Telephone :— 
Kensington 6328. 
' Telegrams:— 
Nathtfmus, Southkkns, London 
BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), 
Cromwell Road, 
London, S.W.7. 
25th, June 1937. 
Your ref. 3/37. 
E. J. H. Corner Esq, , 
Botanic Cardens, 
Singapore, 
Straits Settlements, 
Dear Mr. Comer, 
The Keeper of Botany has referred your questionaire on Artocarpua spp . 
to me as they are in my charge in the Museum and I have quite recently had to 
decide the identity and name of the species found cn the Island of S.TomS in west 
Africa. There are two species there and after considerable research I had come 
to the conclusion that they should be named Artocarpua communis J.R.& G.Forst. 
an d Artocarpua integer (Thunb.) Merrill. You can thus see that I accept Merrill’s 
interpretation of the latter plant. Perhaps you will be satisfied if X reply 
to tfte points raised in your questionaire on p.6 of your letter. 
1. Re ref. A. Rademachia is validly published on p.251 and so are the spp, 
2. The publication of Thunberg’s Raflemachia . and Forster’s Artocarpus both 
appeared in 1776, The preface of Forster’s Char act. Gen. is dated Nov* 1775. 
Thunberg’s paper is dated July-Sept. 1776. It would appear from this that the 
two 
Forster’s name is earlier*, but in any case since the priority of the/names cannot 
be proved then they must be treated as simultaneous and the reduction of Radermachia 
must be accepted. 
