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1846 to accommodate a plant collected by him in Java. This plant 
{Anihocoma flavescens Zoll.) was redescribed in the following year by 
Hasskail who, however, at the same time suggested that it might be 
the same as Zollinger’s own Goniphostemma dichotomum; this sugges¬ 
tion was adopted, without seeing a specimen, by A. de Candolle in 
1848 . Miquel in 1856 , though pointing out that the accounts given 
by Zollinger and Hasskarl are opposed to this specific identification, 
nevertheless, and again without seeing specimens, has treated the plant 
as a Gomphostemma. On the other hand Bentham, who also has had 
to work without a specimen, has never admitted this reduction and, as 
recently as 1876 , has suggested that, from the descriptions, the plant 
might perhaps be a Fhlomis. The writer has had occasion to point 
out in another place* that Anthocoma flavescens, as described by 
Hasskarl, could not be a Fhlomis, but owing to the absence of 
specimens and from the inadequacy of the published descriptions, was 
then compelled to leave its true position an open question. 
Since writing the note referred to the writer has been enabled to 
examine specimens of this obscure plant kindly sent by Dr. Treub 
from the Buitenzorg Herbarium to that of Calcutta. These prove that 
Anthocoma is not entitled to generic rank, but at the same time show 
that it is neither a Gomphostemma nor a Fhlomis. 
The plant is in fact Miquel’s own Cymaria mollis ; as however this 
Java plant is conspecific with Cymaria acuminata from Timor, the 
species to which the name Anthocoma flavenscens Zoll. must hence¬ 
forth be definitely referred as a synonym is Cymaria acuminata 
Decaisne. 
The full synonymy of this species is subjoined and is followed by a 
few critical remarks supporting the formal reductions. In presenting 
it the writer wishes to express his own gratitude to Dr. Treub for 
having afforded an opportunity of finally disposing of a synonym that 
has, for the past forty-five years, been a puzzle to students of 
Labiatae. 
Cymaria acuminata Decaisne in Herb. Timor. Descript. 71 
( 183 s) ; De Dessert, leones Selectae, iii. 51 , t. 86 ( 1837 ); 
Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 602 ( 1848 ); Miq., Flor. Ind. Bat. 
ii. 992 ( 1856 ). 
Cymaria mollis Miq., Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 992 ( 1856 ). 
* Ann. Roy. Bot. Garden, Calcutta, iii. 231 ( 1891 ', footnote. 
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