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renna zeylanica Gaertn., and Stylocoryne webera A. Rich, as 
synonyms; the proper specific name for the species would seem 
to be Tarenna asiatica (Linn.) 0. Kuntze. 
However, Tarenna is not the first name proposed for this 
group, as Cupi Adanson 4 is manifestly congeneric with Gaert- 
ner’s Tarenna. This generic name, being objectionable in form, 
and being published without a binomial, has little claim to rec- 
ognition, and I believe that it should be discarded in favor 
of Tarenna. Later (1830) de Candolle modified the name to 
Cupia. Cu/pi Adanson was based wholly on Cupi Rheede 5 
which is manifestly a Tarenna as here interpreted. 
Hooker f. 6 retained the generic name Webera, but included 
under it two sections : Euwebera, including those plants having 
two or more ovules in each cell of the ovary, namely Tarenna; 
and Pseudixora, those species having but one ovule in each cell 
of the ovary. It is exceedingly illogical to include in the Ru- 
biaceae one-ovulate and several-ovulate species in the same genus, 
and it is not considered that Hooker’s description of the species 
is correct. King 7 recognized that the grouping of Euwebera 
and Pseudixora in a single genus is incorrect, retained Webera 
for Hooker’s section Euwebera, and placed the species of Pseu- 
dixora under Stylocoryna Cav. ; however, the type and sole 
species described by Cavanille under Stylocoryna is a Randia, 
R. racemosa (Cav.) F.-Vill., so that Stylocoryna King non Cav. 
becomes a synonym of Tarenna. The general conclusions re- 
garding Tarenna, Cupi, and Cupia are in conformity with those 
of Wernham. 8 
The Philippine species of Tarenna are as follows: 
TARENNA ACUMINATA sp. nov. 
Arbor parva, circiter 5 m alta, partibus junioribus et in- 
florescentiis et foliis subtus ad costa nervisque perspicue ciliatis ; 
foliis oblongo-oblanceolatis, membranaceis, olivaceis, nitidis, 
usque ad 17 cm longis, apice tenuiter acute acuminatis, basi 
cuneatis, nervis utrinque 9 ad 12, perspicuis; infructescentiis 
brevibus, circiter 3 cm longis, breviter pedunculatis, corymbosis ; 
4 Fam. PI. 2 (1763) 158. 
5 Hort. Malabar. 2 (1679) 37, t. 23. 
9 FI. Brit. India 3 (1880) 101. 
7 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 72 2 (1903) 108. 
8 Wernham, H. F., The nomenclature of Tarenna, Journ. Bot. 51 (1913) 
58, 59. 
