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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



34181. MiCROCOS LATERIFLORA L. 



{Grewia asiatica L., Mantissa, p. 122, 1767.) 

 Seeds of this yellow-flowered tiliaceous sliriib from India were received under 

 the name Greivia asiatica. The generic names Microcos and Grewia, wliich are 

 recognized as congeneric, were both published in Species Plantariim, 1753, Microcos 

 on page 514, and Grewia on page 964. Microcos having priority of publication, 

 it is necessary to adopt it. The present species was .published by Linnaeus as Grewia 

 asiatica in 1767, but had been previously published (Species Plantarum, p. 514, 1753) 

 as Microcos lateriflora, which name it is necessary to use here. 



