466 The Cryptogamous Plants of Dr. Roxburgh, 



now* so omni jure, all his names quoted as synonyms to Dr. Wallich's 

 own names ought to supersede them.f 



Still there are a great number, the majority indeed, of the Roxburgh 

 names unaccounted for ; I do not think there are 40, b^esides those in the 

 lists here given, which amount to 28, accounted for, so that about 80 

 remain, of which we have no accounts at all. Now in this case Bo- 

 tanists will do well always to give the preference to the names of 

 Roxburgh, when the characters shew any agreement with the plant 

 in question, in preference to those of Dr. Wallich, which are names, and 

 no more; and to remember that Roxburgh's Herbarium exists in England, 

 (although not a fragment of one of his dried plants remains here, the 

 scene of all his labours, and the repository of his drawings and MSS.) 

 and that though Roxburgh's definitions herein given may now-a-days 

 be insufficient, they must be more sufficient than mere MSS. names, 

 which appear fully entitled to the appellation — trivial. 



Observing that the MSS. names of Flowering plants of the Her- 

 barium Indicum have been adopted by Dr. Steudel in the new edition 

 of the Nomenclator Botanicus, I am induced to remark, that benefit 

 w ould accrue to science if those names only were adopted to which 



* Vittaria parasitica, R. appears as Lindseea parasitica, R. 



Trichomanes campanulatum, R. as Hymenophyllum campanulatum, R. 



Polypodium flagelliferum, R. as Aspidium flagelliferum, R. 



f Adiantum proliferum, R. must supersede Adiantum flagelliferum, "Wall. 



Pteris amplexicaulis, R. • Pteris amplectens, Wall. 



Lycopodium furcatum, R. Lycopodium atroviride, Wall. 



■ mimosoides, R. > elegans, Wall. 



Cyathea pinnata, R. Cyathea Brunonis, Wall. 



Davallia angustifolia, R. Davallia angustata, Wall. 



multiflora, R. parallela. Wall. 



Polypodium cuspidatum, R. Polypodium urophyllum, Wall. 



coriaceum, R. sphserocephalum, Wall. 



Aspidium scariosum, R. Aspidium affiiie, Wall. 



Asplenium coriaceum, R. Asplenium Finlaysonianum, Wall. 



Also by the same usual courtesy shewn in adopting the specific names of Rox- 

 burgh when he had referred the plants to a genus to which they are not considered 

 now to belong. 



Grammitis macrophylla. Wall, should be Grammitis reticulata, R. 



Cheilanthes dealbata, Wall. Cheilanthes discolor, R. 



Aspidium Singaporianum, Wall. Aspidium Phyllitidis, R. 



• Consequent on the above. 

 Lomaria acrostichoides, Hamilton, should supersede Lomaria aurea, Wall. 



Cheilanthes tenuifolia, Hamilton, Cheilanthes micrantha, Wall. 



Polypodium spissum, Hamilton, Polypodium vittariodies, Wall. 



