbergia, with 

 neither binomial nor citations. The specific name given by Linnaeus filius is there- 

 fore the earliest and should be adopted. The reason for using the generic name 

 Warneria for the plants usually referred to the genus Gardenia is explained under 

 Warneria augusta Stickman, S. P. I. No. 30498, in Bulletin No. 242, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, p. 14, 1912. 



34169. Tricalysia floribunda (Harvey) Stuntz. 



{Kraussia fioribunda Harvey, Hooker's Journal of Botany, vol. 1, p. 21, 

 January, 1842.) 



{Coffea kraussiana Hochstetter, Flora, vol. 25, p. 237, April, 1842.) 

 {Tricalysia Tcraussiana (Hochst.) Schinz, Mem. Herb. Boiss., vol. 10, p. 67, 

 1900.) 



Seeds of this rubiaceous shrub from Natal were received under the name Kraussia 

 floribunda Harvey. This name, published in January, 1842, was based on Krauss's 

 No. 121, which was also the type of Coffea kraussiana Hochstetter, published in April, 

 1842. As the plant is now considered to belong to the genus Tricalysia and the com- 

 bination Tricalysia fioribunda seems never to have been published, it is necessary 

 to adopt it now. 



34171. Pterygocarpus floribundus (Meyer) Stuntz. 



{Dregea floribunda Meyer, Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris, 

 vol. 1, fasc. 2, p. 199, 1837.) 

 Seeds of this asclepiadaceous plant from South Africa were received under the 

 name Dregea floribunda Meyer. The generic name Dregea had, however, been used 

 by Ecklon and Zeyher in June, 1836 (Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australiae Extra- 

 tropicae, p. 350), for certain umbelliferous plants now considered to belong to Peuceda- 

 num. It is therefore necessary to adopt the generic name Pterygocarpus, published 

 by Hochstetter in 1843 (Flora, vol. 26, bd. 1, p. 78). The type species of Hochstet- 

 ter's genus is P. abyssinicus, a plant congeneric with P. floribundus. 



39 



