BOTANICAL NOTES AND PUBLICATION OF NEW NAMES. 



PLANTS LISTED IN PREVIOUS INVENTORIES. 



25630. Malus fusca diversifolia (Bong.) Schneider. 



(Malus diversifolia (Bong.) Roemer.) 

 This native Alaskan crab apple, received from the Alaska Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Sitka, was Usfed as Malus diversifolia (Bong.) Roemer. It is now considered, 

 however, a subspecies of Malus fusca, and should read Malus fusca diversifolia (Bong.) 

 Schneider. 



26672 and 26685. Jasminum fruticaxs L. 



These two jasmines secured by Mr. Frank N. Meyer, near Baidari, Crimea, Russia, 

 have been determined as above. 



PLANTS LISTED IN THIS INVENTORY. 



34355. vSaguerus mixdorexsis (Beccari) O. F. Cook. 



{Arenga mindorensis Beccari, Perkins, Fragmenta Florae Philippinae, 

 p. 48, 1904.) 



Seeds of a Philippine palm were received as Arenga mindorensis Beccari, the 

 name under which the species was first described. The generic name Areng was pub- 

 lished in 1803 by Labillardiere (Mem. Inst. Nat. Paris, Sci. Math. Phys., vol. 4, p. 209) 

 with one species, Areng saccharifera {-p. 215),. now identi^ed vdth Saguer us pinnata 

 Wurmb. (Verb. Batav. Gen., vol. 1, p. 351, 1779), the type of the genus Saguerus. 

 As both genera were founded on the same species, the older name Saguerus is being 

 used instead of Areng, or Arenga. 



34578. PsEDERA THOMSOxi (Lawson) Stuntz. 



( Vitis ihomsoni Lawson, in Hooker, Flora British India, vol. 1, p. 657, 1875.) 

 {Parthenocissus thomsoni Planchon, in De CandoUe, Monographia Phanero- 

 gamarum, vol. 5, p. 453, 1887.) 

 Plants of this \itaceous climber from China were received under the name Partheno- 

 cissus thomsoni, published in 1887 by Planchon, based on Vitis thomsoni Lawson. The 

 earliest name applied to this genus, however, is Psedera of Necker (Elementa, vol, 1, 

 p. 158, 1790). It is therefore necessary to adopt here the name Psedera thomsoni. 



34645. SojA MAX (L.) Piper. 



The soy bean has been listed in previous Inventories as Glycine hispida Moench. 

 Mr. C. V. Piper has recently shown (Joum. Amer. Soc. Agron., vol. 6, p. 75-84, 1914) 

 that the earliest name given by Linnaeus to this plant was Phaseolus max, that the 

 generic name should be Soja, and that the correct name is therefore Soja max (L.) 

 Piper. 



53 



