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Ailihocoma flavescens Zoll. in Nat, en Geneesk. Arch. ii. 569 
( 1846 ) ; Hasskarl, Flora, xxx, 596 ( 1847 ). 
Comphostetnma dichoto mum ZoW. et Mor. ? Ha skarl, Flora, xxx. 
596 ( 1847 ). 
Gomphostemma dichotomiim A. DC. in Prodr. xii. 552 {ad calc.) et 
xii. 700 ( 184 S), nec Zoll. et Mor., Syst. Verzeichn. ; nec Walp., 
Rep. vi. ; nec Benlh. in Prodr. xii. 
Gomphostemma flavescens Miq., Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 987 ( 1856 ). 
Phlomis ? sp., Benth. m Gen. PI. ii. 1216 ( 1876 ). 
The description by Decaisne and the figure in De Dessert, which 
Decaisne drew, indicate a plant with glabrous leaves, whereas the Java 
plant has leaves hirsute above and below. But the 
description by De Dessert, which he states is based on fuller material, 
points out that even the Timor plant may have leaves puberulous on 
both surfaces. In Java too the character is variable, the examples of 
Anthocoma flavescens being more hirsute than some of those on which 
Miquel founded his Cymaria mollis. The character, which is the only 
tangible one in Miquel’s diagnosis of the two plants, is at best a trivial 
one ; the flowers and fruits of the Timor and the Java plants so 
precisely agree that it is impossible to doubt that they are conspecific. 
In the leones Selectae the nutlet figured is glabrous ; Decaisne’s 
own description, however, as well as those of De Dessert and of 
Hasskarl, indicate correctly that the nutlets are hirsute at the 
apex. 
In Decaisne’s original description, and also in the figure in De 
Dessert, the true condition of the anthers is expressed ; these are not 
merely (as stated in Gen. PI. ii^ 1222 ) two-celled with cells becoming 
divaricate, but become ultimately by confluence one-celled. The 
condition of the anthers in Cymaria elongata is precisely the same* ; 
probably therefore the character should be added to the generic 
description. 
Hasskarl has described the corolla-tube of Atithocoma flavescens as 
hirsute within; the corolla-tube is however quite devoid of any annulus 
or hirsute patch within ; the filaments are hirsute at the base in this 
species, as they also are in Cymaria elongata., and this condition may 
have led to statement which, though inexact, has not produced any 
serious consequences. The anther-cells, probably from only those of 
* Unfortunately the solitary specimen of Cymaria dichotoma at Calcutta is in 
fruit only, so that no opinion regarding its anthers can be expressed. 
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