February 3, 1975 



Dr. Ttogers McVaugh 

 University of Michigan fferbarium 

 University of Michigan 

 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 



Dear Rogers: 



It was with sonie dismy I read that the Committee for Sperraato- 

 phyta had. voted not to reject Mopecuro-vergnica L. , Axaoen. Acad. 4: 

 143, 1759 in favor of Pogostemon l^estTliaiS) and Dysephylla Blume 

 (1826) . This problem had corne tb isy attention in connection with 

 the Flora of Kassan District (^sore, India). 



Ba3durisen et $X t (Taxon 19: 821. 1970) mde an excellent pro- 

 posai but convinced only one member of the coinmittee tbttt the uafor- 

 tunate narae, Alopecuro-veronica :> was validly published. Baktouisen 

 did not rsention, ahd youFa>nmittee perhaps did not recognize , wi\at 

 I consider to be the special significance of the Flora A^boinensis 

 (Asoen. Acad. 4: 137-143. 1759) and its Appendix ^Uc7 pl.' 14!) . 

 The comittee report einph&sizes that provxslonal genoric nanes (in 

 italics in the right hand coluran of isain thesis , HerbarJLurn ATiboinense) 

 are contrasted with the accepted generic naroes (in Roman type liTtKe 

 right hand column of the raain thesis) . I agree. However, the 

 entries in the Araendix are in Rosaan type (accepted by Linnaeus) and 

 constitute revisions of what appears in the right hand colussi of the 

 rmln thesis* Eacli of these revised entries Eist be reviewed to 

 determine if otlier reuuireraents for valid iiublication are satisfied. 



Bofore doing this, it should be noted that the title, App endix , 

 was erroneously inserted before Palsiae,, instead of after itT 1n 

 Unnaeus * Species Plantarum (ed. V, p. 1187) the Palmae forra the 

 last saajor taxon preceuing~tliat Agpendix. The rensaming Singulares 

 are nothing but taxa which Linnaeus, for one reason or another, dld 

 not place in his systeiaatic listing, Flora Amboinensis. 



1. The generic xmmes Soccus, Durio, and Pseude-sandalua 3 

 ahtough clearly accepted here (p. lI3J7"are not validly publ ished 

 under Article 41 since there are no generic descrif#ions nor refer- 

 ence to previous descriptions to the genera in that rartk. 



