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<RUKOFF, B. A., Supplementary notes on American Menispermaceae XV. 
Neotropical Triclisieae and Anomospermeae ............. 1] 
CRUKOFF, B. A., Notes on the species of Erythrina. XIV ........... 19 
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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON THE AMERICAN SPECIES 
OF STRYCHNOS. XVIIL. 
B. A. Krukoff 


Consulting Botanist of Merck Sharp & Dohme Research La- 
boratories, N.J., and Honorary Curator of New York Botanical 
Garden. 


Since the latest paper of this series (Supplement XVII) 
was published 93 new collections were examined. The newly 
examined collection added to our knowledge of several species 
and extensions of range were noted for eleven. Four species 
namely S. duckei Krukoff & Monachino, S. krukoffigng Ducke, 
S. lobelioides Krukoff & Barneby, and S. ecuadoriensis Kru- 
koff & Barneby were collected for the second time. I have 
been waiting for the second collections of the first two 
since 1946 and 1947. Other prize collections are of S. 
mglacospermg Ducke & Froes which was previously known for 
several collections from tne type locality and S. pachycarpa 
-from four collections from the general vicinity of Manaus, 
Amazonas, Brazil. 


3. _Strychnos colombiensis Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. 
Bot: ‘Gard 12° (1): 21;:-1965. 


Dudley 11486 was correctly anotated and cited in Suppl. 
#11 ( Phytologia 22: 236. 1971). Thru a typographical error 
it was cited in Exsiccatae (Lloydia 35: 263. 1972) as S. 
sperul 


9. Strychnos gragugensis Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 20 (1): 24. 1969. 


Brazil: Piaui: mun. de Sete Cidades, Parque Nac. 
Cachiiera do Riachao, Grazielag M. Barroso 212 (RB); Para: 
Sao Felix do Xingu, Carlos S. Rosario 60 (MG); Mato Grosso: 
J. A. Ratter 2346 (UB). 


This is the first record of the species from the State 
of Piaui. 


10. Strychnos brachiata Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Per. 2: 30. 1799. 


Venezuela: Barinas: + 100 m, Steyermark 102071. 
Brazil: basin of Rio Purus, below Boca do Acre, Prance2558.- 


This is the first record of this species from Barinas. 


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11. Strychnos trinervis (Velloso) Martius, Syst. Mat. Med. 
Bras. i2Z1.. £843. 


Brazil: Minas Gerais: Coronel Pacheco, E. P. Herin- 
ger 326 (RG); Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara: Herbarium Jard. 
Bot. Rio 186333 (RG) (Poco das Antas), D. Sucre 7902 (RG) 
(base da Pedra da Panaia. 


13. Strychnos tabascang Sprague & Sandwith , Kew Bull. 
1927: 128 «2927. 


Mexico: Veracruz: Los Tuxtlas, J. Ismgel Calzadg 1782 
(MEXU) . 


17. Strychnos krukoffigna Ducke, Trop. Woods 90. 27. 1947. 


Colombia: Vaupes: Mitu, Rio Vaupes (inundated), 
James L. Zgruchi 1823 (US). 


This is the second collection of the species and the 
first record from Colombia. It was known previously from 
several collections from a single plant near Manaus, Brazil. 


18. Strychnos medeolg Sagot ex Progel in Mart. Fl. Bras. 
6 (1): 282. 1868. 


Brazil: Para: Tocantins, M. G. Silyg 3474 (MG). 


19. Strychnos toxiferg Robert Schomburgk ex Bentham, Jour. 
Bot. Hook. 3: 240. 1841. 


T. S. Santos 1250 (UB) from Bahia, Brazil was cited 
thru error as S. toxiferg in Suppl. #13 (Phytologia 27: 99. 
1973) and in Exsiccatae (Phytologia 33: 321. 1976). After 
examination of a better specimen it has been described as 
S. setosg in Suppl. #17 (Phytologia 41: 222. 1979). There 
is no record of S. toxiferg growing in the State of Bahia. 


20. Strychnos tomentosqg Bentham, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1: 104. 
1856. 


Surinam: dist. Nickerie, area of Kabalebo Dam Project, 
N. M. de 199 (U). French Guiana: Saul: M. Hijmgn 220 
24. Strychnos jobertigng Baillon, Adansonia. 12: 367. 1879. 


Venezuela: Terr. Fed. Amazonas: roadside, 3 km E of 
San Carlos de Rio Neyro, Ronald Liesner 3483 (Nov. 14, 1977). 


1979 Krukoff, American species of Strychnos 


25. Strychnos pseudo-guing A. St. Hilaire, Mem. Mus. 
Paris 9: 340. 1822. 


Brasil: Distr. Feds? G« Sastre 1103 (UB), £. °F. 
Heringer 12858 (RG); Sao Paulo: L. Emygdio de Mello Filho 
3727 (R), D. V- de Toledo Filho 5550 (SP) (mun. Itirapina), 
P. E. Gibbs 4324 (SP). 


27. Strychnos amazonicg Krukoff, Brittonia 4: 284. 1942. 


Brazil: Amazonas: Manaus - Itacoatiara, Adair R. de 
Oliveira s.n. (28/7-1976) (INPA). 


30. Strychnos lobelioides Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard,°12°€1)s 445/815 12 .\ 1965: 


Colombia: Amazonas - Vaupes: Rio Apaporis, entre 
Rios Kananeri y Pacoa, +250 m, H. Garcia-Barrigga 14021 (Dec. 
1/15-1950). 


This is the first collection with mature leaves and 
fruit-pedicel from which it is evident that the fruits are 
small and thin-shelled. 


This species was Previously known from the type col- 
lection with flowers and immature leaves from the basin of 
Rio Apaporis, Vaupes, Colombia. 


31. Strychnos peckii B. L. Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 49: 
504. 1913. 


Panama: Panama: El Llano - Carthi Road, P. J. M. 


This is the first record of the species from the pro- 
vince of Panama. 


32. Strychnos erichsonii Richard Schomburgk, Reisen 3: 
1082. 1848, nomen; ex Progel in Mart. Fl. Bras. 6 (1): 
274. 1868. 


Surinam: CoppenameRiver, National Reserve Raleigh 
.Falls, N._M. Heyde 641 (U), National Reserve Brownsberg, 
+450 m, J. C. Lindemgn 76 (U), area of Kabalebo Dam pro- 
ject. J. C. Lindemgn 19 (U), 200 (U). Brazil: Amapa: 
margem do Rio Cupixi, Benedito G. S. Ribeiro 1568; Mato 
Grosso: Rio Juruena, M. G. Silva 3259 (MG). 


32a. Strychnos croatii Krukoff & Barneby, Phytologia 33: 313. 
1976. 


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Panama: Darien: J. P. Folsum 6368 (lowland area be- 
tween Cerro Pierre and Piji vasal, 300 m); Barry Hammill 
1138 (east base of Cerro Sapo, + 1300 ft). 


33. Strychnos ggrdneri A. DeCandolle in DeCandolle Prodr. 
92747 9b845.. 


Brazil: Goias: mun. Luziania, E. P. Hertnger 11945 
(RG); 14399 (RG). 


In Supplement #17 (Phytologia 41: 217. 1979) is stated 
tnat this species Occurs in the state of Maranhao, Brazil. 
This is not correct. 


35. Strychnos bredemeyeri (Schultes) Sprague & Sandwith, 
Kew Bull. 1927: 128 1927. 


Venezuela: Terr. Fed. Amazonas: Rongld Liesner 3459; 
3560; Apure: Garrit Davidse 128438. 


This is the first record ot tnis species from Apure. 


36a. Strychnos mitscherlichii Richard Schomburgk, Reisen 2: 
451. 1848, var. mitscherlichii. 


Guyana: Mazaruni River, 1-5 km NE of Kamarang, P. J. 
M. Mags 2575 (U). Colombia: border between Depts Antioquia 
and Bolivar, J. de Bruijn 1531 (WAD). Peru: Loreto: Iqui- 
tos, R. Martin 1682 (US). 


This is the first evidence that this species is found 
in Antioquia and Bolivar. 


38. Strychnos darienensis Seemann Bt. Voy. Herald 166. 
1854. 


Costa Rica: Puntarenas: Osa Penninsula, Roy W. Lent 
430. Brazil: Para: Rio Cururu, Luiz Emygdio Mello Filho 
4343 (R). Peru: Loreto: Maynas, Juan Revilla 2251, 2502, 


38a. Strychnos ecuagdoriensis Krukoff & Barneby, Phytologia 
39» 276i LOTS. 


Ecuador: Napo: Coca, Puertg Francisco de Orellana, 
Helguer Lugo S. 2841 (US). 


This is the first collection with mature flowers and 
they are shown on the attached drawing. The specimen has 
no tendrils or spines. 


1979 Krukoff, American species of Strychnos 


This species was Previously known from the type col- 
lection from Napo, 4.2-7.5 kms W of Lago Agrio, from the 
rainforest. 


39. Strychnos guignensis (Aublet) Martius, Syst. Mart. Med. 
Bras. 121. 1843; 


Guiana: Mahaicony River, Butenabu Creek, D. H. Davis 
207. Brazil: Rondonia: Herbarium Jard. Bot. Rio 184060 
(RG). Colombia: Vaupes: Mitu, James L. Zaruchi 2169 (INPA). 
Peru: Loreto: Maynas, Al. Gentry 20816, Jugn Revilla 
2054,_2484. 


45. Strychnos duckei Krukoff & Monachino, Lloydia 9: 68. 
1946. 


Brazil: Acre: Cruzeiro do Sul, L. R. Marinho 285 (MG). 

This is the first collection in fruit. Fruits are 
small (+ 1.25 mm in diam), one-seeded, with tnin snells and 
yellow when mature. 

This species was previously collected twice from the 
same plant near Marco (few dozen meters from the Colombian 


border), Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil. 


48. Strychnos melinonigna Baillon, Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 
bs (256. 4880. 


Guiana: NW District, P. J. M. Mags 2452 (U)- Surinam: 
Brownsberg, P. J. M. Maas 2316 (U). 


49. Strychnos parviflorg Spruce ex Bentham, Jour. Linn. 
See.c0l:. 107.) 1856. 


Brazil: Mato Grosso: Fazenda Cachimbo, terra firme. 
M. _R. Cordeiro 1122 (MG). 


This is the first record of this species from Mato 
Grosso. 


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52. Strychnos oigpocencis Froes, Bol. Tecn. Inst. Agron. 
Norte 36: 143. 1959. 


Surinam; Afobaka Road, N. M. Heydd 363 CU): 


53. Strychnos fendleri Sprague & Sandwith, Kew Bull. 1927: 
179. 182s, 


Venezuela: Anzoatequi: Al. Gentry 14849; Sucre: be- 


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tween Puerto La Cruz and Cumana, in scrub forest, G. Davidse 


5075. 


54. Strychnos atlantica Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 20(L): 61. 1969. 


Brazil: Bahia: Porto Seguro, reserva de Ceplac, Luis 


Emygdio de Mello Filho 2952 (R). 


55. Strychnos rubiginosg A. DeCandolle in DeCandolle Prodr. 
o: 16. 1645. 


Brazil: Bahia: Irwin 30675. (Serra do Tombador, + 22 
km W of Morro do Chapeu, alt. + 1000 m, caatinga). R. M. 
Harley 19142 (disturbed caatinga); Mato Grosso: Chapada dos 
Guimaraes, Prance 18552(MG). 


Irwin 306/5 thru error was cited under S. pseudo-guina 
in Suppl. #13 (Phytologia 2/: 99. 19/3) and said to be a new 
record from Bahia. It is correctly cited under S. rubiginosa 
in the List of Exsiccatae (Pnytologia 32: 320. 1976). In 
cnecking tne card file on specimens of S. pseudo guing (135 
collections) I tind no record of this species from Bania. 


50. Strycnnos Parvifolig A. DeCandolle in DeCandolle Prodr. 
oF Le.) £645. 


Brazil: Para: Tocantins, M._G. Silva 3497 (MG); Per- 


nambuco: Luis Emygdio de Mello Filno 3777 (R); Hahia: mun. 
Maracas, S. A. Mori 9924, 9978. 


5/. Strychnos fulyotomentosg Gilg in Engler Bot. Jarb. 25 
(Beinl. 60): 40. 189s. 


Brazil: Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara: Schwacke 520/ 
(RG), Mello Filno 9% (R). 


S/a. Strychnos recognita Krukoff &Barneby, Phytologia a7. 
103). 1973. 


T. S. dos Santos /2/ (UB) was cited thru error as S- 
fulyotomentosa in Suppl.#13 (Phytologia 2/: 103. 19/73) and 
in Exsiccatae (Phytologia 33: 321. 19/6). After examina- 
tion of a better specimen it nas been correctly identified 
and cited in Suppl. #17 (Phytologia 41: 225. 1979). 


59. Strychnos brasiliensis (Sprengel) Martius, Flora 24 
(Beibl. 2): 84. 1841. 


1979 Krukoff, American species of Strychnos 


Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: Serra dos Orgaos, J. C. 
Lindeman 6388 (R); Parana J. C. Lindemgn 2286 (U), 2845 (U), 
E. Pereira 7163 (BM), Herbarium Jard. Hot. Rio 139431 (RG); 
Rio Grande do Sul: Pagpst 6380 (R). Argentina: Corrientes: 
A. Schinini 11422 (Mexi). 


A 
61. Strycnnos Pachycarpa Ducke, sol. Téch. Inst. Agron. 
Norte 3: 15. 1945. 


Surinam: along railway, near Poekti, N. M. Heyde 520 
(U). 


This is the first record of the species from Surinam. 


63. Strychnos bracnistantha Standley, Field Mus. Publ. 
Bot 3 422) 4h2. 11936. 


Mexico: Tabasco: A. Novelo 44 (BM); Chiapas: D._E. 
Breedlove 38882 (CAS), 42854 (CAS), Alush Shilom Ton 37383 
(CAS). Belize: Cayo, T. B. Croat 23595 (Mexi). 


This is the first record of the species from Cniapas. 


65. Strychnos mgttogrossensis S. Moore, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
BE 65 (90) « LORS. 


Venezuela: Apuré: San Fernando, north bank of Orinoco, 
Gerrit Davidse 13147, 1320/7 (MO). 


P 
Tnis is tne first record of this species from Apure. 
2 
68. Strychnos maglacospermg Ducke & Froes, Bol. Tecn. Inst. 
Agron. Norte 30: 43, figs 1-8. 1955. 


Brazil: Para: Rid Peri (triputory ot Rio Xingu), 


R. L. Froes 32438 (30/11-1956). 


This species was Previously known from the 5 collections 
fromthe type locality near Monte Alegre, Colonia de Mulata, 
Para, Brazil. 


70. Strychnos tarapotensis Sprague & Sandwith, Kew Bull. 
192702 ASL. W927 


Peru: Amazonas: Rio Genepa, 200-250 m, A. Kujikat 67 
(MO), 150, Ernesto Ancugsh 1002; Tingo Maria - Pucalpa, 
1510 m, Herbarium Ellenberg 3852 (US); Loreto: Maynas,+300 
m, Ch. Froehner 6l. 


8 Power TO Lore Ft & Vol. hh, No. 1 
List of Exsiccatae 


The first list of Exsiccatae covering Papers on Strychnos, 
including Supplement XI, was published in Lloydia 35(3): 262- 
270. 1972, the second covering Supplements XII, XIII and XIV 
in Phytologia 33: 319-322. 1976, the third covering Supple- 
ments XV and XVI in Phytologia 39: 281-282. 1978. The forth 
list covering Supplement XVII in Phytologia 41: 237-238. 1979. 
Only numbered collections and those of which the dates of col- 
lection are recorded have been listed. Collections identified 
with doubt are not listed. If a collector gathered his col- 
lection together with others, only his name is cited in this 
list. Collections with Dr. Prance's numbers are cited under 
Prance. 


Ancuash, Ernesto, 1002 (70). 


Barroso,Graziela M., 212 (9). 
Breedlove, D. E., 38882 (63), 42854 (63). 
Bruijn de, J., 1531 (36a). 


Calzada, J. Ismael, 1782 (13). 
Cordeizo,..M.. BR. 2122) (49). 
Groat, I. 3.325999" t05) - 


Davidse, Gerrit, 5075 (53), 12848 (35), 13187 (65), 13207 (65). 
Davidson, C., 5362 (38). 
Davis} De H. , 207) (39). 


Ellenberg (Herbarium), 3852 (70). 


Folsom, J. P., 6368 (32a). 
Froehner, Christoph, 61 (70). 
Froes, Re L., 32488 (68). 


Garcia-Barriga, H., 14021 (30). 
Gentry, Al., 14849 (53), 20816 (39). 
Gibbs, P. Es, 4324)25)- 


Hammel, Barry, 1138 (32a). 

Harley, R. M., 19142 (55). 

Herbarium Jard. Bot. Rio, 139431 (59), 184060 (39), 186333 (11). 
Heringer, E. P., 326 (11), 11945 (33), 12858 (25), 14399 (33). 
Heyde, N. M., 199 (20), 363 (52), 520 (61), 641 (32). 

Hijman, M., 220 (20). 

Holguer, Lugo S., 2841 (38a). 


Kujikat, A., 67 (70), 150 (70). 


Labouriau, L., 1160 (25) 


1979 Krukoff, American species of Strychnos 


Labouriau, L., 1160 (25). 

Lent, Roy W., 430 (38). 

Liesner, Ronald, 3459 (35), 3483 (24), 3560 (35). 

Lindeman, J. C., 19 (32), 76 (32), 200 (32), 2845 (59), 
2286 (59), 6388 (59). 


Maas, P. J. M., 1768 (31), 2316 (48), 2452 (48), 2575 (36a). 

Marinho, L. R., 285 (45). 

Martin, R., 1682 (36a). 

Mello Filho de, Luis Emilio, 98 (57), 2952 (54), 3727 (25), 
3777 (56), 4343 (38), s.n. (23/04-1976) (43). 

Mori, S. A. 9924 (56), 9978 (56). 


Novelo, A., 44 (63). 
Oliveira de, Adair R., s.n. (28/7-1976) (27). 


Pabst, G. De Pa 5 6380 (59). 
Pereira, E., 7163 (59). 
Prance, G. T., 2558 (10), 18882 (55). 


Ratter, J. A., 2346 (9). 

Revilla, Juan, 2054 (39), 2251 (38), 2484 (39), 2502 (38). 
Ribeiro, Benedito G. S., 1568 (32). 

Rosario, Carlos S., 60 (9). 


Sastre, C., 1103 (25). 

Scninini, A., 11422 (59). 

Schwacke (Herb), 5207 (57). 

Silva, M. G., 3259 (32), 3474 (18), 3497 (56). 
Sucre, D., 7902 (11). 


Toledo de, Filho, D. V., 5550 (25). 
Ton, Shilom Alush, 3783 (63). 


Steyermark, Julian, 102071, (10). 
Sucre, D., 4049 (59). 


Zaruchi, James L., 1823 (17), 2169 (39), 2189 (39). 


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PHYTOLOGIA 


Holguer Lugo S. 2841 


Strychnos ecuadoriensis Krukoff & Barneby 


Vol. hh, No.l 


SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ON AMERICAN MENISPERMACEAE XV 
NEOTROPICAL TRICLISIEAE AND ANOMOSPERMEAE 
B. A. Krukoff 


Consulting Botanist of Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Labora- 
tories, Rahway, N.J., and Honorary Curator of New York 
Botanical Garden. 


Since the latest paper of this series (Supplement XIV) 
was published 68 new collections were examined, adding to 
our knowledge of several species: Extension of ranges were 
noted from 8 but no new species were described. The new 
record of genus Caryomene from French Guiana and collec- 


tions of Sciadotenig eichlerigng and S. pubistaminea are 
of particular interest. 


7 
I. Chondrodendron Ruiz & Pavon, Syst. Veg. 
261. 1798. 


/ 
1.- Chondrodendron tomentosum Ruiz & Pavon, Syst. Veg. 
261. 1798. 
¢ 
Peru: San Martin: Mariscal Caceres, Timothy Plowmgn 
7560; Amazonas: Rio Genepa, A. Kujikat 226 (MO). 


This is the first record of this species from Amazonas. 


Zs Chondrodendron platiphyllum (A. de St. Hilaire) Miers, 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 19: 122. 1867. 


Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: J. Almeidg 1264 (RB), 
G. Martinelli 2416 (RB), D. Sucre 5113 (RB), 3994 (RB). 


ae Chondrodendron microphyllum (Eichler) Moldenke in 
Krukoff£ & Moldenke, Brittonia 3: 11 1938. 


Brazil: Bahia: S. A. Mori 10840, 9366 (mun. Ibica- 
rai), 9825 (mun. Santa Cruz de Cabrdlea), 10284 (mun. Al- 
madina), Luiz Emygdio de Mello Filho 2935 (R), Harley 
17880 (coastal zone). 


II. Curarea Barneby & Krukoff, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 22(2): 7. 1971. 


tT; Curarea toxicoferg (Weddell) Barneby & Krukoff, Mem. 
N.Y. Bots Gard. 22(2):.-9. 1971. 
al. 


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Panama: Darien: near ridgetop of Pierre Chain, 600- 
1100 m, J. P. Folsom 6357. Peru: Amazonas: Rio Genepa, 
200-250 m, Ernesto Ancuash 1219, A. Kujikat 107 (MO). 


This is the first record of the species from Darien. 

Schunke 46005 was cerrectly anotated and cited in two 
card files as Curgreg toxicoferg but thru a typographical 
error cited as Sciadotenig toxiferg in Suppl. #9 (Phytolo- 


gia 25: 35. 1972) and in Exsiccatae (Phytologia 33: 340. 
1976). 


as Curarea candicans (L. C. Richard) Barneby & Krukoff, 
Mem, N.Y. Bot. Gard. 22(2): 12. 1971. 


Surinam: Lely Mts: J. C. Lindeman 305. 


III. Scigdotenig Miers, Ann. Nat. Hist. II, 7: 
45 a/e5t. 


de Sciadotenig cayennensis Bentham, Jour. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 5 (Suppl. #2): 51. 1861. 


Surinam: 850 m, A. G. H. Daniels 1109 (U). 


2. Sciagdotenig toxiferga Krukoff & A. C. Smith, Bull. 
Torrey Club 66: 308. 1939. 


a 
Peru: San Martin, Mariscal Caceres, Timothy Plowman 
7537. 


6. Scigdotenig eichlerigng Moldenke in Krukoff & Moldenke, 
Brittonia 3: 28. 1938. 


Brazil: Amazonas: Manaus - Caracarai Road, G. T. 
Prance 24241. 


This the first record of the species from the upper 
Rio Negro. 


7. Sciagdotenig sprucei Diels in Engler, Pflanzenreich 
4 (94): 64.° 1910. 


Venezuela: Terr. Fed. Amazonas, 4 km, east of San 
Carlos de Rio Negro, Ronald Liesner 3645. 


12. Scigdotenig amazonicg Eichler, Flora 47: 395. 1864 and 
in Martius, Fl. Bras. 13(1): 201, tab 47, fig 3. 1864. 


Peru: Loreto: Maynas, Iquitos, Christopher Davidson 
5273. 


1979 Krukoff, American Menispermaceae 


13. Scigdotenig duckei Moldenke in Krukoff & Moldenke, 
BELttonig 37.350. T9356. 


Brazil: Amazonas: W. Rodrigues 9703 (INPA) (Manaus), 
L. Duarte 216 (Est. Biol. Walter Egler). 


lo. Scigdotenig pubistamineg (K. Schumann) Diels in Engler, 
Pflanzenreich 4(94): 85. 1910. 


Brazil: Bahia: lL. A. Mattos Silva 187. 
This is the fifth collection of this species. It is 
known from the States of Bahia and Minas Gerais; its fruits 


are not yet known. 


V. Telitoxicum Moldenke in Krukoff & Moldenke, 
Brittonia 3: 42. 1938. 


1. Telitoxicum minutiflorum (Diels) Moldenke in Krukoff & 
Moldenke, Brittonia 3: 49. 19338. 


Brazil: Amazonas: basin of Rio Negro, M. R. Sgntos 


104 (MG). 


2. Telitoxicum duckei (Diels) Moldenke in Krukoff & 
Moldenke, Brittonia 3: 47. 1938. 


French Guiana: J. Lenormgnd s.n. (U). 


This is the first record of the species from French 
Guiana. 


3. Telitoxicum krukovii Moldenke in Krukoff & Moldenke, 
Brittonia 3: 44. 1938. 


Surinam: Coppename River: Nature Reserve Raleigh 
Falls, N._M. Heyde 609 (U). 


This is the first record of the species from Surinam. 


VI. Abutg Barrere ex Aublet, Pl. Guian. 1: 618. 
Pl. 250. 1775. 


1. Abutg rufescens Aublet, Hist. Pl. Guian. 1. 618. Pl. 
250.6 E2254 


Brazil: Para: Serra dos Carajas, M. G. Silva 2932 (MG); 


Amazonas: Manaus - Itacoatiara road, Adair R. de Oliveirg 
sen. (23/06-1976). Peru: San Martin: Mariscal Caceres, 


Timothy Plowman 7474; Loreto: Maynas, A. Gentry 21742. 


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4. Abuta grisebachii Triana & Planchon, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV, 
17: 47. 1862. 


Brazil: Amazonas: Manaus - Itacoatiara road, J. Aluisio 
de Sousa s-n. (15/7-1976) (INPA). 


9. Abuta pahni (Martius) Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 22(2): 43. 1971. 


/ 
Peru: San Martin: Mariscal Caceres, Timothy Plowman 
7473. 


Prance 18681 was correctly anotated in MG as A. pahni 
in 1976 but the card was misplaced and thru error it was 
cited as A. grisebachii in Suppl. #14 (Phytologia 39: 245. 
1978) and in Exsiccatae. This specimen is important as it 
is the first record of the species from Mato Grosso. 


13. Abutg imene (Martius) Eichler, Flora 47: 389. 1864. 

Prance 17487 was cited thru error as Abuta solimge- 
sensis in Suppl. #11 (Phytologia 33: 332. 1976) and in 
Exsiccatae. It is Abutg imene. 


14. Abuta sellogng Eichler, Flora 47: 389. 1864. 


Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: Herbarium Jard. Bot. Rio 
148542 (RB); Parana: mun. Cerro Azul, G. Hatschbach 40218. 


16. Abuta solimoesensis Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 20(2): 18. 1970. 


7 
Peru: San Martin: Mariscal Caceres, Timothy Plowman 
7549. 


17. Abuta yeluting Gleason, Bull. Torrey Club 58: 36l. 
1931, 


Brazil: Amazonas: Manaus, Reserve Forestal Ducke, 
Herbarium Inpa 72817. 


21. Abuta sandwithiagng Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 20(2): 18. 1970. 


Brazil: Amazonas: Lago Miua, Roberto F. Melo 223 (MG). 


26. Abuta chigpasensis Krukoff & Barneby, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 20(2): 23. 1970. 


1979 Krukoff, American Menispermaceae 
Guatemala: San Pedro, Elias Contreras 9512 (MEXI). 


This is the first record of this species from Guate- 
mala. 


27. Abuta grandifolig (Martius) Sandwith, Kew Bull. 1937: 
Sa7.~ L957: 


Surinam: N. M. Heyde 139 (U), 193 (U), 244 (U) (area 
of Kabalebo Dam project) also N. M. Heyde 651 (U) (National 
Reserve Raleigh Falls). Para: J. M. Pires 16091 (MG); 
Amazonas: basin of Rio Negro, A. B. Anderson 233 (INPA), 
M. R. Santos 64 (MG), C. D. A. Mota s.n. (13/07-1976) 
(INPA); Mato Grosso: R. Sousa 10426 (UB); Rondonia: W. R. 
Anderson 12200 and 12295 (Rio Pacaas Novos), Herbarium 
Jard. Bot. Rio 184063 (RB). Peru: Loreto: Maynas, Al. 
Gentry 21887, 21985. Ecuador: Napo: Rio Suno, + 400 on, 
L. Holm-Nielson 847 (AAU). 


VII. Caryomene Barneby & Krukoff, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 22(2): 52. 1971. 


3. Caryomene oliyascens Barneby & Krukoff, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 22(2): 57. 1971. 


French Guiana: Cayenne: Saul, Fournet 25. 


This is the first record of genus Caryomene for French 
Guiana. - 


VIII. Anomospermum Miers, Ann. Nat. Hist. III, 
14: 101. 1864. 


4a. Anomospermum chlorgnthum Diels ssp. chloranthum, Mem. 
N.Y. Bot. Gard. 22(2): 68. 1971. 


Peru: Loreto: Maynas, Al. Gentry 20846. 


4c. Anomospermum chloranthum Diels ssp. isthmicolg Krukoff 
& Barneby Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 22(2): 70. 1971. 


Panama: Panama: from Torti to the Pilota del Toro, 
J. P. Folsom 5062 (MO), 6789. 


5a. Anomospermum reticulgtum (Martius) Eichler ssp. re- 
ticulatum,Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 22(2): 73. 1971. 


Brazil: Para: basin of Rio Tocantins, M. G. Silvyg 
3609 (MG); Amazonas: basin of Rio Negro, M. R. Santos 30(MG); 


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Mato Grosso: Rio Juruena, M. G. Silva 3333 (MG). 


This is the first record of the species from Mato 
Grosso. 


IX. Orthomene Barneby & Krukoff, Mem. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. 22(2): 79. 1971. 


1. Orthomene schomburgkii (Miers) Barneby & Krukoff, Mem. 
N.Y. Bot. Gard. 22(2): 80. 1971. 


Surinam: N. M. Heyde 725. Brazil: Rondonia: Rio 
Guapore, Ilha das Flores, Herbarium Jard. Bot. Rio 184062 
(RB); Bahia: mun. Camaca, T. S. dos- Santos 3317. Colombia: 
Antioquia: Rio Anori, + 400-700 m, W._S. Anderson 34. 

Peru: Loreto: Requena, Al. Gentry 21280. 


This is the first record of the species from the pro- 
vince of Antioquia, Colombia and from the State of Rondonia, 
Brazil. 


1979 Krukoff, American Menispermaceas 
List of Exsiccatage 


The first list of Exsiccatae covering papers on 
Menispermaceae including Supplement VIII was published in 
Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 22: 1-89. 19/1, the second list cover- 
ing Supplements IX, X, and XI in Phytologia 33: 337-340. 
1976, the third covering Supplements XII and XIII in Pay- 
tologia 39: 292-293. 1978, and the forth list covering Sup- 
plement XIV in Phytologia 41: 254-255. 1979. The present 
list covers Supplement XV. The number in parenthesis cor- 
responds with the species - number of this and other papers 
(Supplements XIII to XV). Only numbered collections and 
those of which the dates of collection are recorded have 
been listed. If a collector gathered his collection to- 
gether with others, only his name is cited in this List. 


Collections witn Dr. Prance's numbers are cited under Prance. 


Almeida, J., 1264 (CH2). 

Ancuash, Ernesto, 1219 (CUL1). 

Alverson, W. S., 34 (Ol). 

Anderson, A. B., 233 (A27). 

Anderson, William R., 12200 (A27), 12295 (A27). 


Contreras, Elias, 9512 (A26). 


Davidson, Christopher, 5273 (S12). 
Paarte, “Ey, 246 (513): 


Folsom, J. P., 50602 (AN4C), 6357 (CULL), 6798 (AN4c). 
POarnets A.,; 25 (C3). 


Gentry, A., 20846 (AN4a), 21742 (Al), 21280 (01), 21887 
(A27), 21985 (A27). 


Harley, R. M., 17880 (CH3). 

Hatschbach, G., 40218 (Al4). 

Herbarium Inpa, 72817 (Al17). 

Herbarium Jard. Bot. Rio, 148542 (Al14), 184062 (01), 184063 
(A27). 

Heyde, N. M., 139 (A27), 193 (A27), 244 (01), 609 (T3), 651 
(A2F)., 5729.(O1). 

Holm-Nielsen, L., 847 (A27). 


Kujukat, A., 107 (CUl), 228 (CHIL). 
Lenormand, s.n., (T2). 


Liesner, Ronald, 3645 (S7). 
Lindeman, J. C., 805 (CU2). 


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Martinelli, G., 2816 (CH2). 

Mattos Silva, L. A., 18/ (S16). 

Mello Filho de, Luis Emilio, 2935 (CH3). 

Melo, Roberto F., 223 (A21). 

Mori, S. A., 9366 (CH3), 9825 (CH3), 10284 (CH3), 10840 (CH3). 
Mota, C. D. A., s-n. (13/07-1976) (A27). 


Oliveira de, Adair R., s.n. (23/06-1976) (Al). 


Pires, J. M., 16091 (A27). 

Plowman, Timothy, 7473 (A9), 7474 (Al), 7537 (S2), 7549 (Al6), 
7560 (CHL). 

Prance, 17487 (Al3), 24241 (S6). 


Rodrigues, W., 9703 (S13). 


Santos, M. R., 30 (AN5a), 64 (A27), 104 (Tl). 
Santos dos, T. S., 3317 (01). 

Silva, M. G., 2932 (Al), 3353 (AN5a), 3609 (ANSa). 
Sousa de, J. Aluisio, sen. (15/7-19/6) (A4). 
Sousa, R-, 10426 (A27). 

Sucre, D., 5113 (CH2), 8994 (CH2). 


NOTES ON THE SPECIES OF ERYTHRINA. XIV 
B. A. Krukoff 


Consulting Botanist of Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Labora- 
tories, Rahway, New Jersey; Honorary Curator of New York 
Botanical Garden. 


In connection with preparation of Supplement XII which 
was recently submitted for publication in Annals of Missouri 
Botanical Garden-377 collections were examined. Of these 
195 collections are cited in this paper. Extension of range 
is noted only for E. chiriguensis. No new species are de- 
scribed. 


The important part of this paper is the second List 
of Exsiccatae covering specimens cited in Supplements XII 
and XIV. In connection with work on Lists of Exsiccatae 
some errors were detected. The work on the genus was car- 
ried on since 1938. Many thousands of collections were 
named, duplicates of some of these deposited in different 
herbaria. All errors occured in my working in various her- 
baria where I was pressed for time. These and typographical 
errors are being corrected in this paper and the others will 
be corrected in the next supplement after my visit to vari- 
ous herbaria. 


It seems fortunate that most active collecting in a 
century is being carried on presently in Mexico which is a 
center of the genus as far as the number of species (28 
species and subspecies) is concerned. The end of this is 
not yet in sight. Another very large collection from Mexico 
is on the way to me for identification. 


it Erythring fuscqg Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 427. 1790 
based on Gelala aguatica Rumphius, Herb. Amb. 2: 235. 
t. 78. 1750. 


Panama: Panama: slopes of Cerro Jefe, + 3200 ft, F. 
Almeda 3475 (CAS)- Colombia: delta of Magdalena River, 
Dugand 865 (MAD), 933 (MAD). Peru: Loreto: Maynas, Anto- 
nio Arostegui V., 49 (MAD),61 (MAD), coll. undes. 49 (MAD). 
Surinam: cultuurtuin 190 (MAD). Brazil: Bahia: mun. 
Ilheus, S. A. Mori 10395, 10396; Rio de Janeiro: H. M. 
Curran 307 (MAD) (cult.); Parana: Rio Tibagi (cult. (?)) 
Herbarium Mus. Nac. Rio 66685 (R). 


Ze Erythring crista-galli L. Mant. 99. 1767. 
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Brazil: Minas Gerais: Ponta Grossa, Pe. Leopoldo 
Krieger 766/ (RB): Rio de Janeiro: Herbgrium Jard. Bot. 
Rio 143027 (RB) (cult.); Rio Grande do Sul, Lino Tatto 3668 
(MAD). Argentina: H. H. Curran 30 (MAD), 83 (MAD), 89 
(MAD). Morocco: Rabit, J. Lewalle 8696 (cult.), 8708b 
(cults).  Uss-A.: Florida:** DW Burch 6831 (MO) (cult.). 
Country undesign.: Marcelo Navarrezg s.n. (MAD). 


33 Erythring falcata Bentham in Mart. Fl. Bras 15 (1): 
172. £859. 


Brestt: Minas Gerais: J..A. Ratter 2677 (UB), A..P. 
Duarte 13068 (RB), L. d' A. Freire de Carvalho 1085 (RB); 
Rio de Janeiro: Herbarium Jard. Bot. Rio 80834 (Petropolis) 
(RB), 11288 (RB), 157825 (Horto Forestal)’ (RB)3;Sa0 Paulo: 
Juquia-Piedade, P. E. Gibbs 6651 (SP). Argentina: Misiones: 
H. H. Curran 2 (MAD), 708 (MAD). Bolivia: Sorata: Graf 
s-n. 


5% Erythring ulei Harms, Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 48: 172. 
1907. 


Peru: Junin: + 700 m, Al. Gentry 16417. 


The collector states on the label: ‘''flowers visited 
by hummingbirds." 


6. Erythrina verng Velloso, Fl. Flum. 304. 1825. 


Brazil: Minas Gerais: E. P. Heringer 7777A (Parao- 
Peba), (UB), 15166 (mun. Bom Jesus do Galho), (UB), Roberto 
S. Ramalho 1004 (Vicgosa, cult.) (RB). 


re Erythring poeppigiana (Walpers) O. F. Cook in Bull. 
U. S.:Depés Agra. Bots 25:n5do0 1908. 


Costa Rica: Cartago: F. Almeda 4194 (CAS) (cult.). 
Colombia: Cugtrecasas 14504 (MAD). Brazil: Rio de Jan- 
eiro: cult., Paula Laclette 452 (R)- Taiwan: cult., C. E. 
Chang 10027 (K). 


3. Erythring suberosg Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 53, nomen 
18i4s Fi. Gods 3:, 255. dba2: 


India: Dehra Dun., Ram Prasad Doyal gs.n. (3/27-1929- 
flrs.) (6/30-1929-frts.) (MAD). 


12. Erythring arborescens Roxburgh, Hort. Beng. 53, nomen 
1314: Pl. Coromandel 3: 14, pl. 219. 1819. 


1979 Krukoff, Notes on Erythrina 


India: Tehri-Gorhwal; near Bhatwari, P. P. Huggins 
Al8 (BM); West Bengal: H. Ohashi et al. s.n. (July 25, 
1972) (the Fifth Bot. Exp. Himalaya) (BM) (Darjeeling, £3 
2200 m). Nepal: L. W. Beer 25713 (BM) (+ 6000 ft), 
Stainton 6698 (BM) (+ 7000 ft); H. Kanai s.n. (July 11, 
1970) (BM), s.n. (Aug. 22, 1972) (BM), Bhutan: R. E. 
Cooper 1293 (BM), 2612 (BM), Ludlow s.n. (5/8-1949) (+ 
7500 ft), sen. (5/8-1949) (+ 5400 ft). 


13. Erythring subumbrans (Hasskarl) Merrill in Philipp. 
Jeur.« Set. Boks *5: | £LS) 19280: 


Thailand: Chiang Mai: + 450 m, Edward F. Anderson 
4195 (CAS); Mae Hong Son: + 750 m, Edward F. Anderson 4250 
(CAS). India: Chota Nagpur Hazaribagh District, F. H. W. 
Kerr 2029 (BM). 


14. Erythring breviflorg Alph. DeCandolle, Prodr. 2: 413. 
1825. 


Mexico: Morelos: xX. Logoyg s-n. (Oct. 19, 1977) 
(MEXU), Almg D. Villegas s.n. (Sept. 9, 1978) (Cuernavaca) 
(MEXU); Michoacan: R. Kral 27670 (MEXI), C. R. Parks 295 
(CAS); Gerrero: Teresa German 939. 


lo. Erythring speciosg Andrews, Bot. Repos. 7. pl. 443. 
1806. 


Brazil: Rio de Janeiro: Museu Imper. Petropolis, 
Elsie F. Gumgraes s.n. (May 1976) (RB). Hongkong: Kadoorie 
Gardens, G. Baretto 148 (K). 


19. Erythring montana Rose & Standley in Contr. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 20: 179. 1919. 


Mexico: Sinaloa: Sierra Surufoto, + 5800 ft, Breed- 
love 18599 (CAS). 


20. Erythring leptorhiza Alph. DeCandolle, Prodr. 2: 413. 
1825. 


Mexico: Mexico: Dudley Gold 178 (+ 2250 m) (MEXI), 
C. Dziekgnowski 3040 (+ 8000 ft), Rzedowski 28300 (+ 2800 m) 
(MEXI), 30762 (+ 2600 m) (MEXI), 32034 (Cerro del Tigre, (+ 
2500 m) (MEXU); 33269 (+ 2300 m) (MEXI); Distr. Fed.: A. 
Ventura A. 1399 (+ 2550 m) (MEXI), 14356 (+ 2800 m) (MEXI), 
1578 (+ 2400 m) (MEXI), 1882 (+ 2500 m) (MEXI), 2769 (+ 2050 
m) (MEXI), S. Moreno G. 247 (MEXI); Hidalgo: + 2500 a, 
A. Ventura A. 149 (MEXI); Morelos: J. Vasgues 1770 (MEXU). 


22 PRY TOS0C Fs Vol. i, Now 1 


22a. Erythring herbacea L. subsp. herbacea Erythrina her- 
bacea L. Sp. Pl. /06. 1/53. sens, str. 


U.S.A.: D._H. Caldwell 8736 (MAD); South Carolina: 
Duane Isely 10399 (CAS); Florida: W. L. Stern 138 (MAD), 


226 (MAD), Irg L. Wiggins 19656 (CAS), Archie Wilson s.n. 
(July 1953) (MAD). 


22b. Erythring herbacea L., subsp. nigroroseg Krukoff & 
Barneby in Phytologia 25(1): 6. 1972. 


Mexico: San Luis Potosi, D. B. Dunn 19189 (MEXI); 
Veracruz: F. Chiang 444 (mun. Ozuluama) (MEXU), C. Vas- 
quez Yanez 593 (MEXU) and 889 (MEXU) (Cerro Monte de Oro). 


This entity was described in 1972 and by now it is 
known from 87 collections from 9 eastern states in Mexico, 
being especially common in Oaxaca. 


23. Erythring standleyang Krukoff in Brittonia 3: 301. 1939. 


Mexico: Campeche: R. Grether 576 (MEXU). 


24. Erythring flabelliformis Kearney in Trans. N.Y. Acad. 
14: 32. 1894. 


Mexico: Sonora: Arthur C. Gibson 2280 (MEXI), J. R. 
Hastings 71-193 (+ 885 m) (MEXI), 71-204 (+ 975 m) (MEXI). 


25. Erythring corglloides Alph. DeCandolle, Prodr. 2: 413 
1825. 


Mexico: San Luis Potosi: A. Gomeg 500 (mun. Villa 
Hidalgo); Mexico: + 2300 m, J. Espinosa s.n. (11/3-1973). 


Portugal: Lisboa, cult., A. A. de Carvalho Monteiro 6667 
(BM) . 


28b. Erythring langta Rose subsp. occidentalis (Standley) 
Krukoff & Barneby in Phytologia 27: 117 1973. 


Mexico: Sinaloa: in open savanna, D. H Norris 20146 
(CAS): Tres Marias Islands: John T. Howell 10455 (CAS); 
Jalisco: 20 km NW de Chamela, nivel del mar, M. Sousa 3927 
(MEXU) also seedling grown from seeds of this collection, 


J. Arturo S. Mggagllanes 729 (mun. La Huerta) (MEXU); More- 
los: Chimalacatlan, J. Vasquez S. 1959 (MEXU). 


29. Erythring goldmanii Standley in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
20: 181. 1919. 


1979 Krukoff, Notes on Erythrina 


Mexico: Oaxaca: Mario Sousa 525 (mun. Jamiltepec, 
440 m) (MEXU), 6999 and 7021 (Distr. Putla) (flor roja, 
caliz purpuro oscuro); 7405 (Distr. Juchitan, 50 m), (MEXU), 
Chiapas: Breedlove 39981 (mun. San Fernando), (CAS), 40625 
(mun. Amatenango de la Frontera) (CAS) 


30. Erythring caribaea Krukoff & Barneby in Phytologia 
25;. 9, 1972. 


Mexico: Veracruz: T. Croat 39662 (2 km N of Huatusco) 
(MO), Mario Sousa 4290 (MEXU) (mun. S. Andres Tuxtla), John 
H. Beaman 5261 (Catemaco) (MEXU); Tabasco: slope of Cerro 
Las Campanas. 30-100 m, J. Conrad 2825; Oaxaca: (mun. Chil- 
tepec); Guadelupe Martinez-Calderon 1393 (CAS); Chiapas: 
Ocusingo, 470 m, Juan I. Calzada 2840 (F). 


31. Erythring folkersii Krukoff & Moldenke in Phytologia 
L: 286. 1938. 


Belize: Yale 3327 (MAD). Mexico: Veracruz: C. Vas- 


quez Yanez 751 (MEXU), Leija Gonzales 835 (Veracruz-Coat- 
zacOalco) (MEXU), 3969 (MEXU); Oaxaca: Pochutla, + 750 o, 


Mario Sousa 7575; Chiapas: mun. Palenque, + 300 m, Breed- 
love 24215 (CAS). 


35. Erythring hondurensis Standley in Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 
4: 309. 1929. 


Honduras: Atlantida: Lancetilla valley, 10-150 a, 
T. Croat 42660 (MO). Nicaragua: Paul J. Shenk 63 (MAD). 


36. Erythring chigpasang Krukoff in Brittonia 3: 304. 
1939. 


Mexico: Chiapas: R. F. Thorpe 41518 (+ 5400 ft) (CAS), 


H. Mill 366 (Jitotol Ridge, 5800 ft) (CAS), E. W. Lathrop 
5166 (3 km N of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan) (CAS), R. F. 
Thorne 41207 (mun. Pueblo Nuevo, + 5400 ft) (CAS), D. E. 
Breedlove 39647 (mun. Zinacantan) (CAS), 39804 (mun. Oco- 
zOatla de Espina) (CAS), 41240 (mun. Chanal (MO). 


39. Erythring williagmsii Krukoff & Barneby in Phytologia 
22(4): 266. 1971. 


Guatemala: Alta Verapaz vicin. of San Juan Chamelco, 
+ 1450 m, L. O. Williams 43201 (US). 


41. Erythrina chiriguensis Krukoff in Brittonla 3: 222. 
1939. 


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Panama: Darien: Cerro Tacarcuna, premontane wet for- 
est, 1250-1450 m, Gentry & Mori 13946. 


This is a new record of this species from Darien. 


42. Erythring mgcrophylla Alph. DeCandolle, Prodr. 2: 411. 
1825. 


Guatemala: El Quiche: + 2100 m, Antonio Molina 
30293 (MEXI). 


43. Erythrina guatemglensis Krukoff in Amer. Jone. Bot. 
28: 688. 1941. 


Guatemala: Alta Verapaz: along road to El Estor, 
T. Crogt 41484 (MO), 41717 (MO). 


44. Erythring globocalyx Porsch & Cufodontis in Arch. Bot. 
Sist. Fitog. & Genet. 10: 35, pl. 1. 1934. 


Ray W. Lent 1163 was identified at first as E. chiri- 
guensis but corrected and identified later correctly as E. 
globocalyx. Cards, however, were not removed from the card 
index and as a result the specimen was cited in Suppl. V 
(Phytologia 22: 277. 1971) under both species. This col- 
lection was correctly cited in Exsiccatae. 


45. Erythring florencige Krukoff & Barneby in Mem. N.Y. 
Bot. Gard. 20(2): 171. 1970. 


Mexico: Chiapas: mun. Motozintla de Mendoza, + 2100 
m, montane rain forest, Breedlove 41696 (MEXU). 


49. Erythring lanceolata Standley in Contr. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 17: -432. 1914. 


Honduras: Comayagua: Toulabe, Garcia Maynor 033 (MO) 


50. Erythring costaricensis M. Micheli, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
2: 445. 1894. 


Panama: M. Nee 7268 (MAD); Canal Zone J. _P. Folsum 
1938; Panama: J. P. Folsum 6594 (MO). 


52. Erythring gmericang Miller, Gard. Dict. ed. 8, No. 
5. ‘1768 


Mexico: -Nepantla, 0. Converse 131 (MEXI); Veracruz: 


1979 Krukoff, Notes on Erythrina 


G. K. Arp 4174 (10 kms E of Huatusco) (F), Roberto V. Or- 
tega Ortiz 0-287 (Jilotepeg) (F), C. Velazquez Lices VL- 
290 (Tepatlaxco) (F), Mgnuel G. Zolg Baez Z-457 (La Con- 
cepcion, Vista Hermosa, + 1120 m) (F), Juan Ismgel Calzada 
2427 (Casautlan) (F), 3080 (Xalapa) (F), 3177 (F); Morelos: 
Cuernavaca: + 1400 m, Almg D. Villegas 17 (MEXU). 


53. Erythring berteroang Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 370. 1908. 


Panama: Chiriqut: Berenice de Caballero 19 (MO), 
J. P. Folsom 3935 (MO), 3937 (MO); Cocle* J. P. Folsum 
2740 (MO); Canal Zone: Edwin L. Tyson 7400 (MEXU), G. A. 
Sullivan 587. Puerto Rico: W. R. Durland s.n. (MAD). 


54. Erythring rubrinervia H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 
434. 1824. 


Panama: Darien: Bgrry Hammel 1336 (MO). 


58. Erythring gibbosag Cufodontis in Arch. Bot. Sist. Fitog. 
& Genet. 10: 34. 1934. 


Panama: Cocle: Barry Hammel 4807 (MO), J. P. Folsum 
2755 (MO). 


71. Erythrina caffrg Thunberg, Prodr. Pl. Cap. 121. 1800. 
Morocco: Royal Palace (cult.), J. Lewalle 8695. 


72. Erythring lysistemon Hutchinson in Kew Bull. 1933: 
422. 1933. 


Hong Kong: Kadoorie Gardens, cult., G. Baretto 150 (K). 


79. Erythring senegalensis Alph. DeCandolle, Prodr. 2: 413. 
1825. 


Cameroun: Ngechewe, J. Raynal 12774 (K)- 


80. Erythring excelsa Baker in Oliver Fl. Trop. Africa 
2: 183,; 2872. 


Southern Nigeria: Dageman District, P. A. Talbot 3747. 


81. Erythrina mildbraedii Harms in Mildbr. Deutsch. Zentr.- 
Afr. Exp. 1907/1908, 2: 264. tab. 30. 1911. 


Ghana: W. T. S. Brown 2152 (MAD). 


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83. Erythring mendesii Torre in Bol. Soc. Brot. (Ser. 2) 
39: ° 282. -1965. 


Angola: E. J. Mendes 1079 (Isotype) (BM). 


A colored photo of this species was published in Conspect. 
Fl. Angol. 3: fasc. 2. 1966. 


86. Erythring livingstoniagng Baker in Oliver Fl. Trop. Africa 
23 162.1671. 


Rhodesia: Chiredzi, G. Pope 1511 (K). 


87. Erythring tholloniang Hua in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 
wee. £2°95.22098; 


West Africa: G. LeTestu 1691 (BM) 


89. Erythring droogmansiang DeWildeman & Th. Durand in Bull. 
Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 40: 19. 1901. 


Angola: de Malanje, R. de Champs 1461 (MAD). 


93. Erythring sigmoideg Hua in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Par. 
ae Set, 1B. 


Oubangi-Chari: G. Le Testu 1015 (BM), 2677 (BM), 3720 
(BM). 


95. Erythring abyssinica Lamarck, Encycl. Bot. 2: 392. 1788; 
ex. Alph. DeCandolle Prodr. 2: 413. 1825: Gillet in Kew 
Bull. 15: 426. 1962. 


Burundi M. Reekmans 5319. Angola: Huambo, R. DeChamps 
1042 (MAD). Kenya: S. S. Hooper 1447 (K), 1505 (K)- Rho- 
desia: Eyles Herbarium 4538 (BM). Malawi: Northern pro- 


vince: Jean Pawek 5772 (CAS). 


96. Erythring varieggta L. Herb. Amboin. 10. 1754; Amoen. 
Acad. 4: 122. 1759, based on Gelala alba Rumphius, Herb. 
Anboin, 2: 234. te 7i« 2750; 


East Pakistan: Chittagong, S. Majumder s.n. (2/19- 
1966) (MAD), s.n. (6/25-1968) (MAD). North Borneo: E. L. 
Foster 65 (MAD). New Guinea: J. H. L. Waterhouse 266 (MAD). 
New Caledonia: MgcKee 33650 (K). Australia: Queensland: 


V._K. Moriarty 1171 (K). 


97. Erythring tghitensis Nadeau, Enum. Pl. Tahiti 80. 1873. 


1979 Krukoff, Notes on Erythrina 27 
Hawaii: Sherwin Carlguist 595 (MAD). 


102. Erythring veluting Willdenow, Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin 
Neue Schr. 3: 426. 1801. 


Brazil: Paraiba: mun. Barra do Santa Rosa, Jose Edin- 
aldo Santo 59 (RB); Fed. errk cult., Heringer 12865 (UB); 
Bahia: Maracas, S. A. Mori 1141; Rio de Janeiro, cult. 

Luis Eavadio de Mello Filho 4133 (K). Ecuador: Guyas: Ce 
H. Dodson 6842 (SEL); Galapagos Islands, Syugo Itow 29 (Isla 
Santa Cruz), (CAS),_E. Yale Dawson s.n. (29/1-1964) (Isla 
Darwin) (CAS), _s.n. (1/2-1964) (Isla Wolf) (CAS), Robert I. 
Bowman s.n. (26/8-1957) (CAS). West Africa: Cape Verde Is- 
lands: cult., R. T. Lowe s.n. (28/5-1875) (BM). 


108a.Erythring melancantha Taubert ex Harms in Ann. Ist. Bot. 
Roma 7: 96. 1897. ssp. melanacanthg. 


Ethiopia: Sidamo province, Ash 2780 (US). 


i. Erythring x bidwillii Lindley, Bot. Reg. 33: pl. 9. 
1849. 


Hong Kong: Joseph P. W. Wood 148 (CAS), G. Baretto 151 
(K) (Kadoorie Gardens, Taipo). 


7. Erythring x sykesii Barneby & Krukoff in Lloydia 37: 447. 
1974. 


Hong Kong: Kadoorie Gardens, G. Bgretto 149 (K). Aus- 
tralia: New South Wales: Sabing Holmes 1447 (US). 


10. Erythring x blakei Parker, A. Forest Flora for the Pun- 
jab with Hazara and Delhi, p. 159. 1918. 


India: Dehra Dun, Circuit House Grounds, P. _N. Parker 
(3/5-1923). 


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List of Exsiccatage 


The first list of Exsiccatae was published in Supple- 
ment #13 (Phytologia 41: 256-300. 1979). The present list 
of Exsiccatae covers Supplements #12 and #14. 


Only numbered collections and those of which the dates 
of collection are recorded have been listed. If a collector 
gathered his collection together with others, only his name 
is cited in this list. Collections with Dr. Prance's mum- 
bers are cited under Prance. 


Almeda, F., 3475 (1), 4174 (41), 4194 (7). 
Anderson, Edward F., 4195 (13), 4250 (13). 
Arguelles, Elizabeth, 388 (26). 

Arostegui V., Antonio, 49 (1), 61 (1). 
Arp, G. K., 4174 (52). 


Backer C., s.n. (Oct. 1907,flrs.) (98). 

Baretto G., 148 (16), 149 (Hybrid #7), 150 (72), 151 (Hybrid 
#1). 

Beaman, John H., 5261 (30). 

Beer, (“bir Wis 2T7Eo (12); 

Bennett, 808 (19). 

Bowman, s.n. (Sept. 26, 1957) (102). 

Breedlove, D. E., 18599 (19), 24215 (31), 39647 (36), 39804 
(36), 39981 (29), 40625 (29), 41240 (36), 416096 (46). 

Brown, W.. T..5.,..7152 (8b)., 

Burch, D., 6831 (2). 


Caballero de, Bernice, 19 (53). 

Caldwell, D. H., 8736 (22a). 

Calzada, Juan Ismael, 2427 (52), 2840 (30), 3080 (52), 3177 
(52). 

Camp. W. H. E., 3643 (15a). 

Carlquist, Sherwin, 595 (97). 

Carvalho de, L., d'A. Freire, 1085 (3). 

Carvalho de, Monteiro, A. A., 6667 (25). 

Castellanos, A., 22820 (102). 

Gapalers (Ps. Ce Des* 5080 (15a). 

Champs de, R., 1042 (95), 1461 (89). 

Chiang, F., 444 (22b). 

Coll. undesign.,s.n. (Herb. Lamb.), (Holotype of E. guineen-_ 
sig G. Don-BM) (79). 

Coll. undesign.,s.n. (cult. Kew 404. 62-labelled E. marmorata) 
(96), 462.67 (96), 101.68 (99-island form). 

Coll. undesign.,s.n. (30/9-1931) (9). 

Conrad, J., 2825 (30). 


1979 Krukoff, Notes on Erythrina 


Chane) s0../E- 10027 .(7): 

Converse, O., 131 (52). 

Cooper , (Ri Es) 01293 ((12) 5, 2612 (12): 

Croat, Thomas B., 38658 (15a), 38702 (15a), 39662 (30), 
41484 (43), 41717 (43), 42660 (35). 

Cuatrecases, 34504 (7). 


Curran, FB. Mo; 20€3) £)3862)4 (83.102). 789 €2) £2907.5(1) 5 92080f3)2 


Danin, Avinoan, 2/22-1976 (1). 

Davis, E. W., 347 (15). 

Dawson, E. Yale, s.n. (Febr. 1, 1964) (102) s.n. (Jan. 29, 
1964) (102). 

Dodson, C. H., 4319 (15a), 5334 (15a), 6241 (15a), 6737 (5a), 
6842 (102), 7249 (15), 7333 (15a), 7740 (15a) 

Doval, Ram Prasad, s.n. (3/27-1929) (8). 

Duarte, A. *P..\5 (19068 1(3) - 

Dugand, 865 (1), 933 (1). 

Duke, J. A.;. 13232 (58)- 

Dunn, D. B., 19189 (22b). 

Dziekanowski, C., 3040 (20). 


Escobar de, Linda Albert, 860 (15b). 
Espinosa, J., s-n. (11/III-1973) (25). 
Espinosa, Reinaldo, 668 (15), 1347 (15). 
Estrada Martinez, Emma, 192 (55). 

Eyles Herbarium,4538 (95). 


Fagerlind, 657 (15a). 

Folsum, J. P., 1938 (50), 2740 (53), 2755 (58), 3935 (53), 
3937 (53), 3957 (53), 3986 (49), 3999 (41), 5637 (50), 
6435 (50), 6594 (50). 

Foster, E. L., 65 (96). 


Garcia-Barriga, H., 20059 (15), 20062 (15). 
Garcia, Maynor, 033 (49). 

Gentry, Al., 9650 (15a), 13946 (41). 
German, Teresa, 939 (14). 

Gibba, PF. E.; 6651 (3). 

Gibson, Arthur C., 2280 (24). 

Gold, Dudley, 178 (20). 

Gomes, A., 500 (25), 2809A (6)- 

Gonzalez Leija, 835 (31), 3969 (31). 
Greenway, P. J., 14814 (76). 

Grethen, R., 576 (23). 

Grupo Etnobiologia, 111 (24), 192 (20). 
Gumaraes, Elsie F., s.n. (May 1976) (16). 


Hammel, Barry, 1336 (54) , 3017 (15), 3848 (50), 4807 (58)- 


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Hastings, J. R., 71-193 (24), 71-204 (24). 

Helms, Sabina, 1447 (Hybrid #7). 

Herb. Bogor, 50 (9), 837 (11/8-1922, flrs.) (98), 879 (98), 
4701 (flrs., frts.) (98), 9620 (9), 12785 (9), 14598 
(9), 14599 (9), s.n. (2-0-10) (98) (some seeds may not 
belong here), (2/0-16, flrs.) (98). 

Herb. Koorders, 46 (9), 49 (9), 51 (9), 65 (9), 66 (9), 71 
(9)i,; 72; (9). 

Herb. H. LeTestu, 1615 (93), 1691 (87), 2677 (93), 3720 (93). 

Herb. R. T. Lowe, s.n. (28/5-1875) (102). 

Herb. Mus. Nac. Rio, 66685 (1). 

Herb. Jard. Bot. Rio, 80834 (3), 112888 (3), 143027 (2), 
157825 (3), 173067 (102). 

Heringer, E. P., 2809 (6), 7603 (6), 7777A (6), #2865 (102), 
15166 (6), 16978 (6), s.n. (13/6-1974) (16) 

Hernandez, H. M., 1 (70), 2 (70 ), 3 (2), 5 (28a), s.n. (Apr. 
15, 1978) (70). 

Hitchcock, 20417 (15a). 

Hooper, S. S., 1447 (95), 1509 (95). 

Howell, John T., 10455 (28b). 

Huggins, P. P., Al8 (12). 


Isely Duane, 10399 (22b). 
Itow, Syuzo, 29 (102). 


Jacobs, M., 4886 (24/5-1951, flrs.) (98). 
Jativa, Carlos, 189 (15a), 559 (15a). 


Kanai, H., s.n. (July 11, 1970) (12) s.n. (Aug. 22, 1972) 
(12). 

Kerr, F. H. W., 2029 (13). 

Kral, R., 27670 (14). 

Krieger, Leopaldo, 7667 (2). 

Krukoff, B. A., 7a (41), 1969-104 (41), 1969-105 (41), 1069- 
112 (41), 1969-113 (41), 1969-146 (41), 1969-283 (41), 
1973-4 (41), 1973-5 (41), 1973-6 (41), 1973-7 (41), 1973- 
8 (41), 1973-9 (41), 1973-10 (41), 1978/21 (42). 


Laclette, Paula, 452 (7). 

Lathrop, E. W., 5116 (36). 

Lewalle, J., 8695 (71), 8696 (2), 8708b (2) 

Little Jr., Elbert L., 6194 (15a). 

Lozoya, X., s.n. (10/19-1977) (14). 

Ludlow, s-n. (5/8-49) (12), s-n. (6/8-1949, flrs.) (12). 


MacKee, 33650 (96). 

Mad, 19211 (2), 22125 (1). 

Madsen, H. Balslev, 10324 (15). 

Majumder, S., sen. (2/19-1966) (96), s.n. (6/25 1968) (96) 


1979 Krukoff, Notes on Erythrina 


Magallanes, J. Arturo S., 729 (28b). 
Martinez-Calderon, Guadeloupe, 1393 (30), 1395 (31). 
Marquez, Wilfrido, M-851 (47). 

Mattos, J., 9768 (102), s.n. (21/II-1962) (102). 
Meebold, A., 9728 (9). 

Mello Filho de, Luis E., 4132 (102). 

Mendes, E. J., 1079 (isotype-BM) (83). 

Mexia, 2632 (24). 

Mill, H., 366 (36). 

Molina R., Antonio, 7 (41), 20547 (41), 30293 (42). 
Montalvo, E. A., 4821 (42). 

Moreno G., S., 247 (20). 

Sores oS. Av; 20395 (2), 203996 (1), 121416102). 


Navarrez, Marcelo, s.n. (MAD 15021) (2). 

Nee, M., 7268 (50). 

Neill, David, 2974 (41), 3120 (53), 3719 (45), 4142 (45). 
Norris, D. H., 20146 (28b). 


Ohashi, H., s.n. (July 25, 1972) (12). 
Ortega Ortiz, Roberto V., 0-287 (52). 


Parker, P.N., s.n. (3/5-1923) (Hybrid#10). 

Parks, C.:-R. ,):295: Ci4). 

Pawek, Jean, 5772 (95). 

Plowman, T., 3923 (15). 

Pope, G., 1511 (86). 

Prescott Decie, s.n. (1914) (syntype of E. platyphyllg Baker 
f.-BM) (95). 


Ramalho, Roberto S., 1004 (6). 

Battery. J Ay) 2242 3), 2677 '@). 

Reekmans, 5319 (95). 

Rodrigues, W., 9645 (7)- 

Rose, J. N., 22594 (15a). 

Roynal, J., 12774 (79)- 

Rzedowski, J., 28300 (20), 30762 (20), 32034 (20), 33269 (20). 


Santo, Jose Edinaldo, 59 (102). 

Schulz, A. C., sen. (4). 

Seemann, 26 (1867) (53)- 

Shank, Paul J., 63 (35). 

Shepherd, John D., 665 (54). 

Smith, Austin, A-29 (41), P2238 (41). 

Smith, P. A., 1872 (83). 

Sousa, M., 3927 (28b), 3927 (seedling-28b), 4224 (42), 4290 
(30), 5251 (29), 5506 (28c), 6999 (29), 7021 (29), 7056 
(type) (28c), 7226 (36), 7405 (29), 7452 (28c), 7493 
(28c), 7541 (28c), 7575 (31), 7586 (28c), 7642 (28c), 
8014 (28a). 


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Stern, W. L., 138 (22a), 226 (22a). 

Stainton, 6698 (12). 

Steere, 1428 (23) 

Stevens, W. D., 1474 (19), 3664 (53), 4177 (53), 4545 (53), 
4797 (58), 5066 (58), 5136 (53), 5258 (53), 5772 (53), 
5817 (53), 5850 (53), 6007 (53), 60223 (45), 6024 (523), 
6033 (1), 6124 (45), 6191 (53), 6624 (1), 6629 (1), 
6823 (45), 6893 (45), 7375 (45), 8819 (45), 9088 (53). 

Stevenson, s-n. (Yale 3327) (31). 

Sullivan, G. A., 139 (50), 587 (53). 


Taffala (?) F. H D. 267 L. 538 (Holotype of E. megisto- 
phylla) (15a) 

Talbot, P. A., 3747 (80). 

Tattersall, I., 1 (1), 2 (1), 3 (1). 

Tatto, Lino, 3668 (2). 

Taylor Edwards, Mary, 682 (52). 

Tellez, Oswaldo, 602 (42). 

Thorne, R. F., 41207 (36). 

Thorpe, R. F., 41518 (36). 

Tyson, Edwin L., 7400 (53). 


Vasques, J., 1770 (20). 

Vasquez Torres, Vicente, W-279 (47). 

Vasquez Yanez, C., 593 (22b), 751 (31), 889 (22b). 

Vazquez, S. J., 1959 (28b). 

Veen, van der, R-, s-n. (July 1975) (98), s.n. (Febr. 1979) 
(seeds only, 96 or 98). 

Velazquez L., VL-290 (52). 

Ventura A., A-, 149 (20), 1399 (20), 1486 (20), 1578 (20), 
1882 (20), 2769 (20). 

Villegas, Alma D., 17 (52), s-n. (9/9-1978) (14). 

Vincelli, Paul C., 330A (45), 407 (45). 


Walsh, M. E., 2250 (96). 

Waterhouse, J. H. L., 266 (96). 

Welwitch, 2229 (syntype of E. suberifera Welw.-BM) (95), 
2230 (syntype of E. suberifera Welw.-BM) (95), 2231 
(Holotype of E. huillensis Welw. -BM) (95). 

Wiggins, Ira L., 19656 (22). 

Williams, L. 0., 42774 (41), 43201 (39). 

Wilson, Archie, s-n. (July 1953) (22a). 

Wood, Joseph P. W., 148 (Hybrid #1). 

Woodson, 913 (41). 


Zola Baez, Manuel G., Z-457 (52). 


BOOK REVIEWS 


George M. Hocking 
School of Pharmacy, Auburn University 
Auburn, Alabama 


"AN ATLAS OF POLLEN OF THE TREES AND SHRUBS OF EASTERN CANADA 
AND THE ADJACENT UNITED STATES," by R.J. Adams and J.K. Morton. 
Part is S52 'pp-, PF f8e2; 16 p¥s:\—'Part Ii: "Ss%eer. 16 pis. = 
Part III: 37 pp., 14 pls. University of Waterloo (Ontario, 
Canada) Biol. Series Nos. 8, 9, 10 (resp.). 1972, 1974, 1976 
(resp.) $2.50 for each part. 


The first number describes the techniques used in making good 
scanning electron microscope (SEM) pictures. To avoid dis- 
tortion of the pollen grain in acetolysis and critical point 
drying in liquid carbon dioxide, special apparatus was develop- 
ed and is described and illustrated. Part One includes the 
pollens from Gymnospermae and Angiospermae (Salicaceae to 
Fagaceae); Part Two pollens from families Ulmaceae to Rosaceae ; 
Part Three pollens from Leguminosae to Cornaceae. A fourth 
Part is to be published at a later time to complete the cover- 
age of the vascular seed plants. The plates lie opposite to 
the listing of the spp. represented; a very brief description 
and an indication of magnification are given. The plates are 
excellent in showing the pollen grain (generally two views for 
each one) as seen at about 1000 to 2000 X magnification and 
then also in many cases further magnifications to 5000 X. An 
index is given at the end of each Part with an indication of 
the herbarium source of the materials used. This set of vol- 
umes should prove of much interest to paleoclimatologists, geo- 
stratigraphists, medical immunologists, allergologists, as well 
of course as the group of primary interest - the palynologists. 
GMH 


"THE ALGAL RIDGES AND CORAL REEFS OF ST. CROIX: THEIR STRUCTURE 
AND HOLOCENE DEVELOPMENT," by W. H. Adey. Atoll Res. Bull No. 
13/7: “6? pp... 450 fans. 21975: 


The shallow coral reef and algal ridge systems on the eastern 
shelf of St. Croix (U. S. Virgin Islands) are described and 
mapped. The algal ridges are Holocene in development (i.e., 
from end of Pleistocene to present). The primary ridge builders 
are Lithophyllum congestum, Porolithon pachydermum, and several 
Neogoniolithon spp. Coral reefs on the open coasts develop 
steep ridges after they have built to the ocean surface. 

GMH 


33 


3h PHYTOLOGIA Vol. hh, Now 1 


"SUPPLEMENT TO THE FLORA OF PHULCHOKI AND GODAWARI," by S. B. 
Amalla, Chairman of Editorial Board, Department of Medicinal 
Plants, Ministry of Forests, Nepal, Thapathali, Kathmandu, 
Nepal. Bulletin No. 5, Dept. Med. Plants: ii, a -c, 1-53, 
xvii; 1974. 


This annotated listing of plants supplements data in the Flora 
proper which was published as Bulletin No. 2 in 1969. The main 
work contained 527 spp. of angiosperms and two spp. of Gymno- 
spermae. The supplement includes 80 spp. of Pteridophyta with 
44 spp. of Angiospermae. Citations, synonyms, brief descrip- 
tions, vernacular names, and collection data are given. 

GMH 


"THE NATURAL HISTORY OF JOHNSTON ATOLL, CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN," 
by A. B. Amerson, Jr. and P. C. Shelton. Atoll Research Bull. 
Boi. 392) .uket “479. pp., Siotabs., 117 figs; 91976. 


The history, physical environment, and biota of the Atoll, 
which includes two natural islands and two man-made islands 
located ca. 450 miles s.w. of the Hawaiian Islands, are given 
in detail. 93 spp. of marine algae, 33 spp. in the lagoon 
waters, and 12 spp. benthic, are listed; 127 spp. of vascular 
plants from the four islands are enumerated, of which only 
three spp. are native, the others introduced by various means. 
(pp. 47-65). Annotated listings of vascular plants spp. are 
given for Akau Island (pp. 387-392), Hikina Is. (393-395); 
Johnston Island (pp 396-417), Sand Is. (man-made part) (418- 
428), and Sand Is. (original portion) (429-442). 

GMH 


"ANNUAL REGISTER OF GRANT SUPPORT, 1977-78. ELEVENTH EDITION," 
(Anonymous) xxiii + 757. Marquis Academic Media, Marquis Who's 
Who Inc., 200 E. Ohio St., Chicago, I11. 60611. 1977. $54.50. 


This is one of some 16 volumes published by Marquis Academic 
Media for the special benefit of educators and certain other 
professional men and women. The present volume is considered 
a very valuable reference book for the college professor, dean, 
or president, and for other members of the higher education 
community; the book is of value to the individual as well as 
the or ganization. Specific data are furnished for some 2,391 
current grant programs, which are available through funding 

by governmental agencies, private foundations, corporations, 
unions, educational and professional associations, church 
groups, etc. This particular edition exhibits 400 new programs 
and 330 new grant-furnishing organizations. The large cloth- 
board volume has ten major subdivisions: (1) General (ex. Fire- 
stone Foundation, offering support to secondary and tertiary 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 35 


schools, etc.) (2) Humanities (general) (ex. Institute for Ad 
vanced Study, with grants for research in mathematics, natural 
sciences, etc.). Following the general section, there are 
several special areas indicated (such as arts, history, liter- 
ature) with numerous fund sources. (3) International affairs 
(ex. Chinese Cultural Center) (4) Race and minorities (ex. 
Bureau of Indian Affairs). (5) Urban and regional affairs 
(ex. Center for Fire Research). (6) Education (ex. Danforth 
Foundation). (7) Social sciences (ex. National Library of 
Medicine); (8) Physical sciences (ex. Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution); (9) Life sciences (ex. Botanical Society of 
America, Inc.); and (10) Technology (ex. Institute of Food 
Technologists). There are four indexes: (1) Subject (2) 
Organization and program (3) Geographic (4) Personnel. (A 
broadening of the subject index to show various subdivisions 
would have been helpful). The data supplied for each program 
include: address, officers, area of interest, type, purposes, 
eligibility, financial data, application information, etc. 

GMH 


"DIRECTORY OF MEDICAL SPECIALISTS," Anonymous. 18th edition, 
1977-1978. In 2 volumes: vol. I: i-xxii; pp. 1-1832. vol. 
II: xxiii-xxxv; pp. 1833-3461. Marquis Who's Who Inc., 200 
East Ohio St., Chicago, Ill. 60611. 1978 $69.50 (2 vols.) 


The first edition of this massive reference work appeared in 
1940; a new revision appears every two years. The listing is 
of diplomates in 22 major medical specialties, including in- 
ternal medicine and its subdivisions and family practice. 

Thus it includes virtually every practitioner in the United 
States. (A diplomate is one certified by one of the various 
specialty boards). Each edition of the work has shown an in- 
crease in the number of biographical sketches, that is, in the 
number of physicians included, culminating in a total in this 
edition of ca. 190,000!! The biographies are arranged pri- 
marily by specialty, secondarily by state or country (some 
diplomates have moved outside of the USA), then by municipality 
(like the states arranged alphabetically), and finally by sur- 
name of individual also in alphabetic order. An excellent 
idea for guidance in the use of the work is the illustrative 
example posted plainly on an early page in each volume. This 
represents a key to the individual biography, with a write-up 
of a mythical person. Personal data is kept to a minimum; 
mostly professional information is given: date and place of 
graduation; where interned; present hospital and teaching 
posts; military service; current address; etc. Much informa- 
tion is also given on the activities of the various American 
specialty boards. There is an enormous amount of information 
in this work - a work which should be present in every public, 
science, and medical library 9 ge country. 


% PHYTOLOGIA Vol. hh, No.1 


"ANNUELLES ET LEGUMES. RESULTATS DES CULTURES D'ESSAI,"" (Anon- 
ymous) Jardin Botanique de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 
228 pp. ) O*figs «19755 


Annual ornamentals are arranged in alphabetic order by botanical 
name: Ageratum houstonianum, etc. (pp. 1-123) and vegetables are 
arranged in the order of their common French names (aubergine, 
Solanum melongena, etc.)(pp. 124-228). Various cultivars are 
presented with descriptions of type of growth, flowers, fruits, 
ete: 

GMH 


"PLANT BIOLOGY: A CONCISE INTRODUCTION," by Rose H. Arnett, 

Jr. and/George F. Bazinet j Jr. ‘Fourth Edition. xii + 553-ppe, 
726 fiesle 7 cols pls.,; YO tabs, -62°V. Mosby’ Co., (St. Louge; 
Mo. 1977 $10.50 (limp plastic cover). 


While this volume has retained much of the old classic form 
seen in standard texts, there is a considerable amount of the 
newest advances in the field. The well-printed text is char- 
acterized by having numerous good photographs, with occasional 
full page photos of special attraction. The text is co- 
authored by teachers of biology at Siena College, a Catholic 
school at Loudonville, New York. (There is an excellent chap- 
ter on evolution with no mention of the Biblical special crea- 
tion theory). The senior author has been co-author of the 
three previous editions; Bazinet is new in the present edition. 
(Previous editions carried a slightly different title: "An 
introduction to plant biology.") The last previous edition 
came out in 1970. At the end of each chapter there is a series 
of Questions and Problems, topics for discussions, and addi- 
tional references. A glossary and the index are at the end 
of the volume, preceded by 75 pages of appendices: App. A is 
an outline classification of the plant kingdom, showing bo- 
tanical origins and common names of representative taxa. 
App. B details the life cycles of 23 plants from the viruses 
(Virulenta) to Lilium (angiosperm). Treating viruses as 
living microorganisms is somewhat controversial as they are 
now generally thought to be lifeless complex organic com- 
pounds which reproduce themselves. 

GMH 


"PRACTICAL EMULSIONS," by H. Bennett, Jack L. Bishop, Jr., and 
Max L. Wulfinghoff. Volume I Materials and Equipment - vii + 
181 pp., ‘figs:>, and tabs.; 1968. -$12.00.° Volume ‘II Applica= 
tions - vii + 204 ; 1968. $13.00. 3rd Edition, Chemical 
Publishing Co., Inc., 212 Fifth Avenue., New York 10010 


As entitled "Practical Emulsions" the two volumes approach the 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 


subject of emulsions from an empirical basis, i.e. practical 
application. The books may serve as handy reference for those 
people in the field of emulsions. Academically, the subject 
matter is not covered in sufficient depth with regard to the 
physical chemical theory. However, I don't feel the authors 
intended the latter. The authors are to be commended for 
their efforts in the compilation of the "endless" list of 
emulsifying agents with their suppliers and classifications. 
Is it possible that further cross reference could be made to 
these emulsifiers with regard to their HLB (Hydrophile-Lipo- 
phile Balance) values? Such values are commonly used. Such 
values may be quite useful in realizing successful products 
as treated in volume II. A brief discussion of the HLB value 
has been covered in Volume I. It might be suggested that the 
price of the two volumes is rather high. 

(Geo. E. Crevar) 


"LES REMEDES DU VIEUX TEMPS: REMEDIES AND CURES OF THE KAPLAN 
AREA IN SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA", by Anna M. Boudreaux. Sou- 
thern Folklore Quarterly 35: 121-140; 1971. 


The use of domestic remedies by the rural peoples of this 
area (white, Catholic, French-Acadian culture) has been es- 
tablished as a matter of necessity and convenience. On the 
basis of interviews with 15 knowledgeable individuals of the 
area, the medicinal use of 17 plants of the area (ex. fleurs 
de cirie, Myrica cerifera) are cataloged. The plants collected 
were identified by a botanist. The French plant names and 
instructions for use are given verbatim, as used in 41 indica- 
tions (diseases, disorders). Thus, for example, the pounded 
seeds of Erythrina herbacea (mamou) are mixed with honey and 
taken on retiring at night for cough. In this area, a traiteur 
(treater), an individual who heals by prayer and basic medi- 
cation, is often consulted. The usages recorded here were 
compared with those reported by others (Roberts, J. Amer. Folk- 
lore; 1927; Brandon, Le Bayou; 1955). 

GMH 


DRUGS OF THE BIBLE," by B. B. Brown and E. Wood Hall. 51 pp. 
(s.p.) College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin. 
1976. 


Various drugs and drug plants having mention in the 
Scriptures are discussed. In Part 1 there is a review of the 
various items under the drug or plant name. Part II (EWH and 
students), various drugs and plants in alphabetic order from 
"Almond" to "Wine" are described. Following this another 
series of drugs (in alphabetic order from Aloes to Wormwood) 
is given along with specific quotations from the Bible with 


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38 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. hh, No.1 


citations of book, chapter, and verse. Finally biographical 
data on the two authors is furnished. 
GMH 


"THE NIGHTSHADES AND HEALTH", by Norman Franklin Childers and 
Gerard M. Russo. viii + 189 pp., 37 figs., 21 tabs. Horti- 
cultural Publications, Somerset Press, Inc., Somerville, N.J. 
08876. 1977. $20.00. 


The thesis of this book is that members of the family 
Solanaceae are unsuited to the human diet, in other words, 
that the white potato, tomato, garden peppers, and eggplant 
should be eliminated from our diets. Tobacco is also consider- 
ed harmful. The first portion of the book deals with these 
matters and includes case histories. Ch. IV(by Dr. A. Zitnak) 
discusses steroids and capsaicinoids of solanaceous food 
plants; Ch. V (by Dr. T. C. Tso) concerns tobacco and tobacco 
smoke), and Ch. VI (by Dr. G. K. Davis) takes up the effect of 
Solanum malacoxylon Sendt. on livestock and Ca metabolism. 

The last 20% of the book is occupied with many abstracts on 
common toxic plants by R. T. Kelly consists mostly of tables 
reviewing toxic plants of all kinds. 

GMH 


"AN EXOLOGICAL AND TAXONOMIC STUDY OF SELECTED HIGHER FUNGI IN 
NORTHEASTERN OHIO," by William G. Cibula. viii, 95 pp., l 
chart, 6 figs., 37 pls., 3 tabls. Ohio Biological Survey, 
Biological Notes No. 7. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 
43210... -1974.° Gratis '(T) 


This work helps to fill a gap in the knowledge of the 
Fungi of northeastern Ohio, which have not received much study 
in the past. A major reason for the fungi not being known 
better as compared with the higher and many of the lower 
plants is the evanescence of their fruiting bodies "here today 
and gone tomorrow'’. Mushrooms decay and disappear soon after 
they appear. Unfortunately, there is also a certain disdain 
or even revulsion to these primitive organisms. We sometimes 
speak of a person as "pale as a mushroom". The Greek word for 
mushroon is related to the word for mucus and slime ("mykos"). 
It is a wonder these lowly plants are as well known as they 
are. Now that we are learning more about important values in 
medicine and elsewhere, this attitude is slowly changing and 
with it there has been an increase in our knowledge of members 
of the group. In this brochure, 31 taxa have been treated 
with rather good descriptions, illustrations, and general 
information. (One name, Pluteus admirabilis shows the author- 
ities incompletely). There is not as much collection informa- 
tion as one might expect for the area. In addition to the 
descriptions of taxa, there is a useful introductory part 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 39 


which supplies much information on collection, preparation, 
and study methods. Also included are a glossary and color 
chart of fructifications and a useful bibliography. The table 
of contents serves adequately as an index. 

GMH 


"INTERMOUNTAIN FLORA: VASCULAR PLANTS OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN 
WEST, U.S.A.," by A. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, 
J. L. Reveal, and Patricia K. Holmgren. Vol. VI: The mono- 
cotyledons. XI + 1-588, numerous line drawings (s.n.), 
frontispiece; 1977. Columbia University Press, 562 W. 113 St., 
New York. $54.00 


This sixth volume follows directly after the first one 
which appeared in 1972, and which besides important intro- 
ductory and background information furnished coverage of the 
lower groups of vascular plants (Lycopodophyta, Equisetophyta, 
Polypodiophyta, Pinophyta), in the older terms, the pteri- 
dophytes and conifers. The flora is a cooperative effort in 
which the named authors had useful support from their institu- 
tions = the N. Y. Botanical Garden (A. C., N.H.H., P.K.H.), 
Utah State Univ. (A. H.H.), Univ. Maryland (J.L.R.). In 
addition, many other botanists, specialists in various areas, 
have contributed to the "Flora". The authorship of the 
various subdivisions of the flora can be learned only by 
referring to the Introduction, since there is no listing or 
reference in the table of contents. The keys are abundant 
and generally very thorough and the descriptions of family, 
genera, and species are more detailed than one would find in 
a manual of the flora for a particular region. Synonymy 
appears to be complete for the various taxa, and a good bit 
of detail will be found in the small type on ecology and dis- 
tribution and various data (including controversies) on the 
respective taxa. The excellent drawings are in some cases 
original but most are borrowed from "Vascular Plants of the 
Pacific Northwest". No novelties were noted except for one 
new variety, but there are several new combinations, in- 
cluding the following: Potamogeton filiformis var. latifolius 
(J. W. Robbins) Reveal (P. pectinatus var. 1.); Juncus 
ensifolius var. brunnescens (Rydb.) Cronq. (J. b.); Scirpus 
pungens var. longispicatus (Britton) Cronq. (S. americanus var. 
1.); Carex scirpoidea var. curatorum (Stacey) Cronquist (C. v.); 
Calochortus panamintensis (Ownbey) Reveal (C. nuttallii var. p.); 
Allium atrorubens var. inyonis (M. E. Jones) Ownbey et Aase 
(A.i); A. bisceptrum var. palmeri (S. Wats.) Cronq. (A. p.); 
Aristida purpurea var. glauca (Nees) A. Holmgren et N. Holmgren 
(Chaetaria g.); A. purpurea var. robusta (Merr .) A. Holmgren 
et N. Holmgren (A. longiseta var. r.); Yucca harrimaniae var. 
neomexicana (Wooton et Standley) Reveal (Y. n.); Y. baileyi 
var. intermedia (McKelvey) Reveal (Y.i.); Y. elata var. 


0 PVT ONO GT & Vol. hi, Now 1 


utahensis (McKelvey) Reveal (Y. u.) and var. verdiensis 
(McKelvey) Reveal (Y¥Y. v.); Y. angustissima var. kanabensis 
(McKelvey) Reveal (Y. k.), var. toftiae (S. L. Welsh) Reveal 
(Y. t.), and var. avia var. nov. (Piute Co., Utah); Sisyrinch- 
iuum douglasii var. inflatum (Suksd.) P. Holmgren (Olysnium i.). 
This book is clearly printed on high grade glossy paper and 
strongly bound in cloth matching the first volume. The set 
should present a handsome effect on the library shelf. Volumes 
2 to 5 which are next to appear will cover the Dicotyledoneae. 
The relatively low cost of the volumes is a most attractive 
feature in this age of inflation. 

GMH 


"FLORA OF THE RIO PALENQUE SCIENCE CENTER, LOS RIOS PROVINCE, 
ECUADOR,"' by C. H. Dodson and A. H. Gentry. xxx, 628 pp., 

16 Tigs ss; oO maps, 2/8 ple, 7 col. pl.,.2 tabs..\ Selbyana, the 
Journal of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Fla. 
(representing Vol. 4, No. 1-6). 1978. 


The introduction tells considerably about the area of 
the Center, which is not far from the center of Ecuador, and 
covers 167 hectares (400 acres). This is followed by the 
systematic part, covering both Pteriodophyta and Spermatophyta. 
Ecuador may possess the greatest number of plant species for 
its area in South America, the total being estimated to lie 
between 10 and 20 thousand. A total of 1112 spp. are recorded 
here in this the first comprehensive listing for any area in 
Ecuador. Included are Ocotea sp. nov., representing a new 
but as yet undescribed species; and Disciphania sp. nov. cf. 
inversa Barneby, meaning an unknown species close to D. 
inversa. There are a number of other instances of species 
which were apparently as yet unknown to science. Proposed is 
Alternanthera pub. iflora (Benth.) Kze. f. purpurea (Stand1l.) 
comb. nov. (A. williamsii Standl. f. p.). Each taxon is 
illustrated with a pen and ink sketch, which doubtless in 
most cases represents a first illustration for the plant 
entity. The flora is a cooperative effort in which many 
specialists participated in identification of specimens. A 
specimen listing appears in the appendix. A comprehensive 
index terminates the volume. This is a very useful account 
of plants in this great wonderland of South American plants. 

GMH 


"STRUCTURE AND BONDING," Bolume 11, Edited by J. D. Dunitz et 
al. 170 pp. Springer-Verlag, Berlin--Heidelberg--New York. 
1972.2 S17 225. 


The eleventh volume of this series includes four articles 
by eight authors, these from Great Britain (Oxford, Norwich, 
Sussex), USA (Univ. Calif., Univ. Illinois), Australia (Monash 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 


Univ.), and Czechoslovakia (Charles Univ.). The eight editors 
publishing the series include men from Switzerland, USA, Ger- 
many, and England. One of the American editors is from Evan- 
ston (Illinois no doubt, although there are Evanstons in at 
least four other states), and another comes from Berkeley 
(undoubtedly California; however there are at least five other 
places called Berkeley in the USA). (Europeans often forget 
that where there is only one Rome (Roma) in Europe, there are 
no fewer than 10 Romes in the American Union. Every U.S. 
state apparently considers itself sovereign in the matter of 
place names). The text of this volume is entirely in the 
English language. As usual, the subjects are quite diverse: 
(1) chemistry of platinum complexes, representing an anti- 
tumor drug (A. J. Thomson et al.) (2) chemistry of vitamin 
Bj enzymes (3) molybdenum-containing enzymes (4) evolution 
of biological iron-binding centers. In the second of these 
papers, the authors (J. M. Wood, D. G. Brown) first review 
the history of B,, (short for vitamin B,5), chemistry and bio- 
chemistry, which includes the discovery that several well- 
characterized enzymes require Bj, 9 coenzymes (5'-deoxyadenosyl- 
cobalamin and analogous compounds). (Unlike cyanocobalamin, 
B,9, these coenzyme compounds possess stable Co-C bonds, and 
represent series of what are termed alkyl-cobalt corrinoids 
(corrinoids are derivatives or corrin, the large cobalt ring 
found in vitamin B, ). The biologically significant properties 
of the alkyl-corrinoids are discussed, then the methyl-transfer 
enzymes (transferases) with formation of a series of synthe- 
tases (enzymes which catalyze the combination of two molecules 
‘using energy derived from breakdown of the phosphate bond 
especially in the form of ATP). The methyl-transfer and 
hydrogen-transfer enzymes are discussed. Finally, the appli- 
cation of magnetic resonance technics to B, 9 compounds and 
B}2 enzymes is detailed, this representing a new approach to 
the study of the macromolecules. It is held that much progress 
will be made in the elucidation of coenzyme-enzyme inter- 
actions through the use of electron spin resonance (ESR). A 
bibliography of 146 references is appended to this article. 
GMH 


"CATALOGUE DES PLANTES VASCULAIRES DU NIGER," by B. Peyre de 
Fabregues and J. P. Lebrun. Instit. d"Elevage et de Méd. 
Vetérin. des Pays Tropicaux (Alfort, France) Etude Botanique 
No. 3: 444 pp., 3 maps; 1976. 


This annotated listing of vascular plants gives consider- 
able data on geographical distribution and ecology. The first 
30 pages consider the history of plant exploration in the area 
and a general view of the vegetation of the area. 1045 spp. 
in + 527 genera and + 114 fams. are cataloged. The leading 


2 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. hh, No. 1 


fams. are Gramineae, Papilionaceae, and Cyperaceae. A remark- 
able character is the total absence of Orchidaceae. Nine spp. 


are newly reported for the domain of the flora of west tropi- 
cal Africa. Indexes of fam. and genera. 
GMH 


"SPRING FLORA OF WISCONSIN: A MANUAL OF PLANTS GROWING WITH- 
OUT CULTIVATION AND FLOWERING BEFORE JUNE 15," by N. C. 
Fassett. Univer. Wisconsin Press, Madison, 4th ed., ix + 422 
BDp.«i af) s2ee,,. 4. maps, 19/6. 


This edition published on the 20th anniversary of Dr. 
Fassett's death is considerably larger than previous editions. 
Although Wisconsin is mentioned in the title, the flora is 
almost equally useful in many adjoining states. This re- 
vision was prepared by Olive S. Thomson with the collaboration 
of a number of specialists. Besides the various keys and 
systematic descriptive text for the taxa (all Angiospermae 
in Engler's order, there is a brief introductory text telling 
about the State of Wisconsin), a glossary, and a listing of 
selected references: these include a list of 68 papers on 
Wisconsin flora from the Transactions of the Wisc. Acad. of 
Science. This pocket-size manual is very useful in field and 
herbarium and costs only $3.95, a really good buy! 

GMH 


"THE PLANT CELL WALL," by A. Frey-Wyssling. Encyclopedia of 
Plant Anatomy (Edition 2), General Part, Vol. III, Part 4, 
Section Cytology, XI + 1-294, 193 figs., 20 pls., 27 tabs., 
1976. DM. 176,-- Gebrueder Borntraeger, Johannesstrasse 3A, 
7 Stuttgart 1, BRD. 


The Encyclopedia(Linsbauer's Handbuch der Pflanzenana- 
tomie) contains in the second edition 22 volumes so far pub- 
lished including the one under review. The plan of the large 
work shows two large divisions, the first General (with sub- 
divisions into histology and cytology of plants in general) 
and the second Special, which deals with specific groups of 
plants, such as Bacteria, classes of Fungi, lichens, Pterido- 
phyta, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. Although this is part 
of the second completely revised edition of the whole large 
work, rather strangely the book under review is a third edition, 
two previous editions being van Wisselingh's "Die Zellmembran" 
(1925) and Roelopsen's "The Plant Cell Wall" (1959). While 
this volume by the Swiss emeritus Professor Frey-Wissling is 
in the English language, the various volumes of the Encyclo- 
pedia are variously in German, English, and French, depend- 
ing on the authorship. The text is written in English of good 
quality and in the clearest possible style with constant 
attention to the accompanying illustrations, pointing out each 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 3 


detail. The printing and binding of the book are excellent in 
all details. The entire work makes an impressive and attrac- 
tive addition to any library. The drawings, diagrams, and 
microphotographs are well done and appear to all be original. 
The study of the cell (and especially of the cell wall) extends 
back some 300 years to Hooke and is a most important and in- 
forming scientific field. Much emphasis has been placed in 
the book on the biogenesis of the cell wall. The three chief 
divisions of the text are (1) ultrastructure and biogenesis; 
(2) biochemistry and (3) biophysics. A very thorough treat- 
ment of our present knowledge on the subject is furnished 
in this volume. This and other volumes of the series belong 
in every scientifically oriented library. The book is of 
interest primarily to plant anatomists and cytologists, but 
also to other botany specialties, such as morphology, genetics, 
plant physiology, phytochemistry, paleobotany, phytogeography, 
forestry, plant pathology, and mycology. The bibliography of 
18 pages is very useful. Author, botanical name, and subject 
indexes are present, followed by a listing of abbreviations 
and symbols used in the text. 

GMH 


"ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES AND STEROID CHEMISTRY IN THE PEOPLE'S 
REPUBLIC OF CHINA," by Josef Fried, Kenneth J. Ryan, and 
Patricia Jones Tsuchitani (Editors). Committee on Scholarly 
Communication with the People's Republic of China Rept. No. 
5. *x+99 pp., 10 tables. National Academy of Sciences, 
Washington, D. C. 1977. $8.00 


This represents a "trip report of the American Steroid 
Chemistry and Biochemistry Delegation" which visited mainland 
China during October, 1976. Many details of their findings 
are given here. It will come as a surprise to learn that the 
PR of China produces and uses more steroid contraceptives than 
any other nation on earth. Apparently they are convinced that 
bigger is not necessarily better and that "enough is enough". 
With a population representing about a quarter of the total 
inhabitants of mother earth, they can well afford to say 
"Halt!" to population growth. The eleven members of the dele- 
gation seemed to have obtained a great deal of information 
in such a short period of time (19 days). The plants utilized 
as primary sources are identified (species of Dioscorea, 
Agave, Solanum, Strophanthus, etc.), also some details of 
microbiological transformations, and structural formulas of 
many of the steroids. Informative book!. 

GMH 


"CATALOGUE OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS OF CONNECTICUT 
GROWING WITHOUT CULTIVATION," by C. B. Graves, et al. J. 
Cramer, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. - ii + 569 pp.; 1910 (1975). 


by PHY.7.040,4.2 B Vol. hi, Now 1 
Shop price (Laden“preis) DM 60,--. 


This is an unchanged republication of a plant listing, 
showing a total of 1481 native spp. and 461 introduced spp. and 
286 vars., a total of 2228 infra-generic taxa. There are no 
keys and very little descriptive text but a considerable amount 
of data on habitats and geographical locations of plants, also 
time of anthesis. Other features include additions; native 
plants not found in recent years; excluded spp.;, fugitive spp.; 
detailed statistical summaries; and authorities cited. 

GMH 


"NOVA SCOTIAN BOLETES," by D.W. Grund and A.K. Harrison. (Bib- 
liotheca Mycologica Band 47) iv + 283 pp., 68 bpls., 80 figs.; 
1976. (J. Cramer, Vaduz, Liechenstein). 


In order to attempt to solve the many difficulties encoun- 
tered in determining the Boletacege of Nova Scotia (Canada), 
the authors made a determined effort to describe and illus- 
trate as many as possible, following the pattern of Smith and 
Thiers, "Boletes of Michigan" (1971). Collections made 1973-5 
were the basis of study; however, some organisms of collections 
made as long ago as 1926 could not be found in the later period 
and these may have been extirpated due to destruction of forest 
habitats. Only 4 Leccinum spp. are included but many more are 
known to occur in the area and should be studied. General 
discussions precede the systematic survey, which includes 80 
taxa. Among these are the following novelties: Boletus 
pseudosulphureus Kallenbach var. pallidus, B. badius Fr. var. 
glaber, Fuscoboletinus viscidus (L. ex Fr. et Hoek) comb.nov. 
(B.v.), and Tylopilus cyaneocinctus (Singer) comb. at stat. nov. 
(Porphyrellus porphyrosporus (Fr. in Fr. et Hoek) Gilbert 
subsp. c.). This cloth-bound neatly printed volume has a 
selling price of DM. 60,--. 

GMH 


"THE COLOR DICTIONARY OF FLOWERS AND PLANTS FOR HOME AND GARDEN," 
by R. Hay and P.M. Synge. Compact edition. Crown Publishers, 
Inc., New York. 1-584, 2048 col. pls. (on 342 pp.); 1976. 

$6.95. 


This excellent plant guide includes annuals, biennials, 
perennials, trees, and shrubs, and is provided chiefly with use- 
ful and accurate illustrations of 2,048 plant spp. arranged in 
alphabetic order of genera within six sections (pp. 35-376); 
this is followed by the textual part of the dictionary in a 
single alphabetic sequence (208 ppl). Preceding these "dic- 
tionaries" is a brief introductory portion with suggestions on 
cultivation, photographing plants, etc. The textual dictionary 
has many common names included in the alphabetic arrangement, 


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with cross-references. Hence, this portion serves also as an 
index. The plant descriptions are concerned chiefly with data 
on the ornamental values, modes of culture, etc., with con- 
siderable emphasis on various vars. This edition has the same 
content as the original edition of 1969 but with a slight 
reduction in page size. This book, while aimed at the orna- 
mental horticulturist, will be of great utility also to botan- 
ists, and is very reasonably priced. 

GMH 


"ARBOLES DE COSTA RICA," Vol. I., by L.R. Holdridge, and L.J. 
Poveda R. Centro Cientifico Tropical, San Jose, C.R. xiii + 
546 "pp., 527 ties, $1975, 


More than a botanical listing with descriptions of the 
trees of Costa Rica, this also tells a great deal about the 
uses made of each tree. 527 spp. of trees are included: 
palms; other monocots; dicot trees with divided or lobed 
leaves. Ina planned one or two volumes to follow, trees with 
simple and unlobed leaves and coniferous trees will be taken 
up. The key used is a rather simple one, with entries at the 
heading of each page: it should be a practical mode of iden- 
tification, particularly since there is one plant per page 
and each is clearly illustrated with a good photograph. In 
some cases, the entire tree is shown; it would have been ad- 
vantageous to have shown the whole tree as a regular thing. 
The descriptions present in systematic order the size of the 
tree, the leaves, flowers, and fruits, its habitat, geograph- 
ical distribution inside and outside of Costa Rica and under 
"Note" regularly the use made of the tree and its parts with 
other practical information. An introduction of 7 pages gives 
a number of interesting general facts. The book ends with a 
glossary, bibliography, and index. The senior author, Dr. 
Holdridge, is a "Connecticut Yankee'' who has however passed 
most of his life in the American tropics (since 1934). The 
junior author is a native of Costa Rica, now an assistant in 
the national Herbarium. This first book covering the trees 
of Costa Rica as a whole will have a wide appeal to many 
different categories of persons and occupations, and also to 
persons of different geographic locations outside of Costa Rica, 
Since the trees described in this volume are generally found 
in other countries of Central America, Mexico, etc. (In the 
treatment of the storax tree, Liquidambar styraciflua, men- 
tion is made of the resin exuding from the trunk; this product 
is of course a true balsam). 

GMH 


"THE GENERA OF ORCHIDACEAE IN HONG KONG," by Shiu-Ying Hu. The 
Chinese University Press, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. xv + 1-160, 
74 figs (some in color), 2 col. pls. (One on dust cover), 1 


46 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. hb, No.1 


tab.; 1977. HK $ 60.-—- 


This book represents a self-contained unit of a "General 
Flora of Hong Kong" now in preparation. Thus, the volume pro- 
vides explanatory texts on the nature of orchids as well as 
a glossary (with English and Chinese definitions), a list of 
generic names with an explanation of their origins, a biblio- 
graphy, and an index. Keys, descriptions, and illustrations 
are provided for the total of 104 spp. of native orchids (in 
50 genera) found in Hong Kong and the New Territories. In- 
cluding the exotic or cultivated (non-native) orchids, there 
are described a total of 134 species in 64 genera. The orchid 
flora of Hong Kong is truly rich since the genera here re- 
present 30% of the genera of orchids found throughout the 
whole of China. Although as indicated by the title, the work 
is primarily concerned with genera, many of the species have 
been described and illustrated. Where the genus has two or 
more species a key to its species has been provided. This 
work should have a wide appeal - to botanists, floriculturists, 
and to many lay persons who are amateur orchid growers. The 
book is neatly and attractively printed with substantial bind- 
ing. The dust cover presents a colored sketch of Cymbidium 
maclehoseae which illustration is not incorporated within the 
covers. Hence the dust cover in this case represents a part 
of the entire work and should be preserved with the book. 

GMH 


"FLOWERS OF GREECE AND THE AEGEAN," by Anthony Huxley and 
William Taylor. vi + 185 pp., 560 figs, (483 colored), 

2 maps. Transatlantic Arts, Inc. North Village Green, 
Levittown, New York 11756. 1977. $16.95. 


This beautiful book lends itself either to field study of 
plants in the area of record (or perhaps throughout the eastern 
Mediterranean) or to reading in home or library to learn about 
the floral beauties of this "home of democracy." It is said 
to be the first "handy guide" (as opposed to formal floras) to 
the flowering plants of this region. That it is not compre- 
hensive is shown by the fact that 660 species, subspecies, and 
forms are included out of a total of some 6,000 taxa known for 
Greece, hence representing only a bit more than 10% of the 
total flora. However, the plant entities included are the 
commoner and more conspicuous flowering plants which would nor- 
mally be encountered. The first section describes the plant 
cover and environment in a general way, one chapter having the 
interesting title of "Wild flowers on the ancient sites." Some 
of the colored plates show samples of the terrain encountered 
in Greece and the Islands, often with picturesque ruins as part 
of the total scene. The second part of the book is the sys- 
tematic part, taking up the various families, genera, and 


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species, with brief descriptions and notes on distribution, 
flowering months, and (where a propos) mention of uses today 
or in antiquity, biblical, mythological, or classical allu- 
sions to the plant, and so on. Thus, the decorative use of 
Acanthus spinosus (which covers parts of the Palatine Hill in 
Rome) by the ancients, in gardens, decorations, sculpture, 
etc.,is mentioned, also the medicinal uses of parts of the 
plant. (The beautiful jacket colored photograph of the re- 
mains of the temple of Apollo at Corinth surrounded by masses 
of Chrysanthemum coronarium is not duplicated in the pages 
within). The authors have been active in field study of the 
plants of the Mediterranean region and have published books 
on the flower life of southern Europe. 

GMH 


"PLANTS OF THE TAMPA BAY AREA," by Olga Lakela, Robert W. Long, 
Glenn Fleming, and Pierre Genelle. 3.Ed., with supplements. 

xv + 198 pp., 1 map, paperback. Banyan Books, Inc., P.O. Box 
431160, Miami, Florida 33143. 1976. $7.95. 


This compilation of taxa is a Contribution (No. 73) from 
the Botanical Labs., University of South Florida at Tampa. 
Following an introductory portion with references, there 
follows the systematic part arranged in the Englerian order. 
The area covered is that included in Hillsborough, Pinellas, 
Manatee, and Sarasota Counties of west Florida. Data include 
the Latin scientific name, common name (in capital letters), 
the habitat (often in rather general terms), and the period of 
flowering. The Index is followed by the two supplements 
(1) correction of errors in the text; (2) addition of taxa, 
both those omitted in error and those discovered growing in 
the area after publication of the listing. There are no keys. 
The addenda are not picked up by the Index so that the Supple- 
ments should be consulted whenever the book is used. 

GMH 


"THE GENUS LEPTONIA ON THE PACIFIC COAST OF THE UNITED STATES, 
INCLUDING A STUDY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN TYPES," by David L. 
Largent. 286 pp., 94 figs. (Photographs). J. Cramer, Vaduz, 
Liechtenstein, 1977. DM. 80,-- 


136 spp. are recognized for this agaricaceous genus, along 
with many varieties and forms. The descriptions of the new 
taxa are very detailed but where the taxon has been recently 
described in the literature and where such description is ade- 
quate, only a brief description or none at all is given, in both 
cases, of course, a citation to the literature is given. There 
are numérous keys in addition to the principal one. Two subgen- 
era are recognized - Leptonia and Paludocybe, the latter with 
eight sections, including sect. Paludocybe Largent, with series 
Viridiflavipes ser. nov. and series Paludocybe ser. nov., also 


8 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. ku, Now 1 


sect. Carneorubescens sect. nov. and sect. Chromocystoteae 
sect. nov. Included in this monograph are 29 new species, 
one new status, 42 new combinations, five new combination and 
status, 15 new varieties, one new form, one provisional forn, 
and one provisional variety. An important and valuable feature 
is the synoptic key (pp. 44-56) whereby one can either iden- 
tify a species by a single feature or at least place it among 
a limited number of species having this feature in common. 
There are at the back of the volume a bibliography, index, and 
collection of excellent photographs with both macro- and 
microscopic details of many taxa. The microscopic features 
of 96 species are described as noted in the study of type 
specimens. Descriptions in detail and keys are furnished for 
58 species, 18 varieties, and ten forms from the Pacific 
coast area. Among the new species are Leptonia violaceanigra 
(from Washington state), L. ¢yaneonita (from Trinity Co., 
California), and L. fabaceola (from the state of Washington). 
GMH 


"CHORDATE DEVELOPMENT," by H.E. Lehman. xvii + 369, 84 figs., 
27 tabs. Hunter Publishing Co., 2475 S. Stratford Rd., 
Winston-Salem, N. Ca. 27103. 1977. $12.95 (paper), $15,95 
(cloth). 


This is a combination textbook and laboratory manual in 
descriptive and experimental embryology, mostly vertebrate. 
It gives the appearance of being a good sound text with many, 
mostly colored, figures, chiefly diagrammatic. The terminal 
index is preceded by appendices which present information on 
other available texts, journals, films, and sources of embryo- 
logical materials. There is also a rather elaborate glossary 
of the special terms used in embryology. The large (letter- 
sized) pages, the clear typography, and the excellent illus- 
trations should make this a superb book for teaching the im- 
portant subject of embryology. The author is associated with 
the zoology department at the University of North Carolina 
and the Bermuda Biological Station. 

GMH 


"FLORA DE S. TOME E PRINCIPE. CAESALPINACEAE," by Maria 
Candida Liberato. Jardim e Museu Agricola do Ultramar, Lisboa. 
32 pp.{ 1976. 


Keys and descriptions are provided pe 10 genera of the 
fam., including Peltophorum (with one sp., P. pterocarpum (DG...) 
Heyne, here reported for the first time ae S. Tomé); 
Caesalpinia (2 spp.); the following genera with one sp. each: 
Delonix; Dialium; Haematoxylon; Tamarindus; Cynometra; 

Perlebia; Pauletia. Cassia with 11 spp. includes C. javanica 
L. var. javanica, here reported for the first time from S. Tomé. 
GMH 


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"MYCOLOGIE DU GOUT: 200 MENUS ET RECETTES A BASE DE CHAMPIG-— 
NONS, "by Mageel iV... Loequins: «100: ppayvlitabs sJ.Fs Guyot. SoA, 
Editeur, Paris, France. 1977. (Available from the author, 
22b, rue J. Jaurés, St. Clement, 89100 Sens, France). $6.00. 


This small volume addresses itself primarily to myco- 
gastronomic persons (those who are fond of collecting, identi- 
fying, cooking, and eating mushrooms), but also to those less 
fortunate individuals who must be content with the mushrooms 
sold in the city -- fresh, dried, or preserved in jars or 
other containers. The number and modes of preparation of 
mushrooms is almost endless. Included in this mushroom cook- 
book are sauces, soups, salads, soufflés, and combinations with 
eggs, shellfish, cakes, tarts, fish, white meats (poultry, 
veal, etc.), joints, frogs, game, vegetables, cheeses, desserts, 
and even beverages. Most surprising of all among the 200 
recipes and dishes is the inclusion of mushrooms in chewing gum 
and tobacco for smoking in pipes! 

GMH 


"FLORA OF NAGARJUN," by S.B. Malla et al. Bulletin No. 4, 
Department of Medicinal Plants, Nepal. His Majesty's Govern- 
ment of Nepal, Ministry of Forests, Dept. of Medicinal Plants, 
Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal. ix, 131 pp., xix, 9 figs., 18 
tabs.; 1973. Price not given. 


About 300 taxa of Spermatophyta are shown for the flora of 
Na§arjun Royal Forest located in the northern border region 
of Kathmandu Valley. Included are brief descriptions, the 
local name in Nepali (with transliteration), and months of 
flowering and fruiting. Families are arranged in the order of 
Hooker (Flora of British India). Appendix I has an additional 
list of ca 60 spp. in which families are in alphabetical 
order. Appendix II is a vegetational survey of the Forest, 
with ecological information. The work is aimed at an eventual 
Flora of Nepal. 

GMH 


"FLORA OF LANGTANG AND CROSS SECTION VEGETATION SURVEY (CENTRAL 
ZONE) ,"" by S.B. Malla and others (Editorial Board). Bull. Dept. 
Med.: Plants Nepal No.) 6:2: (XII) + XXViI +. 273, 20: tabsu, 3 maps, 
5 figs. Dept. Medicinal Plants, Ministry of Forests, Thapa- 
thali, Kathmandu, Nepal. 1976. $8.00. 


The first part of this volume is occupied by a vegeta- 
tional survey of central Nepal, the region in which lies the 
Langtang and Gosaikunda areas. A survey of earlier studies 
(from ca 1800) is presented in the Introduction. The system- 
atic part includes in the neighborhood of 1500 species (there 
is no census), with citations, synonymy, collection informa- 


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tion, and descriptions. (No keys). Common names in Nepalese 
and transliterations are given for many plants. Bentham and 
Hooker's arrangement is followed. An index by scientific 
name and one by vernacular (local) name with a bibliography 
complete the text. Although it is obvious that the flora is 
incompletely known for Nepal, this work will contain much 
useful information for the person interested in Asiatic plants. 
GMH 


"CATALOGUE OF NEPALESE VASCULAR PLANTS," by S.B. Malla (Chair- 
man, Editorial Board) and others. Bull. Dept. Med. Plants 
Nepal-No. 7.:-LLer Id) +: 221 4) fal =" 1),-+<40, 1 map; i tabs 
Dept. of Medicinal Plants, HMG. Ministry of Forests, Thapa- 
thali, Kathmandu, Nepal. 1976. Rs. 35/-3; US $5. 


Following a brief survey of the country, a bare list of 
plant species follows with genera in alphabetic order under 
families which are arranged in the order used in Hooker's 
"Flora of India."" The list includes 3121 taxa of Angiospermae, 
24 taxa of Gymnospermae, and 308 taxa of Pteridophyta, giving 
a total of 3453 taxa of vascular plants. This compares with 
a total of 7,000 taxa estimated by the British Museum (Natural 
History) for Nepal. Following the list is an appendix with 
a list of Nepalese plant collectors and References. The 
index terminates the bound volume. There is no list of errata. 

GMH 


"PRELIMINARY INVENTORY OF THE BIOTA OF WOODSON COUNTY STATE 
FISHING LAKE AND GAME MANAGEMENT AREA," by Ronald L. McGregor. 
Reports of the State Biological Survey of Kansas No. 5: 

ii + 176 pp., tabs. State Biol. Survey of Kansas, Lawrence, 
Ks, 66055. 1976. Gratis. 


Checklists are presented for lichens (22 taxa), mosses 
(44 taxa), liverworts (40 taxa), vascular plants (624 taxa). 
About half the text bears lists of animals. 
GMH 


"HISTORY OF NATURALIZED KANSAS PLANTS," by R.L. McGregor. 
Repts. of the State Biol. Survey No. 7: 35 pp. 1976. Gratis. 


An annotated list is given of 207 taxa thoroughly estab- 
lished in the state, preceded by a history of the study of 
naturalized plants in Kansas. Indexes. 

GMH 


"THE MERCK VETERINARY MANUAL: A HANDBOOK OF DIAGNOSIS AND 
THERAPY FOR THE VETERINARIAN."' Merck and Company, Inc., 
Rahway, New Jersey 07065 (USA). ix + 1686 pp., 4 tabs.; 1967. 
Price: 1 Stii2gs: 


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This volume has a similar format (size, binding, type of 
paper, etc.) to the better known "Merck Manual." A distinctive 
red cover however readily distinguishes it from the dark blue- 
bound Merck Manual. There are 452 chapters of mostly medical 
(rather than surgical) data applicable to the prevention and 
treatment of diseases in the lower animals. The text is divi- 
ded into 8 primary parts, the first section being devoted to 
live stock mammals and mammalian pets; Part II is headed 
"Toxicology"; then follow parts devoted respectively to poultry; 
fur, laboratory, and zoo animals; nutrition; an addendum with 
such information as laboratory procedures, body temperatures, 
oxygen therapy, routine procedures, and reference tables; 
prescriptions (keyed to the preceding texts on therapy); and 
Part VIII, the Index. The largest part of the volume is made 
up by Part I, which is subdivided into 15 subdivisions, viz., 
Allergy, Blood, Digestion, Endocrines, Eye and ear, Infectious 
Diseases, Metabolic disorders, Musculo-skeletal system, 
Neoplasms, Nervous system, Parasitic diseases, Physical in- 
fluences, Reproductive and urinary systems, Respiratory dis- 
orders, and Skin and connective tissue states. As in the 
case of the other Manual, the chapters on diseases take these 
up in a systematic order ---synonyms; etiology; diagnosis; 
prophylaxis; treatment. Several methods have been used to 
render the book's contents more readily available to the user: 
the table of contents in front, the terminal index, the table 
of contents at the beginning of each Part and each subdivision, 
and the,thumb-tabs. The volume was edited by 0.H. Siegmund 
of the Merck, Sharp, and Dehme Research Laboratories, and 
was prepared with the collaborative assistance of 290 leaders 
in veterinary medicine. There are numerous signs of exten- 
sive revision of the text. The value of this work is not 
by any means restricted to North America, and it should prove 
to be just as useful in Victoria, Australia or Victoria, Canada, 
as in Des Moines, Iowa. 

GMH 


"THE ENVIRONMENT OF AMCHITKA ISLAND, ALASKA," by Melvin L. 
Merritt and R. Glen Fuller (Editors). Tech. Inform. Center, 
Energy Res. and Devt. Administration; Natl. Tech. Inform. 
Service, U.S. Dept. Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. xii + 
1-684, 260 figs., 139 tabs.; 1977 (recd. 1978). (4 maps 
separate in pocket). $20.00 


Amchitka Island was selected and used from 1967 to 1973 
as a nuclear test area because of its remote location in the 
Aleutian Islands, it being near the end of this chain and the 
most southerly island (except for Amatignak) and almost the 
southernmost point of Alaska. This island along with most of 
the others are in the Aleutian Islands National Wildlife 
Refuge. Although a rich plant growth occurs on the Island, 


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there are relatively few land plant taxa. Fewer than 200 taxa 
are known: these are listed on pages 215-7. Only one estab- 
lished annual higher plant was found -- Koenigia islandica L. 
(Polygonaceae). The meadow-like tundra vegetation of the is- 
land is depicted in many illustrations and described in detail. 
The marine algae found in the vicinity of the Island were also 
studied methodically and in detail; a listing of ca 130 spp. 
appears on page 360. The rocky shores of the Island are 
densely covered with algal communities and include extensive 
floating kelp beds. From this it would appear that the thall- 
ophytic component of the flora is relatively more important and 
more complex than the higher plant component. Besides the 
chapter on the ecology of terrestrial plants (Chap. 10) and 
of marine algae (Chap. 17), there are numerous chapters devoted 
to the island's geography, geology, hydrology, geomorphology, 
edaphology, climatology, limnology, oceanography, history, 
earlier scientific investigations, animal life (including 
an entire section on marine mammals), and environmental con- 
taminants. A summation of the studies in the final chapter 
indicates that nuclear testing had only slight impact on 
the ecology of the area. It is stated that there was no 
evidence to show "that any biotic population on Amchitaka was 
lost or endangered as a consequence of the nuclear test pro- 
gram.'' Animal population losses were small and there was 
evidently even less damage to the plant population. It is 
a comfort to know how resilient living things are to such 
physical violence. 

GMH 


"MODERNE METHODEN DER PFLANZENANALYSE," (begr. v. K. Paech 

u. M. V.Z. Tracey). Continuing editing by H.F. Linskens and 
M.V. Tracey with the collaboration of B.D. Sanwal. Volume 7: 
XXIV + 735 pp., 64 figs. and many tabs.; 1964. Cloth bound, 
DM 136,-- (ca $ US 61). Springer-Verlag Berlin. 


This splendid volume contains the writings of 31 scien- 
tists (USA, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, India, Japan, 
Germany, Spain, France); 22 chapters are in English and one 
each in French and German (682 pp. in English and 20 in French). 
There is an elaborate table of contents in front and German 
and English indexes at the back of the volume; there is also a 
French index to the single chapter in French. In this volume 
is continued and completed the coverage of enzymes commenced 
in Volume 6. At the end of each chapter stands a bibliography, 
which is remarkable for its comprehensiveness. Abbreviations 
used in the various chapters are tabulated as a footnote on 
the first page of each chapter. At the end of the volume 
before the indexes is a summary of recommendations on enzyme 
terminology (IUB) and recommendations for symbols for enzyme 
kinetics; also a list of cytochromes and a key to numbering 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 53 


and classification of enzymes. -- This volume is devoted to 
a consideration of special methods of isolation and purifica- 
tion of the following groups of enzymes: (1) enzymes for the 
metabolization of sulfur, phosphate, inorganic nitrogen, vita- 
mins, and of ascorbic acid metabolism; (2) enzymes involved 
in synthesis and breakdown of indoleacetic acid; (3) enzymes 
of aromatic biosynthesis; (4) enzymes of amino acid metabolism 
(deamination, decarboxylation, transmethylation, intermediary 
metabolism; transaminases and racemases); (5) enzymes of pep- 
tide and protein metabolism: those of purine and pyrimidine 
nucleotide synthesis; (6) enzymes of fat metabolism; (7) en- 
zymes of carbohydrate synthesis and of glycolysis; (8) enzymes 
of pentose phophate cycle; (9) enzymes in photosynthesis; 
(10) enzymes of Krebs cycle and glyoxalate cycle; and (11) en- 
zymes of terminal respiration. -- This is the last volume of 
a series, in which an outline of contents of the various 
volumes might appropriately be given: (1) General and special 
methods for analysis of plant materials; (II) carbohydrates 
and related; fatty oils; volatile oils; carboxy compounds; 
lactose; (III) volatile oils and resins; triterpenes; phyto- 
sterols; carotenoids; quinones; lignans; anthocyanins; tannins; 
antibiotics; etc. (IV) Proteins and related substances; 
chlorophylls; nucleic acids; alkaloids; amines; betaine; 
(V) Advanced methods of assay of plant materials (ex. spectro- 
metry, immunological methods); (VI) Silicon compounds; sulf- 
hydryl group; lichen substances; gibberellins; plant toxins; 
and many other groups; enzymes (general methods of study); 
(VII) Enzymes. Without question, this series of books is an 
almost indispensible part of any library where plant chemistry, 
drug analysis, and related areas are important. 

GMH 


"FLORA OF WEST PAKISTAN," by E. Nasir, and S.I. Ali (Editors). 

Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan. 

Published in parts. 

Parts 1 (Flacourtiaceae) to 3 (Phytolaccaceae) were published 
in: 1970. 

Parts 4 (Oxalidaceae) to 12 (Thymelaeaceae) were pub. in 1971. 

Parts..13 (Martyniaceae) to 30 (Goodeniaceae) were publ. in 1972. 
(Includes No. 20, Umbelliferae, bound). 

Parts 31 (Parnassiaceae) to 55 (Brassicaceae) were publ. in 
1973. ,.(Part 55. bound). 

Parts 56 (Buddlejaceae) to 77 (Verbenaceae) were publ. in 1974. 

Parts 78 (Lythraceae)to 95 (Betulaceae) were publ. in 1975. 

The 1975 and subsequent numbers are abstracted below: 


The individual numbers are mostly pamphlet-style with card 
covers, but a few are hard cover books, mostly with coverage 
of only a single family. Each issue has a map. 1975: 
No. 79: Potamogetonaceae. 1-11, 2 figs., 1 map. (K. Aziz 


5h 


No. 


No. 


No. 


No. 


No. 


No. 


No. 


P. HY TODO. Gots Vol. hy, Now 1 


and S.M.H. Jafri). Represented in Pakistan by gen. 
Potamogeton and 11 spp. No novelties. 

80: Ruppiaceae. 1-3, 1 fig., 1 map. (K. Aziz). 
Ruppiaceae is represented in Pakistan by only one sp., 
Ruppia maritima L. Hippuridaceae. 

Stee 3-3, iL ifitel. 4) “mapoasth) Aziz) ow The: fam. dis tcepres 
sented by Hippuris vulgaris L. 

82: Hippocastanaceae. 1-3; 1975. (E. Nasir and S.I. Ali) 
Aesculus indica (Wall. ex Camb.) Hook. f. is the sole sp. 
of the only gen. of the fam. represented in Pakistan. 

B34: Alliaesaes ti + 31 pp.¢ 010 figs. (BE. Nasir)... i145 
spp. of Allium, the only genus represented in Pakistan, 
are discussed, including A. tripterum sp. nov. (Swat; 
probably related to A. macranthum Baker). 

84: Commelinaceae. ii + 14 pp., 3 figs. (M. Q aiser and 
S.M.H. Jafri). Genera of the fam. occurring in Pakistan 
include Rhoeo, Cyanotis, Zebrina, Setcreasea, Murdannia, 
and Commelina, the latter with C. paludosa paludosa Blume forma 
pedunculata f. nov. (Univ. Karachi campus). 

85: Elaeagnaceae. ii + 6 pp., 1 fig. (Y. Nasir). 
Treatment of two genera, Hippophae with one sp. and 
Elaeagnus with 3 spp. 

86: Araliaceae. ii+ 5 pp., 1 fig. (Shahina Ghazanfar). 
Hedera nepalensis K. Koch, Aralia cachemirica Dcne., and 
Schefflera bengalensis Gamble are discussed. 

87:, Berberidaceae. ii + 31 pp.,:8 figs. (S.M.H.«: Jafri). 
Treats Epimedium elatum Morr. et Decne., Mahonia borealis 
Takeda, and 20 spp. of Berberis, including B. brevissima 
sp. nov. (Peshawar; resembles B. lycium Royle); B. ortho- 
botrys Bien. subsp. capitata subsp. nov., B. pachyacantha 
subsp. zabeliana (Schneider) stat. nov. (B.Z.); B. kuna- 
wurensis Royle forma chitrioides form. nov.; B. stewart- 
ae sp. nov. (Gilgit, 4 in Kashmir; resembles 

B. parkeriana Schneid.) 3 pseudumbellata Parker supsp. 
Siete subsp. nov. (atin and an unnamed sp., which 
is described; it is close to B. boreali-sinensis Nakai. 

88: Cornaceae, ii+t+ 4 pp., 1 fig. (Shahina Ghazanfar). 
Cornus capitata Wall., C. macrophylla Wall., and C. 
oblonga Wall. are taken up. 

89: Myrsinaceae. ii+ 8 pp., 2 figs. (S.M.H. Jafri and 
Saida Qaiser). Covers five genera and six spp. repre- 
sented in Pakistan. 

90: Resedaceae. ii+ 9 pp., 2 figs. (Y. Nasir). Treats 
three genera Oligomeris, Ochradenus, and Reseda, with 
(resp.) 1, 2, and 5 spp. One of the latter was left 
unnamed as an appar. undescribed sp. 

91: Sabiaceae. ii+5 mer 1 map. (A. Ghafoor). 
Descriptions of Sabia, campanulata Wall., and of 
Meliosma and M. pe nero (Roxb.) Walp., the only 
taxa of the fam. known from Pakistan. 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 


No. 92: Aceraceae. ii+/7 pp., 2 figs. (E. Murray). Eight 
spp. of Acer are reported from Pakistan. 

No. 93: Pittosporaceae. ii+ 3 pp., 1 fig. (Shahina 
Ghazanfar). The fam. is described and the single sp. 
found in Pakistan, Pittosporum napaulense (DC) Rehder 
et Wils. and its var. rawalpindiense Gowda. 

Now 94: dj Dipsacene.» | 34. + 12: pp.5 6 fies: oie Nasis) .«:.Five 
genera include Dipsacus inermis Wall. var. mitis (D. Don) 
comb. nov. (D.m.) (widely distributed in c. Asia) and 
Scabiosa maslakhensis sp. nov. (Baluchistan; resembles 
S. rotata M. Bieb.). 

Wo. 95: . Betulaceae.. . 44 +5. pp.s. lomap.. (1.3 “ANagiz), 

Betula utilis D. Don and Alnus nitida (Spech) Endl. 

are described. Two additional B. spp. have been reported 
from Chitral but same could not be confirmed. It is 
suggested they may be variable forms of B. utilis. 

1976: Pit Shen 


55 


No. 96: Begoniaceae. 4 pp., 1 fig. (S. Ghazanfar and P. Aziz) 


Begonia picta Sm. and B. tenella D. Don are described, 
figured, and discussed as to their distribution in 
Pakistan. 

No. 97: Trapaceae. ii, 4 pp., 1 fig. (S. Ghazanfar). 
Trapa bispinosa Roxb. and T. natans L. are described, 
figured, and discussed as to distribution in Pakistan. 

No. .98: -Orobanchaceae;:|)dijc1—25,)5.figs. (SiM.H.) Jafri). 
One sp. each of Aeginetia, Christisonia, and Cistanche 
are taken up, together with 19 spp. of Orobanche. 
Among the last-named is Orobanche cérnua Loefl. var. 
pseudoclarkei var. nov.(similar to 0. clarkei Hook. f.) 

GMH 


"SEED PATHOLOGY,'' by Paul Neergaard. 2 volumes. Vol. I: 
xxiv, 1-840, 243 figs., 5 pls (col.), 64 tabs. Vol. II: 

vii, pp. 841-1187. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Halsted Press), 
Somerset, N.J. 08873. 1978. $97.50. 


The reviewed work has both teaching and reference appli- 
cations, reflecting the experience and knowledge of the author 
who has served as a teacher of seed pathology at an Institute 
in Copenhagen devoted to promoting agriculture in the develop- 
ing countries of the world (or Third World) (such as India, 
Kenya, etc.). The entire reading text of this work is con- 
tained in Volume I, while Volume II is made up of the large 
glossary and an immense bibliography (141 pages!) followed by 
the exhaustive subject index. (There is no author index; 
presumably the literature reference section, arranged alpha- 
betically by author, is adequate). To simplify the status 
of the two volumes, one might say that volume I is the text 
and volumes I and II the reference work. The subject is a 
relatively new one -- at least as an organized separate field 


56 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. 4h, No. 1 


of endeavor. However, it is of very great importance since 
food -- the very staff of life -- being basically vegetative, 
depends nearly entirely on the success of the total seeding 
operation. The subject actually represents a merging of the 
many fields of scientific activity: phytopathology and seed 
technology preeminently. The reviewed work crowns the efforts 
of more than eight years of concentrated application to this 
field. The causes of loss of seed and loss of proper germin- 
ation are multifactorial and include such organisms as bac- 
teria, fungi, nematodes, and insects, also viruses, ageing, 
mechanical injury, inherited defects (genetic), and "physio- 
genic diseases" (deficiency states (K, N, Mn, B, etc.), 
too high to too low temperatures, low and high humidities, 
poisons, and so on. Even bacteriophages and mycoplasmata are 
considered, even with the rather sketchy knowledge we have 
of these agencies at this time. The text of volume I is 
subdivided into five major parts: (1) Pathogens; diseases; 
hosts; (II) Mechanisms of seed transmission of diseases; (III) 
Control of diseases of seeds; (IV) Testing methods; (V) 
Assessment of seed-borne inoculum. A wide variety of subject 
matters is involved: mycology, virology, microbiology, 
pesticides, analytical procedures, etc. The book is written 
in an excellent style of English, as though the author had 
been raised in the language. The book is worthy of a place in 
all general scientific and agricultural libraries. 

GMH 


"PLANT BIOLOGY,'' by Knut Norstog and Robert W. Long. Ed. 1. 
vi + 585 pp., 2 end papers, 373 figs., 5 tabs. W.B. Saunders 
Company, Philadelphia, Penna. 1976. (Teachers' Guide: vi + 
98 pps). 314250. 


This attractive textbook of botany follows much the same 
plan as other such texts: general information - the':cell - 
plant physiology - ecology - algae - fungi - bryophytes - 
paleobotany - pteridophytes - gymnosperms - angiosperms - 
genetics - plant growth and development control. A scanning 
study of the book indicates that if fully utilized, the text 
would satisfy the needs of an average course in botany. Be- 
sides the excellent physical characteristics of the work, its 
strongest features are the clear and lucid writing and the 
equally clear typography; the well selected and interesting 
illustration; and the not too lengthy chapters. There are a 
glossary and index at the volume's end. The chapters are 
provided with "Supplementary Reading" lists and this feature 
should be useful to those interested in enlarging their 
horizons. The book in fact could well be a useful reference 
work for the school library. 

GMH 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 57 


"FIRST SYMPOSIUM ON THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF ORCHIDS, OCTOBER 
24, 1974, SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN," by H.H. Szmant, and J. Wemple 
(Editors). Chem. Dept., Univ. Detroit, Detroit, Mich. 48221. 
233 4+ 164 pp.) 5S charts, 42 figs. ()18"eabs. fs"#970: 


14 contributions are included in this volume, representing 
papers presented in conjunction with the Mid-America Orchid 
Show. Seven papers are of predominantly botanical interest, 
seven of chemical. Included are: Use of pollinaria in orchid 
systematics (DRESSLER, R.L.); electron microscopy of orchid 
seedlings (WIESMEYER, H. and HOFSTEN, Angelica V.)3; pollination 
strategies in orchids of southern Australis (STOUTAMIRE, W.); 
observations on equitant Oncidiums as examples of introgressive 
hybridization (WITHNER, C.L.); ecology of epiphytic orchids in 
relation to their substrates (FREI, J.K.); some urgent prob- 
lems of orchid ecology (SANFORD, W.W.); chemical composition of 
fra grances of some orchids (HOLMAN, R.T. and HEIMERMANN, W.H.);3 
amifio acid analysis of the flower of Vanda Miss Joaquim (MIWA, 
T.H. and ZEITLIN, H.); alkaloids of Dendrobium (MANSKE, R.H.); 
studies on some Dendrobium alkaloids from the Chinese drug 
"Shi-hu" (INUBUSHI, Y. and TOSHIRA, I.); biosynthesis of the 
alkaloids of Dendrobium pierardii using 13¢-nuclear magnetic 
resonance (LEETE, D. and BODEM, G.B.); Orchidaceae alkaloids: 
some biosynthetic considerations (LUNING, B.); literature 
survey of reports on scientific investigations on orchids 
(June 1893 - June 1959). (ANON.); genetic control of orchid 
pigments (HARPER, W.J.). 


GMH 


"VASCULAR PLANTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: A DESCRIPTIVE RESOURCE 
INVENTORY," by R.L. Taylor and B. MacBryde. Bot. Garden 

Giniv. S.C.) Tech. Bulls Nol'@2 xxiv fF 1-754, 2 fies, fie 
1 tab.; 1977. Univ. of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, B.C. 
$28.00. 


This useful volume is essentially a computer printout on 
sheets 8% by 11 inches and strongly bound in heavy card covers. 
However, it is a very useful and informative volume with its 
annotated listing of all plants of higher order known to grow 
in the Pacific Ocean province of Canada. It is a compilation 
which was badly needed since there is nothing really comparable 
to it for this area. A "Flora of British Columbia” with a 
"Supplement"' seems to have been the only predecessor of sorts 
worthy of that name. The senior author (RLT) was previously 
editor of the Flora of North America project (1966-73) and 
his work there seems to have been carried over to this Flora 
of B.C. project. British Columbia possesses an enormous 
flora with 3,137 taxa known at the time of publication. The 
present inventory is the first step in a program with a keyed 
field guide as the second step and a multivolume flora (com- 


58 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. bi, No. 1 


parable to that for the Pacific Northwest by Hitchcock and 
Cronquist) will be the last step. (As a matter of fact, the 
work covering the Pacific Northwest includes southern British 
Columbia. The floras of Alaska will also complement the B.C. 
flora). The introductory section of this book gives a rounded 
view of the Province and its plant life, together with use- 
ful guidance in the use of the Inventory. The plant group 
arrangement is Pteridophyta, Pinophyta (conifers), Magnoliatae 
(dicots), and Liliatae (monocots). Families, genera, and 
species are arranged in strict alphabetic order within each 
group. For each species, the following data are presented: 
botanical name (with authorities), vernacular name, status 
(whether native, naturalized, etc.), flower color, choromo- 
some status (diploid, etc.), chromosome base no., chromosome 
somatic number, poison status, duration of plant (perennial, 
etc.), anthesis (months of flowering), economic status, 
distribution, habit, (tree, etc.), fruit type, ornamental 
value, sex status (polygamous, monosporous, etc.), fruit color, 
and endangered status (immediate danger of extinction, etc.). 
This gives 16 points of information about the plant, several 
of them of important practical value. Many abbreviations are 
used as entries in order to save space (and time?); however 
the key to the abbreviations is inadequate for two reasons. 

It is placed on a sheet in the back part of the volume; 

and the abbreviations are set down with meanings under the 
various categories. What is really needed here is a single 
listing of abbreviations located prominently as first or last 
sheet of the book, and perhaps on colored paper, to make it 
more readily locatable. Not all the data listed are actually 
recorded; there are often gaps for chromosome data, ornamental 
value, economic status, etc. The appendices are very useful 
compilations: (I) "standard" references (floras of regions, 
popular compilations, etc.). (II) Miscellaneous references 
(articles, brochures, bulletins, etc.). (III) tabulation 
relating each taxon (by its Flora of British Columbia Project 
(FBCP) number used in the computer program) to a reference or 
references (indicated by a number or numbers keyed to a series 
of references, mostly monographic treatments of family, genus, 
or species) and also to a category number indicating the type 
of information in the reference (for instance distribution, 
poison status, etc.). (Not all taxa bear such references). 
(IV) References which are linked to taxa (938 references); 

few if any of these references appear in the other two biblio- 
graphic lists. (V) An alphabetic listing of all plant author- 
ities which appear in the inventory -- often in abbreviated 
form. (VI) Sample data form: this bears an outline of all 
points in the Inventory coverage, and this also bears the 
abbreviations. The Appendices are followed by the Index, 
which has generic and family names, also common names. This 
volume is a valuable publication which fills in a gap formerly 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 59 


present in the floral coverage for the plants of western North 

America. Until the other parts of the program for B.C. flora 

are completed, botanists will have to use this volume in 

combination with available determinative and descriptive floras. 
GMH 


"THE THOMPSON BEGONIA GUIDE," by Mildred L. and Edward J. 
Thompson. (Second edition), Supplement I. Exhibition manual. 
vi + 98, 22 figs. Edward J. Thompson (Publisher), Southampton, 
New York. 1978. $4.75 (binder $3.50 additional). 


This supplement constitutes text pages in a fourth letter- 
size looseleaf binder uniform in style with the earlier volumes 
(see Phytologia 40: 299-301; 1978). The contents are made up 
of four major sections. The first one, Classification for 
show purposes, presents the eight major divisions of the hort- 
icultural classification system (cane-like, shrub-like, thick- 
stemmed, semperflorens characteristics, rhizomatous, Rex 
Cultorum ("king of cultivated plants"), tuberous, and trailing- 
scandent). The second section presents suggested show classi- 
fications, and employs the same eight major divisions plus 
a ninth, "Contained atmospheres with single variety of Begonia." 
(A contained atmosphere is essentially a closed container, such 
as a terrarium, used to demonstrate horticultural values 
rather than floral arrangements). These divisions are desig- 
nated by the letters "A" to "I". Each division is then sub- 
divided into classes with a total of 101 classes for all nine. 
These are based mostly on differences in leaf and stem char- 
acters. Additional horticultural classifications are proposed 
(pp. 27-8). This second section also contains a very important 
listing of all known species and cultivars of Begonia, 
arranged of course in alphabetical order. (Examples: 

Begonia "A.D. Davis" and B. acida). The last two sections of 
the text deal with judging information and sample forms for 
use in flower shows. 

GMH 


"BIOLOGY, THE WORLD OF LIFE," by Robert A. Wallace. xviii + 
53. pp. , 314 fige.:, 26 pis. (eol .),;.16 tabs., 41 “boxes.” 
Goodyear Publishing Co., Inc., 15115 Sunset Blvd., Pacific 
Patisades, ‘Gal: 80272. _ 1975... 512.953 


This well-printed, richly illustrated, and firmly bound 
volume is available at a truly moderate price -- dependent 
apparently on an expected large volume of sales. Books of 
equivalent quality often sell at three times this price and 
more. If I were a student beginning in biology, I believe I 
would find this text a most attractive one, a pleasure to 
study. Attractive illustrations, graphic diagrams, even an 
occasional cartoon enliven the pages. Scattered through the 


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pages are "boxes," framed sections of text in bold face type, 
with more detail on some topic not discussed or only touched 
on in the text proper. Thus, in the chapter on photosynthesis, 
a box appears describing chlorophyll, including a drawing of 
a chloroplast and a graphic formula. The contrast in a text 
such as this and an older textbook is truly remarkable. The 
attempt to sugar-coat the subject must surely meet with 
success. Since the area of biology is so pivotally important 
to many fields, such as medicine, pharmacy, oceanography, 
to mention only a few, it is obvious that the use of an 
"entering wedge" of information in this field will be bene- 
ficial to many professions and scientific specialties. The 
book follows a natural order of development -- a brief his- 
torical sketch of the development of biology as a science, 
the beginnings of life, the chemistry of life, the cell, 
heredity, reproduction, development, biological systems and 
their control, the endocrines, behavior, communities and com- 
petition, populations, and a final timely chapter -- Re- 
sources, Pollution, and Values. The Appendix gives a 
modern classification system of plants and animals. Read- 
ing suggestions for each chapter, a glossary, and an index 
follow. 

GMH 


"MARIHUANA: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY," by C.W. Waller, 
Jacqueline J. Johnson, Judy Buelke, and C.E. Turner. Mac- 
millan Publishing Co., 866 Third Av., New York 10022. 
exdi ‘+560 pp.’;’ 1976.) ’ Price $315.95. 


This work contains rather thoroughly annotated listings 
of books and (mostly) articles published over the 11 year 
period 1964-1974; the coverage is international. The lit- 
erature prior to 1964 was listed in a readily available pub- 
lication: "The question of cannabis, Cannabis bibliography" 
(United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, E/CN7/479; 
1965). Hence, between these complementary works, all of the 
important literature on Cannabis is readily available for stu- 
dents. 3045 items are present in the listing under review. ~ 
Entries are arranged in alphabetic order by senior author. 
Comprehensive author and subject indexes follow the biblio- 
graphy to give greater access to the same. An introductory 
section presents the formulas for 70 compounds associated with 
Cannabis. There is also a tabular summary of the action of 
Cannabis on various animal spp. This is a very useful book 
for the science library and is reasonably priced at $13.95. 

GMH 


"THE GENUS APHELANDRA (ACANTHACEAE) ,"' by Dieter C. Wasshausen 
(National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.). 


Smithsonian Contributions to Botany No. 18: 1975, 163 pp. 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 61 


Slightly acid 85% MeOH exts. of the dried leaves were chroma- 
tographed on Whatman 3 MM paper, using t-BuOH, AcOH, H 0 
(3:1:1, v/v) as first mobile solvent and 15% AcOH as second. 
For the 30 various species studied, between 20 and 30 flay- 
onoids were detected in each species. Spots were distinguish- 
ed in 3 areas: No. 1 spots no. 8-12, apparently flavonol- 
7-glycosides; No. 2, spots no. 1-7, being flavone or flavonol 
aglycones; and No. 3, nos. 13-24, mostly flavonol-3-glyco- 
sides. It is suggested that Aphelandra is a good genus for 
study of interspecific biochem. variation in taxa over a wide 
geographic range. 49 references. 

GMH 


"MASTER TREE FINDER, A MANUAL FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF TREES 
BY THEIR LEAVES," by May Theilgaard Watts. 64 pp., many figs. 


1963. -- "WINTER TREE FINDER, A MANUAL FOR IDENTIFYING TREES 
IN WINTER," by May Theilgaard Watts and Tom Watts. 64 pp., 
many figs. 1970. -- "FLOWER FINDER, A KEY TO SPRING WILD 


FLOWERS AND FLOWER FAMILIES EAST OF THE ROCKIES AND NORTH OF 
THE SMOKIES, EXCLUSIVE OF TREES AND SHRUBS," by May Theilgaard 
Watts. 1955. -- Nature Study Guild, Box 972, Berkeley, Cal- 
ifornia 94701. All priced at $1.25 each. 


These little handbooks designed to fit into a shirt pocket 
are compacted with information of the greatest utility to 
amateur plant lovers who wish to find out the identity of 
the plants they encounter. For the small cost of each, it is 
difficult to see how one could obtain more value for his or her 
money. Perusal of some items showed a good level of accuracy 
and dependability. 

GMH 


"TREES AND SHRUBS OF KENTUCKY," by Mary E. Wharton and Roger 
W. Barbour. x, 582 pp., 914 figs., 8 maps, 260 pls. (col.). 
The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. 1973. 
Si2 5952 


With shame must I admit it, this splendid volume was mis- 
shelved and not reviewed until now, five years later. This 
book has both a popular and a scientific appeal, and it shows 
several novel features. While it is devoted specifically to 
the woody flora of the State of Kentucky, at the same time it 
could be used with almost equal effectiveness in the seven 
States which adjoin Kentucky and even beyond that to parts of 
nine other States bordering these. Hence it represents a use- 
ful reference book on trees and shrubs in at least 17 states, 
34% of the States of the Union. Described and figured are 
282 species, representing practically all of the wild growing 
species of title category in the State of Kentucky. There 
is much more here than photographs and descriptions of the 


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plants. Also included are chapters telling how the book may 
be most effectivly used, the ecology of Kentucky, with cate- 
gorization of the various habitats to be found within the 
state and discussions of the physical environments occurring 
there. Rudimentary keys and excellent colored and black-and- 
white photographs are used as a means of identification of the 
various trees and shrubs. Following these two main sections 
of the book, Part III presents textual descriptions of the 
various species, followed by references, an illustrated 
glossary, and the index. This book is strongly bound, well 
printed, artistically attractive, and bound to advance the 
cause of nature love and nature study. 

GMH 


"WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON BIOLOGICAL STANDARDIZATION, 29th 
REPORT," by World Health Organization, Tech. Rept. Ser. No. 
626. 147 pp. WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. 1978. Sw. fr. 14.-- 


Standards are released for many new biological products, 
including anti-hepatitis immunoglobulin, fluorescein-isothio- 
cyanate-conjugated sheep anti-human immunoglobulin, several 
human serum proteins, human placental lactogen, and lysine 
vasopressin. Many changes in the older standards are indicated. 

GMH 


"FOLK MEDICINE PLANTS USED IN THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COUNTRY," 
by Paul R. Wieand. Published by Wieand's Pennsylvania 

Dutch, Route 3, Allentown, Penna. 18104. Booklet. 48 pp., 
37 figs.; 1963 (2nd printing). 


At the end of this little volume (instead of at the beg- 
inning as expected), an answer is given as to "Why this book?" 
The answer is in the revival of interest in the old herbal 
remedies formerly so popular in this area of the Pennsylvania 
"Dutch" (actually Germans and German-speaking Swiss who settled 
in parts of Pennsylvania in the 1600's and 1700's). For 109 
drugs, there are given the botanical names, common English 
and "Dutch'"' names, and a brief statement on the uses made by 
these people, along with in most cases a figure of the plant. 
There is an index to the English but not to the "Dutch" names. 
Most of the information was obtained from the natives of the 
area. An introduction tells of the importance of these 
plant drugs to the common people of the Dutch country. 

GMH 


"DIE MISTEL IN DER KREBSBEHANDLUNG," by O. Wolff (Editor). 
Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, BRD. 120 pp., 29 
figss, 12 tabs. 3 1975 /(1976) 7M - 1650. 


Seven authors explore the possibilities of Viscum album 


1979 Hocking, Book reviews 63 


in the treatment of cancers; there are also reviews of the 
pharmacological action of the drug. Most chapters deal with 
the clinical use of this material. 

GMH 


"COLORADO WEST: LAND OF GEOLOGY AND WILDFLOWERS," by Robert 
G. and Joann W. Young. Published by the authors, 612 Rico Way, 
Grand Junction, Colorado. 1-242, 208 col. figs.; 1977. 


This paperback book carries text and good color photo- 
graphs to illustrate the descriptions of the geology and 
plants of west Colorado. Both natural groups and individual 
wild flower plants are shown in that portion of Colorado west 
of the Continental Divide (roughly the western half of the 
state). The first part includes the geological history of the 
area, the various eras showing their evidences in the state, 
plant communities (Colorado deserts, sagebrush country, 
pinyon-juniper, scrub oak brush, spruce forests, alpine tundra). 
The scientific part comprises over half of the volume and 
includes two chief sections, the desert and the mountain 
flowers, with text on opposite pages to the colored photos. 
The attractive colored pictures are useful for the identifica- 
tion of the various plant spp. and should be useful to amateur 
and incidental students of the plant life of the area. 

GMH 


"FLORA OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER: SUPPLEMENT," by C.A. Zenkert 
ane Ee. Zander. Bull. Buffalo Soe. Nat. Sei.46: iv, iv, 
1-625 1975) (reed. 1978). 


This supplements the Flora published in 1934. 634 spp. 
and vars. are included, of which 106 are additions to the 
flora. There are 771 new distributional records. The senior 
author (CAZ) passed away in July, 1972. 

An annotated bibliography of his publications in botany is 
given, along with a brief biography. The area of coverage is 
the area within a 50 mile radius of the city of Buffalo. 
Species new to the flora are shown in boldface type, new county 
records are denoted with small capitals. The records are 
based on herbarium specimens in some local herbaria. Biblio- 
graphy is given. 

GMH 


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‘R ,OBINSON, H., New species of Vernonieae (Asteraceae). I. Vernonia 


harlingii TRO IO Sa ogo he a gee peep elen aaa Tg ani 65 
ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae), XVII. Additions 
to Monactis and K PRGAIRIPLIS Sh ol 6 a Walt acie reise eo: hea eae Ty 70 
ING, R. M., and ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). 
CLXXV. A new genus from Bahia, Litothamnus........... 79 
NG, R. M., and ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). 
i, CLXX VI. The relationship of Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii .... . 84 
| LOPEZ FIGUEIRAS, M., Parmotrema larense sp. nov. from Venezuela 
: (Lichenes: Parmeliaceae foes Ee Moa PD Seay Rm aan nT gt as 89 
Dd MOLDENKE, H. N., Additional notes on the genus Priva. VIIJ......... 92 
yD MOLDENKE, H. N., Additional notes on the genus Svansonia.I........ 111 
MOLDENKE, H. N., Additional notes on the genus Stylodon.I........ 118 
BY MOLDENKE, H. N., Notes on new and noteworthy plants. CXXVII.... . 123 
?. MOLDENKE, H. N., Additional notes on the genus DOE: Fos re CSE 123 
dD ne A Ls BOOK FEMEWS ie hs oi dip eas Rid ima iis 127 


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NEW SPECIES OF VERNONIEAE (ASTERACEAE). I. 


VERNONIA HARLINGII FROM ECUADOR. 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC., 20560. 


The Tribe Vernonieae can be characterized general- 
ly as having alternate leaves. Some exceptions occur, 
however, and some examples have been discussed by 
Robinson (1976) in conjunction with the description of 
V. sparrei, an opposite-leaved species of Loja in 
southern Ecuador. Recently, another opposite-Leaved 
species has been encountered in a collection by 
Harling and Andersson in El Oro in southern Ecuador, 

As in the previous case, the opposite-leaved condition 
had resulted in the specimen being sent as a member of 
the Eupatorieae,. 

The new species is remarkably distinctive in both 
the leaves and the involucral bracts, As indicated, 
opposite leaves are found in a few other species of 
Vernonia, but the sessile broad bases of the leaves of 
the new species are almost perfoliate in appearance, 
and the blades are large for the genus, The involucral 
bracts are prominently ornamented with Laciniate or 
split whitish indurated apices and upper margins. Such 
appendaged bracts seem most closely approached else- 
where in Vernonia by some of the Stengelioid species 
of Africa (Smith, 1971), though the appendages of the 
latter are colored and thinner in texture. The 
combination of the leaves and involucre gives the new 
species a superficial resemblance to some members of 
the Tribe Inuleae, but the leaves are opposite and the 
flowers are Vernonian in all details. The new species 
may prove to be closest to V. sparrei H.Robins. and 
V. trichotoma Gleason, which also have opposite leaves, 
corymbose inflorescences, broad and obtuse involucral 
bracts, and anther appendages without glands, but their 
leaves are petiolate with smaller oblong blades, veins 
are prominulous on the upper surface, and the involu- 
cral bracts are unappendaged,. 

The species is named for the senior collector, Dr. 
Gunnar Harling, of the University of G&teborg, who is 
also editor of the "Flora of Ecuador" project. 


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66 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. 4h, No. 2 


Vernonia harlingii H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae suffrutescentes pauce ramosae? 2 m altae, 
Caules brunnescentes subhexagonales striati dense 
hirtelli. Folia opposita sessilia; Laminae papyraceae 
ovatae plerumque 10-20 cm Longae et 5-1LO cm Latae base 
late rotundatae subamplexicaules margine subintegrae 
minute mucronato-denticulatae apice breviter acutae 
supra minute hispidulae subtus parce pilosulae et 
glandulo-punctatae, nervis pinnatis, nervis secundariis 
utrinque ca. Ll, nervis et nervulis subtus albidis. 
Inflorescentiae terminales corymbosae, ramis dense 
hirtellis, ramis ultimis 3-10 mm Longis. Capitula late 
campanulata 9-10 mm alta et 7-9 mm Lata; squamae 
involucri ca, 30-35 persistentes subimbricatae 3-7 mm 
longae et 1-2 mm latae extus parce fulvo-tomentosae et 
minute glandulo-punctatae, bracteae 2-3 basilares 
ovatae inornatae extus sericeae cetera oblongae vel 
late Lineares in apicem valde ornatae albo-alatae et 
laceratae, bracteae interiores sensim ornatissimae, 
Flores ca, 20 hermaphroditi. Corollae Lavandulae 
extus breviter stipitato-glanduliferae, tubis ca. 4 mm 
longis in partibus cylindraceis L mm longis superne 
infundibularibus, faucis ca. 1 mm Longis, Lobis anguste 
lanceolatis ca. 3 mm Longis et 0.7 mm Latis; thecae 
antherarum ca. 2 mm Longae inferne obtusae; appendices 
antherarum oblongae 0.5 mm longae et 0.25 mm Latae non 
glanduliferae; basi stylorum noduliferi et annulate 
scleroidei, cellulis annularum subquadratis vel irreg- 
ularibus plerumque 12-25 pm in diametro. Achaenia 
immatura usque ad 2.5 mm longa et ca, 1 mm lata inferne 
glandulifera parce breviter spiculifera; carpopodia 
distincta ca. 0.2 mm Longa et 0.4 mm lata, cellulis 
subquadratis vel breviter oblongis ca. 20 pm latis, 
parietibus valde incrassatis; setae pappi interiores 
ca. 25 plerumque ca. 5 mm Longae superne distincte 
latiores, cellulis apicalibus acutis, setae in sereibus 
exterioribus distinctae ca. 1 mm longae. Grana 
pollinis ca. 37 pm in diametro leniter Lophorata, 
cristis valde spiniferis. 

TYPE: ECUADOR: El Oro: Road Pasa jo - Santa Isabel 
- Girén, valley of Rfo Jubones, mountain rain forest 
to dry steppe vegetation, alt. ca. 1600 m.s.m. Shrub 
ca,/'2 m high. Corolla bluish violet. 7 V 1974>°G, 
Harling & L. Andersson 14408 (Holotype GB). 


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1979 Robinson, Vernonia harlingii 67 
Literature Cited 
Robinson, H. 1976, A new species of Vernonia from 
Ecuador. Phytologia 34 (3): 301-304. 
Smith, C. Earle, Jr. 1871. Observations on Stengel- 


ioid species of Vernonia. Agriculture Handbook 
No. 396: 1-87, 


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Vernonia harlingii H. Robinson, Holotype, G8teborg, 


Photo by Victor E. Krantz, Staff Photographer, National 
Museum of Natural History. ‘ 


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harlingii 


Robinson, Vernonia 


1979 


enlargement of heads. 


Robinson, 


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Vernonia harling 


STUDIES IN THE HELIANTHEAE (ASTERACEAE). XVII. 


ADDITIONS TO MONACTIS AND KINGIANTHUS, 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC., 20560, 


Monactis H.B.K. and Kingianthus H.Robins. form a 
related complex in the Andes of Ecuador and Peru. They 
are related to Verbesina but are clearly distinguished 
by the fusiform achenes. Monactis often bears a single 
pappus squama which was previously unique to the genus, 
but the new species of Kingianthus described here shows 
a similar pappus. Monactis was named after the single 
ray flower found in the head in many species. The 
heads of Kingianthus have more numerous rays arranged 
symmetrically. 

The significant history of Monactis has been 
reviewed in the study by Robinson (1976). At that 
time Kingianthus was still treated as an anomalous 
South American species of Zaluzania, but the genus was 
segregated two years Later (Robinson, 1978a) and an 
older name for the species was subsequently discovered 
(Robinson, 1978b). Quantities of new material have 
been seen since the cited studies, and additions to 
both genera are now necessary. It has seemed logical 
to treat the genera together because of their close 
relationship. Both genera are now seen to have 
geographically localized species, each in their own 
area. This is most obvious in Monactis in Ecuador 
where the areas of Pichincha, Canar, Azuay and Loja 
each have a characteristic species. 


Monactis lojaensis H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae frutescentes 1-2 m altae? Caules fulvi 
in nodis deflecti teretes pauce striati dense puberuli 
vel subtomentosi. Folia alternantia in partibus 
petioliformibus 2-6 cm longa superne sensim Late alata; 
laminae Late ovatae ad 17 cm Longae et 14 ecm lLatae base 
subabrupte acuminatae fere ad basem trinervatae margine 
integrae vel subcrenulatae apice breviter distincte 
acuminatae supra minute bullatae minute scabridulae 
subtus hirtellae et minute glandulo-punctatae, nervulis 
subtus valde prominentibus. Inflorescentiae terminales 
late corymboso-paniculatae, ramis parce puberulis vel 
hirtellis, ramis ultimis 0.3 mm longis. Capitula 

70 


1979 Robinson, Additions to Monactis & Kingianthus 71 


anguste campanulata vel cylindrica 7-9 mm alta sine 
radiis 2.5-3.0 mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 3-seriat- 
ae subimbricatae 10-12 oblongae vel anguste oblongae 
2-5 mm lLongae et 1.5 mm latae margine fimbriatae apice 
rotundatae extus glabrae; paleae squamis involucri 
similares ca. 5-6 mm longae obtusae. Flores radii 
plerumque 1 saepe 2 in capitulo feminei; corollae 
flavae, tubis ca. 2 mm longis parce puberulis, Limbis 
oblongis ca. 7 mm longis et 3 mm Latis subtus glandul- 
iferis, Flores disci 10-12 in capitulo hermaphroditi; 
corollae flavae 3.5-4.0 mm longae glabrae vel subgLlabr- 
ae, tubis ca. 1.5 mm longis, faucis campanulatae ca. 1 
mm Longis, lobis 1.0-1.5 mm longis et ca. 0.8 mm latis 
intus superne indistincte mamillosis; thecae antherarum 
ca. 1.5 mm Llongae; appendices antherarum nigrae ovatae 
ca. 0.3 mm longae et 0.23 mm Latae. Achaenia submatura 
fusiformia 4.5 mm longa glabra; squamae pappi singular- 
es ca. L mm Longae et 0.3 mm Latae. Grana pollinis ca. 
30 pam in diam, 

TYPE: ECUADOR: Loja: Colca, near San Vincente, 
slopes at the confluence between Rio Arenales and Rio 
Catamayo, dry slopes, + 2000 m. 15/5 1967. Benkt 
Sparre 16198 (Holotype S). 

Monactis lojaensis is apparently the endemic 
member of the genus from Loja in southern Ecuador, 

The most significant features seem to be the extremely 
broad leaves with somewhat roughened upper surface, 
the presence of rays in the heads, and the presence of 
a pappus. The species of adjacent Azuay in Ecuador, 
M. holwayae (Blake) H. Robins., lacks rays. The Loja 
species 1s actually closer to M. hieronymi H. Robins. 
of adjacent Peru, but the latter has much narrower 
leaves which are sometimes markedly toothed. 


Monactis macbridei H, Robinson, sp. nov. 

antae suffrutescentes virgatae ad 3 m altae non 
ramosae. Caules fulvi recti vel superne in nodis 
leviter deflecti teretes pauce striati dense puberuli. 
Folia alternantia, petiolis 2-5 mm longis; lLaminae 
ovato-lanceolatae plerumque 5-10 cm Longae et 2-3 cm 
latae in partibus basilaribus anguste cuneatae vel 
acuminatae 1-2 em longae supra basem trinervatae 
margine superne serrulatae vel argute serratae apice 
anguste acutae supra interdum leviter minute bullatae 
dense scabridulae subtus in nervis nervulis et inter- 
dum areolis pilosulae dense minute glandulo-punctatae,. 
Inflorescentiae terminales corymboso-paniculatae, ramis 
dense puberulis vel tomentellis, ramis ultimis O-1 mm 
longis. Capitula anguste campanulata vel cylindrica 
ca. 7 mm alta sine radiis ca. 2.5 mm lata; squamae 


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involucri ca. 3-seriatae subimbricatae 10-12 oblongae 
vel anguste oblongae 2-5 mm longae et 1.5 mm latae 
margine fimbriatae apice anguste rotundatae extus 
subglabrae minute glanduliferae; paleae squamis invol- 
ucri similares ca. 5-6 mm longae apice obtusae,. Flores 
radii 1-2 in capitulo feminei; corollae flavae, tubis 
ca. lL mm longis puberulis et minute glanduliferis, 
Limbis oblongis 5-6 mm longis 2.5-3.0 mm Latis. Flores 
disci 10-12 in capitulo hermaphroditi; corollae flavae 
4,0-4.5 mm longae, tubis 1.3-1.7 mm longis parce 
puberulis et glanduliferis, faucis campanulatis 1,.5-2,0 
mm Longis glabris, lobis 0.7-1.0 mm longis et 0.5-0.7 
mm Llatis intus obscure mamillosis extus parce minute 
glanduliferis; thecae antherarum ca. 1.5 mm longae; 
appendices antherarum nigrae ovatae ca. 0.4 mm Longae 
et 0.25 mm latae. Achaenia submatura fusiformia ca. 2 
mm longa glabra; pappus nullus. Grana pollinis ca. 30 
pm in dian. 

TYPE: PERU: Lima: Rio Blanco, steep stream hill- 
side. 12,000 ft. Stems 8-10 ft. in clumps, scarcely 
woody, virgate, branchless. May 8-19, 1922. Macbride 
& Featherstone 771 (Holotype US). PARATYPE: PERU: 

La Libertad: Prov. Huamachuco: Road to Marcahuamacucho; 
alt. 3400, 23-II-1967. Riccio & La Rosa 3569 (US). 
Sinon. vulg. Churguis,. 

Monactis macbridei is distinguished from other 
members of the genus by the lanceolate leaves. The 
type specimen was seen at the time of the original 
study (Robinson, 1976), but the leaves were so unusual 
for Monactis and so much more Like Kingianthus that 
treatment was deferred. The second specimen has 
confirmed the nature of the species. Some differences 
between the two specimens are noticeable, the leaves 
of the paratype are strongly serrate and the surfaces 
smoother, and the branches of the inflorescence are 
less densely pubescent. Still, pubescence of the 
corollas and paleae is basically the same and differ- 
ent from other members of the genus. One can assume 
more collections will show intermediate conditions. 

The two Localities for the species are both in 
the coastal ranges of Peru and the type specimen 
represents the most southward extention of the genus 
presently known. 


Kingianthus paradoxus H., Robinson, sp. nov. 

antae frutescentes ca. 1 m altae laxe ramosae. 
Caules recti teretes vel subhexagonales atro-brunnei 
dense albo-puberuli. Folia alternantia breviter petio- 


lata vel subsessilia; laminae ovatae vel rhomboideae 
ca, 2-6 cm Longae et 1.0-2.5 ecm Latae base subabrupte 


1979 Robinson, Additions to Monactis & Kingianthus 73 


longe decurrentes et petioliformes supra basem triner- 
vatae margine subtiliter vel distincte crenulatae vel 
subdentatae apice obtusae vel breviter acutae supra 
dense scabridulae parce glandulo-punctatae subtus dense 
albo-tomentosae, nervulis in reticulo minuto obscure 
prominulis. Inflorescentiae terminales corymboso- 
paniculatae, ramis dense puberulis vel subtomentosis et 
glandulo-punctatis, ramis ultimis 2-10 mm longis. 
Capitula campanulata ca. 7 mm alta sine radiis ca. 4 mm 
lata; squamae involucri ca. 2-seriatae subimbricatae ca. 
15 lLanceolatae plerumque 3-4 mm longae et 1 mm latae 
inferne extus parce vel dense puberulae et glandulifer- 
ae superne scariosae et glabrae apice acutae; paleae 
lanceolatae ca. 4 mm longae extus tomentosae et gland- 
uliferae superne scariosae glabrae. Flores radii 6-8 
in capitulo feminei; corollae flavae, tubis ca. 1 mm 
longis pilosulis vel hirtellis, Limbis oblongis ca. 7 
mm longis et 3.5 mm Latis subtus glandulo-punctatis. 
Flores disci ca. 30-40 in capitulo hermaphroditi; 
corollae flavae 3-4 mm longae, tubis 1.0-1.5 mm longis 
puberulis vel subglabris, faucis anguste campanulatis 
ca. 1.5 mm longis extus glabris vel subglabris, lobis 
ca. 0.8-1.0 mm longis et 0.7 mm lLatis intus indistincte 
mamillosis extus glabris; thecae antherarum ca. 1.2 mm 
longae, appendices antherarum nigrae ovatae ca. 0.3 mm 
longae et 0.23 mm Latae. Achaenia submatura subfusi- 
formia 2 mm longa glabra; squamae pappi singulares 
lanceolatae ca. 1 mm Longae et 0.2 mm latae. Grana 
pollinis ca. 32-35 pm in diam, 

TYPE: ECUADOR: Azuay: 42 km S of Cumbe on road to 
Saraguro. Elev. 10,000 ft. Shrub 1 m tall. Florets 
yellow. 26 Jan. 1979. R.M.King & F.Almeda 7813 
(Holotype US). PARATYPE: ECUADER? Azuay: 28 km N of 
Ofio on the road to Saraguro. Elev. 8900 ft. Shrub 
Lmtall. Florets yellow. Common. 26 Jan. 1979. 
R.M,.King & F.Almeda 7816 (US). 

Kingianthus paradoxus is evidently restricted to 
southern Ecuador and is isolated from the type species 
of the genus, K. paniculatus(Turez.) H.Robins., which 
occurs in the Pichincha region. The new species 
differs from K,. paniculatus by the less abrupt contrac- 
tions in the bases of the Leaf blades, the more 
rhomboidal shape of the blade, the tomentose rather 
than pilosulous undersurfaces of the leaves, the denser 
reticulation of the leaf veins, and the presence of a 
Ppappus on the achene. The paradox is the apparent 
abundance of this undescribed entity in a region which 
has been visited by many botanists. The localities 
were passed by R. M. King during the same season of 
the year in 1976. It is possible that the great 


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disturbance in the natural vegetation of Ecuador has 
allowed some previously restricted or even undescribed 
species to expand their range. A similar situation 
seems to be true in the case of Ayapana ecuadorensis 
K. & R. first described three years ago (King & 
Robinson, 1976). King reports from the most recent 
trip that the species is becoming increasingly weedy 
in areas near the type locality. 


Literature Cited 


King, R. M. and H,. Robinson 1976. Studies in the 
Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). CLIX. Additions to the 
genus, Ayapana. Phytologia 34 (1): 57-66. 


Robinson, H. 1976. Studies in the Heliantheae 
(Asteraceae). VII. Notes on the genus Monactis. 
Phytologia 34 (1): 33-45. 


. 1978a. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asterac- 
eae). XI. A new genus Kingianthus. Phytologia 
38 (5): 415-416, 


. 1978b. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asterac- 
eae). XV. Various new species and new combina- 
tions. Phytologia 41 (1): 33-38. 


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Enlargements of heads. Top: Monactis lojaensis. 


Middle: Monactis macbridei. Bottom: Kingianthus 
paradoxus, : 


STUDIES IN THE EUPATORIEAE (ASTERACEAE). CLXXV. 
A NEW GENUS FROM BAHIA, LITOTHAMNUS. 


R. M. King and H. Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560 


The Eupatorieae of Bahia, Brazil, includes numerous 
genera of the Gyptoid complex having distinctive veget- 
ative form such as Agrianthus., The area is one in which 
the Gyptoid complex has proliferated greatly, and un- 
described forms are to be expected. Recent collections 
from the coastal region of southern Bahia include a 
specimen of a slightly fleshy to coriaceous simple- 
leaved shrub that is Gyptoid in character, but unlike 
any known genus or species of the group. 

The new genus, Litothamnus, has the general papil- 
losity of style branches and corolla lobes, the glabrous 
style base, strongly annulated anther collars, and sub- 
equal involucral bracts that are characteristic of most 
members of the Gyptoid Complex. Both habit and geography 
suggest closest relationship within the Complex to the 
other genera with indurated leaves, Agrianthus and 
Bahianthus. But both of the latter genera are initially 
distinguishable by their characteristically alternate 
or spiralled leaf-insertion. Opposite leaves of Lito- 
thamnus are reflected even in the branching of the 
inflorescence which contrasts with both the densely 
clustered heads of Agrianthus and the alternating sub- 
fasciate branching of the inflorescence of Bahianthus. 
The broad glabrous leaves of Litothamnus with the 
smooth hardened upper surface are individually distinc- 
tive, and their crowded insertion further contributes to 
the characteristic habit of the plant. The veins of 
the Leaves are only slightly raised and third-order 
veins seem sparse and crudely organized, The stems 
appear to have been rather fleshy in life, and the 
short internodes are marked by distinct lines at the 
nodes giving an articulated appearance. The heads of 
Litothamnus have broad involucral bracts, in contrast 
to those of Agrianthus and Bahianthus, and the pappus 
setae are scabrous on both the Lateral and outer 
surfaces while those of the latter two genera are 
flattened and smooth externally. 

The habit of Litothamnus is unlike that of any 
other member of the Eupatorieae, and furnishes an 
immediate distinction from all other members of the 
Gyptoid Complex. A few other genera of the tribe such 
as Coreanthemum and Imeria of the Critonioid Complex 


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do approach Litothamnus in the texture and shape of 
their leaves. 

It is possible that Litothamnus might be deter- 
mined as Eupatorium carnosifolium B.L.Robinson, a 
species with a Listed type from near Ilhéos, Bahia, 
and with a name very appropiate for the present plant. 
However, the description by Robinson (1928) indicates 
a larger plant having Longer internodes, crenate leaves, 
heads with 50-60 flowers, and pubescent outer surfaces 
of the involucral bracts. A previous study (King & 
Robinson, 1972) has shown that the B.L.Robinson species 
is a mixed concept and the name is properly a synonym 
of Diacranthera crenata (Schlect. in Mart.) K. & R. 


Litothamnus ellipticus R.M.King and H.Robinson, gen. & 
sp. nov. Asteracearum (Eupatorieae). 


Plantae fruticosae ca. 2 m altae plerumque glabrae; 
caules et folia subcarnosa, internodis brevibus pler- 
umque 5-1LO mm longis. Folia congesta opposita, petiolis 
ca. 5 mm longis; laminae ellipticae vel leniter obovatae 
4-8 cm longae et 2.,5-4.0 cm Latae in sicco coriaceae 
lucidae base obtusae vel breviter acutae margine integ- 
rae apice breviter obtusae fere ad basem trinervatae, 
nervis et nervulis supra et subtus subprominentibus, 
nervulis paucis irregularibus, Inflorescentiae corym- 
bosae, ramis oppositis, bracteis anguste vel Late 
ellipticis, ramis ultimis 2-4 mm longis. Capitula 
late campanulata 7-8 mm alta et 5-6 mm lata; squamae 
involucri 12-15 subaequilongae persistentes late oblong- 
ae vel ellipticae 5-6 mm longae plerumque 2-3 mm Latae 
apice abrupte breviter acuminatae margine minute puber- 
ulae extus glabrae obscure 5-6 nervatae, squamae inter- 
lores lineares paucae; paleae raro vel nullae. Flores 
ca. 15 in capitulo; corollae disciformes albae anguste 
infundibulares ca. 5 mm Longae extus parce glandulo- 
puberulae, Lobis ovatis ca. 0.7 mm longis et 0.5 mm 
latis intus mamillosis extus superne indurate papillos- 
is; filamenta in parte superiore incrassata ca. 0.25 
mm longa, cellulis valde annulate ornatis; thecae 
antherarum ca. 1.7 mm Longae rufescentes; appendices 
antherarum oblongae ca. 0.35 mm longae et 0.25 mm Latae; 
basi stylorum glabrae non noduliferi; appendices 
stylorum lineares dense patentiter papillosae. Achaenia 
prismatica 5-costata submatura usque ad 2.5 mm longa 
plerumque glabra superne pauce glandulo-puberula; carp- 
opodia annuliformia, cellulis 4-5-seriatis quadratis 
ca. 25 um in diametro; setae pappi ca. 30 plerumque 
4.5-5.5 mm longae valde congestae subbiseriatae dense 
scabridulae superne angustiores apice leniter vel non 


1979 King & Robinson, A new gems from Bahia 81 


latiores, cellulis apicalibus argute acutis. Grana 
pollinis 20-22 pm in diametro. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municfipios de Sta. Cruz de 
Cabralia e Porto Seguro. Rod. BR 367, a 18.7 km ao N de 
Porto Seguro. Prox. ao nivel do mar. Folha SE-24 
(16-39c). Arbusto, 2 mde altura. Flores brancas. 
S.A.Mari, L.A.Mattos Silva, J.A.Kallunki, T.S. dos 
Santos & A.V.Pereira dos Santos 9751, 20 Mar. 1978 
(Holotype US). 


The genus contains the single species. 
Literature Cited 


Kine, R. M. & He. Robinson 19725) Seudies in. the 
Eupatorieae (Asteraceae) XCVII. A new genus, 
Diacranthera. Phytologia 24 (3): 192-194. 


Robinson, B. L. 1928. Records preliminary to a 
general treatment of the Eupatorieae.-VII. Contr. 
Gray Herb. n.s. 80: 1-42, 


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Plantes dc. Regia ueir 
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UNITED STATES gurc. Red. BR 367, ata 7 ke de Ser- 
te Segure. Prox. ao nivel do s 
2849998 
§.a-Mori, L.A.Matteas Siiva, J.4 
NATIONAL HERBARIUM T.§ dos Santos 4 A.¥.Pereita 2 


Litothamnus ellipticus R.M.King and H.Robinson, 
Holotype, United States National Herbarium. Photos 
by Victor E. Krantz, Staff Photographer, National 
Museum of Natural History. 


1979 King & Robinson, A new genus from Bahia 83 


Litothamnus ellipticus R.M.King and H,Robinson, 
enlargement of heads. 


STUDIES IN THE EUPATORIEAE (ASTERACEAE). CLXXVI. 


THE RELATIONSHIP OF EUPATORIUM CYRILI-NELSONII. 


R. M. King and H. Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC., 20560. 


Among the various new species of Eupatorieae 
described in recent years from Central America, 
Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii A. Molina has proven to be 
the most important test of the revised generic concepts 
for the tribe in that area. A reading of the original 
description (Molina, 1978) was enough to indicate an 
unusual species was involved. More recently, through 
the kindness of Lic. Cyrilo Nelson, catedrdtico of the 
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, 
an Isotype of the species has been made available to 
the U. S. National Herbarium. Considerations leading 
to a proper placement of the species are worthy of 
review here. 

Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii,as described by Molina 
(1978), 1s a subshrub with Lanuginose stems, large 
opposite petiolate leaves, obovate to elliptical leaf 
blades rounded to obtuse at the base, and with Large 
heads containing about 75 flowers. Without seeing 
material the characters suggest a member of the genus 
Bartlettina K. & R., a genus of many species in Central 
America. Examination of material shows some additional 
similarities to the latter genus such as the deciduous 
inner phyllaries common in the Critonioid-Hebeclinioid 
Eupatorieae and the broad lobes of the corollas. The 
characters of the achene, however, are not those of 
Bartlettina, but those of Peteravenia K. & R., another 
genus of about four species in Central America, The 
species is regarded here as a member of the genus 
Peteravenia in spite of the Lack of cordate bases on 
the Leaf blades which occur in the other known species 
of the genus, 

Peteravenia is superficially similar to Bartlett- 
ina, and it has been placed in the same Hebeclinium 
Group in our recent review of the tribe (Robinson & 
King, 1977). Nevertheless, when first proposed, the 
genus Peteravenia (King & Robinson, 1971b) was not 
considered an immediate relative of Bartlettina (King 
& Robinson, 197la, 1971lc). The cordate Leaf-base of 
Peteravenia was the most convenient character cited 


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1979 King & Robinson, Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii 85 


in the original description, but it was only of ter- 
tiary importance. The character has failed once 
previously in the cordate leaf-base of Bartlettina 
tenorae (Arist.) K. & R. of Venezuela. Two characters 
that more properly delimit Peteravenia are the details 
of the pappus and the structure of the carpopodium, 
characters in which Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii is 
clearly a member of the Latter genus. 

The pappus of Peteravenia is fragile with the 
narrow articulated bases of the setae well-separated 
from each other. In all species the tips of the setae 
are slightly but distinctly enlarged. Only Decachaeta 
DC., among the undoubted relatives of Hebeclinium DC., 
has the pappus fragile, and in none of the relatives 
of Hebeclinium are the setae so uniform in size and 
spacing. 

The carpopodium of Peteravenia is sharply delimit- 
in cellular structure, while that of Bartlettina 
intergrades with the longer cells of the upper achene 
wall, especially along the ribs. In the mature achene 
the carpopodium of Bartlettina extends upward along 
the bases of the ribs. In all the undoubted relatives 
of Hebeclinium the ribs of the achene intergrade below 
with the carpopodium although they are not always 
included in the callus formation. Even the narrow 
achene bases of Amolinia K. & R. have enlarged cells 
adjacent to the carpopodium which are similar to the 
more immature stages of Bartlettina. 

One final factor can be considered in assessing 
the relationship of Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii and 
Peteravenia. The traditional basis of the genus 
HebecLinium was the pubescent receptacle. It is now 
known that pubescent receptacles occur in some genera 
of the Eupatorieae in totally different subtribes, 
and there are undoubted members of the HebecLlinium 
Group where receptacles are glabrous. Still, the 
single species of Amolinia and Erythradenia (B.L.Rob.) 
K, & R., all species of Decachaeta, almost all species 
of Hebeclinium, and most species of Bartlettina have 
receptacles pubescent. Only Guayania, of the Group, 
has receptacles glabrous. In Peteravenia, all species, 
including the new addition, have receptacles completely 
glabrous, 

The additional distinctive species of Peteravenia 
confirms the essential features of the genus even as it 
violates what has been the most convenient distinguish- 
ing characteristic. As such, the genus shows greater 
diversity than previously expected, and the non- 
Hebeclinioid nature of the genus is further emphasized. 

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ieae (King et al., 1977) presented three chromosome 
reports for Peteravenia phoenicolepis (B.L.Rob.) K. & 
R., n = 10 twice and a n=ca. 17. An x = 10 is 
probably basic for the genus, HebecLlinium and the 
South American members of Bartlettina also have x = 10, 
but Decachaeta and the Central American species of 


Bartlettina have x = 16. A chromosome count for 


Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii would be instructive. We 
predict a count of n = P 
The following transfer is required: 


Peteravenia cyrili-nelsoniil(a. Molina) R. M. King & 
Robinson, comb. nov. Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii 
A. Molina, Ceiba 22 (1): e LOTS. 


Literature Cited 


King, R. M.,'D.'W. Kyhos, A. M: ‘Powell, Ps H. Raven 
and H. Robinson 1977. Chromosome numbers in 
Compositae, XIII. Eupatorieae. 


King, R. M. and H. Robinson 197la. Studies in the 
Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). XXXVI. A new genus, 
Neobartlettia, Phytologia 21 (5): 294-297, 


and - 4L971lb. Studies in the Eupatorieae 
(Asteraceae). XXXVIII. A new genus, Peteravenia. 
Phytologia 21 (6): 394-395, 


and - %lL97lc. Studies in the Eupatorieae 
(Asteraceae). LXI. Additions to the Hebeclinium 
Complex with Bartlettina, a new generic name. 
Phytologia 22 (3): 160-162. 


Molina R., A. 1978. Un nuevo Eupatorium de Honduras. 
Ceiba 22 (1): 39-40, 


Robinson, H. and R. M. King 1977. Chapter 15. 
Eupatorieae - systematic review. in Heywood, V. 
H., Js B. Harborne and B.’ lit Turnet,;-eds., “tue 
Biology and Chemistry of the Compositae. 437- 
485, 


L Cyrilo Nelson informs us in a letter that the correct 
spelling of the species name should be cyrilli- 
nelsonii, and that this is to be corrected in a 
future issue of Ceiba. 


1979 King & Robinson, Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii 87 


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MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL 
UNTVE.REIDAD NACIONAL AUTONOMA DE HONDURAS 
SECCION DE HERBARIO 
Bupatorium eyrilli-nelsonii A. Molina 
Pe letn Oe + SP. nov. 


UNITED STATES Plante 2m; hojas srométicas. 


DPTO. DE COMAYAGUA: Ville de Taulabé; 
quebrada La Caliche; lluviose trepicel; 
2851245 600m alt.; 19 de febrero de 1977. : 


NATIONAL HERBARIUM Cirilo Nelson 3912 


Peteravenias cyrili-nelsonii (A.Molina) R.M.King 
& H.Robinson. isotype of Eupatorium cyrili-nelsonii 
A.Molina, United States National Herbarium. Photos 
by Victor E. Krantz, Staff Photographer, National 
Museum of Natural History. 


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Peteravenia cyrili-nelsonii (A.Molina) R.M.King 


and H.Robinson, enlargement of head. 


PARMOTREMA LARENSE SP. NOV. FROM VENEZUELA (Lichenes: 
PARMELIACEAE) 


Manuel Lévez Figueiras 
Apartado postal 130 
MERIDA, Venezuela. 


Thallus laxe corticola triste cinereus viridis usque ad. 
3-4.5 cm diametro lobis rotundetis 7-8 mm latis cortice supe- 
riore subundulato margine sorediatis,revolute et sparse ci- 
liatis,ciliis simplicibus 0.9-2 mm longis,soraliis subcapita- 
tis confluentidus parcialiter submarginalibus,sorediis granu- 
losis;strato corticeo superiore 25p crasso; strato gonidiali 
10-15 p crasso; medulla alba 20-25 crassa;strato corticeo in- 
feriore 40-50/ crasso,nigro rhizinato in marginibus evoluto 
et griseo usaue ad griseum albescens, sparse rhizinate 
stricte zonaliter in marginalibus,rhizinis simplicibus,nigris 
densibus,oarte media densioribus minus ad marginese Apothecia 


ignota. 


Thallus adnate on bark,greenish ashy gray ,3-4.5 cm broad; 
lobes rotund 7-8 mm wide; upver cortexe 25p wide,dull weakly 
undulate;margins sorediate,revolute and sparsely ciliate, 
cilia simple 0.°-2 mm long; sorelia subcapitate,confluent, in 
part submarginal,soredia granulate;algal layer 10-15 p wide; 
medulla alba 20-25 wide; lower cortex 40-50 wide, black and 
rhizinate but changing to brown or vale brown near margins, 


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sparsely rhizinate in 2 narrow zone at the margins;rhizines 
simple,black,dense at the center and decreasing tovards the 


edgeseApothecia unknown. 


Chemistry : Atranorin, lichexanthone(in the medulla), 
norlobaridone,unknown ( loxodin ? ). 

Holotyve: Venezuela,Fdo Lara,Sierra de Barbacoas,en— 
tre Barbacozs y San Pedro,1400—-1500 m,corticicola,1l2 marzo 
1978,Lécez Figueiras 19152(MERF) ;isotype in US. 

This specie is easily identified by the occurrence 
of lichexanthone in the white medulla,it's chemistry and 
the presence of soredi2.Norlobaridone was identified by co- 
chromatography with Parmotrema reitzii Hale and Parmotrema 
hababiabum (Gyel.) Hale. 

The occurrence of what is normally a substance corti- 
cal,lichexanthone,in the medulla of P.larense is of con— 
siderable taxonomic importance.Only three other lichens 
Parmotrema ultralucens(Krog) Hale,Parmotrema diffractaicum 
(Essl.) Hale and Parmotrema conjunctun Hale (Hale 1974) 


are known to have this substance in the medulla. 


Literature cited 
Hale,Mason EeJdre 

1965. <A Monograph of Parmelia subgenus Amphigym— 
nia,Contributions from the United National 
Herbarium, 36: 193-358. . 

1974. Notes on svecies of Parmotrema( Lichens: 
Parmeliaceae) containing yellow pigments, 
Mycotaxon,1(2): 105-116. 


1979 Lépez Figueiras, Parmotrema larense 91 


’ 
1974. Parmelia ultralucens,a new lichen 
in subgenus Amphigymnia.Bryologist. 
77(2): 253-256. 


Acknowledgements 


I Thank Mason Hale for his guidance, Padre Ld- 
pes Palacios for the latin translation and M.Keogh 
for running the TLC.This work has been financed by 
CONICIT ( subvencién 51-26-BIO-S1:0981) and by 
C.D.C.H.,ULA, (subvencién FA-04-77 y FA-23-77). 


gueiras, 


LUTTE PEUIAHUEEEAEEAAU UA 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS PRIVA. VIII 


Harold N. Moldenke 


PRIVA Adans. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 
529, 532——-536, 555, & 556. 187; Giirke in Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost- 
Afr. Cs 338. 1895; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 0 (2): 
335. 1915; Heathcote in Heywood, Flow. Pl. World 237. 19783 Mold., 
Phytologia 43: 420—h26. 1979. 


PRIVA CORDIFOLIA var. FLABELLIFORMIS Mold. 

Additional bibliography: Greenway & Vesey-Fitzgerald, Journ. 
East Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. Nat. Mus. 28: 21. 19723; Mold., Phytolo- 
gia 3h: 261 (1976) and 43: 426. 1979. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a ruderal woody herb, 
growing in groups, to 3 feet tall, the sap colorless, the flowers 
odorless, and have found it growing in black loam of regenerating 
cultivated areas, at 300—900 feet altitude, flowering and fruiting 
in Jamary. The corollas are said to have been "white" on Tanner 
R.T.3939. Tanner reports that in Tanzania the entire plants are 
pounded up while green and applied externally to treat pains in the 
stomach. He also reports the vernacular name, “nkamachuma". Green 
way & Vesey-Fitzgerald (1972) list the variety from Lake Manyara 
National Park, citing Greenway 11119. 

The Leach 11303, distributed as this variety, actually is P. 
meyeri Jaub & Spach. 

Additional citations: TANZANIA: Tanga: Drummond & Hemsley 213 
(B); Schlieben 3231 (Mu—isotype); Tanner R.T.3939 (Ba, N). ZAMBIA: 
Fries, Nordlindh, & Weimarck 3990 (Mu). 


PRIVA CURTISIAE Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 7, pl. 2. 1926. 

Additional synonymy: Priva curtisii Kobuski ex Mold., Fifth 
Summ. 2: 613, in syn. 1971. 

Additional bibliography: Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot, Gard. 13: 6—8, 
Jahresber. 5 (1): 1170. 19323; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 54 (2): 747. 1934; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicenn. 30 & 31. 
1939; Anon., U. S. Dept. Agr. Bot. Subj. Index 15: 14358. 1958; 
Mold., Phytologia 1k: 39h. 1967; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 15: 22. 19673 
Glover, Stewart, Fumerton, Marindany, & Anderson, Gloss. Botan.- 
Kipsig. Names 160, 217, 250, & 260. 19693; Mold., Fifth Sum. 1: 

238 & 21 (1971) and 2: 612, 613, & 905. 1971. 

Illustrations: Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: [29] & [31], pl. 
2&3, fig. 1—6. 1926. 

Recent collectors describe this species as an erect perennial 
herb, to , feet tall, or with mmerous, prostrate or ascending, 
branching, rough stems to 18 inches long, the sap colorless, the 
flowers small, odorless, in open racemes terminating the stems, and 


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1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 93 


have found it growing in grassland, among rocks on hillsides, and 
"locally common with Barleria, Striga, Indigofera, Cassia, Pentan- 
isia ouragyna, Polygala, Harpachne schimperi, and Pennisetum 
stramineum in Acacia drepanalobium — A. nilotica ssp. subulata — 
A. seyal — Ormocarpum — Pappea capensis — Carissa edulis thick- 
ets", at altitudes of 1250—1780 m., flowering in February, March, 
and May, fruiting in March. The corollas are said to have been 
"yiolet-red" on Strid 4089, "magenta=-pink" on Greenway & Napper 
13558, and "white" on Tanner 1269. 

The vernacular names, “biriwob-sot", "ikubya", "maseiwob-sot" 
[masei, to wipe], "mosibit-ab-tiriita" [a name that really belongs 
to Leonotis and Leucas], and "pirir—wob-sot" [from birire, rubbing 
or crushing in the hands, and sot, a gourd]. The leaves are 
crushed in the hands to make a seal over sewing on milk gourds. 
The juice is squeezed into the eyes as a remedy for ophthalnia, 
and the pounded leaves are added to flour to make a poultice for 
sores. The plant is also used to clean out milk gourds. 

Additional citations: TANZANIA: Tanga: Tanner 1269 (N). KENYA: 


Greenway & Napper 13558 (Mu); Strid 4089 (Go). 


PRIVA DOMINGENSIS Urb., Symb. Antill. 7: 354. 1913. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
0 (2): 335. 1915; Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 2, 6, 8-9, & 
23. 19263 Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicenn. 7. 1939; Mold., Phyto- 
eee 14: 348—3),9. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 103 (1971) and 2: 
905. 1971. 

Recent collectors describe this species as herbaceous, pros- 
trate or decumbent to erect, 25—hO cm. tall, branched from the 
base, or a “low shrub" (Liogier 136la), the foliage very aroma. 
tic, and have found it growing in limestone soil in open places 
and among thickets and recks on limestone hillsides, at altitudes 
of 50—500 m., flowering in February, March, May, June, and Novem- 
ber, fruiting in February and June. Liogier speaks of it as "com 
mon" in some areas, "rare" in others. 

The corollas are said to have been "blue" on Liogier 13642 & 
15198, "reddish" on Liogier 11588, "purple" on Liogier 1701 and 


Liogier & Liogier 22556, and “white” on Liogier 13%6lila. 
Additional citations: HISPANIOLA: Dominican Republic: Ekman H. 

13737 (Ld); A. Ldogier 11588 (N), 136la (N, Z), 13642 (Ac, N), 

15198 (Ac, N, W—2576806A), 1701 (Ld, N, W—2801657); Liogier & 


Liogier 22556 (N). 


PRIVA GRANDIFLORA (Ort.) Mold., Phytologia 2: 12. 1916. 
Additional & emended bibliography: Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Can- 
doll. 3: 495. 1858; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 
1, 2: 628. 189h; Solered., Syst. Anat. Dicot. 71h. 18995 D. H. 
Scott in Solered., Syst. Anat. Dicot. [transl. Boodle & Fritsch] 
1: 631. 1908; Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 2, 7, 17--18, & 
32—-[35], pl. h& 5, fig. 13 & 22. 1926; Wangerin, Justs Bot. 


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Jahresber. 5 (1): 1170. 1932; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 54 (2): 747. 1934; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 1) & 39. 
1939; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 2, 2: 628 
(196) and imp. 3, 2: 628. 1960; Mold., Phytologia 1k: 3k49—350. 
1967; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 15: 22. 1967; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & 
Zakhar., Chromos. Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. 1, 717. 19693; Sanchez- 
Sanchez, Fl. Val. Mex., ed. 1, 326 & 327, fig. 251 C. 1969; Hl- 
Gazzar & Wats., New Phytol. 69: 483 & 485. 1970; Mold., Fifth 
Summ. 1: 73 & 368 (1971) and 2: 613, 614, 644, 672, 693, 703, & 
905. 1971; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. Num. Flow. 
Pl., imp. 2, 717. 1972; Mold., Phytologia 22: 458. 1972; Hl- 
Gazzar, Egypt. Journ. Bot. 17: 75 & 78. 197k; Mold., Phytologia 
29: h3 (197k) and 36: 122. 1977. 

Tlustrations: Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: [33] & [35], 
pl. 4) & 5, fig. 13 & 22. 19263; Sanchez Sanchez, Fl. Val. Mex., ed. 
1, fig. 251 C. 1969. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a scarce or rare 
cespitose perennial, growing in clumps, "semi-rastrera" or "ras- 
trera", and have encountered it on pine savannas, in secondary 
matorral, "volcanic very thin soil in oak and sparse pine forests", 
“among scrub junipers in rocky alluvium of rocky plateau", in 
"mesquite=nopal savannas on gentle slopes of reddish sandy loam", 
on open volcanic rock slopes of mesas, on gravel roadbase, in 
"pastizal of Bouteloua radicosa, Hilaria cenchroides, Muhlenberg— 
ia rigida, and Lycurus phlaeoides", in "pastizal" and "pastizal 
ladera", on "valley floor with mixed oak and thorn", on "slopes 
with igneous rock and pastizal vegetation", and "in open hilly 
grasslands with gravel base", as well as in "ladera andesftica 
con vegetacién de zacatal perturbado", at altitudes of 1980-2830 
m., flowering from July to September, in fruit in July and August. 
It is reported to be "common" in grassland below the limit of 
oaks in Jalisco, Mexico. Derman (1936), Noack (1937), and Bolk- 
hovskikh & his associates (1969) all report the chromosome number 
as 10. 

The corollas are said to have been "pink" on Correll & Johns- 
ton 20062, "purple" on Rzedowski 301, 1799, & 22899, "light- 


purple" on Rzedowski 22962, Wpale-violet" on Flyr 1529, “pale- 
lavender" on McVaugh 17143, and "pale-bluish, nearly white" on 
McVaugh 18278. 

Sanchez (1969) keeps P. grandiflora and P. rhinanthifolia 
(Mart. & Gal.) B. L. Robinson as two separate and valid species, 
listing "pegarropa" as a vernacular name for the latter in Mex- 
ico. I feel convinced that the two are conspecific. 

Material of P. grandiflora has been misidentified and dis- 
tributed in some herbaria as Bouchea sp. and Verbena sp. and 
even as Dyschoriste sp. in the Acanthaceae. 

Additional citations: MEXICO: Aguascalientes: R. McVaugh 
18278 (Au—235353, Ld, N). Chilmalma: Ellis, Dunn, & Wallace 
918 (Ld); Stuessy 1031 (Au—-257h9h, Ld). Durango: Correll & 
Johnston 20062 (La) Fly 1529 (Au)s Johnson & Johnson 1828 (Ws); 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 95 
M. C. Johnston 266 (Ln—196289); LeDoux & Dunn 1909 (Ld). Fed-. 


eral District: Cruz Cisneros 1729 (Mi); Lyonnet 596 (Mi); J. Rue- 
dowski 301 (Ip), 1799 (Au—241276, Ip). Jalisco: R. McVaugh 17143 
(Mi); A. R. Moldenke 1821 (Ld). México: Bayona 38 (Au——303161, 
Mi, N, N)j Cruz Cisneros 786 (Ws); J. Raedowski 15717 (Ip), 16803 
(Ip), 22899 (Ip), 22962 (Ip, Mi), 23974 (Ip), 28260 (Mi). Micho- 
ac4n: Detling 885 (W—2669366); Hinton 1320) (Au--121523, Se— 


187211); A. R. Moldenke 1803 (Ac). 


PRIVA HUMBERTI Mold., Phytologia 3: 23—h2h. 1951. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 1: 350. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 262 (1971) and 2: 905. 1971. 


PRIVA LACINIATA Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 35--36. 1936. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 

35—-36. 19363 Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 12. 1939; Mold., Known 
Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, 30 & 99 (192) and ed. 2, 58. 
1949; Anon., U. S. Dept. Agr. Bot. Subj. Index 15: 1358. 1958; 
Mold., Phytologia 14: 350. 1967; Mold., Fifth Sum. 1: 113 (1971) 
and 2: 905. 1971. 


PRIVA LAPPULACEA (L.) Pers., Syn. Pl. 22 139. 1806. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Priva lappulacea Pers. apud 
Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., sd. 1, 657. 1821. Priva lappulacae Ko- 
buski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: h sphalm. 1926. Tamonea lappulacea 
Lam. apud Knuth, Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Beith. 3: [Init. Fl. 
Venez.}] 60 in syn. 1927. EE la acea Lam. apud Kmth, 
Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Beih. 43: [Init. Fl. Venez.] 60h in syn. 
1927. Verbena lappulaceae Grieve & Leyel, Modern Herb., imp. 1, 2: 
832 sphalm. 1931. Priva lappuiacea (L.) Pers. ex Mold., Résumé 
Suppl. 16: 25 in syn. 1968. Zapania lappulacea Lam. ex Mold., Fifth 
Summ. 2: 736 in syn. 1971. Priva lappulacea f. lappulacea [(Le) 
Pers.] ex Mold. in Woodson, Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 
78 & 147. 1973. Priva la acea f. lappulacea [Moldenke] ex Mold., 
Phytologia 28: 462 in syn. 197). Priva lappulaceae (L.) Pers. ex 
Mold., Phytologia 28: 462 in syn. 197). Priva lappula Andrews ex 
Mold., Phytologia 36: 5 in syn. 1977. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Sloane, Voy. Jamaic. Nat. 
Hist. 1: 174, pl. 110, fig. 1. 1707; L., Sp. Pl., ed. 1, imp. 1, 1: 
19. 17533; P. Browne in Sloane, Civil Nat. Hist. Jamaic., ed. 1, 
116—117. 1755; L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 852. 17593 L., Sp. Pl., 
ed. 2, 28. 1762; Crantz, Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 572. 1766; [Retz.], 
Nom. Bot. 11. 1772; Jacq., Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist. 8. 1788; P. 
Browne in Sloane, Civil Nat. Hist. Jamaic., ed. 2, 116—117. 1789; 
J. F. Gmel. in L., Syst. Nat., ed. 13, imp. 1, 2: 1 (1789) and 
ed. 13, imp. 2, 2: 41. 17963 Raeusch., Nom. Bot., ed. 3, 3. 17975 
Willd., Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 2: 633-634. 1809; Stokes, Bot. Mat. 
Med. 1: 39—O. 1812; H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl., ed. folio, 2: 225 
(1817) and ed. quarto, 2: 278. 1818; Pers., Sp. Pl. 3: 348. 1819; 


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Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 1: 32) (1826) and ed. 2, 18. 1830; G. 
Don in Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 246 (1830) and ed. 2, 246. 18323 
Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 552. 1832; G. Don in Loud., Hort. 
Brit., ed. 3, 2h6. 1839; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3, 552. 1839; 
Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Cale. 473. 1845; Schau in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 
529, 534, & 556. 1847; Schau., Linnaea 20: [76]. 1847; Buek, Gen. 
Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 367, 368, 495, & 507. 1858; A. Wood, Am, 
Bot. Flor., ed. 1, imp. 1, 235 (1870), ed. 1, imp. 2, 235 (1871), 
ed. 1, imp. 3, 235 (1872), ed. 1, imp. 4, 235 (1873), ed. 1, im. 
5, 236 (187k), and ed. 1, imp. 6, 235. 1875; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. 
Am., ed. 1, 2 (1): 33h (1878) and ed. 2, 2 (1): 334. 18865 O. R. 
Willis in A. Wood, Am. Bot. Flor., ed. 2, 235. 1889; T. S. Bran- 
deg., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 3: 16). 18935 Jacks. in 
Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 1: 310 (1893) and imp. 1, 2: 
628. 189); Barnhart, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 590. 1902; Ramf- 
rez Goyena, Fl. Nicarag. 2: 557. 1911; Loes., Verh. Bot. Ver. 
Brand. 53: 80. 1912; Arthur, Mycologia 14: 18. 1922; Seaver, Myco- 
logia 17: 9. 19253 Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 1, 2, h, L— 
16, 2h, & 32—([35], pl. h & 5, fig. 10 & 19. 1926; Kmth, Feddes 
Repert. Spec. Nov. Beih. 3: (init. Fl. Venez.) 604--605. 1927; 
Kern, Mycologia 20: 72. 1928; Grieve & Leyel, Modern Herb., imp. 
1, 2: 832. 1931; Roys, Ethno-bot. Maya [Tulane Univ. Midd. Am. 
Res. Ser. Publ. 2:] 290 & 32h. 19313 Wangerin, Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 54 (1): 1170. 1932; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 3--12, 1)— 
2h, 26, 28, 33, & 39. 1939; Yuncker, Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 9: 330. 
1910; Darlington & Janaki Ammal, Chromos. Atlas 270. 19453; Savage, 
Cat. Linn. Herb. Lond. h. 195; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. 
Kew., imp. 2, 1: 310 (1946) and imp. 2, 2: 628. 19463; Hill & Sal- 
isb., Ind. Kew Suppl. 10: 33. 197; Metcalfe & Chalk, Anat. Dicot. 
1040. 19503 Arnoldo, Zakfl. 125, 126, 160, & 167, pl. 62, fig. 136. 
1954; Darlington & Wylie, Chromos. Atlas, ed. 1, 323. 19563 Vélez, 
Herb. Angiosp. Lesser Ant. 117. 1957; R. C. Foster, Contrib. Gray 
Herb. 18): 170. 1958; Grieve & Leyel, Modern Herb., imp. 2, 2: 
832. 1959; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 3, 1: 310 
(1960) and imp, 3, 2: 628. 1960; Macbr., Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 13 
(5): 660. 1960; Darlington & Wylie, Chromos. Atlas, imp. 2, 323. 
1961; V. E. Graham, Trop. Wild Flow. 111 & 112. 1963; Hepper in 
Hutchins. & Dalz., Fl. W. Trop. Afr., ed. 2, 2: 3h & 435. 19633 
Robertson & Gooding, Bot. Caribb. 156 & 233, fig. 77 D. 1963; 
Backer & Bakh., Fl. Java 2: 599. 1965; Castafieda, Fl. Cent. Boliv. 
328—-329, fig. 143. 1965; Gooding, Loveless, & Proctor, Fl. Bar- 
bados 362—-363. 1965; Airy Shaw in J. C. Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., 
ed. 7, 921. 1966; Hirata, Host Range Geogr. Distrib. Powd. Mild. 
276. 19663 D'Arey, Rhodora 69: 439. 1967; Grieve, Modern Herb. 
832. 19673 Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.12: 25. 1967; Mold., Résumé 
Suppl. 15: 3, h, 16, & 22. 1967; Mold., Phytologia 1h: 39 (1967) 
and 17: 11). 1968; Burlage, Ind. Pl. Mex. 183, 202, 235, & 2h1. 
1968; Mold., Biol. Abstr. 9: 199 & 11291. 19685 Mold., Résumé 
Suppl. 16: 2-5, 25, & 28 (1968) and 17: [1] & 2. 1968; J. A. 
Steyerm., Act. Bot. Venez. 3: 156. 1968; Barriga-Bonilla, Herndn- 
dez—Camacho, Jaramillo-T., Jaramillo—Mejia, Mora-Osejo, Pinto~ 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 97 


Escobar, & Ruiz—Carranza, Isla San Andres 59. 19593 Bolkh., Grif, 
Matvej., & Jakhar., Chromos. Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. 1, 716. 1969; 
Farnsworth, Blomster, Quimby, & Schermerh., Lynn Index 6: 262. 
1969; M. Martinez, Pl. Med. Mex., ed. 5, 502. 1969; A. L. Mold., 
Phytologia 18: 120 & 125. 19693 Rickett, Wild Flow. U.S. 3 (2): 
365——366. 19693 G. W. Thomas, Tex. Pl. Ecolog. Summ. 77. 1969; 
Dennis, Kew Bull. Addit. Ser. 3: 177. 1970; Duke, Econ. Bot. 2): 
363. 19703; Gibson, Fieldiana Bot. 2) (9): 219--221, fig. 2. 
1970; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.15: 22. 1970; Mold. in Correll & 
Johnston, Man, Vasc. Pl. Tex. [Contrib. Tex. Res. Found. 63] 
1337, 18 08, 1811, 1815, 1830, 1846, 1859, & 1876. 19703 Ober- 
winkler, Pterid. Sperm. Venez.  & 78. 1970; Dwyer, Raymondiana 
4: 71. 1971; Long & Lakela, Fl. Trop. Fla., ed. 1, 7h0 & 953. 
1971; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 30, 56, 73, 78, 80, 82, 8-86, 88, 
91--93, 97, 99, 101, 103, 105—107, 109, 110, 122, 113, 119, 126, 
230301.32, 13h, 1375-3385 13, 169, 183,.:220, 327,’ 368,,.392,.399, 
& 403 (1971) and 2: 612--61h, 618, 619, 639, 643, 669, 67h, 679, 
682, 685, 700, 708, 736, & 905—-906. 19713 Mold. in Wiggins & 
Porter, Fl. Galap. Isls. 497—[99], fig. 131 a & b. 19715 Wig- 
gins & Porter, Fl. Galép. Isls. 993, 997, & 998. 1971; C. D. 
Adams, Flow. Pl. Jamaic. 632, 792, 793, 796, 836, & 86. 1972; 
Alem4n Frfas, Aurich, Ezcurra Ferrer, Gutiérrez Vézquez, Horst- 
mann, Lépez Rendueles, Rodrf{fguez Graquitena, Roquel Casabella, & 
Schreiber, Die Kulturpfl. 19: 422. 1972; Airy Shaw in J. C. Wil- 
lis, Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 8, 945. 1973; Farnsworth, Pharmacog. 
Titles 8 (8): xvii. 1973; Mold., Phytologia 25: 228. 19735 Mold. 
in Woodson, Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 77—81 & 147, 
fig. 6. 1973; Alain in Leén & Alain, Fl. Cuba, imp. 2, 2: 302, 
fig. 130 A. 197h; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. 
Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. 2, 716. 197; Howes, Dict. Useful Pl. 269. 
197h; Mold., Phytologia 28: 432—)3h, 436, & 462 (197) and 29: 
56. 1974; Molina R., Ceiba 18: 66. 197); Percival, Biotropica 6: 
110 & 111. 197h; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 360, 08, & 11. 197h; 
Balgooy, Pacif. Pl. Areas 3: 25. 19753; Garcia, MacBryde, Molina, 
& Herrera-MacBryde, Malez. Preval. Cent. Am. 113 & 159. 19753 
Lépez—Palacios, Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 7). 1975; 
Mold., Phytologia 31: 379--381, 383, 393, 00, hO7, & 10. 1975; 
Molina R., Ceiba 19: 96. 1975; S. R. Hill, Rhodora 78: 33. 19763 
Long & Lakela, Fl. Trop. Fla., ed. 2, 70, 953, & 961. 1976; 
Mold., Phytologia 3: 256. 1976; Soukup, Biota 11: 16. 1976; 
Lépez—Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 20, 503-—-511, 646, 647, 652, & 
65h. 1977; Mold., Phytologia 36: 30, 33, & 4S. 19773 Powell, E- 
con. Bot. 31: 42h. 1977; Dodson & Gentry, Selbyana \: 578, 579, 
605, & 62h, pl. 271 D. 1977; Liogier, Moscosoa 1: 38. 1978; 
Mold., Phytologia 43: 330 & 333. 1979. 

Additional & emended illustrations: Sloane, Voy. Jamaic. Nat. 
Hist. 1: 17), pl. 10, figs 1. 1707; Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 
13: [33] 7 [35], ple L& 5, fig. 10 & 19. 1926; Arnoldo, Zakfl. 
pl. 62, fig. 136. 1954; V. E. Graham, Trop. Wild Flow. 111. 
1963; Robertson & Gooding, Bot. Caribb. 156, fig. 77 D. 1963; 
Castafieda, Fl. Cent. Boliv. 329, fig. 143. 1965; Gibson, Fieldi- 


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ana Bot. 2h (9): 220, fig. 2. 19703; Mold. in Wiggins & Porter, 
Fl. Galép. Isls. [499], fig. 131 a & b. 1971; Mold. in Woodson, 
Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 79, fig. 6. 19735 Alain in 
Leén & Alain, Fl. Cuba, imp. 2, 2: 302, fig. 130 A. 197h5 Garcia 
MacBryde, Molina, & Herrera-MacBryde, Malez. Preval. Cent. Am. 11,3 
(in color) . 1975; Batson, Gen. East. Pl. 147. 1977; Lépez—Palaci- 
os, Fl. Venez. Verb. [506], fig. 120. 1977; Dodson & Gentry, Sel- 
byana 4: 579, pl. 271 D. 1978. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a soft, weedy, annual 
herb, 0.2—-1.5 m. tall, spreading from the base, erect or decum- 
bent, the stems weak, square, purple at the areas of branching, the 
nodes constricted, the leaves "coarse, due to small pale—brown 
hairs which feel t sandy" ", the bracts olive-green, the pedicels and 
calyx green and hairy, the flower—buds blue, the flowers odorless, 
and the fruit green, deep-green when inmature . Ton calls ita 
“shrub feet tall" in Chiapas [Mexico], but surely this is erron- 
eous -—— perhaps the plant was leaning against a shrub for support, 
as it often does. 

The corollas are said to have been "blue" on Calderén 10h, 
Duke 13621, Liogier & Liogier 2651, and — & al. 1,825 and are 
also so described by Lépez—Palacios (1975), "light=blue" on Lépez— 
Palacios 295, "pale-blue" on Asplund 15373 15373, Lépez—Palacios 150, 
and Woodson & & al. 145i, and are also so © described by Graham (i963) 
and Grieve (1967), “tpale=-bluish" on Fosberg 51129, "blue to pale- 
purple” on Maas & Maas 212, "light-purple 5 P 7/7" on Schunke 955, 
"purple" on | Belshaw w 3208, Kerr & Hagee 1108, and Rzedowski wski 2403, 
"the limb purplish, tube whitish" on Howell 8875, "white, edged 
with purple at the tips" on White & White hite 19h, "petals pale~purple, 
tube white" on Woytkowski 35063, "violet" on on Krisman s.n., "pale 
violet" on Molina 263 and Proctor 16932, "lilac" on Gandara & Dor= 
antes }j),, Lépez-Palacios 3851, Molina ina 27478, and Ventura 2630 Si 
38h0, "pale-lilac" on Chambers 2783 a and a Lépez-Palacios 3 3933, 
“white—lilac® on Contreras eras 3792, , "lavender" on Fosberg 29002, 
Moore 2934, and Woodson & Schery 835, "pale pinkish-lavender" on 
McVaugh h 15827, “pale-lavender" on Fosberg 29059 and Gentry 8521, 
and are also so described by Yuncker (190), “lavender-pink" on 
Webster & Webster 13192, "petals have lavender margin and white" 
on on King 328 328, "pink" on Wedel 1495, "pinkish" on Molina 26256, 
"lobes pink, throat white" on Dodson 5633, "pale-rose" on Molina 
14272 & 15812, "mauve" on Adams 529, and "white edged with laven- 
der" on Howell 8606. Specimens with completely white corollas are 
here regarded as f. albiflora Mold. 

Recent collectors have found P. lappulacea growing in fertile 
soil and in sand, in shady places, fields, moist thickets, muddy 
places, canyons, ” and clearings in ramoral. covering ancient temple 
ruins, on roadside banks and shoulders, wooded slopes, and hill- 
sides, in woods, rainforests, steep heavily wooded moist ravines, 
open grazed areas, cultivated fields, matorral, moist habitats in 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 99 


general, open waste land, and secondary forests, "along roadsides 
in the dry montane forest zone", "on weedy banks and flats at the 
edge of riverbanks above floodwater line", in open areas with 
vegetation mainly of leguminous shrubs and cacti, and "just beyond 
the reach of salt-spray along seabeaches, often in open sunlight", 
at altitudes of sealevel to 1320 meters, flowering and fruiting in 
every month of the year. 

Harmon & Fuentes found it in weedy fields and along streamsides 
in the tropical rainforest zone of Guatemala, while Molina assert 
it to be "common in semi-humid tropical forests" there. Tyson & 
Blum refer to it as a "lawn weed" in the Panama Canal Zone. In 
Honduras it is said by Molina to be an "abundant weed in crops" 
and a "frequent" or "common" weed in semi-humid tropical woods; 
also common on Roatan island. Duke and his associates call ita 
"weed" in Panama. Chambers refers to it as "a roadside weed" on 
Dominica island, where the Websters also found it to be "common". 
D'Arcy (1967) reports it "a common weed" on Tortola; Andrews re- 
gards it a "roadside weed" in the Barbados and encountered it "in 
grassy open spaces" on Tobago; Fosberg reports it common on St. 
Croix, while Proctor describes it as "a common weedy herb" on St. 
Lucia. 

In Veracruz, Mexico, Ventura refers to it as "scarce" in some 
localities, "abundant" in others, while Calderén found it "very 
abundant". Woytkowski reports it "common" in San Martin, Peru, 
and Fosberg found it to be common in Loreto but a "rare weed in 
burned fields" elsewhere in that country. Sparry encountered it 
in secondary monsoon forests, among open secondary vegetation, 
and in cultivated land in Ecuador. King reports it "not common 
along gravelly roadsides", while Kerr & Hagee aver "commonly found 
in grass-shrub association on riverbottoms and limestone hilis". 

Adams (1972) states that in Jamaica P, lappulacea is "A common 
weed of cultivations, roadsides and waste places" at altitudes of 
30 to 1750 feet, flowering and fruiting all through the year, 
native to the subtropics and tropics of the Americas, "recently 
naturalized in West Africa and Asia". Woodson and his associates 
describe it as an “herb, 1.5—2 m." tall — this is the only ref- 
erence to its attaining a height of over 1.5 m. Wedel asserts on 
the label of his no. 113 "tree about 3 ft. with small green 
seeds", but this is obviously erroneous! Gooding & Loveless 
(1965) assert that it is a "common weed" in the Barbados, citing 
Herb. Barb. Mus. 230; Byrne found it common in abandoned gardens 
in the Bahamas. Gandara & Dorantes found it in "selva mediana 
subperennifolia secundaria, suelo lecho calizo arcilloso con hu- 
mis" in Mexico. In Tabasco Gonzélez & Pérez found it in secondary 
association vegetation with Canna indica, Malachra fasciata, Cor 
chorus hirtus, Heliconia latispatha, and Malvaviscus arboreus in 
dark-gray sandy soil "con grietas en la epoca seca". In Morelos 
Crespo encountered it in deciduous tropical forests in canyon bet- 
toms. Rzedowski found it on "Ladera caliza con vegetacién de bos= 
que tropical subdeciduo de Brosimum y Celtis monoica". Kimber en= 
countered it on damp but well-drained river-terraces on Dominica, 


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while on Martinique he found it on "savannas improved by the 
planting of Sporobolus indicus". Dinsmore refers to it as a pio- 
neer species on paths, especially in some shade, throughout the 
island of Little Tobago. 

Backer & Bakhuizen van den Brink (1965) report Priva lappula- 
cea naturalized near Bantur, Java. They also note that "In de- 
tached branches the corolla is very easily shed (traumatochory) ; 
when the fruit is mature the calyx (with the enclosed fruit) comes 
off from the persistent pedicel and easily clings to passing ob- 
jects by the aid of the upcurved bristles". 

Yuncker (1940) records P. lappulacea from Atlantida, Honduras, 
while Molina (197) found it in Comayagua. Hill (1976) reports it 
from Long Island, Bahamas, citing Hill 2150. Sloane (1707) reports 
it from Jamaica and Arnoldo (195) from Curagao. Hepper (1963) 
lists it from Ghana, citing Hall 1891. Sweet (1826) says that it 
was introduced into cultivation in England from "S, Am." in 1822. 

Alain (197) gives its distribution as "terr. yermos" in all 
of Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Florida, the Antilles, continental 
tropical America, and Java. Gibson (1970) says that "Throughout 
most of the tierra caliente of Central America this is a common 
weed; often abundsnt about dwellings. The fruiting calyxes ad- 
here to clothing and even to the feathers of birds by the abun- 
dant small uncinate hairs". Castafieda (1965) tells us that "Se 
encuentra desde Méjico, por todas Las Antillas, hasta Peri y 
Bolivia. Los animales la comen. Se encuentra dentro de los 
cultivos o en lugares soleados de suelo himedo". Robertson & 
Gooding (1963) repeat that the species is animal dispersed. Run- 
yon reports it occasional in alluvial soil of open woodland and 
old resaca banks, as well as at the edges of thickets, in south- 
eastern Texas. 

Darlington & Wylie (1956) and Bolkhhovskikh and his associates 
(1969) report the chromosome number for the species as x = 63 
Patermann (1938) reports it as 2n = 12. 

Among the recently reported common and vernacular names for P. 
lappulacea are “amor seco" [applied also to Desmodium spp.], 
"bristly-fruited priva", "burr-vervain", "burry vervain", 
"cadillito", "cadillo", "cadillo de bola", "cadillo de bolsa", 
"cadillo de bolsas", “cadillo pegajosa", "clammy bur", "codillo 
de bolsa", “coyolillo de raton", "fasten—'pon-coat", "favolito", 
"green button", "ismokotsiyat", "mozote", "mozote de bolsita", 
"mozotillo", "“pegajosa", "pegapega", "pega-pega", "rama pegosa", 
"“sadamsai", "secalotodo", "styptic bur", “tsayuntsay", "tzayent— 
gal", "tzayuntzay" [=that which clings closely; also applied to 
Mentzelia asperata], “velvet bur", "velvetbur", "velvet-bur", 
"yelvet—burr", "verbena", and "vuku-vuku-toriman", 

Seaver (1925) reports the fungus, Cincinnobolus sp., attacking 
P. lappulacea on St. Croix island; Hirata (1966) lists the pow- 
dery mildews, Oidium verbenae and 0. sp., on it in Puerto Rico 
and Dominica; Kern (1928) lists Puccinia lantanae Farl. on it in 
the Dominican Republic, citing Chardon 378 and Kern 36 & 65. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 101 


Dennis (1970) and Arthur (1922) also report P. lappulacea as host 
for Puccinia lantanae in Trinidad, Arthur citing Seaver 2955, 2970, 


& 3397. 

Worth recording here is Linnaeus' original (1753) description 
of the species: "VERBENA diandra, calycibus subrotundis erectius- 
culis, seminibus echinatis", citing as synonyms Sloane's "Scoro- 
donia floribus spicatis purpurascentibus pentapetaloidibus” and and 
Houston's Blairia. He notes "Habitat in Jamaica". Stokes (1812) 
adds that the original collection was "gathered by Broughton in 
Jamaica", In the Linnean Herbarium, London, according to Savage 
(1945) sheets 5 and 6 under gems 35 VERBENA are inscribed 
"lappulacea" in Linnaeus' own handwriting, "Verbena" supplied on 
sheet 5 by Solander. It was collected by Browne lor, at least, 
transmitted to Linnaeus by him], while sheet number 6 was collected 
{or transmitted] by Rolander according to Linnaeus in his own hand- 
writing. Sheet 6 is pinned to sheet 5. I have personally examined 
both these specimens and can confirm the above statements. 

As to economic uses, Kelly reports that the plant is used by the 
Totonac Amerinds in Veracruz, while Pennington reports the leaves 
used as a poultice for headaches in Sonora, Mexico. Duke (1970) 
tells us that the plant is used to treat whooping cough by the 
Choc§ Amerinds. Grieve (1967) asserts that it "is a vulnerary 
sub—astringent, being used even for very severe bleeding wounds on 
men and cattle, especially in Jamaica". Metcalfe & Chalk (1950) 
report the leaves used to make a tea. Martinez (1969) asserts that 
in Mexico the plant is used to treat leucorrhea; Airy Shaw (1966) 
also avers that the leaves are used to make a tea; Duke says that 
in Panama they are "used medicinally". Sloane (1707) reports that 
in Jamaica "The juice is counted a good wilnerary, healing green 
Wounds, often application giving some smarting pains". Browne 
(1755) adds that "This plant is a fine wilnerary and subastringent, 
and is commonly applied to bleeding wounds in either men or cattle 
by the inhabitants of the country parts of Jamaica; it is thought 
to be so powerful a stiptic or astringent as to stop the hemorrhage 
even when some of the more considerable arteries are cut; and may 
be deservedly considered as an excellent application in all manner 
of sores where the habit is relaxed." 

Dodson & Gentry (1978) cite Dodson 5633 from Los Rfos, Ecuador; 
Loesener (1912) cites Seler 2063 from from Chiapas, Mexico; Knuth (1927) 
cites Moritz 126 and Vargas s.n. sen. from Federal District, Venezuela, 
and Ernst s.n. and Miller & Johnston 96 from Margarita island. Mac~ 
bride (1960) cites from Peru: Cajamarca: Raimondi sen. Hudnuco: 
Asplund 12096. Junin: Macbride 5296. Lima: Esposto s sn. Loreto: 
Klug 1238; Ll. Williams 291, 397, & 428. Tumbes: Weberbauer 7737. 
He comments that this is "A weedy plant decumbent—ascending, to 
even a meter tall, doubtless growing in other than the [above- 
mentioned] ....departments....[also in] Most of warmer America." 

Steyermark (1968) cites his no. 88186 from Venezuela; Dwyer 


cites Woytkowski 28 from Amazonas, Peru; Adams (1972) cites Adams 
5429, Harris 6785, and Proctor 23897 from Jamaica; Liogier (197 B) 


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cites Liogier 26451 from the Dominican Republic. Lépez—Palacios 
(1977) cites the following collections from Venezuela: Anzoate- 
gui: Porter 5156. Aragua: Badillo 1559; Benitez 33; Fendler 
912; Fernandez 315, 500; Ferrari 405; Moreno E.3; Trujillo 4873, 
1976; Vogl 390. Barinas: Breteler l4hO. Bolfvar: Cardona 603; 
Sprague s.n.j Steyermerk ee 88186. Carabobo: Asplund 15133; Engredt 
17; Li. Williams 11106 Delta Amacuro: Ruiz-Teran & & Lépez— 
Palacios 97335 Rusby & & "Squires 306. Falcén: Tamay Tamayo 1953. Feder— 
al District: Fern4ndez 23; Funck k 53 in part; Moritz 126; oo 

s.n. [727]. Lara: Saer 580; R. T. Smith V.4283; Steyermark & 
Carrefio 10877. Mérida: Lépez—Palacios & Bautista 338k; Read 
983; Ruiz-Terén 876. Monagas: Moritz 1902; Trujillo © 9463. P Por= 
tuguesa: Trujillo 3932. Sucre: Broadway 67; Funck 53 in. in part; 
Ruiz-Terén & Lépe: & Lépez—Palacios 9896. Trujillo: Reed Reed 1077. Yaracuy: 
Giné 20L8. “Zulia: Lasser 25605 - ; Lescarboura 38; Li 38; Lépez—Palacios 
1803, "18503 Mocquerys 909 9095 ” Steyermark 100145. Margarita Island: 
Miller & Johnston 96. 

Material of P. lappulacea has often been misidentified and dis- 
tributed in herbaria as P. aspera H.B.K., Verbena sp., Phryma sp. 
(Phrymaceae) » and "Labiatae". On the other hand, the Breteler 
4380, Castafieda 9279, Correll 13873, Croat 23802 & 23861, Hinton 
4360, 10366, 1391, & 13975, R. M. King 71, Liesner 83, Troublle- 
field & & Rowell 1 2808, poe 501, ~ Ventura , 5801, Wedel Wedel 2834, and and 
Wilbur & al. 7571 are P. lappulacea f. albiflora Mold., Henrick- 
son son 1326h, 1 13291, & 13377, Lundell & Lundell 12382, and Reeves 
R.6288 are P. me: mexicana (L.) Pers., Pers., Liogier 17505 is Bouchea hea pris- 
matica (L. ) K Kuntze, Castafieda 10612 is Salvia occidentalis Sw. 
(Lamiaceae), Guidérves R.287 is Teucrivm infl. inflatum Sw. (Lamiaceae), 
and Holguin s.n. [26/v1/1965 = Rzedowski 19977, 19977, and Santos tos 2895 
are Teucrium vesicarium Mill. (Lamiaceae). 

Additional & emended citations: FLORIDA: Key Largo: J. A. 
Churchill s.n. [5 September 1970] (Ln—22985)). County undeter- 
mined: Herb. Le Roy s.n. [s. Fla.] (Ms--30930). TEXAS: Cameron 
Co. R. - Runyo n n 562 (Au--269663), 4858 (Au—-269657), 488) (Au— 
26960). Hidalgo Co.: Fleetwood Bok2 (Au—23),338). MEXICO: 
Chiapas: Breedlove 11793 (Ld); Laughlin 1326 (Mi, W—2581038); 
Thorne & Lathrop 0554 (Ld); Ton 2992 (N, Ws), 3782 (Ws). Coli- 
ma: R. McVaugh 15827 (Mi). Guerrero: Hinton 11545 (Se--18725h), 
14391 (Se—187207). Hidalgo: H. E. Moore re 293k (Ba). Michoacén: 
Hinton 13062 (Se—-187253), 16120 ) (Ld). | Morelos: Flores Crespo 8 
(Ac, W: Ws). Oaxaca: R. M. King 328 (Mi). San Luis Potosi: Gonzé- 
lez Quintero 132 (Ac); Kerr & Hagee 1108 (Mi); J. Rzedowski 24103 
(Ip, Ws). Sonora: Krizman | sen. [30 August 1968] (N)j P ton 
266 (Au--25319) . Tabasco: Gonzdlez L. &. Pérez J. 4252 282 


DY Moldenke, Notes on Priva 103 


& Acevas ESS.2472 (Ip); Gandara & Dorantes 4) (N); Gémez—Po 
608 (G); I. Kelly 311 (Ba); Martfnez Calderén 104) [Rec. Inf. 
DOO1793] (Mi); Moldenke & Moldenke 2206 (Ac); Ventura A.2630 (Au— 
303089, Mi, N), 3040 (Au—303685, Mi); Vera Santos 2221 (Au— 
263163). Yucat&n: Degener & Degener 26781 (W--2298690). GUATE- 
MALA: Baja Verapaz: Harmon 252 (N). El Petén: Contreras 3792 
(Au—-278572, Ld, Ld); Cox & Guzm4n 2911 (Oa); Harmon & Fuentes 

2103 (N); C. L. Lundell 15343 (Au—228030); Molina R. 15812 (N, 
W--256651). Guatemala: Harmon & Dwyer 3060 (W—2786618). Zacapa: 
Kellerman 7772 (W—21953). BELIZE: A. Gentry 8521 (N). HONDU- 
RAS: Choluteca: Molina R. 23228 (N). Comayagua: Molina R. 1272 
(N). Cop4ns Molina R. 26256 (N, W-—-2633215); Poole & Watson 1049 
(Ld, Ld), 1132 (ld). Distrito Central: Barkley & Nelson 39183 
(Ac); Boghdan & Barkley 39404 (1d). Morazdn: Molina R. 263 (Ba), 
27478 (N, W--2735873). BAY ISLANDS: Roatan: Molina R. 20812 (W— 
2751986). NICARAGUA: Managua: F.C. Seymour 2338 (Ld, N). COSTA 
RICA: Puntarenas: Burger & Liesner 6525 (N). PANAMA: Bocas del 
Toro: Wedel 413 (E—121810h), 1495 (E—122797h), 1601 (E-~12180)6). 
Canal Zone: Tyson 1070 (E—1813058), 2239 (E--1817251), 3525 (E— 
183629h) 5 Tyson & Blum 3776 (E--1835352); P. White 23 (E—1193767); 
White & White 19) (E—123997)). Chiriqui: Woodson & Schery 835 
(E—1208878). Darién: Duke 5368 (E~-181)166), 13621 (Oh); Kirk- 
bride & Bristan 1602 (E—-1983552, N); Tyson, Dwyer, Blum, & Duke 
4825 (E—18351i1). Panam&: G. W. Barclay 2496 (W—2779869); Duke 
3835 (E--1812212), 12045 (E—1891973); Mowbray, Correa, & Stimson 
504 (E—1900767). Province undetermined: Bristan 188 (N). TABOGA 
ISLAND: Woodson, Allen, & Seibert 145) (E—11697l,6). PEARL IS- 
LANDS: Saboga: Tyson 559 (E—1980768). BAHAMA ISLANDS: Cat: Byrne 
280 (N, Ws). New Providence: 0. Russell s.n. [Correll & Popenoe 
46961] (N). TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS: North Caicos: D. S. Correll 
43296 (Ld). JAMAICA: C. D. Adams 5429 (Mu); Barkley & Proctor 
38731 (Ld); Crosby, Hespenheide, & Anderson 95 (Ld). HISPANIOLA: 
Dominican Republic: Ekman H.12527 (Ld); Jacquemont s.n. (Marqui- 
sant, 1827] (P); Liogier & Liogier 26451 (N). PUERTO RICO: A. A. 
Heller 6181 (Ms—30931); Otero 249 (Ld). VIRGIN ISLANDS: St. Croix: 
F. R. Fosberg 54129 (N, W—-2670188). LEEWARD ISLANDS: Dominica: K. 
L. Chambers 2783 (W—2)68675); Kimber 81 (Ws); Webster & Webster 
13192 (W—2469006). WINDWARD ISLANDS: Barbados: L. M. Andrews 680 
(N). Grenada: Proctor 16932 (W—2613796). Martinique: Kimber 
1497 (Ws); Larsen & Larsen 35219 (Ac). St. lucia: Proctor 18127 
(W——-258510). TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Tobago: L. M. Andrews 3-52 (N). 
TRINIDAD OFFSHORE ISLANDS: Little Tobago: Dinsmore JJD.19 (Ws). 
WEST INDIES: Island undetermined: Herb. Mus. Paris D.31 (E— 
1652083). COLOMBIA: Antioquia: Lépez~Palacios 3851 (Ld, N). Arau- 


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cat Lépez-Palacios 3933 (Ld, N). Bolivar: Castafieda 965) (N). 
Magdalena: H. H. Smith 545 (Ws). VENEZUELA: Mérida: Ruiz-Ter&n & 
Lépez—Palacios 6176 (N). Sucre: Ruiz-Terdén & Lépez-Palacios 9896. 
(Ld). Zulia: Lépez-Palacios 1850 (Ft). SURINAM: Nurmohammed & 
Reijenga s.n. [20-III-1963] (Ws). ECUADOR: Esmeraldas: Sparre 
15313 (S), 15477 (S). Guayas: Asplund 15373 (N). Los Rfos: Dod- 
son 5633 (W—27h7906); Sparre 141 (S). Manabi: MacBryde 10h9 
(N). GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: Charles: Howell 8875 (Gg—l62960, W— 
28147). Chatham: Howell 8606 (Gg—l6294)). Indefatigable: Lé- 
pez-Palacios 295 (Ld); Wiggins & Porter 693 (Ld). PERU: Loreto: 
F. R. Fosberg 28905 (Ld), 29002 (W--27220hh) , 29059 (Ac); Martin 
& Lau-Cam 12h5 (0a). San Martin: Belshaw 3208 (Ba, Ld, Ld, N)j 
Schunke Vigo 1955 (N, W—27967L3); Woytkowski 35063 (Ca—119072, 
E——-1806587). BRAZIL: Amazonas: Maas & Maas 212 (Ut—3286338). 


PRIVA LAPPULACEA f. ALBIFLORA Mold., Phytologia 17: 11). 1968. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Biol. Abstr. 49: 11291. 19683 
Mold., Phytologia 17: 114. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 2, h, & 
5 (1968) and 17: [1] & 2. 1968; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.15: 22. 
1970; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 56, 73, 85, 91, 109, 119, 126, & 138 
(1971) and 2: 906. 1971; Mold. in Woodson, Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. 
Bot. Gard. 60: 81 & 147. 1973; Mold., Phytologia 25: 228 (1973), 
28: 436 (1974), and 31: 379, 380, & 383. 1975; Lépez—Palacios, 
Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 7h. 19753 Mold., Phytologia 
3h: 256 (1976) and 36: 30 & 33. 19773 Lépez—Palacios, Fl. Venez. 
Verb. 511 & 652. 19773 Mold., Phytologia 3: 333. 1979. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a straggly or erect, 
unarmed, subwoody herb, usually 0.2—0.8 m. tall, or "arching to 
6 feet" [Duke 8723], the stems quadrangular, fistulose or [when 
mature] very medullose, the leaves dull pale-green, the flowers 
1/4 inch across, blooming in the morning, the anthers yellow or 
pale-yellow, and the fruit green. Wedel, on his no. 283, calls 
it a "shrub 2 1/2" feet tall, but I doubt if this plant is ever a 
true shrub. Ventura says "las hojas se pegan en la ropa abundan- 
te", The corollas are usually described as "white", but are said 
to have been only "whitish" on Croat 23802 and Ruis-Terén & Lépez— 
Palacios 9733. 

Collectors have found this plant growing in primary and open 
forests, rainforests, moist thickets, wettish coppices, the rich 
soil of fallow fields, rocky clay riparian soil, pastures, acahual, 
flatland matorral, and cleared roadways, as well as along the 
edges of ditches and streams, railroad tracks, and roadsides, at 
altitudes of 5 to 900 meters, flowering from June to February, in 
fruit in June, July, October, and December. King found it "in 
partial shade, sandy roadsides in grazed areas [of Oaxaca, Mexico], 
the vegetation mainly of thorny leguminous trees, shrubs, and 
cacti; not abundant". Wilbur and his associates refer to it as 
“common in weedy fields" on Dominica island; Fosberg reports it 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 105 


only "local" on Indefatigable island; while Croat found it "com- 
mon in clearings" and "prevalent on limestone outcrops" in Belize. 

Vernacular names reported for P. lappulacea f. albiflora are 
"cadillito", "cadillo de bola", “cadillo de bolsa", "cadillo 
pegajoso", "pegajosa", "“pegapega", and "sacalotodo". 

Lépez—Palacios (1977) cites from Venezuela the following collec- 
tions: Falcén: Breteler 380; Lasser & Foldats 3030, 3056. Mérida: 
Ruiz-Teraén & Lépez-Palacios 6176 6176. Zulia: Lépez—Palacios 3000 3000. 

Most of the following list % of collections were distributed and 
many even cited by me (before the present taxon was recognized) as 
typical P. lappulacea (L.) Pers. Material has also been misidenti- 


fied and distributed in some herbaria as "Boraginaceae". 
Citations: TEXAS: Hidalgo Co.: Fleetwood 8015 fh June 196)] 

(Au—-229461), 8015 [9 June 1964] (Au—-231162). MEXICO: Chiapas: 
Moldenke & Moldenke 2287 (Ld). Guerrero: Herald & Clark 339 (Au— 
217180) 5 Hinton 10366 6 (K, N)3 Troublefield & Rowell ~ 2808 (Mi) . 
México: Hinton inton 1,360 360 (N, N). Michoacén: Hinton 139h2 - (Au, La, Ld, 
N, Se—187210, Ur), 13975 (Au, Ld, N, N, N, Se—187208). exes 
R. M, King 71 (Au-—21)226, Ld), 1229 (Mi). Veracruz: Martinez 
Calderén 1947 [Rec. Inf. DOO3918] (Mi); Ventura A.5801 (Ld, Mi, 
Sd--89009). BELIZE: Croat 23802 (N, N), 23861 (N). EL SALVADOR: 
Moraz4n: Tucker 501 (Ba, C Ca--1000902, Ld, “Mi, N, Vi). PANAMA: 
Bocas del Toro: Lewis, Dwyer, Elias, & pobetisen 926 (E—1881976- 
type, E—isotype, , W——2589)51—isotype). Canal Zone: P. C. Stand 
ley 27157 (Cp, W—121727). Chiriqui: Liesner 83 (W—27h5 302) « 
Darién: Duke 8723 (Ac, E~1836295). Panam4: Lewis, Blackwell, Haw- 
ker, Nowicke, “Oliver, Robyns, & Verhoek 3028 (W——2788 36). Colon 
Island: Wedel 2834 (E—125168, Mi, N). ~ BAHAMA ISLANDS: Crooked: 
Correll & Pro Proctor tor 488hh (N). San Sa veariere: D. S. Correll 43873 
(N). LEEWARD ISLANDS: Dominica: Wilbur, Dunn, Hespenheide, & 
Wiseman 7571 (Mi, W--253h39). COLOMBIA: “Bolivar: Castafieda 9279 
(N). Cundinamarca: Lépez—Palacios 3629 (Ld). Magdalena: Cuatre— 
casas & Castafieda 21,920 (W—2 325692); K Kirkbride 2528 (N). VENEZ- 
UELA: Bolivar: Ruiz—Terén & Lépez—Palacios 11517 (Mi). Delta 
Amacuro: Ruiz-Ter4n & Lépez—Palacios 9733 (Ld). Falcén: Breteler 

4380 (N, W—2),65527 + Zulia: Lépez—Palacios 3000 3000 (Ac, N). ECUA- 
DOR: El Oro: Lépez-Palacios 4103 (Ld). GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: Inde- 
fatigable: F. R. Fosberg TL862 (W—-2828127, Z)% 


PRIVA MEXICANA (L.) Pers., Syn. Pl. 2: 139. 1806. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Verbena mexican. L., Syst. Nat., 
ed. 10, 2: 852. 1759. Priva mexicana ana Pers. ex Desf., Tabl. Ecol. 
Bot., 6a: 2, 65. 1815 [not P P, mexicana Sieber, 1841]. Zapania 
wixitind Tan ox Schenaa ie DC., Prodr. 11: 53h, in syn. 18h7. 
Verbena <a trachelii fol. &. seen ad Buek, Gen. Spec. a 


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Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 507, in syn. 1858. Verbena mexicana 
Trachelii folio, fructu Aparine Dill. ex Druce & Vines, Dill. 
Herb. 182. 1907. Priva lappula Andrews, in herb. 


Additional & emended bibliography: Dill. in Ray, Synop. Meth. 
Stirp. Brit., ed. 3, pl. 302, fig. 389. 172h; L., Sp. Pl., ed. 1, 
imp. 1, 1: 19. 1753; L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 852. 1759; L., Sp. 
Pl., ed. 2, 28. 1762; Crantz, Inst. Rei Herb. 1: 572. 17663 [Retz.], 
Nom. Bot. 11. 17723 J. F. Gmel. in L., Syst. Nat., ed. 13, imp. l, 
2: 41 (1789) and ed. 13, imp. 2, 2: 1. 17963 Raeusch., Nom. Bot., 
ed. 3, 3. 1797; Ruiz & Pav., Fl. Peruv. Chil. 1: 21. 1797; Balbis, 
Cat. Pl. Hort. Bot. Taur. 48. 180i; Desf., Tabl. Bcol. Bot., ed. 1, 
Sk. 180); Balbis, Cat. Stirp. Hort. Acad. Taur. 80. 1813; Desf., 
Tabl. Ecol. Bot., ed. 2, 65. 1815; H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl., ed. 
folio, 2: 224—-225 (1817) and ed. quarto, 2: 278. 1818; Pers., Sp. 
Pl. 3: 348-39. 1819; Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 1, 111, 657, & 
873. 1821; Jan, Elench. Pl. 1. 182h; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 1: 
32. 1826; G. Don in Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 246. 1330; Sweet, 
Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 418. 1830; Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 552. 
1832; G. Don in Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 246 (1832) and ed. 3, 
26. 1839; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3, 552. 1839; Voigt, Hort Sub- 
urb. Calc. 473. 1845; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 367, 368, 
495, & 507. 1858; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 509. 1891; Jacks. in 
Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 2: 628. 13943 Barnhart, 
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 29: 590. 19023 Druce & Vines, Dill. Herb. 
182. 1907; Loes., Verb. Bot. Ver. Brand. 53: 80. 19123 Kobuski, 
Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 1, l, 7, 20—-21, 2h, & 32—(35], ple h& 
5, fig. 15 & 2h. 1926; Wangerin, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 5) (1): 
1170. 1932; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 4, 1h, & 15. 1939 
Mold., Known Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, 14, 18, 20, 7h, & 
99. 1942; Savage, Cat. Linn. Herb. Lond. ). 1945; Jacks. in Hook. 
f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 2, 2: 628. 196; Mold., Known Geogr. 
Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 2, 25, 32, 36, 47, 163, & 195. 19h95 
Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 3, 2: 628. 1960; 
Rzedowski & McVaugh, Contrib. Univ. Mich, Herb. 9: 39 & 107. 19663 
Mold., Phytologia 1: 394--397. 1967; Mold., Résum& Suppl. 15: 22. 
1967; Sanchez Sanchez, Fl. Val. Mex., ed. 1, 326--327. 1969; El- 
Gazzar & Wats., New Phytol. 69: 483 & 485. 1970; Gibson, Fieldiana 
Bot. 2h (9): 219 & 221. 1970; Mold., Phytologia 23: 415 & 16. 
1972; El-Gazzar, Egypt. Journ. Bot. 17: 75 & 78. 19743 Molina R., 
Ceiba 19: 96. 1975; Lépez—Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 505 & 652. 
1977; Mold., Phytologia 36: 47 & 48. 1977. 

Additional illustrations: Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 

[33] & (35], pl. h & 5, fig. 15 & 2h. 1926; Sanchez Sanchez, Fl. 
Val. Mex., ed. 1, fig. 261 D. 1969. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a perennial herb or 
"large bush", virgate, to 1 m. tall, the fruit adherent, "sticky, 
greenish—blue". They have found it growing in lava fields, gul- 
lies, xerophytic matorral, and scrubland on mountainsides, along 
streams, on Larrea deserts, steep rocky volcanic outcrops, moun- 
tain slopes, and the edges of woods, at 600--2600 m. altitude, 
flowering from June to November, fruiting from July to October. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 107 


Bautista encountered it in "pastizal con matorral" and Rzedowski 
on "ladera andesf{tica con vegetacién de matorral de Eysenhardtia 
stachya". The Molinas refer to it as "occasional" on grassy 
slopes in Guatemala. Reeves found it on desert flats with 
Opuntia, Agave, Yucca, Prosopis, Tillandsia, and Jatropha. 

Henrickson encountered P. mexicana "in lower limestone canyons 
in Tamaulepian—-like scrub, infrequent in shaded margins of ar 
royos with Quercus, Cercis, Juglans, Croton, Rhus, Baccharis, 
Amelanchier, etc.", "common in shaded ravines in igneous canyons 
on disturbed sides of larger canyons with Acacia, Partheniun, Sal- 
via, Dasylirion, Larrea, Perezia, grasses, etc.", "frequent in 
lower chaparral with Acacia, Bernardia, Mimosa, Mortonia, Bouvard- 
ia, Dasylirion, Cordia, Opuntia, and Eysenhardtia", and "frequent 
along streams in heavily pastured oak-pifion forests with Quercus, 
Pinus cembroides, Stevia, Salvia, etc." Chiang and his associates 
report finding it "very local with Larrea tridentata, Acacia neo- 
vernicosa, and Dasylirion sp. on steep hills of igneous rock in 
gravelly sandy soil in matorral desertico inerme y con espinas 
laterales". The Roes found it growing on moss-covered rocks in 
Quercus forests on rocky hillsides with many shrub composites, 
mosses, and ferns. Barkley and his associates encountered it on 
xeric sunny lava and in moist rich shady pockets in pedregal. 
Ugent and his associates found it in "Acacia - Senecio - Apontia 
thickets bordering fields of Pisum sativum with Solanum bulbo- 
castrunm." 

The corotla of Priva mexicana is said to have been "purple" on 
Rzedowski 1192, 385, 492, & 28601, "pink" on Lundell & Lundell 
12351, "p "pinkish" on Molina R. & Mol Molina 24923, oe ore oe on 
Moore 159 & 1792, "pale-lavender" on Moore & Wood 4193, and 
"purple-red, upper lip lined, tube pale" on McVaugh 16665. 

Sweet (1826), Don (1830), and Loudon (1832) all assert that P. 
mexicana was introduced into English garden cultivation from 
Mexico in 1726. Common names recorded for it include "Mexican 
priva", "pegaropa", "priva du Mexique", and "verveine du Mexique". 

It should be noted here that the H.B.K. publication dates as 
given in the bibliography above have been verified by Barnhart 
(1902). The title-page date of Linnaeus' 1759 work is "1760". 
The specific epithet of P. mexicana is frequently, even now, up- 
percased. Chiang and his associates note that the species "re- 
senbles Verbena oni Mold.", but any such resemblance is fan- 
ciful! Loesener (1912) cites Seler 1201 & 1221. 

The nomenckatural type of Priva | mexicana is Herb. Linnaeus 
35/4 in the Linnean Herbarium, London, which is inscribed "mexi- 
cana" in Linnaeus' own handwriting. His original description _ 
(1753) is "VERBENA diandra, spicis laxis, calycibus fructus re- 
flexo-pendulis subglobosis hispidis" and he cites only the Dil- 
lenius synonym. In 1762 he modified this to "VERBENA diandra, 


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spicis laxis, calycibus fructu reflexis rotundato didymis hispidis", 
adding "Caulis tetragonus, marginibus scaber : Rami oppositi su- 
perne dichotomi, Racemi dichotomiae longi. Folia cordata, oblonga, 
scabra, petiolis brevissimis", still citing only the Dillenius 


synonym. 
Material of P. mexicana has been misidentified and distributed 


in some herbaria as P. lappula Andrews, P. lappulacea (L.) Pers., 
and Phryma sp. (Phrymaceae). 

Additional citations: MEXICO: Aguascalientes: R. McVaugh 16665 
(N). Chihuahua: Chiang, Wendt, & Johnston 8935 (Ld); Pringle 
135 (Ms--30929). Coahuila: Barkley, Webster, & Rowell 7213 (Au— 
123251); Henrickson 11729 (Ld), 1326 (Lad). Federal District: 
Barkley, Webster, & Rowell 7322 (Au—1232))9); Bautista s.n. [20/ 
VIII/1967] (Ip); Bopp 0.216 (Ip); J. Rzedowski 1192 (Au—2h12h7, 
Ip), 28601 (Mi). Hidalgo: Lundell & Lundell 12302 (Ld); H. E. 
Moore 1459 (Ba), 1792 (Ba); Moore & Wood 193 (Ba, Mi). México: 
Cruz Cisneros 277 (Mi); Lundell & Lundell 12351 (Mi). Nuevo Leén: 
Flyr 1562 (Au); R. F. Smith M.356 (Au--217531). Oaxaca: Ugent, 
Ugent, & Flores C. 2699 (Ws). San Luis Potosi: T. Reeves R.6288 
(Ld); Roe & Roe 2372 (Ld); J. Rzedowski 49h2 (Au--21379h), 3800 
(Au--21)3256), 3854 (Ip); Waterfall 1568 (W--26)0733). Tamauli- 
pas: Stanford, Lauber, & Taylor 2063 (Se—203277), 267) (Se— 
203083), 2680 (Se——161422). Zacatecas: Henrickson 13291 (Ld), 


PRIVA MEYERI Jaub. & Spach, Il]. Pl. Orient. 5: [57]. 1855. 
Additional synonymy: Priva leptostachya H. H. W. Pearson ex C. 
A. Sm., Common Names S. Afr. Pl. 601, in syn. 1966 [not P. lepto= 
stachya Auct., 1962, nor A. L. Juss., 1806, nor L., 190]. 
Additional & emended bibliography: Jaub. & Spach, Ill. Pl. Or-= 
ient. 5: [57]. 1855; Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 9 & 2h. 
1926; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 30--32. 19393 Mold., Known 
Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, 49--52 & 99. 192; J. Hutchins., 
Botanist South. Afr. 356. 196; Mold., Known Geogr. Distrib. Ver— 
benac., ed. 2, 116, 117, 119, 122, & 195. 1949; W. G. Wright, Wild 
Fls. South. Afr. 156 & 158. 1963; R. H. Compton, Journ. S. Afr. 
Bot. 6: 65. 1966; C. A. Sm., Common Names S, Afr. Pl. 111, 112, & 
601. 1966; Mold., Phytologia 14: 397--398. 1967; Amico & Bavazzano, 
Webbia 23: 280. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 8 & 25. 1968; Van 
der Schijff, Check List Vasc. Pl. Kruger Natl. Park 81. 1969; 
Drar, Publ. Cairo Univ. Herb. 3: 110. 1970; Mold., Fifth Sum. 1: 
23h, 238, 248, 252, 253, 255, & 257 (1971) and 2: 613 & 906. 1971; 
Mold., Phytologia 25: 231 (1973) and 43: 331 & 2h. 1979. 
Additional illustrations: W. G. Wright, Wild Fls. South. Afr. 


158 [as P. leptostachya]. 1963. 
Recent collectors describe this species as a very glandular, e- 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Priva 109 


rect or lax-stemmed, small to fairly large herb, tol m. tall, 
the stems herbaceous, single or a few, erect, square, the flowers 
small, the fruiting-calyx "bur-like", and the "fruit" inflated. 
They have found it growing in grass, along roadsides, and in sandy 
soil among coastal vegetation and on savannas, at altitudes of 
2000-2800 feet, flowering in February, March, and December, in 
fruit in December, March, and April. The corollas are said to 
have been "white" on Bayliss BS.8226 and Leach 11303 and "white, 
the lower lip striped with purple, as well as the mouth and 
throat". Compton (1966) records the species from Swaziland. 
Smith (1966) lists the vernacular names, “blaasklits", 
"blasieklits", and "blasieklitsbossie". 

The "P. leptostachya" of Wright (1963) seems definitely to be 
P. meyeri i instead; the P, leptostachya accredited to "Auct." is P. 
adhaerens (Forsk.) Chiov., that of Jussieu is P. cordifolia (L. f. f.) 
Druce, while that credited to Linnaeus is Phyrma leptostachya L. 
in the Phrymaceae. 

The Jaubert & Spach original reference for this species is of- 
ee as "1853-1856", but the page involved here was issued 
inl cy 

Wright (1963) notes that the seeds of P. meyeri "are ground up 
and applied to sores by the Zulus, who also use an infusion of 
the leaf for inflamed eyes". 

Van der Schijff (1969) cites his nos. 1708 & 1945 and "C.529" 
from Kruger National Park; Hutchinson (196) cites his no. 2313 
Amico & Bavazzano (1968) cite their no. 39h; and Drar (1970) cites 
his no. 1750. 

Material of P. meyeri has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as P. cordifolia var. flabelliformis Mold. and 
P. leptostachya Juss. On the other hand, the Mogg 13522 and 
Strey 869, distributed as P. meyeri, actually are P. cordifolia 
var. australis Mold. 

Additional & emended citations: SUDAN: Bahr El Ghazzal: Drar & 
Mahdi 1750 (Gz, Gz). RHODESIA: Leach 11303 (Mu). MOZAMBIQUE: 
Lourenco Marques: Marques 229 (M Mu). SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Province: 
Bayliss BS .8226 (N, W—2831315) 3 Bolus 306 (F—39662); Drége a 
[Mo. Bot. Gard. photo A.866] (E—118803--cotype, W--photo of co- 
type); MacOwan s.n. [Boschberg] (F—l6279); Stopp M.63 (Mu). Na- 
tal: Collector undetermined 2202 [Mo. Bot. Gard. photo A 866] (W— 
photo). Transvaal: Scheepers 522 (Mu). 


PRIVA MEYERI var. MADAGASCARIENSIS Mold., Phytologia 3: 276. 1950. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 14: 398. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ, 1: 262 (1971) and 2: 906. 197h. 


PRIVA PEDICELLATA Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 32, nom. mud. 
1939; Phytologia 1: 29—l30. 190. 
Additional & emended bibliography: Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avi- 


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cenn. 32. 1939; Mold., Known Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, 55 
& 99 (1942) and ed. 2, 129 & 195. 1993 Mold., Phytologia 1h: 398. 
1967; Mold., Fifth Summ, 1: 28 (1971) and 2: 906. 1971. 


PRIVA PERUVIANA Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 23—2h. 1936. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 2h. 
1939; J. F. Macbr., Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 13 (5): 659 & 660. 1960; 
Mold., Phytologia 14: 398. 1967; Mold., Fifth Sum, 1: 143 (1971) 
and 2: 906. 19713; Soukup, Biota 11: 16. 1976. 
Macbride (1960) distinguishes this species from P. lappulacea 
(L.) Pers. by the following key: 
Stems and petioles pilose; cocci quadrangular.......P. lappulacea. 
Stems and petioles puberulent; cocci subspheroid......P. peruviana’. 
Additional citations: PERU: Amazonas: Mathews 3158 (Pd—isotype). 


PRIVA PORTORICENSIS Urb., Symb. Antill. h: 53h. 1903. 

Additional bibliography: Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 2, 3, 
6, 8, 2h, & 32——(35], ple h & 5, fig. 7 & 16. 1926; Wangerin, Justs 
Bot. Jahresber. Si (1): 1170. 1832; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 
8. 1939; Mold., Known Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, 27 & 99. 
192: J. F. Macbr., Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 13 (5): 661. 19603 Mold., 
Phytologia 1): 398. 1967; Mold., Fifth Sum, 1: 105 (1971) and 2: 
778 & 906. 1971. 

Illystrations: Kobuski, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: [33] & [35], pl. 
4&5, fig. 7& 16. 1926. 

Hmended citations: PUERTO RICO: Sintenis 3597 (E——925),08—photo 
of cotype, W—l03990—cotype). MOUNTED ILLUSTRATIONS: Kobuski 
drawing 7 (E--925406), 16 (E—925)05). 


PRIVA SOCOTRANA Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. ll: 38-39. 1936. 

Additional bibliography: Anon., U. S. Dept. Agr. Bot. Subj. 
Index 15: 14358. 1958; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.12: 25. 1967; 
Mold., Phytologia 14: 398. 1967; Mold., Biol. Abstr. 49: 4199. 
1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 265 (1971) and 2: 906. 1971. 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS SVENSONIA. I 


Harold N. Moldenke 


Since the publication of my monograph of this genus in 1936 much 
additional information has come to light and more specimens have 
been examined, summarized in the present notes. Herbarium acronyms 
used herein, as in the original monograph and in all my series of 
paper in the present journal since 1933, are fully explained in my 
Fifth Summary (1971) 2: 795—80l. 


SVENSONIA Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. ll: 129-130. 1936. 
Bibliography: Wall., Numer. List 215, no. 6318. 1832; Hochst., 
Flora [Bot. Zeit. Regensb.] 2: Intell. 1: 2. 1813; Steud., Nom. 
Bot. Phan., ed. 2, 2: 750. 1815 Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 4: 12, 
3h, & 79h. 1845; Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 556 & 558-559. 
1847; A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 166. 1851; Buek, Gen. Spec. 
Syn. Candoll. 3: 6 & 495. 1858; Thwaites & Hook. f., Enum. Pl. 
Zeyl., imp. 1, 2: 21. 1861; Bocq., Adansonia 3: [Rev. Verbenac.] 
237. 1863; Aschers. in G. Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 1: 119 & 
278. 18673 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. ): 566. 1885; 
Trimen, Journ. Ceyl. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. 9: (Syst. Cat. Flow. Pl. 
Ceyl.] 68. 1885; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 
1: 327 & 507 (1893), imp. 1, 2: 56h (189), and imp. 1, 2: 1179. 
1895; Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. A: hl & 57. 1895; Gtirke in Engl., 
Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 338. 1895; Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceyl. 3: 
347—348. 1895; J. G. Baker in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 
282. 1900; Durand & Jacks., Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 1, 61. 1901; 
M. Kunz, Anatom. Untersuch. Verb. 1. 1911; J. C. & W. Willis, Rev. 
Cat. Flow. Pl. Ceyl. 68. 19113 Chiov. Result. Scient. Miss. Stef. 
1: 143. 1916; Gamble, Fl. Madras 1089. 192); Grenz., Ann. Mo. Bot. 
Gard. 13: 71, 75, 78, & 89. 1926; Mold., Torreya 34: 9. 193h; 
Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 129——1h3. 1936; Mold., Chron. 
Bot. 3: 311. 1937; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. [1] & 29—33. 
1939; Mold., Revist. Sudam. Bot. 6: 16. 1939; Mold., Prelim. Alph. 
List Inv. Names 8, 15, 36, 6, & 47. 1940; Durand & Jacks., Ind. 
Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 2, 61. 1941; Hutchins. & Bruce, Kew Bull. 
191: 176. 1911; Mold., Alph. List Inv. Names 6, 17, & 48. 19U2; 
Mold., Known Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, is, 50, 53, 55, 56, 
7h, & 100. 1942; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 2, 
1: 327 & 507 (1946) and imp. 2, 2: 564 & 1179. 1946; Mold., Alph. 
List Cit. 1: 31, 36, 37, Sh, 71, 98, 153, 220, 250, & 298. 1963 
Razi, Journ. Mysore Univ. 7 (): 63. 1946; Hill & Salisb., Ind. 
Kew. Suppl. 10: 222, 223, & 251. 1973 Molc., Alph. List Cit. 2: 
430, 435, & 619 (1948), 3: 877, 901, & 916 (19h9), and hs 997, 
1041, 1097, 1102, 1127, & 1128. 19493 Mold., Known Geogr. Distrib. 
Verbenac., ed. 2, 109, 110, 117, 118, 124, 128, 130, 163, & 196. 
1949; Gillett, Kew Bull. 1: 131, 132, & 135. 1955; Kassas, Bull. 
Soc. Géogr. Egypt. 29: 56. 19563; Anon., U. S. Dept. Agr. Bot. Subj. 
111 


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Ind. 15: 14359. 1958; Angely, Cat. Estat. Gen. Bot. Fan. 17: 6. 
1956; Abeywickrama, Ceyl. Journ. Sci. Biol. 2: 217. 19593 Anon., 
Kew Bull. Gen. Ind. 1929-1956, 47 & 273. 1959; Durand & Jacks., 
Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 3, 61. 19593 Mold., Résumé 134, 135, 15, 
11,6, 156, 16), 167, 222,..238, 239, 251, 335, 350, 367, 369, dee 
4.70. 1959; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 3, 1: 327 
& 507 (1960) and imp. 3, 2: 56 & 1179. 1960; Cuf., Bull. Jard. 
Bot. Brux. 32: Suppl. 793--79). 1962; Santapau & Wagh, Bull. Bot. 
Surv. India 5: 108. 1963; Thwaites & Hook. f., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 
imp. 2, 241.196; F. A. Barkley, List Ord. Fam. Anthoph. 76 & 213. 
1965; Mold., Phytologia 12: 6. 1965; Airy Shaw in J. C. Willis, 
Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 7, 1090. 1966; J. L. Ellis, Bull. Bot. Surv. 
India 8: 337. 1966; Raizada, Indian Forest. 92: 32h. 1966; Guna- 
wardena, Gen. Sp. Pl. Zeyl. 146. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 
10 & 27. 1968; Anon., Torrey Bot. Club Ind. Am. Bot. Lit. 3: 306. 
1969; Greenway, Journ. East Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. Nat. Mus. 27: 
196. 1969; Quezel, Fl. Veg. Plat. Darfur [Doss. 5 Recherch. Coop. 
Prog. St] 131. 1969; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 6, 211, 213, 21h, 
238, 2h, 265, 278, 281, 369, 399--0l, & 2h (1971) and 2: 60h, 
63h, 677, 682, 68h, 778, & 910. 19713 Lebrun, Kew Bull. 26: 567— 
568. 1972; Mukherjee, Trans. Bose Res. Inst. 35: 37——-l\2, pl. 1, 
fig. 6—8. 1972; Airy Shaw in J. C. Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 
8, 1118. 1973; Anon., Assoc. Etud. Tax. Fl. Afr. Trop. Ind. 1972: 
56. 1973; Gilbert, Biol. Abstr. 55: 5980. 1973; Mold., Phytologia 
26: 511 (1973), 28: Wil, bbe, & 512 (1974), and 29: 42. 197h; 

"H. Ro", Biol. Abstr. 57: 6940. 197); Mold., Phytologia 29: 511 
(1975), 30: 201, 205, & 511 (1975), 31: 122, 127, & 238 (1975), 
3u: 271, 279, & S11 (1976), and O: ly & 512. 1978. 


SVENSONIA HYDEROBADENSIS (Walp.) Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 
Tae 139. 1936. 

Synonymy: Verbena hydorobadensis Rottl. ex Wall., Numer. List 
215, no. 6318 hyponym. 1832. Verbena hyderobadensis % maysorensis 
Wight ex Wall., Numer. List 215, no. 6318b hyponym. 1832. Verbena 
maysorensis R. Wight ex Wall., Numer. List 215, no. 6318b. 1832. 
Verbena hyderobadensis Rottl. ex Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 2, 
2: 750, nom. nud. 181. Verbena mysorensis Wight ex Steud., Nom. 
Bot. Phan., ed. 2, 2: 750, in syn. 181. Verbena hyderobadensis 
@ mysorensis Wight ex Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 2, 2: 750, 
nom. nud. 1641. Verbena mysoorensis Wight ex Walp., Repert. Bot. 
Syst. : 12 & 49h, in syn. 1845. Verbena myssorensis Wight ex 
Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 4: 3h, in syn. 1845. Bouchea? hydero- 
badensis Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. h: 12. 1845. Bouchea hydero- 
badensis Walp. ex Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 559. 1847. Bouchea 
hyderabadensis Walp. apud Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. l: pl. 
1h62. 1849. Verbena hyderabadensis Rottl. apud Jacks. in Hook. f. 
& Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 2: 1179, in syn. 1895. Chascamm 
hyderobadense (Rottl.) Mold., Torreya 3: 9. 193. Bouchea 
hyderobadensis (Rottl.) Walp. ex Mold., Torreya 3: 9, in syn. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Svensonia 123 


193. Bouchea hyderabadensis (Rottl.) Walp. ex Mold., Feddes 
Repert. Spec. Nov. 41: 139, in syn. 1936; Prelim. Alph. List Inv. 
Names 7, in syn. 1940. Bouchea hyderabadensis Wall. ex Mold., 
Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 41: 139, in syn. 1936; Prelim. Alph. 
List Inv. Names 7, in syn. 1940. Chascanum hyderobadense (Walp.) 
Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 41: 139, in syn. 1936. Verbena 
hyderobadensis var. maysorensis R. Wight ex Mold., Feddes Repert. 
Spec. Nov. 1: 139, in syn. 1936. Verbena hydrabadensis Rottl. ex 
Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 41: 139, in syn. 1936; Prelim. 
Alph. List Inv. Names 6, in syn. 1940. Verbena mysuriensis R. 
Wight ex Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. ll: 139, in syn. 1936; 
Phytologia 34: 279, in syn. 1976. Bouchea hyderabaadensis Walp. 
ex Razi, Journ. Mysore Univ. 7 (4): 63 sphalm. 196. 

Bibliography: Wall., Numer. List 215, no. 6318 & 6318b. 1832; 
Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 2, 2: 750. 181; D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 
3: 605. 18h3; Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. h: 12, 3h, & 79h. 18h5; 
Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 556 & 558--559. 18473; KR. Wight, Ic- 
on. Pl. Ind. Orient. : pl. 1462. 1849; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. 
Candoll. 3: 64 & 495. 1858; Thwaites & Hook. f., Enum. Pl. Ceyl., 
imp. 1, 21. 18613; Bocq., Adansonia 3: [Rev. Verbenac.] 237. 
18633 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India h: 564 & 566. 
1885; Trimen, Journ. Ceyl. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. 9: [Syst. Cat. 
Flow. Pl. Ceyl.) 68. 1885; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., 
imp. 1, 1: 327 & 507 (1893), imp. 1, 2: 56h (189), and imp. 1, 
2: 1179. 1895; Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceyl. 3: 348. 1895; Durand & 
Jacks., Ind. Kew. Suppl., imp. 1, 61. 1901; M. Kunz, Anat. Unter- 
such. Verb. 39. 19113; J. C. & M. Willis, Rev. Cat. Flow. Pl. Ceyl. 
{[Perad. Man. Bot. 2:] 68. 1911; Gamble, Fl. Presid. Madras 6: 
1089. 192h; Grenz., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 71, 72, & 89. 1926; 
Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 139—1)3. 19363 Mold., Geo- 
gr. Distrib. Avicen. 32 & 33. 19393 Mold., Prelim. Alph. List 
Inv. Names 8, 15, 36, 46, & 7. 190; Durand & Jacks., Ind. Kew. 
Suppl. 1, imp. 2, 61. 1913; Mold., Alph. List Inv. Names 6, 7 & 
48. 192; Mold., Known Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, 55, 56, 
& 100. 1942; Mold., Alph. List Cit. 1: 31, 36, Sh, 220, & 298. 
196; Razi, Journ. Mysore Univ. 7 (kh): 63. 1946; Hill & Salisb., 
Ind. Kew. Suppl. 10: 222 & 223. 1947; Mold., Alph. List Cit. 3: 
877 (1949) and h: 997, 1102, 1127, & 1128. 1949; Razi, Journ. My- 
sore Univ. 11 (2): 26. 1950; Abeywickrama, Ceyl. Journ. Sci. Biol. 
2: 217. 1959; Durand & Jacks., Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 3, 61. 
19593 Mold., Résumé 164, 167, 238, 367, 369, 419, & 470. 1959; 
Santapau & Wagh, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 5: 108. 1963; Thwaites & 
Hook. f., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., imp. 2, 21. 1964; J. L. Ellis, Bull. 
Bot. Surv. India 8: 337. 1966; Raizada, Indian Forest. 92: 32h. 
1966; Gunawardena, Gen. Sp. Pl. Zeyl. 146. 1968; Mold., Résumé 
Suppl. 16: 10. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 278, 281, 399, & 00 
(1971) and 2: 677, 682, 68), 778, & 910. 1971; Mukherjee, Trans. 
Bose Res. Inst. 35: 38 & h0O--l2, fig. 3. 1972; Mold., Phytologia 
29: 92 (1974) and 3h: 272 & 279. 1976. 

Illustrations: Mukherjee, Trans. Bose Res. Inst. 35: 0, fig. 


11) PHYTOLOGIA Vole bh, No. 2 


3, & pl. 1 (18). 1972. 

This species is based on Rottler s.n. from Mysore (Hyderabad), 
India (Herb. Wallich 6318), the original type deposited at Berlin. 
Razi (1946) also lists the species from Mysore, calling it a 
nannophanerophyte in Raunkiaer's classification of life-forms. Ellis 
(1966) records it from Andhra Pradesh where, he says, it occurs at 
250 m. altitude, flowering in November and fruiting in February. He 
cites his nos. 14967 & 15715. Thwaites & Hooker (1861) record it 
from “an open grassy spot (patana) between Madamahanewera and 
Alootnewera (C.P.357h) in the Central Province" of Sri Lanka, col- 
lected there in February, 1858. It has not since been collected 
in Sri Lanka. 

The anomalous collections mentioned by me under S. hyderobadensis 
in my original monograph (1936) and referred to Stachytarpheta in- 


dica (L.) Vahl are now regarded as Stachytarpheta jamaicensis f. 
monstrosa (Mold.) Mold., apparently a teratologic form. R. Wight 
2289, cited below, is a mixture with the latter form. Wight (189) 
says "I have met this plant several times in subalpine jungles, but 
it is far from common; flowers rose coloured, and from the plant 
usually growing in clumps, sufficiently conspicuous. The fruit in 
my specimens are not quite mature. The figure represents a healthy 
plant, it is only when in a state of monstrosity, so far as I have 
seen, that the character 'spicibus digitalibus confertiusculis' 
becomes applicable". 

The pollen is described by Mukherjee (1972) as 3-colpate, the 
colpa short (brevicolporate), slit-like, sometimes provided with a 
margo, about 27.5 m x 0.5 m (range 21.0 m — 34.0 m x 0.5 m). 
The mean intercolpial distance is about 32.0 m. The shape is 
spheroidal, the diameter about 77.0 m (range 50.0 m — 94.0 m). 
The exine is about 6.0 m thick, the sexine about 50 m thick, 
sometimes the exine forms a lobe at one side of the equatorial 
region, where it is about 10.0 m thick and the sexine about 9.0 
mi thick. It is punctitegillate, supratectal processes perceptible 
in LO-analysis. The texture is thick. The bacula is simple, but 
somewhat heteromorphic in respect to length, which perhaps renders 
the reticuloid appearance. 

Material of Svensonia hyderobadensis has often been misidentified 
and distributed in herbaria as Stachytarpheta indica (L.) Vahl or as 
Stachytarpheta sp. 

Additional citations: INDIA: Tamil Nadu: R. Wight 2289 in part 
(L), sen. (Pd). SRI LANKA: Thwaites C.P.357 (Bz—-172i1, Pd, Pd). 


SVENSONIA LAETA (Fenzl) Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 6: 5. 
1939. 
Synonymy: Pleurosti sulphureum Hochst., Flora [Bot. Zeit. Re- 
gensb.] 2h, Intell. 1: Te, nom. nud. 181. Chascanum laetum Fenzl 
ex Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. h: 39. 1845. Bouchea pterygocarpa 


Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 558--559. 187. Bouchea pterygosperma 
Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost—Afr. A: 4 sphalm. 1895. Bouchea phrygocarpa 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Svensonia 115 


Schau. ex Briq. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 1, 4 
(3a): 15h, sphalm. 1895. Svensonia pterygocarpa (Schau.) Mold., 
Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 136. 1936. Bouchea pterigocarpa 
Schau. ex Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 136, in syn. 1936; 
Prelim. Alph. List Inv. Names 8, in syn. 1940. Choscanum luetum 
Fenzl ex Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 1: 136, in syn. 1936; 
Prelim. Alph. List Inv. Names 15, in syn. 19,0. Bouchea pterygo- 
carpa (E. Mey.) Schau. ex Mold., Ptelim. Aliph. List Inv. Names 8, 
in syn. 1940. Svensonia laeta (Fenzl ex Walp.) Mold. apud Gil- 
lett, Kew Bull. 1955: 132. 1955. Chascamm africanum Auct. ex 
Cuf., Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 32: Suppl. 793, in syn. 1962 [not Ce. 
africanum Mold., 1938]. Svensonia laeta (Fenkl.) Mold. apud Que- 
zel, Doss. 5 Recherch. Coop. Prog. 45: 131, sphalm. 1969. Sven- 
sonia laeta (Walp.) Mold. apud Greenway, Journ. East Afr. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. 27: 196. 1969. 

Bibliography: Hochst., Flora [Bot. Zeit. Regensb.] 2, Intell. 
1: 42. 1841; Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. h: 39. 1845; Schau. in A. 
DC., Prodr. 11: 558--559. 1847; A. Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 
166. 1851; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 6. 1858; Aschers. 
in G. Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 1: 119 & 278. 1867; Jacks. in 
Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 1: 327 & 507 (1893) and imp. 
1, 2: 564. 1894; Briq. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 1, 
(3a): 154. 1895; Engl., Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. A: i & 57. 1895; 
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Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13: 71, 75, & 78. 19263 Mold., Feddes Repert. 
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& 29-——32. 1939; Mold., Revist. Sudam. Bot. 6: 16. 19393 Mold., 
Prelim. Alph. List Inv. Names 8, 15, & 36. 190; Durand & Jacks., 
Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 2, 61. 1941; Hutchins. & Bruce, Kew Bull. 
1941: 176. 1913 Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed.1, 45, 50, 
53, & 100. 19423 Mold., Phytologia 2: 113. 195; Jacks. in Hook. f. 
& Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 2, 1: 327 & 507 (1946) and imp. 2, 2: 
56h. 1946; Mold., Alph. List Cit. 1: 37, 71, 98, 153, & 250. 196; 
Hill & Salisb., Ind. Kew. Suppl. 10: 9 & 223. 19473; Mold., Alph. 
List Cit. 2: 430, 435, & 619 (1948), 3: 901 & 916 (1949), and h: 
1041 & 1097. 1949; J. B. Gillett, Kew Bull. 1955: 131, 132, & 135. 
1955; Anon., Assoc. Etud. Fl. Afr. Trop. Ind. 1955: 63. 19563 Ka- 
sas, Bull. Soc. Géogr. Egypt. 29: 56. 1956; Anon., U. S. Dept. Agr. 
Bot. Subj. Ind. 15: 14359. 1958; Anon., Kew Bull. Gen. Ind. 1929- 
1956, 47, 72, & 273. 1959; Durand & Jacks., Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, 
imp. 3, 61. 1959; Mold., Résumé 135, 146, & 70. 1959; Jacks. in 
Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 3, 1: 327 & 507 (1960) and imp. 
3, 2: 564. 1960; Cuf., Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 32: Suppl. 793. 
19625; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 27. 1968; Greenway, Journ. East Afr. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. Nat. Mus. 27: 196. 1969; Quezel, Fl. Veg. Plat. 
Darfur [Dess. 5 Recherch. Coop. Prog. 45:] 131. 1969; Mold., Fifth 
Summ. 1: 211, 213, 238, 241, 265, 369, 400, 4Ol, & h2j—-l26 (1971) 


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and 2: 60h, 634, & 910. 1971; Lebrun in Hepper, Kew Bull. 26: 
567—568, map 1. 1972; Mukherjee, Trans. Bose Res. Inst. 35: 1. 
1972; Anon., Assoc. Etud. Tax. Fl. Afr. Trop. Ind. 1972: 56. 19733 
M. Gilbert, Biol. Abstr. 55: 5980. 1973; Mold., Phytologia 28: 
lh & hu2 (1974), 302 205 (1975), and 31: 127 & 238. 1975. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a stiff erect herb, 
woody at the base, the branches spreading, and the leaves light 
olive-green, paler beneath. The corollas are said to have been 
"cream"-color on Ash 2980. Collectors have found it growing in 
tall grass and tree acacia woodlands, on hills and steppes, and 
in "brousse tigrée" vegetation patterns on compacted impervious 
colluvial soils, at 1100-1600 m. altitudes, flowering in March, 
April, and June, in fruit in March and June. Ashe reports it 
"local along roadsides". Getahun encountered it in "mostly stony 
soils, brown to gray, pH 7.6--8.2". Burger found it growing "in 
gravel on volcanic soil of flat areas in hilly open woodland on 
steep hills with open Acacia woodland". Quezel (1969) reports it 
from "Rocailles, arénes fixées, fréquent partout" in Darfur. Chi- 
ovenda (1916) lists it from Somalia. 

The species is based on Kotschy 230 from Nubia and Schimper 
1012 from Ethiopia — these collections are cotypes also of Bou- 
chea pterygocarpa Schau., although Walpers (185) erroneously 
cites Schimper 1012 as "Kotschy 1012",  Eaker (1900) cites Bent 
s.n. and Pfund 852 from Nubia, Schimper 42), 1012, & 2210 from 
Ethiopia, “and Volkens 450 from Tanzania. Gillett (1985) ¢ cites 

Kotschy 230 from Sudan, S Schimper 1012 from Ethiopia, Bally 6828 
from Eritrea, and Gillett 4550 from om Somalia, and lists the species 
also from Yemen, Kenya, and Tanzania. Schauer (1847) cites only 
the two cotypes, Kotschy 230 and Schimper 1012. 

Lebrun (1972) cites Boudet 6692 from Mali. He comments that 
"This species much resembles Chascanum marrubiifolium Fenzl ex 
Walp., but it is absolutely glabrous and has fruits which are 
winged at the apex. This member of the sahol element in new for 
West Africa; its distribution is close to that of Cadaba glandu- 
losa Forst., among others, being recorded from Chad, Sud: Sudan Rep. 
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Arabia", Greenway (19695 
cites "G. & K. 12886" and Verdcourt 1109 from Tsavo East National 
Park. 

The Lort Phillips s.n. cited by me as Svensonia laeta in my 
original mo: monograph actually represents Chascanum adenostac tachyum 
(Schau.) Mold. The Deflers 1038 should be cited as "in part" be- 
cause two sheets of this number, collected in Aden, deposited in 
the Paris herbarium are Chascanum arabicum Mold. Gillett 550, 
cited below, was erroneously cited by Hutchinson & Bruce (191) 
as Chascanum africanum Mold. [now known as C. hildebrandtii 
(Vatke) Gillett]. 

Additional & emended citations: SUDAN: Butana: Kassas, Obeid, 
& Osman B.56 (Gz). Kassala: V. Tiickholm E.155 (Gz, Gz). Kordofan: 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Svensonia 117 


Pfund 12 (Gz). Nubia: Kotschy 230 (Bz—-cotype, l—cotype, Lu— 
cotype, Vt—cotype, Vu--cotype). ERITREA: Corradi 3999 (N, S); 
Pappi 266 (Ac, S), 3999 (Ca--9943h6, Ut--6386b, W—1969168) . 
ETHIOPIA: Ash 2980 (W—-2819767); Burger 2983 (W--2l80766); Getahun 
gon. [June 1967] (W—-2)80913); Schimper 2) (L), 1012 (E~118618— 
cotype, F—6867)8—cotype, L—-cotype, L—-cotype, Mu--2l,5--cotype, 
Mu-~26--cotype, W--95472--cotype, W--945)73--cotype), 2210 (L). 
ARABIA: Yemen: Deflers 958 [39] (Na—1993h), 1038 in part (X). 
CULTIVATED: Russia: Herb. Fischer s.n. (L). 


SVENSONIA MOLDENKEI Gillett, Kew Bull. 1955: 132—133. 1955. 

Bibliography: Gillett, Kew Bull. 1955: 131--133 & 135. 1955; A- 
non., Assoc. Etud. Fl. Afr. Trop. Ind. 1955: 63. 19563; Anon., Kew 
Bull. Gen. Ind. 1929-1956, 273. 1959; Mold., Résumé 135, 116, & 
470. 19593 G. Taylor, Ind. Kew Suppl. 12: 138. 1959; Cuf., Bull. 
Jard. Bot. Brux. 32: Suppl. 79). 1962; Mold., Fifth Sum. 1: 213 
& 21 (1971) and 2: 910. 1971. 

This species is based on Gillett 13397 from 53 km. southwest 
of Mandera on the road to El Wak, at about 3°53' N., 41°30' E., 
at 390 m. altitude, growing in red sandy soil over sandstone in 
Commiphora-Acacia open scrub, northern Kenya, on May 30, 1952, de- 
posited in the Kew herbarium. The collector says of the plant: 
"up to 2 mm. tall [??, probably 2 m. is meant], corolla milk 
white". He also cites Glover & Gilliland 3) from Ethiopia, 
where the species was found at 600 m. altitude, flowering in No= 
vember, growing in open places on red sand, and is described as 
erect, brushy, 60--90 cm. tall, with "spikes of white flowers". 
Gillett (19555 comments that "There is a slight element of 
doubt about Glover & Gilliland 3 which has only immature meri- 
carps which are more papillose within than are those of the type. 
The characteristic outward bending of the wing only appears 
when the mericarps are fully mature". 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS STYLODON. I 


Harold N. Moldenke 


Herbarium acronyms employed in this and all other of my papers 
in this journal since 1929 are full explained in my Fifth Summary 
(1971) pages 795—80l. 


STYLODON Raf., Neogenyt. 2. 1825. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Michx., Fl. Bor.—Am., imp. 
1, 2: 1h. 1803; Balbis, Cat. Pl. Hort. Bot. Taur. 8. 180; Poir. 
in Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot. 8: 548. 1808; Balbis, Cat. Stirp. 
Hort. Acad. Taur. 80. 1813; Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 417. 181k; 
Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., imp. 2, 2 ("1"]: 14. 1820; S. Ell., Sketch, 
imp. 1 & 2, 2: 99--100 & 743. 1821; Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 
2, 2: 750. 1813 D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 601. 1833 Schau. in A. 
DC., Prodr. 11: 520 & 545. 1847; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 
3: 343 & 49h. 1858; Darby, Bot. South. States 7. 18663 A. Gray, 
Syn. Fl. N. Am., ed. 1, 2 (1): 336 (1878) and ed. 2, 2 (1): 336. 
1886; A. W. Chapm., Fl. South. U. S., ed. 2, imp. 2, 307 (1887), 
ed. 2, imp. 3, 307 (1889), anded. 2, imp. , 307. 18923 Briq. in 
Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 1, (3a): 148. 189) 
Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 2: 50h (1898) and 
imp. 1, 2: 1011, 1012, & 1178. 1895; Baerecke, Anal. Key Ferns 
Flow. Pl. Atl. Sect. Middl. Fla. - 1906; Lowe, Miss. State Ge- 
ol. Surv. Bull. 17: 236. 1921; Perry, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 20: 
248——250, 262, 309-310, & 355. 1933; M. F. Baker, Fla. Wild Fls., 
ed. 2, imp. 1, 188. 1938; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
60 (2): 575. 1941; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 2, 
2: 50h, 1011, 1012, & 1178. 1946; H. Ne & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 
2: 30. 1948; Lawrence, Taxon, Vasc. Pl., imp. 1, 687. 1951; 
Greene & Blomquist, Fls. South 109. 1953; Thorne, 
2: 504, 1011, 1012, & 1178. 1965 Lawrence, Taxon. Vasc. Pl., imp. 
1, 687. 1951; Greene & Blomquist, Fls. South 109. 19533; Thorne, 
Am. Midl. Nat. 52: 313. 195i; Angely, Cat. Estat. Gen. Bot. Fan. 
17: 6. 1956; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 3, 23 
50h, 1011, 1012, & 1178. 1960; Mold., Biol. Abstr. 36: 719. 1961; 
Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.l: 22h. 19623; Mold., Phytologia 8: 279, 
477, 483, 484, 487, & 489 (1963) and 9: 3h, 165, 206, 215, & 220. 
1963; Shelford, Ecol. N. Am. 77 & 607. 1963; A. L. Mold., Phyto- 
logia 11: 72. 196h; Mold., Phytologia 11: 13 & 117. 196k; Rad- 
ford, Ahles, & Bell, Guide Vasc. Fl. Carol. 281 & 282. 196h3; F. A. 
Barkley, List Ord. Fam. Anthoph. 76 & 213. 1965; Mold., Phytologia 
12: 6. 1965; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 12: 1. 1965; Airy Shaw in J.C. 
Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 7, 1085 & 1086. 1966; G. Taylor, Ind. 
Kew. Suppl. 13: 143. 1966; Rickett, Wild Fls. U. S. 2 (2): 6k, 
465, & 685, pl. 171. 1967; W. C. Grimm, Recog. Flow. Wild Pl. 228 
& 229. 1968; Mold., Phytologia 15: 495. 1968; Pullen, Jones, & 
Watson, Castanea 33: 332. 19683; Anon., Torr. Bot. Club Ind. Am. 
Bot. Lit. 3: 309. 1969; Rickett, Wild Fls. U. S. 3 (2): 365. 1969; 
G. W. Thomas, Tex. Pl. Ecolog. Summ. 77. 1969; El-Gazzar & Wats., 

118 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Stylodon 119 


New Phytol. 69: 83 & 485. 1970; Mold. in Correll & Johnston, Man. 
Vasc. Pl. Tex. ([Contrib. Tex. Res. Found. 6:] 1312, 1321, 
1326, & 1872. 1970; Rouleau, Guide Ind. Kew. 182 & 353. 
1970; S. Ell., Sketch, imp. 3, 2: 99-100 & 743.1971; Law 


rence, Taxon, Vasc. Pl., imp. 2, 687. 1971; Mold., Fifth Sum, 1: 
6, 23, 25, 26, 30, 32, 33, 48, 56, 369, & hO2 (1971) and 2: 600, 
660, 661, 706, 752, 787, & 910. 1971; Whipple, Journ. Elisha 
Mitch. Sci. Soc. 88: 9. 1972; Mold., Phytologia 23: 18) (1972) 

and 26: 511. 1973; Airy Shaw in J. C. Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 
8, 1114 & 1115. 1973; Michx., Fl. Bor.—-Am., imp. 2, 2 (Ewan, 
Class. Bot. Am. 3]: 14. 19743 Mold., Phytologia 28: 202. 197h; 
Duncan & Foote, Wildfls. SE. U. S. 150, 29h, & 295. 1975; Kooiman, 
Act. Bot. Neerl. 2: 463. 1975; M. F. Baker, Fla. Wild Fls., ed. 
2, imp. 2, 188. 1976; Mold., Phytologia 3h: 250 & 511. 1976; Bat- 
son, Gen. East. Pl. 147 & 201. 1977; Lelong, Sida 7: [118] & 1,0. 
1977; K. E. Rogers, Sida 7: 78. 1977. 


STYLODON CARNEUS (Medic.) Mold., Revist. Sudam. Bot. 5: 2. 1937. 
Additional & emended synonymy: Verbena caroliniana, erecta, 


foliis oblongo-obovalibus, obtusis; spicis filiformibus, longissi- 
mis, distinctifloris Michx. apud Poir. in Lam., Encycl. Méth. 8: 
548, in syn. 1808. Verbena carolinensis (Walt.) Small, Fl. SE. U. 
S., ed. 1, 1009. 1903. Verbena caroliniana (Walt.) Michx. ex 
Mold., Résumé Suppl. 2: 11, in syn. 1960. Verbena caroliniana 
Gmel. ex Mold., Phytologia 8: 279, in syn. 1962. Stylodon carnea 
(Medic.) Mold., Résumé Suppl. 4: 13, in syn. 1962. Verbena 
carnosa Medic. ex Mold., Résumé Suppl. 7: 9, in syn. 1963. Verbena 
carolinensis var. caroliniana Michx. ex Mold., Résumé Suppl. 73 

9, in syn. 1963. Stylodon carolinensis a. decumbens Murrill, in 
herb. 

Bibliography: see under the genus as a whole. 

Tllustrations: Greene & Blomquist, Fls. South 109. 1953; 
Rickett, Wild Fls. U.S. 2 (2): pl. 171 (in color). 1967; Grim, 
Recog. Flow. Wild Pl. 220. 1968. 

Recent collectors refer to this plant as upright and have 
found it growing on dry or sandy soil and railroad gravel on rail- 
road rights-of-way, in low sandy ground, at the edges of creeks 
and roads, on sandy pine—hardwood hills and sandhills, in sandy 
oak woods and dry pinelands, dry or sandy woods, oak-hickory for- 
ests, flat pinewoods, sandy open woods, sandy oak scrub, and upland 
open pine-oak woodlands, in fields, pinebarrens, barren and open 
pastures, and sandy low ground along roadsi des, in pineland 
hardwood association, open and cutover longleaf pine areas, open 
sandy woods, on longleaf pine hills, "in semi-shade in sand of 
grown—over second growth pine" and well-drained longleaf pine for 
ests, flowering and fruiting from April te July. 

The corollas are said to have been "pink" on Correll 2717, Dress 
& Hansen 2032, and Dress & Read 980, "pink-lavender" on Bougere 
1046, "light-lavender" on Smith 57, "light—blue" on Allen 1282, 


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"white" on Graves 621, "white to very pale-lLavender" on Tharp & al. 
54856, "pale-lavender, almost white" on Bougere 1153, and Wwhite to 
flesh, drying faint-purple" on Braun 568. 

Tharp and his companions encountered the species "on red gravel- 
ly sand upland among well spaced cutover ak oa and shortleaf 


pine over a thick groundcover of Paspalum and Andro opogon" and "in 
deep loose sand soil beneath large old eer stands of Pinus palustris, 


the podsol covered with duff". Allen found it eee. in open 
areas with Helenium, Spiranthes, Gaylussacia, and Rudbeckia". 
Dress and his associates found it "in very sandy soil of rather 
barren open fields" and at the "edge of low rather open sandy and 
grassy pine and holly woodland". 

Radford, Ahles, & Bell (196) record Stylodon carneus from sandy, 
frequently xeric, thin woodlands, in the central parts of the Caro- 
linas north into Wake County, North Carolina, flowering there from 
April to July. Lelong (1977) asserts that it is "common in dry, 
open woods" in Mobile County, Alabama. Lowe (1921) avers that it 
is found "Usually indry pine lands" and lists it from Jones and 
Lowndes Counties, Mississippi. Pullen and his associates (1968) / 
record it from Clarke, Forrest, George, Greeve, Harrison, Jackson, 
Jones, Kemper, Lowndes, and Pearl River Counties, Mississippi. 
Rogers (1977) lists it from Forrest and Perry Counties in the same 
state. Grimm (1968) tells us that "It grows in open sandy woods 
and thickets, chiefly in the coastal plain" from North Carolina 
south to Florida and west to Louisiana. He says that the flowers 
are “almost 1/ inch across, pink purplish, or white". 

Common names recorded for the species are "Carolina verbena", 
"Carolina-verbena", and "Carolina vervain", 

Green & Blomquist (1953) note that "This is another species 
which varies somewhat in its flower characters from a true verbe=- 
N&a.eseeeeHowever, the habit of the plant is typical of a verbena". 
Perry (1933) says that it “is probably a relic of some ancient 
form; the distinctive character of the schizocarp gives no clue to 
its affinities, but rather emphasizes the anomaly of the species". 

The polynomial credited to Michaux by Poiret (1808) is errone- 
ously placed by him in the synonymy of Verbena carolina L., a very 
different plant. 

Material of Stylodon carneus has been misidentified and distrib- 
uted in some herbaria as Verbena angustifolia Michx., V. carolina 
L., V. hastata L., V. stricta Vent., Buchnera elongata Sw. [in the 
Scrovhulariaceae], "Lobelia carolina L." [Lobeliaceae], and Lobelia 
inflata L. [Lobeliaceae]. On the other hand, the Bynum, Ingram, & 
Jayne s s.n. [April 18, 1933] and McAtee 1953, distributed as Stylo- 
don carneus, are actually Verbena hale: halei Sma. Small, Cory 54253 and G. 
Te Fisher 51001 are V. rigida Spreng., ngs, Fe A. Barkley 13365, Flen- 
ming s.n. [Rutledge swamp, Oct. 9, 193k], an and Uzzell 17 are V. 

xutha Lehm., and Godfrey 4643 is Buchnera e elongata S Sw. in the 


Scrophulariaceae. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Stylodon 123 


Additional citations: NORTH CAROLINA: Bladen Co.: Bell SMe 
[May 18, 1946] (Hi—33705). Brunswick Co.: A. C. Mathews Mathews s.n. 
(May 2, 1935] (Hi—5849). Cumberland Co.: Ahles & Haesloop 297h1 
(Hi-10)892); C. Knox s.n. [June 7, 19h2] (Se—-202550) . Duplin . 
Co.: A. Ce Mathews s. S.ne . [June 5, 1932] (Hi--59459). Harnett Co.: 
R. K. Godfrey 4239 (W—1767334) . Hoke Co.: Ahles & Neuber 25000 
(Hi—10h415); B. E. Smith s.n. [May 20, 1934] (Hi—59458). Mont 
gomery Co.: Radford W711 (Hi--92859) . Pender Co.: Ahles & Haes— 
loop 27915 (Hi—10LN1h, Se--199297); Hyams s.n. (Burgaw, . Auge 
1878] (W—1h299). Richmond Co.: Radford 19289 (Hi—92860) . 
Robeson Co.: Terrell 3052 (Hi—1013). Scotland Co.: Ahles & 
Leisner 3286 (Hi—104412); Duke 872 (Hi—122975). Wake Co.: W. 
B. Fox 3636 (Hi—55469). County undetermined: McCarthy s.n. 
(North Carolina] (W—72317). SOUTH CAROLINA: Aiken Co.: Duke 
1290 (Hi—112972); Ravenel 116) (W—1323068), s.n. [Aiken] (W— 
72321). Bamberg Co.: Ahle Ahles & | & Haesloop 259h8 (Hi—10),891) , 30L45 
(Bl1—18086). Beaufort Co.: “Mellichamp 137 137 (W—1323069). Cal- 
houn Co.: Ahles & Haesloop 30287 (Hi—10)893) « Chesterfield Co.: 
Swails 1 (Hi—110658). Clarendon Co.: Radford 256 (Hi—101651). 
Darlington Co.: Coker sen. [July 1, 1936] (Hi--59451); J. B. Nor- 
ton s.n. [May 5, 1921] ~(Hi—SoLh9) § Radford & Stewart 351 tat 
984508, Hi—23189); Rogers s.n. [April 21, il 21, 1910] (Hi—-59450); B. 
E. Smith 57 (Hi—26481), 1457 (Hi—2683), 1739 (Hi--2647h) . Dor- 
chester Co.: Ahles & Haesloop 26292 (Hi—10lh16), 26293 (Hi— 
104417); K. A. Taylor s.n, [Sumerville, June 2 191 ~ (W--308)96) . 
Georgetown Co. Bozeman & Logue 9149 (Ld); Godfrey & Tryon 180 
(Ca—956863, W—1837108) 5 Radford A 25106 (Hi—-101650). Hampton 
Co.: C. R. Bell 2572 (N). “Kershaw Co.: Radford 23650 (Hi— 
101649). Lee Co.: Radford 24077 (Hi—101648). Lexington Co.: 
Dake 756 (Hi—-112973); Godfrey & Tryon 1202 (W—1837919). Marion 
Co.: C.R. Bell 7822 (Hi—101647). Witherspoon Island: B. E. 
Smith 1458 (Hi—26)82). County undetermined: Curtiss SMe ay 4 
Carolina, 1875] (W—72320). GEORGIA: Baker Co.: Thorne ie 4026 ONe== 
1929872). Chatham Co.: W. M. Canby s.n. (Savannah, May 1858] 
(Pa). Richmond Co.: Duke & Ahles 2039 39 (Hi—11297h) . Screven 
Co.: Ahles 54322 (Hi—201959) « Seminole Co.: Dress & Hansen 
2032 (Ba). Tattnall Co.: Ahles 54211 (Hi—201602). “FLORIDA: Al- 
achua Co.: O'Neill 986 (W--13259h h7). Bay Co.: Billington 22 (W— 
122237). Clay Co.: W. M. Canby s.n. [Hibernia, March 1869] (Pa, 
W—72319); Totten s.n. (August 31, 1945] (Hi—28108) . Duval on 
Curtiss 1959 (Ms—30782, Mu—1559, W-—72318), 386 (Ca—58612, 
218279), 4765 (Ca—104828, W—-22lh91); Fredholm m 5136 eas 
Escambia Co.: G. L. Fisher 9 (Ca—5610). Fra Franklin Co.: A. We 
Chapman s.n. [Biltmore Herb. ),761a] (W—-332103). Gadsden Coes | F. 


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H. Sargent 6160 (St). Hernando Co.: Murrill 583 (W—~1928)03). 
Jefferson Co.: Godfrey 59506 (Hi--155818). Lake Co.: Nash 601 
(Ca--10),827, W--228139). Leon Co.: N. C. Henderson 63-1058 (Au— 
223001). Liberty Co.: A. W. Chapman s.n. [Aspalaga, 1898) (Dt). 
Orange Co.: Barrows s.n. .. (Winter Park, -, 1894) (Dt); Meislahn 135a 
(W--511392); Pieters 71 (W--511583). Polk Co.: McFarlin 5025 
(Mi). Seminole Co.: Lewton s.n. (Ms-——5059). Suwannee Co.: God- 

& Houk 60815 (Hi—201509). Volusia Co.: S. M. Deam 1799 (W— 
aoe J. R. Perkins s.n, (DeLand, March-April 1918] (ca— 
882629). Wakulla Co.: Rugel s.n. sen. (St. Marks, Apr.-dun. 183] 
(Go). County undetermined: A. WC hapman s.n. [Florida, 185] 
(Bm, S), son. (W. Florida] (Dt); Rugel s.n. 1. [Late January-Kar. 
1S] (Bm). ALABAMA: Baldwin Co.: Dress & ;& Read 9840 (Ba). Lee 
Co.: F. S. Earle s.n. (Auburn, 5/20/99] (Dt). Mobile Co.: Bush 
312 (W--318)85) ; E. W. E. W. Graves 621 (W986); C. Mohr s.n. ~ [Mo- 
bile, June 1879] (W—77185). MISSISSIPPI: Harrison Co.: $ S. M. 
Tracy 1981 (W--3k106), sen. [Biloxi, 5/8/1895] (W—307751) « 
Jackson Co.: J. Skehan s.n. [Seymour & Earle 118] (Gg--36176, Hi— 
59447, Lb—-16423). Lamar Co.: S. B. Jones 13653 (Au——260961) ; F. 
H. Sargent 7743 (Go). LOUISIANA: Natchitoches Par.: E. J. Palmer 
7564 (W—c603331). Orleans Par.: T. Drummond 253 (Au--121551). 
Rapides Par.: Mayeau s.n. [May 9, 1942] (Lv). Saint Helena Par.: 
C. M. Allen 725 (Lv), "1282 (Lv). Saint Tammany Par.: Anect 60 
(Herb. Leonard 2289] (W—1036677, W--226113); Arséne 11820 (Ly, 
W—1033023), 12117 (W—10330)6); Bougere 106 (Lv), 1153 (Lv); 
C. A. Brown 7698 (Lv). Tangipahoa Par.: H. R. Wilson 151 (Lv). 
Washington Par.: C. A. Brown 568 (Lv); Beh) nee Thomas & al. 142h0 1420 
(N). TEXAS: Jasper Co.: D. D. S. . Correll 27417 (Ld). Jefferson on Co. 
McLeod 1156 (Au—18051). ~ Tyler Co: D. S. . S. Correll 3 37255 (Ld); 
Tharp, Turner, & Johnston 54731 (Au—121551), 5u856 (Au—121550, 
St). LOCALITY OF COLLECTION UNDETERMINED: Hiendlmayr s.n. (Mu— 
12h6); J. Torrey s.n. ["New York") (Lu). 


NOTES ON NEW AND NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. CXXVIIL 
Harold N. Moldenke 


DIOSTEA SCOPARIA var. SUBULATA Mold. 

Haec varietas a forma speciei dentibus calicinis longiter subulatis 
plerumque tortis recedit. 

This variety differs from the typical form of the species in hav- 
ing the calyx-teeth definitely and conspicuously long-subulate, often 
twisted together in age. 

The type of the variety was collected by Juan Semper (no. 631) in 
meadows at Pampa de Tabolango, Las Heras, Mendoza, Argentina, at 2000 
meters altitude, on April 19, 1945, and is deposited in the Britton . 
Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden. The collector describes 
the plant as a shrub, 1 m. tall, with lilac-colored flowers. 


ERIOCAULON PELLUCIDUM £. PUMILUM (Raf.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Eriocaulon pumilum Raf., Atl. Journ., imp. 1, 121. 1832. 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS pDIosTEA, I 
Harold N. Moldenke 


Since the publication of my monograph of this genus in 1960 much ad- 
ditional material has come to my attention. This is summarized in the 
present paper. The herbarium acronyms employed, as in all others in 
my long series of papers in this journal for the past 46 years, are 
fully explained in my Fifth Summary (1971), pages 795--801. 


DIOSTEA Miers 

Additional & emended bibliography: Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 2, 2: 
fou. 3641: 5, Dietr,, Syn. Pl. 3: 601. 18435 Walp. Nove Act. Lae, 
Leopold.—Carol Cur. 19, Suppl. 1: 379. 1843; Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 
11: 544-—-546, 555, 556, 573, & 614. 1847; C. Gay, Hist. Fis. Chile 1: 
20--22 & 30--31. 1849; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 104, 266, & 
494--496. 1858; Bocq., Adansonia, ser. 1, 3: [Rev. Verbenac.] 203 & 244, 
feos. Fea rOiL,, Gate, Pl. Vase. Chil, 221. 13Gb: Batts Boee= a6. (o- 
am, 202, 206/:° Jacks. in Hook, £..& Jacks., Ina. Kew... ima. 1: 204, 
549, 768, & 777 (1893) and imp. 1, 2: 95 & 96. 1894; Briq. in Engl. & 
Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 1, 4 (3a): 147. 1894; Jacks. in Hook, f. 
& Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 2: 1178 & 1179. 1895; Briq. in Chod. & 
Wilczek, Bull. Herb. Boiss., ser. 2, 2: 543 & 544. 1902; Reiche & Phil., 
Fl. Chil. 5: 272, 282--283, 297--299, & 303. 1910; Sanzin, Anal. Soc. 
Cient. Argent. 88: 98, 100, 103, 104, 116--118, 122, 125, & 133, fig. 
5. 1919; H.C. Comber, Gard. Caran., ser, 3, 92: 3/3.. 193925 8. §, Com 
ber, Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 92: 413. 1932; Makins, Ident. Trees Shrubs 
/4°6 259, Fibs 62 BH. 19363. 5S. -Bareo., Kew Boll, Misc. tnt, 1936: 
94. 1936; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. [1], 28, 29, & 39. 1939; Jacks. 
in Hook, £..& Jacks., ind. Kew., inp. 2, 1: 264, 549, 768, &°777 (1946) 

123 


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and imp. 2, 2: 95; 96, 1178, & 1179. 1946; Mold, , Alph. List ig 
Names Suppl. 1: 9 &.26. 1947; H. Ne & A. L. Mold.,.P1.) Lite 2:59 
43, & 60. 1948; Erdtman, Pollen Morph. Pl. Tax., ed. 1, 448. 1952; 
Angely, Cat. Estat. Gen. Bot. Fan. 17: 4. 1956; Darlington & Wy- 
lie, Chromos. Atl., imp. by 322, 323, & 506, 1956; Anon. 5 .U] oo 
Dept. Agr. Bot. Subj. Ind. “15 y 14354. 1958; Mutoz Pizzaro, Sins 

Fl. Chil. 199. 1959; Encke, Pareys BlumengY¥rtn., ed. 2, 443. 

1960; Jacks...in Hook. £. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 3, 120264, 79000 
& 777 (1960) and imp. 3, 2: 95, 96, 1178, & 1179. 1960; Mufloz Piz- 
zaro, Espec. Pl. Descr. Philip. 110. 1960; Potztal in Encke, Par- 
eys BlumengY¥rtn., ed. 2, 2: 439. 1960; Darlington & Wylie, Chromos. 
Atl., imp. 2,322, 323, ® 506. 1961; Mold., Biol. Abstr. Sa-aeree 
1961; Runner, Rep. Groff Coll. 361. 1961; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. 
A.4: 224, 1962; Dalla Torre & Harms, Gen. Siphonog., imp. 2, 430. 
1963; Troncoso in BUcher, Hjerting, & Rahn, Dansk. Bot. Arkiv 22: 
105 & 109--110. 1963; Hansen, Excerpt. Bot. A./7: 139. 1964: Mold., 
Résumé Suppl. 10: 5 (1964) and 11: 5. 1964; F. A. Barkley, List 
Ord. Fam. Anthoph. 75 & 160. 1965; Mold., Phytologia 12: 6, 20, 

21, & 36. 1965; Airy. Shaw in Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., eds 7, 2ae8 
1966; Erdtman, Pollen Morph. Pl. Tax., ed. 2, imp. 1, 448. 1966; 
Mold., Phytologia 14: 402. 1967; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 15: 21. 

1967; ,Anons;.°Torr.. Bot, Club Ind. Am. Bot, Lit.,.3: 309, Yos- 
Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. l, 
715, 4&°F16.; £969; Anoh,, Biel. Abstr. 51-(16): B.A.SaleGu eee 
1970; Mold., Biol. Abstr. 51: 9025. 1970; Rouleau, Guide Ind. Kew. 
6) & 352, 1970; Erdtman,. Pollen Morph. Pl. Tax., ed. 2, Jimegie 
448. 1971; Heusser, Pollen Spores Chile 62 & 81, pl. 59-672. 1971; 
Mold. 5 FifthsSumm. 12<5, 210;.191, 195, 362, °395, 428, 429.4985 
433, 476, & 4737 (1971) and 22: 532, 549-—551,; 557, 5655 (6839) Gea, 
678, 694, 696, 709, 754, 774, & 876. 1971; Thanikaimoni, Inst. 
Frang. Pond. Trav. Sect. Scient. Techn. 12: 80. 1972; Airy Shaw 

in Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 8, 369. 1973; Hegnauer, Chemotax. 
Pfl. 6 [Chem. Reihe 21]: 675. 1973; Gibbs, Chemotax. Flow. Pl. 3: 
1752 & 1754. 1974; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos, Numb. 
Flow. Pl.; imp. 2, 715 & 716.1974; Mold., Phytologia 28: 1097 450. 
& 508. 1974; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 296, 301, 302, 306, 310, 313, 
352-=—355, 409, 411, & 412, fig. 15 & 353. 1974; Mold., Phytoloeza 
303 181 & 507. 1975; L. He & Es Z. Bailey, Hortus Third tee 
1976; A. R. Mold. in Thrower & Bradbury, Chile-Calif. Medit. Scrub 
Atl. 211. 1977; Markgraf & D'Antoni, Pollen Fl. Argent. 20, 32, 98; 
114, 122, & 207, pl. 42-358 & 42-3-9, 1978. 

Gibbs (1974) reports tannins and leucoanthocyanin not present 
in this genus. Darlington & Wylie (1956) give the chromosome num- 
ber as x = 5. 

The Z5llner 5533, distributed as Diostea, actually is Junellia 
pseudo-juncea (C. Gay) Mold, 


DIOSTEA CINERASCENS (Schau.) Mold. 

Additional synonymy: Citharexylum? alpinum Poepp. ex Walp., 
Repert. Bot. Syst. 4: 16, in syn. 1845. Lippia cinerascens F. 
Phil., Cat. Pl. Vasc. Chil. 219. 1881. Verbena cinerascens Gill. & 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Diostea B25 


Hook., in herb. 

Additional & emended bibliography: C. Gay, Hist. Fis. Chile 
Bot. 5: 21. 1849; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 104 & 494, 
£583.58.) Phike, <Gat..Pl. Vase... Chil, 2195: 1681; Jacks; in Hogks i. 
& Jaeks72 Ind. /Kew.s 5, imp. 1,, 12 549 -(1893) tand impivto 2: PbS; 
1895; Reiche & Phil., Fl. Chil. 5: 282--283. 1910; Jacks. in Hook. 
fs & Jacks. ; Ind. ews s;cimp. *2,.51¢ 549 *C19460) andiimp, (2522: Five. 
1946; Acevedo de Vargas, Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Chile 25: 41 & 
70e.19515 Jacks. Sin Hooks £. &‘Jacks., . Inds Kewageimps 03,01 50549 
£2960) ‘and imps. 3, 248° 4178 ..°2960; Mold... Fifth Summed: 198,428, 
& 431 (1971) and 2: 663 & 876. 1971; Hegnauer, Chemotax. Pfl. 6 
[Chem. Reihe 21]: 675. 1973; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 310, 313, & 
411. 1974. 

My good friend, Otto Z6llner, has found this plant growing at 
2000 m. altitude, flowering in September and November, and in 
fruit in November. Reiche (1910) asserts that it grows “En las 
cordilleras de las provincias de Coquimbo (Ovalle, Illapel), A- 
concagua i Santiago; perece planta escasa". Gay (1849) notes that 
the "Especie muy afin de la V[erbena] scoparia Hook. y que se halla 
en las cordilleras de Santiago y en el camino de la Guardia". 
Troncoso (1974) cites Jiles 1535 from Ovalle, Chile, deposited in 
the San Isidro herbarium. 

A reference to "Poepp. Syn. Pl. Am. Austr. 558" occurs in the 
literature of this taxon, but as yet has not been located by me -- 
possibly it is an exsiccatae number. 

Material of D. cinerascens has been misidentified and distribu- 
ted in some herbaria as D. juncea(Gill. & Hook.) Miers and as 
Junellia sp. On the other hand, the Poeppig II.85, distributed as 
D. cinerascens in some herbaria, actually is D. juncea. 

Additional citations: CHILE: Aconcagua: Z6llner 7938 (Ld). 
Atacama: Poeppig 9 [Macbride photos 7855 in part] (W--photo of co- 
type). Coquimbo: C. Gay 944 [Macbride photos 7855 in part] (W-- 
photo of cotype); Z6llner 5350 (Z). Province undetermined: C. 

Gay sen. [Chile] (W--1706333). 


DIOSTEA JUNCEA (Gill. & Hook.) Miers 

Additional & emended synonymy: Verbena juncea @& foliis integ- 
errimis, spicis pubescentibus Gill. & Hook. in Hook., Bot. Misc. 1: 
162. 1829. Verbena juncea Pp foliis grosse serratis, spicis 
glabriusculis Gill. & Hook. in Hook., Bot. Misc. 1: 162. 1829. 
Lippia scirpea Re A. Phil., Anal. Univ. Chile 2: 402. 1862; Linnaea 
33: 196. 1864. Diostea juncea Miers apud Jacks. in Hook. f. & 
Jacks., Ind. Kew.e, imp.1, 1: 768, in syn. 1893.' Baillonia iuncea 
Benth. & Hook. apud M. Kunz, Anatom. Untersuch. Verb. 37. 1911. 
Baillonia juncea Briq. ex Metcalfe & Chalk, Anat. Dicot. 1034, fig. 
247 F & H. 1950. Diostea scirpea (Phil.) Miers apud Acevedo de 
Vargas, Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Chile 25: 42--44. 1951. Lippia 
baillonia Darlington & Wylie, Chromos. Atl., imp. 1, 323, in syn. 
1955. Baillonia juncea (Gill. & Hook.) Briq. ex Encke, Pareys 
Blumengartn., ed. 2, 443, in syn. 1960. Lippea juncea Gay ex Mold., 
Résumé Suppl. 3: 33, in syn. 1962. Diostea juncea (Schau.) Miers 
ex Mold., Résumé Suppl. 10: 5, in syn. 1964. 


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Additional & emended bibliography: Steud., Nom, Bot. Phan., ed. 
25 24 °750. 184152D. Dietr., SynscPhs) 35 )60L. 1843; 'C.-Gag) ae 
Fis. Chile 5: 30--31. 1849; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 266 
& 495. 1858; Bocq., Adansonia, ser. 1, 3 [Rev. Verbenac.] 244, 
18635 R. A. Phil.,. Anal. Univ. Chil. 27: 339 (1865) and 352193, 
1870; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 1: 264, 768, 
& 777 (1893), imp. 1, 2: 95 & 96 (1894), and imp. 1, 2: 1179. 

1895; Briq., Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genév. 4: 22. 1900; Wilczek 
& Chod., Bull. Herb. Boiss., ser. 2, 2: 544, 1902; Thiselt.-Dyer, 
Ind. Kew. Suppl. 2: 23, 61, & 106. 1904; Reiche & Phil., Fl. Chit. 
5: 272, 297--299, & 303. 1910; M. Kunz, Anatom. Untersuch. Verb. 
37. 1911; C. K. Schneid., Illustr. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 590. 1912; 
Sanzin, Anal. Soc. Cient. Argent. 88: 98, 100, 103, 104, 133, & 
134, fig. 6. 1919; Hs Fe Comber, Gard... Chron.) ser. 3) 922541 
1932; Makins, Ident. Trees Shrubs 74 & 259, fig. 62 H. 1936; H. S. 
Marsh., Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 1936: 94. 1936; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. 
Avicenn. 29 & 39. 1939; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew. 

imp. 2, 1: '264,..768, & 777 (1946) and imp. 2, 2: 95; °96,. "6 Ubyea 
1946; H. Ne & Aw Le. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 60. 1948; Metcalfe & Chalk, 
Anat. Dicot. 1032 & 1034, fig. 247 F & H. 1950; Acevedo de Vargas, 
Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Chile 25: 41--44, fig. 2. 1951; Erdtman, 
Pollen Morph. Pl. Tax., ed. 1, 448. 1952; Darlington & Wylie, 
Chromos. Atl., imp. 1, 323. 1955; Munoz Pizarro, Sin. Fl. Chil. 
199. 1959; Encke, Pareys Blumengdrt., ed. 2, 443. 1960; Jacks. in 
Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 3, 1: 264, 768, & 777 (1960) 

and imp. 3, 2: 95. 96, & 1179. 1960; Munoz Pizarro, Espec. Pl. Des- 
cr. Philip. 109--110. 1960; Darlington & Wylie, Chromos, Atl., imp. 
2, 323. 1961; Mold., Phytologia 9: 114. 1963; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 
10: 5 (1964) and 11: 5. 1964; Erdtman, Pollen Morph. Pl. Tax., ed. 
2, 448. 1966; Mold., Phytologia 14: 402. 1967; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 
15: 21. 1967; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. Numb. 
Flow. Pl., imp. 1, 716. 1969; Erdtman, Pollen Morph. Pl. Tax., ed. 
2, imp. 2, 448. 1971; Heusser, Pollen Spores Chile 62, pl. 59-672. 
1971; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 191, 195, 362, 395, 429, 433, 476, 
477° (1971) and: 2: 532, 549, 551, 557, 565, 613, 676,' G94, Geo. 

774, & 876. 1971; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. Num. 
Flow. Pl.,, imp. 2, 716. 1974; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 353--355, 
409, & 412, fig. 15. 1974; Mold., Phytologia 30: 181. 1975; A. R. 
Mold. in Thrower & Bradbury, Chile-Calif. Medit. Scrub Atl. 211. 
1977; Markgraf & D'Antoni, Pollen Fl. Argent. 20, 32, 98, 114, 122, 
& 207, pl. 42-358. 1978. 

Additional & emended illustrations: Sanzin, Anal. Soc. Cient. 
Argent. 88: 104, fig. 6. 1919; Makins, Ident. Trees Shrubs 74, fig. 
62 H. 1936; Metcalfe & Chalk, Anat. Dicot. 1034, fig. 247 F & H. 
1950; Acevedo de Vargas, Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Chile 25: 42-- 
44, fig. 2. 1951; Heusser, Pollen Spores Chile 62, pl. 59-672. 
1971; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 353, fig. 15. 1974; Markgraf & 
D'Antoni, Pollen Fl. Argent. 98, pl. 42-358. 1978. 


[to be continued] 


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BAILEY, D. K., & HAWKSWORTH, F. G., Pinyons of the Chihuahuan 


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PINYONS OF THE CHIHUAHUAN DESERT REGION 


D. K. Bailey 
University of Colorado Museum 
Boulder, Colorado 80302 


and 


Frank G. Hawksworth 
Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station 
USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526 


In the course of preparing a chapter on the PINACEAE for a 
flora of the Chihuahuan Desert Region! the distribution and 
taxonomic rank of the pinyons of the region were found to be inade- 
quately described. The pinyon studies relevant to the Chihuahuan 
Desert Flora are part of a more general investigation, begun in 
1973 and still in progress, of all the pinyons (Pinus subsection 
Cembroides). Two taxa, hitherto of the rank of variety, require 
elevation to species level for reasons given below. In addition 
a third taxon has recently been described at the species level 
(Robert 1978). The superficial similarity of these three taxa, 
and P. cembroides sensu stricto, should not obscure their 
important and consistent differences. 


PINUS REMOTA (Little) Bailey & Hawksworth, comb. nov. 
paper-shell pinyon 
Pinus cembroides Zucc. var. remota Little, Wrightia 3:183, 
1966. Holotype: US, as P. cembroides var. remota, Val Verde 


County, Texas, 13 miles south of Loma Alta, 1 April 1963, 
Little & Correll 18991. 


Pinus remota as defined by Little (1966) differs from Pinus 
cembroides Zucc. sensu stricto - henceforth referred to as Pinus 
cembroides - in its much thinner seed shells, needle fascicles 
mainly in 2's, but with some 3's and slender gray twigs. We have 
found several additional differences. Two of these are 
especially important for determination of herbarium specimens. 
First is the frequent presence of more than 2 resin ducts per 
needle, the number invariably associated with P. cembroides and 
with P. edulis var. edulis. P. remota has occasionally been 
taken to be P. edulis var. edulis in northern Mexico and west 
Texas because it has somewhat thicker needles in these areas than 


1", Chihuahuan Desert Flora", M. C. Johnston, compiler, in prepara- 


tion at the University of Texas at Austin. 
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either P. remota from the Edwards Plateau population or nearby 
P. cembroides. Second are the abbreviated open fascicle sheaths. 
The curl-back of the fascicle sheaths, which make conspicuous 
rosettes around the bases of fascicles that are about a year old 
in the case of P. cembroides, is much less for P. remota. For 
the latter, the curl-back is typically of the order of 90° or 
less, in contrast with P. cembroides and all other pinyons 
(except Pinus nelsonii with persistent fascicle sheaths) for 
which the curl-back is typically 270° or more. This difference 
seems to be a consequence of weaker fascicle-sheaths for 

P. remota, the distal portions of which are deciduous almost as 
soon as curl-back begins. Significant differences in altitude 
are also found between P. cembroides and P. remota; the latter 
usually occurs at lower elevations. The main range of P. remota 
is in Coahuila, but it reaches parts of adjacent Nuevo Ledn, 
southeastern Chihuahua and Texas (Bailey & Wendt 1979). 


A particularly important feature of P. remota, not mentioned 
by Little, is its occurrence (near its upper elevational limit) 
sympatrically in west Texas with P. cembroides (near its lower 
elevational limit) without evidence of hybridization--a strong 
justification for its specific rank. 


PINUS DISCOLOR Bailey & Hawksworth, stat. et nom. nov. 
border pinyon 


Pinus cembroides Zucc. var. bicolor Little, Phytologia 
17:336, 1968. Holotype: US, as P. cembroides var. bicolor, 
Santa Cruz County, Arizona, Madera Canyon, Santa Rita 
Mountains, 20 May 1968, Little 23011 (female plant) and 
23010 (male plant). 


The varietal name bicolor (Little 1968) is not used, in 
this instance, as the specific epithet because of prior use 
(Pinus bicolor Maxim. ex Parl. in DC. Prod. xvi, II, 418, 1868). 
Pinus bicolor was a creation of Parlatore and it was from the 
first a synonym for a Picea, although Maximowicz himself in 
creating Abies (not Pinus) bicolor (Maximowicz 1866) assigned it 
to Abies. While Article 34 of the International Code of 
Botanical Nomenclature might permit us to use bicolor, Article 32, 
Recommendation 32c, states that "Authors should avoid adoption of 
a name or epithet which has been previously, but not validly, 
published for a different taxon."" The epithet discolor which we 
have chosen instead preserves Little's descriptive intentions in 
the varietal epithet bicolor. Both refer to the usually 
conspicuous difference in color between the green dorsal and 
glaucous ventral needle surfaces. 


1979 Bailey & Hawksworth, Pinyons of Chihuahuan Desert 131 


Pinus discolor differs from P. cembroides in its lack of 
dorsal stomata, 2-colored needles and smaller cones (Little 
1968). We have found several additional differences. Thus, 

P. discolor has fascicles on a given tree almost entirely in 
-3"s, but with occasional 4's. Fascicles of 2 are significantly 
less frequent than 4, although similar counts in the past have 
reported the reverse--probably the result of including incomplete 
fascicles in hasty counting. Fascicles of 5 are occasionally 
found. In contrast, P. cembroides has fascicles of both 2 and 

3 needles on the same tree. When the entire geographical 
distribution is sampled no marked tendency is found toward either 
2 or 3. In addition, needle retention is usually longer for 

P. discolor (typically 4-7 years) than for P. cembroides 
(typically 2-5 years). Moreover, on older trees, highly 
distinctive bark differences have been noted. These differences 
are obvious on common sites where the 2 taxa occur side by side. 
The bark of P. discolor is somewhat thinner than that of otherwise 
comparable specimens of P. cembroides and consists of ragged, 
concave, grayish platelets of variable size and shape, typically 
2-5 cm wide, with intervening, more or less longitudinal fissures, 
some of which exhibit a conspicuous orange to yellow color. In 
contrast, the bark of old trees of P. cembroides tends to exhibit 
thick, roughly polygonal plates of charcoal black, giving no 
impression of raggedness and having obvious transverse as well as 
longitudinal fissuring or cross-checking, and without the orange 


to yellow color deep in the furrows as in P. discolor. Unlike 
P. remota, P. discolor has seed shells as thick or even thicker 
than those of P. cembroides. Little confirmed the subdioecious 
character of P. discolor in southeastern Arizona (McCormick & 
Andresen 1963). We reaffirm this finding, but in extending the 
range of P. discolor into the Sierra Madre Occidental from 
Chihuahua through Durango to the San Miguelito Mountains of 
southern San Luis Potosi, we note that the dioecious tendency 
grows less obvious toward the southern part of the range. 


Chemical analyses of wood cores collected by us of most pinyons 
and including P. cembroides and P. discolor have revealed striking 
differences in the monoterpene constituents between the latter two 
(analyses by E. Zavarin and K. Snajberk, pers. comm.). For P. 
cembroides, nine sites were sampled, 10 trees each, distributed 
from west Texas and northern Chihuahua south to Querétaro. For 
P. discolor, 12 sites were sampled, 10 trees each, distributed 
from southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico, to San Luis 
Potosi. Pinus cembroides is high in o-pinene (89+5%) and low in 
both sabinene (2+2%) and p-cymene (141%), whereas P. discolor 
is low in a-pinene (35+10%) and high in both sabinene (22+14Z%) and 
p-cymene (12+7%). The percentages are means and standard 
deviations for 90 trees of P. cembroides and 120 trees of P. 
discolor. th . 


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In geographical regions where both P. cembroides and P. 
discolor occur, P. cembroides always appears first on ascending 
into hilly or mountainous habitats. There exists, however, a 
common elevational range where the two have been found growing 
together in Chihuahua, Durango, and San Luis Potos{. On none of 
these common sites is there any suggestion of hybridization 
between the two taxa. This may be related to a significant 
difference in their times of anthesis. Pinus cembroides 
sheds its pollen about 4 to 6 weeks earlier than P. discolor. 
These facts constitute a strong justification for specific rank 
of the two taxa. 


The common name, border pinyon, is proposed for P. discolor, 
because its principal range lies along both sides of the 
international boundary between Mexico and the United States, 
extending about 200 km into each country. Specifically, the 
principal range comprises southeast Arizona, extreme southwest 
New Mexico, northeast Sonora, and northwest Chihuahua. 

P. cembroides reaches its northern limit in the Sierra Madre 
Occidental at about 30°N, barely reaching the southern limit of 
the principal range of P. discolor. Thus, the only pinyons 
significantly sharing the principal range of P. discolor are 

P. edulis var. edulis, and P. edulis var. fallax Little. Both 
are easily recognized and are found only in the northern portions 
of the principal range. The few stations presently known for 

P. discolor south of 30°N seem to be outliers from the main 
population of the border region. In Arizona and elsewhere, this 
tree is commonly called Mexican pinyon, a name which should be 
used only for Pinus cembroides. The latter is the most widely 
distributed pinyon in Mexico and enters the United States only 
in west Texas. 


The recently described Pinus johannis M.-F. Robert, while 
lacking dorsal stomata and having fascicles mainly of 3 needles, 
differs conspicuously from P. discolor in growth form. It is a 
multi-stemmed shrub resembling Pinus culminicola Andresen & 
Beaman. In monoterpene chemistry, it is essentially identical 
with P. cembroides and P. remota and shares with them a shorter 
needle retention than that of P. discolor. Moreover, its 
geographical distribution is given as solely in the mountains just 
west of Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas (Robert 1978). However, 
pinyons with both small tree and shrub forms, with needles in 
fascicles mainly of 3 and lacking dorsal stomata, have been 
found elsewhere in some of the more important but isolated 
mountain ranges of Coahuila, and in the Sierra Madre Oriental 
farther east. Only one of these isolated populations (Sierra de 
la Madera, Coahuila) has thus far been tested chemically. Its 
monoterpene composition is identical with that of P. johannis. 
These populations are similar in needle anatomy to P. johannis, 
and different from P. discolor. For these reasons, and pending 
further field and laboratory studies, it is convenient to regard 
them as P. johannis sensu lato. 


1979 Bailey & Hawksworth, Pinyons of Chihuahuan Desert 133 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 


We appreciate the valuable comments and advice on 
nomenclatural matters from W. A. Weber (University of Colorado), 
R. Barneby (New York Botanical Garden), and F. J. Hermann 
(University of Wisconsin). W. B. Critchfield (USDA Forest 
Service, Berkeley), and E. Zavarin (University of California, 
Berkeley) reviewed the manuscript and made helpful suggestions. 


REFERENCES 


Bailey, D. K. and Tom Wendt. 1979. New pinyon records for 
northern Mexico. Southwest. Natur. 24. [In press] 

Little, E. L. Jr. 1966. A new pinyon variety from Texas. 
Wrightia 3:181-187. 

Little, E. L. Jr. 1968. Two new pinyon varieties from Arizona. 
Phytologia 17:329-342. 

Maximowicz, C. J. 1866. Diagnoses breves plantarum novarum 
Japoniae et Mandschuriae. Bull. Acad. Pétersb. X:485-490. 

McCormick, J. and J. W. Andresen. 1963. A subdioecious 
population of Pinus cembroides in southeast Arizona. Ohio 
J. Sci. 63:159-163. 

Robert, M.-F. 1978. Un nouveau pin pignon mexicain : Pinus 
johannis. Adansonia, ser. 2, 18:365-373. 


NOTES ON NEW AND NOTEWORTHY PLANTS, CXXVIII 


Harold N. Moldenke 


ERIOCAULON DECANGULARE f, LATIFOLIUM (Chapm.) Mold., stat. nov. 


Eriocaulon decangulare var. latifolium Chapm. ex Mold., N. Am. 
Pla Dok ala hol « 


ERIOCAULON LINEARE f. GIGAS (Mold.) Moid., stat. nov. 
Eriocaulon lineare var. gigas Mold, Phytologia 27: 444, 1974. 


VERBENA BRACTEATA f. BREVIBRACTEATA (A, Gray) Mold., stat. & comb. 
NlOVe 


Verbena bracteosa var. brevibracteata A, Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 
2 (Et 5 sGe Ales 


VERBENA BRACTEATA f. IMBRICATA (Woot. & Standl.) Mold., state. DOV. 
Verbena imbricata Woot. & Standl., Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
£6: Lee, 1953. 


VERBENA URTICIFOLIA f£, SIMPLEX (Farwell) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena urticifolia var, simplex Farwell, Papers Mich, Acad, 
pei, 3: 103.’ 1924. 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS f£. CAERULEA (Rehd. ) Mold., stat. nov. 
Vitex agnus-castus var. caerulea Rehd. in L, H. Bailey, Cycl. 
am, “eet. 4e"1947 [as “Hort,"]. 1902. 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS DIOSTEA, II 


Harold N. Moldenke 


DIOSTEA JUNCEA (Gill. & Hook.) Miers 

Additional bibliography: Thanikaimoni, Trav. Sect. Scient. Techn. 
Inst. Franc. Pond. 13: 80. 1976; Mold., Phytologia 44: 125--126, 
L979, 

Recent collectors describe this species as a many-branched bush 
or virgate shrub, 1--6 m. tall, resembling a Cytisus, or a perennial 
subaphyllous herb, the branches pendulous, and the flowers tubular, 
slightly fragrant. They have encountered it on lakeshores, in sunny 
places, on open dry river terraces and partially shaded slopes, and 
on steep, dry, rocky, west-facing slopes in sparse chaparral, at 
394--2000 m. altitude, flowering from October to March, as well as 
in May and June, fruiting in February and June. Morrison reports it 

134 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Diostea 135 


"not common", but both King and Mexia speak of it as "common"; Bur- 
kart and Z6llner report it "abundant", Our son, Dr. Andrew R. Mol- 
denke, in response to a query regarding his encountering it during 
his work on pollination ecology in Argentina and Chile, says "I know 
it well - it is a prominent species in many places", 

The corollas are said to have been "white" on Behn s.n., Blake 
sen.e, Mexia 7878, Morrison 16781, and Morrison & Wagenknecht 17509, 
"whitish-lavender" on McClintock MEX.2.1076, “lilac" on Burkart 
19871, “light-lilac" on Lourteig 2543, "blue" on Meyer 7472, “rose" 
on Ruiz Leal 23948, and "very bright-violet" on Cordini 107, while 
Makins (1936) describes them as "pale-lilac". The only vernacular 
name recently reported for the species is "retama", Darlington & 
Wylie (1956) list the chromosome number as "x = 8?,.9?" on the 
authority of Junell (1934), who, however, reports it as 32. 

Makins (1936) lists the species as "Diostea (Baillonia) juncea" 
and refers to the fruit as a "berry enclosed in a persistent calyx, 
regarding it as endemic to Chile. Gay (1849) comments that "Esta 
planta se cria en las cordilleras de Acancagua @ igualmente en la 
provincia de Valdivia, cerca del rio Negro" in Chile. Macloskie 
(1905) found it in "Valdivia to N. Patagon., Mts. in Chubut",. 

The Hooker (1829) reference in the bibliography of D. juncea is 
often incorrectly cited as "1830", Hooker divides the taxon into 
two forms: "Q foliis integerrimis, spicis pubescentibus" and "® 
foliis grosse serratis, spicis glabriusculis". 

Erdtman (1966) has examined the pollen of Morrison 16781 and 
Werdermann 545 and describes the grains as very verbenoid, 3-col- 
porate, suboblate-oblate spheroidal, 32 x 36 mu. Heusser (1971) 
describes the pollen as "Monad, isopolar, radiosymmetric; tricolpor- 
ate, colpi long and narrow, constricted equatorially, with costae, 
colpi pores transverse constricted or more or less circular, variable 
in size, generally conspicuous; prolate spheroidal-subprolate, amb 
triangular with sides concave; exine 1--1.4 mu thick, tectate, more 
or less psilate; 36--48 x 34--43 mu", based on Kuschel SGO 68389 
from Bio-Bio, Chile. Markgraf & D'Antoni (1978) describe the pollen 
as "Tricolporate, scabrate. Grain prolate-spheroidal, 31 x 29 un. 
Exine 2 um thick, Pore lalongate 13 x 4 um. Costae colpi narrow, 
Polar A 0.34 amb sub-angular", based on Markgraf sen. from Rio Neg- 
ro. He also cites Heusser 672 and Erdtman p. 448 (1966). It is 
assumed that by "um" he means "mu", 

Encke (1960) says of this species: "Interessanter, an Spartium 
junceum erinnernder Kalthausstrauch von &ahnlicher Kultur wie Car- 
michaelia. Vermehrung durch Aussa&at oder reife Sommerstecklinge in 
Juil, August unter Glas," 

Briquet (1902) cites Wilczek 39. Troncoso (1974) cites Castell- 
anos 20493 from Neuquén and Soriano 2905 from Rio Negro, Argentina, 
and Riccardi 14588 from Linares & Cuming 225 from Province undeter- 
mined, Chile, She regards the genus as monotypic, this the type 
and only species. Acevedo de Vargas (1951) maintains D. scirpea 
(Re A. Phil.) Miers as valid. She says: "Se menciona esta planta 
argentina aqui, descripta originalmente de Chile por el Dr. R. A. 
Philippi porqué, segiin las publicaciones, no ha sido vista por los 
botanicos, siendo por tal motivo confundida con Diostea juncea. Se- 


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gin mi opinidn deberia ser subordinada a Diostea scoparia, Material 
estudiado: Portillo, lado de Mendoza, W. Diaz, 186162 (Typus et 
isotypus a Lippia scirpea: Sgo. 42407 et 54830). Planta de aspecto 
semejante a Diostea scoparia y D. juncea, Obs. - En la sinonimia 
de Diostea juncea, establecida por el Dr. Moldenke en Lilloa V: 386, 
1940, figura Verbena scirpea R. A. Phil. ex Moldenke (previamente 
citada par esta mismo botanico en List Alf, Prelim. 48. 1940), com- 
binaci6én que, segiin mi parecer, se refiere a Lippia scirpea Phil., 
por ser esta planta, sin duda alguna, la inica descripta por el Dr. 
Philippi de epiteta especffico scirpea y que posteriormente sirvid 
de base a Miers para establecer su Diostea scirpea. Del estudio 
comperado del material tipo, dibujos y diagnosis originales de esta 
especie con sus congéneres chilenas se deduce que se trata de plan- 
tas distintas, cuyos caracteres diferenciales podrian resumirse asf: 
A. Arbusto ceniciento-peludo, con ramas prismaticas. D. cinerascens. 
A', Arbusto lampifios, con ramas cilindricas. 
B. Planta poco ftoliosa; hojas mayores de 1 cm. de largo; corola 
de mas o menos cuatro veces la longitud del caliz. D. juncea. 
B', Plantas subafilas; hojas menores de 1 cm, de largo; corola 
mas o menos 3 veces o el doble de la longitud del caliz. 
C, Caliz cortamente dentado, m&s o menos pubescente; corola 
blanca. D. scoparia. 
C', Caliz con dientes subulados, casi glabro; corola amarilla 
(en seco, segiin su autor). D. scirpea. 

Material of D. juncea has been misidentified and distributed in 
some herbaria as D. cinerascens (Schau.) Mold., Citharexylon alpi- 
num Poepp., Neosparton aphyllum (Gill. & Hook.) Kuntze, and Verbena 
cinerascens Gill. & Hook. On the other hand, the Z6llner 5350, dis- 
tributed as D, juncea, actually is D. cinerascens (Schau,) Mold., 
while Eyerdam 10073 and Negrete s.n. are D. scoparia Gill. & Hook.) 
Miers. 

Additional citations: CHILE:. Aconcagua: D., O. King 715 (Bm); 
Poeppig II.85 (Mu--304); Z6llner 766 (Ac), 3074 (Ac), 9873 (Ld). 
Cautin: Morrison & Wagenknecht 17509 (Ba). Curic6é: Grau & Grau 
1586 (Mu); Mexia 7878 (W--1707408); Werdermann 545 (Mu); Z6llner 
8447 (N). Linares: Z3llner 3072 (Ld). Malleco: Sparre & Smith 183 
(Z). Nuble: Lourteig 2543 (W--2797792). Santiago: Morrison 16781 
(Ba). Valdivia: Hollermayer s.n. [Werdermann 1376] (Bm, Ut--91221). 
Province undetermined: Behn s.n. [Cordillera de los Andes, 22 Novbr. 
1929] (Mu). ARGENTINA: Chubut: Burkart 19871 (N, W--2567993); Cas- 
tellanos s.n. [Herb. Inst. M. Lillo 118404] (Gg--406029). Mendoza: 
Ruiz Leal 23948 (Tu--162423). Rio Negro: Buchtien 1346 (Mu-—4036); 
Cordini 107 (W--1702959); De Borba 416 (Ca--M165563); Fabris 2178 
(Mu); T. Meyer 7472 (N), 7495 (Ca--166062); Pedersen 323 (W-- 
2122369); Rentzell 14650 (Ca--3319); Soriano 176 (Ca--M004156), 

2905 (W--2595175);. CULTIVATED: California: Mrs. A. S. Blake s.n. 
[May 19, 1952] (Ba, Gg--373710); Jerabek sen. [March 1945] (Sd-- 
35406); McClintock MEX-2.1076 (Ba). 


DIOSTEA SCOPARIA (Gill. & Hook.) Miers 
Emended synonymy: Verbena scoparia Hook. apud Schau. in A. DC., 
Prodr. 11: 555 in nota. 1847; Mold., Alph. List Inv. Names Suppl. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Diostea i3/ 


1: 26, in syn. 1947. Baillonia spartioides Ball, Notes Nat. S. Am. 
202, 1687. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Hook., Bot. Misc. 1: 161--162, 
pl. 47. 1829; Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 2, 2: 750. 1841; D. 
Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 601. 1843; Walp., Nova Act. Nat. Caes. Leopold.- 
Carol. Cur s 19,) Suppl. I: 379. 18433 Schau, in Ag De.) Prodewoass 
544 & 555. 1847; C. Gay, Hist. Fis. Chile Bot. 5: [20] & 21. 1849; 
Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 496. 1858; Bocq., Adansonia, ser, 
1, 3: [Rev. Verbenac.] 203. 1863; Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 
Bot. 27: 102-—105. .1870; F. Phil., Cat. Pl. Vasc. Chil. 221.1661; 
Ball, Notes Nat. S. Am. 202. 1887; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. 
Kew., imp. 1, 1: 768. 1893; Briq. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzen- 
fan, “ed. 15°4 (3a) 147.1894; Jackss°in Hook.f. & Jackss,' Inde 
Kew., imp. 1, 2: 1179. 1895; Briq., Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genév. 
4: 20. 1900; Durand & Jacks., Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 1, 250. 1903; 
Reiche & Phil., Fl. Chil. 5: 282 & 299. 1910; Sanzin, Anal. Soc. 
Cient. ‘Areents68 298, 116, 21S, 122, 123, 60133, Fie. 26 19; 
Baeza, Nomb. Vulg. Pl. Silv., ed. 2, 49--50, 84, 257, & 269. 1930; 
H. C. Comber, Gard. Chron., ser. 3,°92: 373. 1932; He Fe Comber, 
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 92: 413. 1932; H. S. Marshall, Kew Bull. Misc. 
Inf. 1936: 94. 1936; Mold., Geogr. Distrib. Avicen. 29. 1939; Durand 
& Jacks., Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 2, 250. 1941; Jacks. in Hook, f. 
& Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 2, 1: 768 (1946) amd imp. 2, 2: 1179. 
1946; Acevedo de Vargas, Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Chile 25: 44. 
1951; Darlington & Wylie, Chromos. Atlas, ed. 2, 322 & 323. 1956; 
Durand & Jacks., Ind. Kew. Suppl. 1, imp. 3, 250. 1959; Munoz Piz-— 
zaro, Sin. Fl. Chil. 199. 1959; Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. 
Kew., imp. 3, 1: 768 (1960) and imp. 3, 2:1179. 1960; Munoz Pizzaro, 
Espec. Pl. Descr. Philip. 110. 1960; Mold., Phytologia 9: 113 & 114. 
1963; Troncoso in Bécher, Hjerting, & Rahn, Dansk, Bot. Arkiv 22: 
105 & 109--110. 1963; Hansen, Excerpt. Bot. A.7: 139. 1964; Bolkh., 
Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. 1, 715. 
1969; Anon., Biol. Abstr. 51 (16): B.A.S.1.C. S.46. 1970; Mold., Bi- 
ol. Abstr. 51: 9025. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 191, 195, & 476 
(1971) and 2: 550, 694, & 876. 1971; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zak- 
har., Chromos. Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. 2, 715. 1974; Troncoso, Darwin- 
iana 18: 310, 313, & 412. 1974; Mold., Phytologia 28: 109 & 403 
(1974) and 30: 181. 1975; Markgraf & D'Antoni, Pollen Fl. Argent. 
20, 32, 98, 114, 122, & 207, pl. 42-359. 1978; Mold., Phytologia 
449-123. 1979. 

Additional & emended illustrations: Sanzin, Anal. Soc, Cient. 
Argent. 88: 123, fig. 26. 1919; Markgraf & D'Antoni, Pollen Fl. 
Argent. pl. 42-359. 1978. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a bush or shrub, 0.5-- 
1m. tall, the leaves tiny, borne on Ephedra-like shoots, and the 
flowers aromatic. They have found it growing on steep rocky slopes 
in association with Valeriana, Tropaeolum, Euphorbia, Phacelia, 
Acaena, Verbena, Oxalis, Calceolaria, Sisyrinchium, Nassauvia, Lar- 
dizabala, etc. or with Nothofagus obliqua and Schizanthus hookeri 
at altitudes of 1600--3500 m., flowering from November to April, 
fruiting in January and February. 

The corollas are said to have been "blue" on Venturi 6970, "blu- 


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ish-white" on Ricardi 2910, "lilac" on Semper 631, "pale-violet or 
blue" on Hutchison 42, and the "tube pink, lobes dingy-white" on 
Worth & Morrison 16692, 

Markgraf & D'Antoni (1978) describe the pollen of this species 
as "Tricolporate, psilate. Grain oblate-spheroidal, 47 x 39 um. 
Exine 2,5 um thick. Pore lalongate 13 x 2.5 um. Polar A 0.4, amb 
sub-angular", based on Markgraf s.n. from Mendoza. It is assumed 
that by "um" this author means "mu". Darlington & Wylie (1956), 
as well as Bolkhovskikh and his associates (1969), give the chromo- 
some number as 20, 

It should be noted that Troncoso limits the genus Diostea to D, 
juncea, the type species, regarding D. cinerascens and D, scoparia 
as belonging to the genus Verbena. In this connection Miers (1871) 
comments that "Schauer, in his Monograph of the family, places D. 
juncea in Lippia and D. scoparia in Verbena, stating erroneously 
that its fruit is a 4-coccous capsule". 

Reiche (1910) says: "De Lippia aphylla (de la Campana de Quil- 
lota) existe solamente un fragmento. En la cordilleras de las pro- 
vincias centrales, en el lado chileno i arjentina, Enero, Febrero,” 
Walpes (1843) lists it from the Cordillera de S. Fernando, flower- 
ing there in March. Skgttsberg (1916) encountered it on arid 
steppes, at 1300 m. altitude, at Arroyo Chacaihuerruca, Rio Negro, 
in subandean Patagonia, giving its overall distribution as the Andes 
of middle Chile, Argentina, and northern Patagonia, citing Skotts- 
berg 91l. 

Vernacular names reported for D. scoparia are “"chavelillo del 
campo" and "escobilla del campo". 

Troncoso (1974) cites Werdermann 788 from Santiago, Chile, and 
Ruiz Leal 1023 from Mendoza, Argentina, both deposited in the San 
Isidro herbarium, 

It should be noted that Schauer's work, cited in the biblio- 
graphy of this species, was published in 1847, not "1849" as is some- 
times cited. Similarly, Hooker's work appeared in 1829, not "1830" 
as it is sometimes cited. 

Material of D. scoparia has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as D. juncea (Gill. & Hook.) Miers, Glandularia sp., 
Lippea juncea Gay, Lippia juncea Gill. & Hook., Neosparton aphyllum 
(Gill. & Hook.) Kuntze, Verbena aphylla Gill. & Hook., and V. ephed- 
roides Cham. 

Additional citations: CHILE: Aconcagua: Buchtien s.n. [Juncal, 
Uspallata Pass, 2200 m., 2/2/1903] (Mu); s.n. [Juncal, 2300 m., II. 
1903] (W--1177977); Marticorena & Matthei 613 (Z); Ricardi 2910 
(Ac); Simon 477 (Mi). Colchagua: Ricardi 3177 (Ac). Coquimbo: 
Worth & Morrison 16692 (Ba). Santiago: Claude-Joseph 814 (W-- 
1058772); Marticorena & Matthei 595 (Ac); Werdermann 488 (Mu). 
Valparaiso: Eyerdam 10073 (W--2371847); Hutchison 42 (Ca--143640, 
W--2321562). Province undetermined: Dessauer sen. [Cerro de la Vis- 
cacha] (Mu); Gillies s.n. [Pantanillo & San Isidro, Nov. 13, 1825] 
(Bm), s.n. [unarranged coll.] (Bm). ARGENTINA: Catamarca: Ellen- 
berg 4638 (Ld), 464la (Ac); Jérgensen 1403 (W--921938); Venturi 6970 
(W--1591511). Mendoza: Cuezzo & Balegno 1900 (Au, Du--374452, Go), 
1923 (Au, Du--374515, Go); Lourteig 813 (N); Negrete s.n, (Mu); Ruiz 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Diostea 139 
Leal 12741 (Tu--137896). 


DIOSTEA SCOPARIA var. PUBERULA (Troncoso) Mold., Phytologia 19: 319, 
1970. 

Synonymy: Verbena scoparia var. puberula Troncoso in Bécher, 
Hjerting, & Rahn, Dansk Bot. Arkiv 22: 109--110. 1963. Diostea 
scoparia var. puberuca Anon., Biol. Abstr. 51 (16): B.A.S.I.C. S.63, 
sphalm. 1970. 

Bibliography: Troncoso in Bécher, Hjerting, & Rahn, Dansk Bot, 
Arkiv 22: 109--110. 1963; Hansen, Excerpt. Bot. A.7: 139. 1964; A- 
Hons; Biol. Abstr; 51 (16): B.A.Ss<I.C. 8.63«. 19703 Mold., Biol. Ab— 
g€25°51i 59025. (2970. 

According to Troncoso (1963) this variety "Differt a typo cauli- 
bus rhachidibus bracteis calyce subdense puberulis; bracteis mai- 
oribus, dimidium calycis aequantibus vel superantibus; corollarum 
tubo minus curvato, lobis parce maioribus"., It is based on Bdcher, 
Hjerting, & Rahn 1143 from among dry rocks northwest of Cuesta de 
los Terneros, San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, at 1200 m. altitude, 
on October 30, 1962, where it, together with Hyalis argentea, dom- 
inated the vegetation, 


DIOSTEA SCOPARIA VAR, SUBULATA Mold., Phytologia 44: 123. 1979. 

Bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 44: 123. 1979. 

This variety differs from the typical form of the species in 
having the calyx-teeth definitely and conspicuously long-subulate, 
often twisted together in age. 

It is based on Semper 631 from sand-dunes at Pampa de Tabolango, 
Las Heras, Mendoza, Argentina, at 2000 meters altitude, collected 
on April 19, 1945, and deposited in the Britton Herbarium at the New 
York Botanical Garden, The collector notes that the flowers, in A- 
pril, were aromatic, the corollas pink. 

It is of interest to note here that Acevedo de Vargas (1951), in 
describing the differences between what she calls Diostea scirpea 
Miers and D. juncea (Gill. & Hook.) Miers, maintains that D, scirpea 
also has subulate-toothed calyxes, but the calyx itself is "casi 
glabra" and the corolla yellow. 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS DIPYRENA, IL 


Harold N. Moldenke 


Information and specimens which have come to my attention since 
the publication of my original paper on this genus in 1961 are 
hereinafter summarized. Full explanation of the herbarium acronyms 
used in this and in all others of my long series of papers in the 
present journal since 1933 is given in my Fifth Summary of the Ver- 
benaceae...etc. (1971), pages 795--801. 


140 PRY TOL®C41 A Vol. 44, No. 3 


DIPYRENA Hook, 

Additional synonymy: Wilsonia Gill. & Hook. in Hook., Bot. Misc, 
1: 172; pl. 494 1829 [not Wilsonia R. Br., 1810; nor Rafe, “ane 
Wilsonia Hook. apud Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. 9: 227. 1840. Wilsonia 
Hook. & Gill. apud Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 535, in syn. 1847. 
Dipyrema Bocq., Adansonia, ser. 1, 2: 155, sphalm, 1862. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Meisn., Pl. Vasc. Gen, 1: 290 
(1839) and 2: 199. 1840; Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. 9: 227. 1840; D,. 
Dietr., Syne Pls 3: 371. 1843; Walp., Nov. Act. Acad. *Natg?Gaeeq 
Leopold.-—Carol, Cur. 19, Suppl. 1: 379. 1843; Schnitzl., Iconogs, 
Fam. Nat. 2: 137 Verbenac. [3]. 1856; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 
33°144. 1858; Bocq., Adansonia, ser. 1, 2: 87 & 155.(1862)sandey 
180 & 212. 1863; Bocq., Rév. Verbenac. 87, 116, 155, 180, & 212, pl. 
18. 1863; Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. ‘Lond. Bot. 27: 103. 187);-Hier 
one, Bol. Acad. Nac. Cienc,. Cérdoba 4: [Sert. Sanjuan.] 66. 1881; 
Jacks. in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 1: 777 (1893), imp. 
1, 2: 628 (1894), “and imp. 1;°2: 1231. 1895; Reiche"s \Phiioeeee 
Chile 5: 303. 1910; M. Kunz, Anatom. Untersuch, Verb. 55--56. 1911; 
Nienburg, Justs Bot. Jahresber,. 39 (2): 1051. 1916; Sanzin, Anal. 
Soc. Cient. Argent. 88: 96, 98, 99, 104--106, 133, & 134, fig. 9. 
1919; Metcalfe & Chalk, Anat. Dicot,. 1031--1033 & 1040. 1950; An- 
gely, Cat. Estat. Gen. Bot. Fan. 17: 4. 1956; Munoz Pizarro, Espec. 
Pl. Descr. ‘Phil. 109 &-110. 1960; Mold.,, Biol. Abstr. 362% 23107 2962; 
Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.4: 224. 1962; Dalla Torre & Harms, Gen. 
Siphonog., imp. 2, 431. 1963; Troncoso in Bécher, Hjerting, & Rahn, 
Dansk Bot. Arkiv 22: 105. 1963; Langman, Select. Guide Lit, Flow. 
Pl. Mex. 208 & 1010. 1964; F. A. Barkley, List Ord. Fam. Anthoph. 

75 & 160. 1965; Mold., ‘Phytolopia 12: 6. 1965; Airy Shaw) in J. 
Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 7, 368 & 1195. 1966; Mold., Résumé Sup- 
pl. 16: 30. °1968; Anon, , Torr, Bot, ‘Club Ind. Am. Bots Litetiigeaeee 
1969; J. Hutchins., Evol. Phylog. Flow. Pl. 469 & 681. 1969; Rouleau, 
Guide Ind. Kew. 62 & 352. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ, 1: 5, 195, 476, & 
477 (1971) and 2: 613, 670, 735, 755, & 876. 1971; Whipple, Journ. 
Elisha Mitch. Sci. Soc. 88: [1]. 19725; Airy Shaw in J.°C. Wibbigz 
Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 8, 376 & 1225. 1973; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 
296, 301, 302, 364--366, & 409, fig. 21. 1974. 

It should be noted here that the Wilsonia of Brown is a genus in 
the Convolvulaceae, while Wilsonia Raf. is probably a synonym of 
Epacris J, Re & G. Forst,. in the Epacridaceae, 

Bentham (1876) remarks concerning Dipyrena: "Bocquillon....hoc 
genus Privae adjunxit, habitu tamen longe recedit, facileque limita- 
tur calyce brevi fructifero patente 5-fido nec accreto ore clauso 
foliis alternis aliisque notis. Species 2 Chilenses a Philippi.... 
descriptae, foliis oppositis drupa 2-pyrena pyrenis 1-locularibus, 
verisimiliter ad Bailloniam (Diosteam, Miers) referendae". Schauer 
(1847) says of Dipyrena: “A Priva vix distinctum". Gay (1849) com- 
ments that "Este jénero es muy afin del jénero Priva por sus frutos, 
pero se distingue facilmente de el por su traza, la pequenez de su 
caliz, y sobre todo por sus tallos y ramos lefosos". 

The Endlicher (1838) reference cited in the bibliography above is 
often mis-cited by the title-page date "1836-1856", but the page in- 
volved here was actually issued in 1838. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Dipyrena 141 


This is a monotypic genus, the type species being Wilsonia gla- 
berrima Gill. & Hook. [=Dipyrena glaberrima (Gill, & Hook.) Hooke]. 


DIPYRENA GLABERRIMA (Gill. & Hook.) Hook. 

Emended synonymy: Dipyrena glaberrima Hook. apud Walp., Nov. Act. 
Acad, Nat. Caes. Leopold.-Carol. Cur. 19, Suppl. 1: 379. 1843. 
Wilsonia glaberrima Hook. apud Walp., Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Caes. 
Leopold.—-Carol. Cur. 19, Suppl. 1: 379, in syn. 1843. Dipyrena 
glaberrima Hook. & Gill. apud Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 535. 

1847. Dipyrena glaberrima Gill. & Hook, ex Mold., Résumé 278, in 
syn. 1959; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 366. 1974. Dipyrena glaberrima 
(Gill. & Hook.) Mold., Phytologia 26: 372, in syn. 1973. 

Bibliography: see under the genus as a whole, 

Emended illustrations: Sanzin, Anal. Soc. Cient,. Argent, 88: 105, 
fig. 9. 1919; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: [365], fig. 21. 1974. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a shrub, 1.2 m. tall, 
with fragrant flowers, and have encountered it at altitudes of 2000 
to 2500 meters, flowering in April and December. The corollas are 
said to have been "cream'"-color on Semper 245 & 588. 

Gay (1849) says of this plant: "Se cria en las cordilleras cen- 
trales entre Santiago y Mendoza y 4 una altura de 5 a 6000 piés. Es 
muy parecida 4 una verbena y el caliz ofrece la misma forma, rom- 
piéndose en un lado 4 proporcion que el fruto se acerca de la madurez". 

The Hooker (1829) reference in the bibliography of this species is 
sometimes erroneously cited as "1830". 

Troncoso (1963) cites Bécher, Hjerting, & Rahn 2114 and (1974) 
Boelcke & al. 9967 from Mendoza, Argentina. Briquet (1894) lists it 
as only found in Mendoza. The "Dipyrena (Wilsonia) glaberrima" of 
Walpers (1843) is.a misidentification of a specimen of Junellia as- 
pera (Gill. & Hook.) Mold. 

Material of D. glaberrima has also been misidentified and distrib- 
uted in some herbaria as Junellia asparagoides (Gill. & Hook.) Mold. 

Additional citations: ARGENTINA: Mendoza: Caceres & Paci 283 (Au-- 
243309, Du--375259); Cuezzo & Balegno 1943 (Ba); Ruiz Leal 20695 
(Tu--137881); Semper 245 (W--2049689), 588 (N). 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS HIEROBOTANA, IV 


Harold N. Moldenke 


Information from new literature and herbarium specimens received 
since the publication of my last previous notes on this genus in 
1972 is hereinafter summarized. The herbarium acronyms employed in 
this and all others in my long series of papers in the present 
journal since 1929 are fully explained in my "Fifth Summary of 
the Verbenaceae....."" etc. (1971), pages 2: 795--801. 


142 PEYTODLOCeETA Vol. 44, No. 3 


HIEROBOTANA Briq. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 
1, 873 (1821) and ed. 2, 2: 750. 1841; Schau., Linnaea 20: 477. 
1847; Buek, Gen, Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 495, 1858; Barnhart, Bull. 
Torr. Bot. Club 29: 500. 1902; Macloskie in W. B. Scott, Rep. Prince- 
ton Univ. Exped. Patag. 8 (2): 682 & 686. 1905; Knuth, Feddes Repert, 
Spec. Nov. Beih. 43: [Init. Fl. Venez.] 598. 1927; Dalla Torre & 
Harms, Gen, Siphonog., imp. 2, 430. 1963; Rouleau, Guide Ind. Kew. 
92 & 352. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ, 1: 5, 6, 136, & 140 (1971) and 2: 
527, 662, 674, 678, 752, & 880. 1971; Mold., Phytologia 24: 499 & 
509. 1972; Airy Shaw in J. C. Willis, Dict. Flow. Pl., ed. 8, 559. 
1973; Anon,, Biol. Abstr. 55 (9): BeAsS.I.C. S.1L5. 1973; Hocking, 
Excerpt. Bot. A.21: 115 & 116. 1973; Rogerson, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 
100: 192. 1973; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.23: 292. 1974; Mold., Phy- 
tologia 28: 256 & 509. 1974; Soukup, Biota 11: 2, 11--12, & 21. 1976; 
Mold., Phytologia 36: 33 & 506 (1977) and 40: 414 & 508. 1978. 


HIEROBOTANA INFLATA (H.B.K.). Briq. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Verbena inflata Humb. & Bonpl,. a- 
pud Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 1, 873. 1821. Verbena inflata 
Kunth apud Spreng. in L., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 2: 749. 1825. 

Bibliography: see under the genus as a whole, 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a small, low-growing, 
decumbent, spreading herb, with ascending branches, growing in clumps, 
and have found it growing in dry meadows, in dry or very dry ground, 
and in open areas with very dry volcanic-ash soil on the interandean 
highlands, at 2100--3185 m. altitude, flowering from March to July 
and in September, in fruit from April to June and in September, The 
corollas are said to have been "white" on Asplund 17069 & 20464 and 
Rimbach 176, while on Asplund 16145 it is said that the petals were 
"white, faintly flushed with violet along the margins" and on Soejar- 
to & Hernandez 1339 the sepals were "green with dark-purple tinge, 
petals white". The latter collectors report the plant "common on 
roadsides". 

Briquet (1894), Knuth (1927), Junell (1934), and Dalla Torre & 
Harms (1963) all assert that the genus occurs only in Colombia, but 
Macloskie (1905) reports it collected in wet ground by Hatcher at 
Rio Santa Cruz in southern Patagonia on June 9, 1897, claiming to 
have verified this difficult-to-believe identification by comparison 
at the Gray Herbarium at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He gives the ov- 
erall distribution of the genus as "Quito and southwards in the An- 
des. I know it only from Ecuador and Peru. 

Junell (1934) claims a close affinity of Hierobotana inflata with 
Verbena canadensis (L.) Britton, but Briquet (1894) much more cor- 
rectly compares it with "V. canescens Kunth" [and, less correctly, 
with "V. pinnatifida Schau."]. 

The only common or vernacular name recently reported for H. in- 
flata is the widely applied "verbena", Material has been misidenti- 
fied and distributed in some herbaria as Verbena microphylla H.BeKe 
and Verbena sp. 

Additional citations: ECUADOR: Chimborazo: Asplund 20464 (Ld, N); 
Fagerlind & Wibom sen. [X.1952] (Ld); Rimbach 176 (E--1030440) ; 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Hierobotana 143 


Schimpff 746 (Mu). Cotopaxi: Collector undetermined s.n. [1838] 
(Mu), sen. [1858] (Mu). Pichincha: Asplund 16145 (Ld, N), 17069 (N, 
W--2652457); Herb. Univ. Cent. Quito 2347 (Mu), 2348 (Mu), 2349 (Mu); 
Humbles 6199 (Ac); Jameson 228 (Pd). Tunguragua: Soejarto & Hernan- 
dez 1339 (Oa). PERU: Ica: Ellenberg 4915 (Ld). 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS VITEX, XI 


Harold N. Moldenke 


The considerable amount of information which has come to my at- 
tention from literature and from herbarium specimens since the pub- 
lication of my last previous paper on this genus in 1968 is herein- 
after summarized. Herbarium acronyms used herein, as also in my 
long series of paper in this journal since 1929, are fully explained 
in previous papers and in my "Fifth Summary of the Verbenaceae.eece" 
etc. (1971), volume 2, pages 795--801. 


VETEX Tourn; (ex-bLi, Gen. .Plé, .ede:1, 1865\17375 Sp... Pio, eds io eamp. 
keg i2t.:6335.. 1753;.Gens:Fl.; sed. 5jcampy 2y. 25. 20 

Additional & emended synonymy: Allasia Lour., Fl. Cochinch., ed. 
1, 84. 17905. .Tripinna Lour,, Fl. Cochinch., ed.:1, 476. 1790. 
Vitex Willd. ex Moon, Cat. Indig. Exot. Pl. Ceyl. 1: 36. 1824. 
Chrysomallum Petit-Thou. ex Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. Phan. 9: 226. 
1840. Nephrandra Cothen ex Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. Phan. 9: 226, 
1840. Walrothia Hassk., Cat. Pl. Hort. Bot. Bogor. Cult. Alt. 134. 
1844. Ephialum Soland. apud Wittst., Etymol.-bot. Handworterb. 325. 
1852. Agnus castus Carr., Rev. Hortic. 42: 415. 1871. Stereosperma 
Hook, f & Thoms. ex C, B, Clarke in Hook, f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 585 
& 774, in syn. 1885. Ephielis Banks & Soland. apud Dalla Torre & 
Harms, Gen, Siphonog., imp. 1, 432. 1904. Mailelou Adans. apud Dal- 
la Torre & Harms, Gen.Siphonog., imp. 1, 432. 1904. Psilogyne DC. 
apud Dalla Torre & Harms, Gen. Siphonog., imp. 1, 432. 1904. Vitex 
[Tourn, ex L.] L. apud Dalla Torre & Harms, Gen. Siphonog., imp. l, 
432. 1904. Viter Aubréville, Ann. Acad. Sci. Colon. 9: 237, sphalm. 
1938. Agnus castus Tourn. ex Mold., Alph. List Inv. Names 4, in 
syn. 1940. Pistaciovitex L. apud Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 60 (2): 574, in syn. 1941. Vitex (Tourn.) L. ex Fournier, Quat. 
Fl, France 807. 1961 Mithrudatea Hort. ex Mold., Fifth Summ. 2: 572, 
in syn. 1971. Crysomallum [Thou.] apud Lépez—Palacios, Fl. Venez. 
Verb. 648, in syn. 1977. Nephandra [Willd.] apud Lépez—Palacios, Fl. 
Venez. Verb. 651, in syn. 1977. Psilogine [A. DC.] apud Lépez—Palac- 
ios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 652, in syn. 1977. Vetex Kurup, Journ. Bomb. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. 75: 325, sphalm. 1978. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Nicolaus, Antidot. Nicol, in 
Mesue, Canon. Univ. leaf 328 recto. 1510; Bartholom. Angl. [transl. 
Trevisa], Propriet. Rer. 1535; Dod., Pempt. 762. 1583; J. P. Camus, 


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Achemin Dévot. 286. 1624;; J. P. Camus, Hom@él. Festiv. 201. 1625; 
Cast., Hort. Mess. 24. 1640; J. Schréder, Pharm. Med. 4: 10. 1649; 
W. Coles, Adam Eden. 1657; Lonic., Kreuterb., imp. 1, 77. 1679; Cul- 
pepper, Eng. Physit. Enlarg. 1681; Rheede, Hort. Malab. 2: pl. 10 & 
11, 1685; Breyn., Prod. Fasc. Rar. Pl., ed. 1, 2: 105--106. 1688; 
Rivin,, Introd. Gen. Rem Herb. Ord. Pl. Irreg. Monop. [26]. 1690; 
Cup., Hort, Cath. 4. 1696; Cup., Hort.-Cath. Suppl. Alt. 6. 16973 P, 
Hermann, Mus, Zeyl., .ed.:2y 47. 1726; L., Syst. Nat., ed. Bae 
1735; J. Burm., Thes. Zeyl. 229, [238], [248], & [250], pl. 109% 
17373 (Le, Crit, ‘Bot. 55, 212,98) (S064.  174375¢L., Gens. Pl., caw ae 
186.& [402] ¢(17373L., Meth, Sex. Gen. Pl. 55, 111, & [304] 5- t9ae 
Breyn.,' Prod. Fasc, RarsoPiey ied. . 2°22 405—106,. 1/39; &. 7 Cae 
Plsy ced. 25°304.& [549] G742) and ed503 ("2"), 233. & [493] aa 
Blackwell, Cur. Herb.<l: pbs139. 1751; ‘Le, Gen. Pl., ed.45 2390 
[464)¢:175250i.5 0S pe Pid weds i150: imp. 11, (200632 44°638) 1955; ae 
Gens -P1.4 eds 5;.dmpe 1,240,285, [520), .& [521]. 1754; 
Stickm., Herb. Amb. 15. 1754; Sloane, Civil Nat. Hist. Jamaic., ed. 
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280 & 282. 1766; N. L. Burm. [Burm. f.], Fl. Ind. 137 & 138, pl. 

43 [fi¢s.-2 supe]. 17683 ..J.: Burm.,. Fl. Malab. 3:6 4. 1769; Scopus 
Ann. Hist. Nat. 4: 72. 1770; [Retz.], Nom. Bot. 155--156 & [296]. 
1772; Ginanni, Isor, Civ. Nat. Pinet. Ravenn, 251. 1774; Planer, 
Gatt, (P£1..°23,, 577 &. 1075. 17753; Plencks,: Icon. Pls Meden6s saa 
510. 1778; Reichard in L., Gen. Pl., ed. 8, 327--328. 1778; All., 
Fl. Ped. 1:0124. 11783; Gaertn., Fruct, Sems 1: 269, pl. S67 72788; 
Sloane, Civil Nat. Hist. Jamaic., ed. 2, 267. 1789; Ucria, Hort. 
Reg. Panhorm. 266. 1789; Haenke in L., Gen. Pl., ed. 10 ["8"]. 2: 
556--557 & 810..17913 Schreber in L., Gen. Pl., ed. 9 ["8"], 22 427 
& 872. 1791; Russell, Nat. Hist. Aleppo, ed. 2, 2: 256. 1794; Gmel. 
in Le, Syst. Nate, ed. 13, 2: 963.°17965 W. Curtis, Bot, Mag.-1e 
pl. 364. 1797; Raeusch., Nom. Bot., ed. 3, 173, 178, 182, & 401; 
1797; Batsch, Tabl. Aff. Reg. Veg. 193. 1802; Balbis, Cat. Pl. Hort. 
Bot. Taur. 49. 1804; Desf., Tabl. Ecol. Bot., ed. 1, 53. 1804; 
Willd., Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 2: 660. 1809; Sibth. & Sm., Pl. Graec. 
Prod. 1: 441. 1809; Balbis, Cat. Stirp. Hort. Acad. Taur. 81. 1813; 
Desf., Tabl. Ecol. Bot., ed. 2, 64. 1815; Dierbach, Handb. Med, 
Pharm. Bot. 267, 461, & [463]. 1819; Poir. in Lam., Encycl,. Méth, 
Bot. 3: pl. 541, figs 2..1819; Jack, Malay. Misc. 1: 47.) 18203 Gime, 
Curtis Bot. Mag. 47: pl. 2187. 1820; Sims, Curtis Bot. Mag. 47: pl. 
2187, 1820; J. E. Sm., Gramm. Bot. 98 & 240. 1821; Steud., Nom. | 
Bot. Phan., eds 1,.199,; 288, “& 8885 L82ksPoir. in Laniy, ‘Eaeyels 
Méth. Bot. 4: 92. 1823; A. Rich., Bot. Méd. 1: 243. 1823; Dierbach, 
Arzneim, Hippok, 1824; Moon, Cat. Indig. Exot, Pl. Ceyl. 1: 46. 1824; 
A. Rich. [transl. G. Kunze], Med. Bot. 1: 382--383, 1824; Sabine, 
Trans, Hort. Soc. Lond. 5: 455. 1824; Spreng. in L., Syst. Vegs, ed. 
16, 2: 756--759 & 842. 1825; A. Rich. [transl. G. Kunze], Med. Bot. 
2: 1302. 1826; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 1: 323. 1826; Gussone, Fl. 
Sic. Prod. 2: 146--148 & 586. 1828; G. Don in Loud., Hort. Brit., 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 145 


ed. 1, 246. 1830; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 415--417. 1830; Bisch- 
off, Grundr. Med. Bot. 305. 1831; Tenore, Syllog. Fl. Nap. 86. 1831; 
Tenore, Syllog. Vasc. Pl. 298. 1831; Wall., Numer. List 86. 1831; 
Cham., Linnaea 7: 107--109 & 371--375. 1832; G. Don in Loud., Hort. 
Brit., ed. 2, 246. 1832; Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 550——551 & 770. 
1832; Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. 2 [Carey], 3: 69--75. 1832; Decne., Nouv. 
Ann, Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 3: 400--401. 1834; Mohl, Ann. Sci. Nat., 
per. 2, 329319.) 1635; A. Dietr., Handb. Pharmaceut. Bot., 113! & 443, 
1837; Endl., Gen. Pl. 635—-636. 1838; Harv., Gen. S. Afr. Pl., ed. 

1, 267 & 269--270. 1838; Loud., Arb. Fruct. Brit. 3: 1286. 1838; D. 
Dietr., Taschenb. Ausland. Arzneigew. 221 & 324. 1839; G. Don in 
loud; ))HortJ! Brits, ed..3, 246. 1839; J. Grah.j) Pls Bombs -155-—156. 
1839; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3, 550--551 & 768. 1839; Thwaites, E- 
num. Pl. Zeyl. 2: 244. 1839; Hook, & Arn., Bot. Beech, Voy. 265. 
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Vég. Phan. 9:226, 227, & 229--232. 1840; Hassk., Flora 25: Beibl. 

26. 1842; Bouchez, Nouv. Corses 95, 1843; Dieffenb., Trav. N. Zeal. 
1: 431. 1843; Gussone, Fl. Sic. Syn. 2: 1 & 109--110, 1844; Hassk., 
Cat. Phe Hort.: Bot. Bogor. Cult. Alt. 134—-136,. 1844; A.*DC.. in PP; 
DC., Prodr. 9: 245. 1845; Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calc. 464, 468--469, 

& 473. 1845; Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 4: 84--92. 1845; Sieb. & Zucc., 
Abh. Akad. Wiss. Miinch. 4 (3): 152. 1846; Schau., Linnaea 20: 483-- 
484. 1847; Schau. in A, DC., Prodr. 11: 218, 628, & 682--696. 1847; 
Wackernagel, Vocab. Optim. 49. 1847; Hook. f. & Benth. in Hook., 
Niger Fl. 486--487. 1849; Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst. 1: 545. 1849; Busse- 
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Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 240. 1852; Benth. in Hook., Journ. Bot. Kew Gard. 
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S.I.C.e S. 267. 1971; Aubréville in Eyre, World Veget. Types 46 & 

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& 20. 1972; R. Bailey, Good Housekeep. Ill. Encycl. Gard. 15: 2303 

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MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN 
THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) 


Carlyle A. Luer* 


Dracula leonum Luer, sp. nov. 


Inter species generis Draculae Luer sepalis albis in cupulam connatis in- 
tus breviter pubescentibus purpureo punctatis et labello albo bruneolo-suf- 
fuso cum epichilio ovato rotundato concavo trilamellato margine multidenti- 
culato distinguitur. 


Plant medium in size, epiphytic, caespitose; roots slender, flexuous. 
Secondary stems narrow, channeled, unifoliate, 2.56 cm long or longer, en- 
closed by 2 loose, tubular sheaths. Leaf erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly 
obovate-linear, 13 cm long, 1.5 cm wide (in an undersized specimen), the 
apex acute, tridenticulate, carinate dorsally along the midrib, gradually nar- 
rowed below to a conduplicate base. Inflorescence a congested, successively 
few-flowered raceme borne by a more or less horizontal, slender, sparsely 
bracted peduncle ca. 10 cm long from the base of a secondary stem; floral 
bract and pedicel each ca. 1 cm long, green; ovary 6 mm long, green, lightly 
verrucose; sepals glabrous and dull white externally with a few dull purple 
dots, white within with short white hairs tipped with purple and with numer- 
ous evenly spaced purple dots somewhat larger toward the bases, the dorsal 
sepal rhombic, 13 mm long, 13 mm wide, connate to the lateral sepals for 7 
mm to form a broad, sepaline cup, the free portion broadly triangular, the 
obtuse apex contracted into a slender tail 28 mm long, purple externally, 
yellowish white anteriorly, the lateral sepals connate 13 mm into a broad, 
rectangular synsepal 14 mm long, 21 mm wide spread out, the obtuse apices 
contracted into tails similar to that of the dorsal sepal; petals ivory marked 
with brownish purple, spatulate, 3 mm long, 1.75 mm wide, the apex round- 
ed, bivalvate, the inner lamina irregular, apiculate, papillose between the 
laminae, the base contracted, channeled, unguiculate; lip white suffused with 
light brown, obovate, 7.5 mm long, 4 mm wide, the hypochile 3.5 mm long, 
2.5 mm wide, with subacute, erect, marginal angles, cleft centrally, the con- 
cave base hinged to the column-foot, the epichile ovate, 4 mm long, 4 mm 
wide, the apex rounded, concave with erect, denticulate margins, trilamellate 
within; column stout, yellowish white, 3.5 mm long, with a thick foot equal- 
ly long. 

Erymo.tocy: Named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Lyon of Knoxville, 
Tenn., who submitted the plant to the Orchid Identification Center of the 
American Orchid Society at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, 
Florida for identification. 


Tyre: PERU: without locality or collector, purchased from an importing 
company, cultivated by Mr. & Mrs. C. Lyon 51, OIC-3040, flowered in 
cult. 27 June 1979, C. Luer 4070 (Hotortype: SEL). 


DistRIBUTION: Peru. 


Dracula leonum, the second species of Dracula to be discovered from 
Peru, is very similar to several others of the smaller-flowered species of the 


*The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 800 South Palm Ave., Sarasota, FL 33577, U.S.A. 


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genus, e.g. D. fuliginosa (Luer) Luer. Instead of forming a flat flower, the 
sepals are connate to produce a white cup, shortly pubescent within with 
multiple purple dots. The concave epichile of the lip contains three well- 
developed lamellae and the margins are conspicuously denticulate. 


Dracula rezekiana Luer & Hawley, sp. nov. 


Inter species generis Draculae Luer species haec floribus parvis, cupula 
sepalorum alba caudis brevibus rubris, labello obovato niveo epichilio obtuso 
lato non-limitato venis paucis percursato et hypochilio profunde et late 
fisso distinguitur. 

Plant small to medium in size, epiphytic, caespitose; roots slender, flex- 
uous. Secondary stems channeled, unifoliate, 2-3 cm long, enclosed by 2-3 
loose, tubular sheaths. Leaf erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, sub- 
petiolate, 7-14 cm long, 1.8-2.7 cm wide, the apex acute, tridenticulate, 
sharply carinate dorsally, gradually narrowed below into the conduplicate 
base. Inflorescence a successively few-flowered raceme borne by a more or 
less horizontal peduncle to 13 cm in length, sparsely bracted, from a node 
low on the secondary stem; floral bract tubular, 5 mm long; pedicel 10 mm 
long; ovary 5 mm long, verrucose, purple; sepals white, glabrous externally, 
densely pubescent within with a few red-purple dots toward the bases, the 
dorsal sepal rhombic, 11 mm long, 15 mm wide, connate to the synsepal for 
8 mm to form a cup, the free portion broadly triangular, the obtuse apex 
produced into an erect, red tail 27 mm long, the lateral sepals connate 11 
mm to form a rectangular synsepal 12 mm long, 22 mm wide spread out, 
shallowly concave below the lip, the apices subacute, contracted into red 
tails 25 mm long; petals thick, ivory marked with brown, oblong-spatulate, 
3.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, bivalvate at the apex, the inner lamina acute, the 
outer rounded, papillose between; lip white, obovate, 5.5 mm long, 3.5 mm 
wide, the hypochile without demarcation, ca. 2.56 mm long and broad, the 
basal margins erect, subacutely rounded, broadly and deeply cleft centrally 
between thick lamellae, the base concave, hinged to the column-foot, the 
epichile obtuse, ca. 3 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, shallowly concave, coursed by 
elevated branching veins on either side of the central carina; column greenish 
white, stout, semiterete, 3.5 mm long, with a thick foot. 


Etymo.Locy: Dedicated to Sra. Maria Friedrich de Rezek of Quito, Ecua- 
dor, for many years an ardent enthusiast of the local flora. 


Type: ECUADOR: without locality, purchased in 1975 from J. Brenner in 
Puyo by R. Hawley and R. Levi, cultivated in Mill Valley, California, 
flowered in cult. 30 July 1979, C. Luer 4080 (Hotoryper: SEL). 


DistrisuTiIon: Ecuador. 


I first saw this species in flower in cultivation by Joe Brenner in Puyo in 
1975, but the flower was already past and it looked like D. velutina (Rchb. 
f.) Luer. Finally, re-examination of a fresh flower reveals that D. rezekiana 
may be distinguished by the white sepaline cup, densely pubescent within, 
with short red tails. The white lip is obovate with a broad, obtuse, shallowly 
concave epichile narrowed gradually without demarcation into the deeply 
and broadly cleft hypochile. 


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Masdevallia invenusta Luer, sp. nov. 


Species haec M. delphinae Luer affinis sed sepalis intus glabris caudis 
purpureis crassioribus, petalis unidentatis et lobo antico labelli minore in- 
tegro notabilis. 


Plant small, epiphytic, caespitose, the rhizomes ascending; roots slen- 
der, flexuous. Secondary stems abbreviated, unifoliate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, en- 
closed by 1-2 close, thin, tubular sheaths. Leaf erect to suberect, coriaceous, 
narrowly obovate, 5-8 cm long, 11-14 mm wide, the subacute apex tridenti- 
culate, gradually narrowed below into a slender, sulcate petiole 2-3 cm long. 
Inflorescence an erect, loose, 3- to 4-flowered raceme borne by a slender 
peduncle 18-23 cm long including the rachis, with a bract on the lower third, 
from a node low on the secondary stem; floral bract 4 mm long; pedicel pur- 
ple, 4-5 mm long; ovary with purple dots, 1 mm long; sepals glabrous, light 
dull red-purple speckled with dark red-purple, the dorsal sepal oblong, con- 
cave, 8.5 mm long, 4 mm wide spread out, connate to the lateral sepals for 
5 mm to form a slightly curved sepaline tube, the lateral sepals connate for 
3.5 mm above the gibbous base into an oblong, bifid lamina 8.5 mm long, 4 
mm wide, the free portions of all 3 sepals produced into thick, red-purple, 
obtuse apices 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm thick; petals translucent white, oblong, 
2.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, the apex shortly acuminate, acute, with a low 
carina along the lower margin; lip red-purple, oblong, 3-lobed, 3.5 mm long, 
1.5 mm wide, arcuate, the anterior lobe rounded, entire, the lateral lobes 
above the middle, suberect, rounded, the base retuse, hinged to the column- 
foot; column red, semiterete, 3 mm long, the foot 2 mm long with a minute 
extension. 

EtrymMo.Locy: From the Latin invenustus, “not pretty,’ 
drab, little flowers. 

Type: ECUADOR: without locality, collected by B. Malo, cultivated by M. 
& O. Robledo at La Ceja, Colombia, flowered in cult. 12 Oct. 1977 C. 
Luer 1998 (Hotorype: SEL; Isorypr : JAUM). 


DistTRIBUTION: Ecuador. 


This little species is related to M. delphina, but differs in the glabrous 
sepaline tube with short, thick, dark purple “tails.”” The petals are acute, and 
the small anterior lobe of the lip is entire. 


? 


in allusion to the 


Masdevallia mezae Luer, sp. nov. 


Planta mediocris caespitosa, caulibus secundariis abbreviatis canalicu- 
latis, foliis erectis longis carnosis coriaceis anguste obovatis, pedunculo tri- 
quetro folio breviore, racemo paucifloro congesto bracteis imbricatis, sepalis 
albo-virescentibus intus minute verrucosis sepalis lateralibus rubro-punctatis 
in tubum brevem connatis, caudis sepalorum gracilibus divergentibus, petalis 
oblongis callo longitudinali, labello rubro-punctato ligulato ad medium bi- 
carinato apice rotundato callo humili central. 


Plant medium in size, epiphytic, caespitose; roots slender, flexuous. 
Secondary stems erect, stout, channeled, unifoliate, 3-6.5 cm long, enclosed 
below by 2 loose, tubular sheaths. Leaf erect, fleshy-coriaceous, narrowly 
obovate, 9-20 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, the apex subacute to obtuse, tn- 
denticulate, gradually narrowed below into the sulcate petiole. Inflorescence 


1979 Luer, Miscellaneous new species 


a congested, untidy raceme of 3-6 flowers, 2-3 produced simultaneously, at 
the apex of the erect, triquetrous peduncle 13-18 cm long, with a basal 
sheath, from a node low on the secondary stem; floral bracts brown,ribbed, 
imbricating, 1-2 cm long; pedicel 1.5-2.5 cm long; ovary green, 4 mm long; 
dorsal sepal pale green, obovate, 8 mm long, 5 mm wide, connate to the 
lateral sepals for 5 mm to form a short, cylindrical tube, the free portion 
triangular, minutely verrucose within, the apex acuminate into a slender, 
suberect, orange tail ca. 3.5 cm long; lateral sepals pale green, minutely 
verrucose with transverse red dashes within, oblong, each 12 mm long, 5-6 
mm wide, connate for 6 mm, the apices acuminate into diverging tails 
similar to that of the dorsal sepal; petals white, oblong, 5.5 mm long, 1.5 
mm wide, the subacute apex minutely irregular, slightly dilated above the 
base, with a thick, low, rounded callus above the base on the labellar half 
and extending toward the apex as a smooth, longitudinal thickening; lip 
yellowish with purple dots, oblong-ligulate, 6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, the 
apex rounded, minutely irregular, with a low, rounded callus in the center, 
with a pair of low, oblique marginal carinae near the middle, the base trun- 
cate, hinged beneath; column yellow-white suffused with rose, semiterete, 5 
mm long, the foot 2.5 mm long with a short extension. 


Erymo.tocy: Named in honor of Sr. Jorge B. Meza y Torres of Lima, 
Peru, who discovered this species. 


Type: PERU: Amazonas: epiphytic between Chachapoyas and Pomacochas, 
alt. 2000 m, Nov. 1974, J. Meza s.n., cultivated by J & L Orchids, Easton, 
Ct., flowered in cult. 8 Nov. 1977, C. Luer 2126 (Hotorype: SEL). 


DiIstTRIBUTION: Peru. 


This species is similar to M. cinnamomea Rchb. f., but M. mezae may be 
identified by the larger leaves that stand higher than the triquetrous pedun- 
cle. Instead of cinnamon-colored, the flowers are pale green with orange 
tails, and the apex of the lip is rounded with a low, central callus. 


Masdevallia picea Luer, sp. nov. 


Species haec M. angulatae Rchb. f. persimilis sed flore atropurpureo 
guttato caudis sepalorum fere piceis, petalis apicibus rotundatis et basi 
labelli sine lacunis differt. 


Plant robust, medium-sized to large, epiphytic, caespitose; roots coarse, 
flexuous. Secondary stems stout, channeled, 4-8.5 cm long, unifoliate, en- 
closed by 3 large, loose, tubular sheaths. Leaf erect, thickly coriaceous, 
narrowly elliptical, subpetiolate, 10-18 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, the obtuse 
to rounded apex tridenticulate, gradually narrowed toward the base into an 
indistinct, short, channeled petiole. Inflorescence a large, fleshy, foul-smell- 
ing, solitary flower bome by a stout, suberect, purple-dotted peduncle 1.5-3 
cm long, from a node low on the secondary stem; floral bract 1-2 cm long, 
flecked with purple; pedicel stout, 2.5-3 cm long, flecked with purple; ovary 
green, 5-8 mm long; sepals thick, fleshy, rigid, green toward the bases, be- 
coming increasingly spotted with dark purple that coalesces toward the 
purple-black apices and tails, shining and glabrous externally, verrucose with- 
in, connate about 15 mm into a thick, sepaline tube with a broad, rounded 
mentum below, the dorsal sepal obovate, 26 mm long, 16 mm wide, the free 


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portion triangular, the subacute apex contracted into an erect to recurving 
tail 25-28 mm long, the lateral sepals obliquely obovate, similar to the dorsal 
sepal including the reflexed tails, connate to above the middle; petals ivory, 
lightly marked with red-purple, oblong, 12 mm long, 5 mm wide, rounded at 
the apex, thickened to either side of the sulcate center above the middle, the 
lower half greater than the upper half; lip white, marked with red-purple, 
cartilaginous, oblong-ligulate, 15 mm long, 7 mm wide, papillose at the 
rounded apex, the disc with a pair of low, parallel calli above the middle, the 
base subcordate, hinged to the column-foot; column greenish white, stout, 
10 mm long with a foot 8 mm long terminated by an incurved extension. 


Erymotocy: From the Latin piceus, “‘pitch-black,” alluding to the pur- 
ple-black color of the apices of the sepals and their tails. 


Tyre: PERU. without locality, exported by R. Stumpfle of Lima, Peru, 
cultivated at La Ceja, Colombia by M. & O. Robledo, flowered in cult. 29 
Sept. 1977, C. Luer 1865 (Hototyre: SEL; Isorype: JAUM); cultiva- 
ted by Black River Orchids, Mich., flowered in cult. 8 Nov. 1977, C. Luer 
2124 (SEL). 


DistrispuTion: Peru. 


This large, foul-smelling, black-flowered species is very similar to the 
Ecuadorian M. angulata Rchb. f., but the apices of the petals of the Peruvian 
M. picea are rounded and the lip lacks the well-formed ‘‘nectiferous” con- 
cavities at the base. 


Masdevallia scabrilinguis Luer, sp. nov. 


A Masdevallia attenuata Rchb. f. floribus nimoribus glabris et labello 
verrucoso differt. 


Plant small, epiphytic, caespitose; roots slender, flexuous. Secondary 
stems abbreviated, unifoliate, 1-1.5 cm long, enclosed by 2 close, thin, rib- 
bed, tubular sheaths. Leaf erect to suberect, coraiceous, narrowly obovate, 
6-10 cm long, 9-12 mm wide, the apex subacute, tridenticulate, gradually 
narrowed below into an ill-defined, sulcate petiole between 0.5-1.5 cm long. 
Inflorescence a solitary, small flower borne by an erect to suberect, slender, 
terete peduncle 4-8 cm long, with a bract on the lower portion, from a node 
low on the secondary stem; floral bract tubular, 5 mm long; pedicel 9 mm 
long; ovary 4 mm long, smooth, green; sepals white, glabrous (microscopic- 
ally cellular-glandular within), the dorsal sepal obovate-oblong, 19-21 mm 
long, 4 mm wide, connate to the lateral sepals for 6 mm to form a cylindrical 
tube, the free portion triangular, acuminate into a suberect, slender, yellow 
tail 9-11 mm long, the lateral sepals obovate-oblong, 18 mm long, 4 mm 
wide, connate 6 mm into a bifid lamina, the free portions ovate, the apices 
contracted into tails 8-9 mm long, similar to that of the dorsal sepal; petals 
white, oblong, 5 mm long, 2 mm wide, green at the subacute apex, slightly 
thickened along the labellar margin, ending in an obtuse angle above the 
base; lip yellow-white, oblong-ligulate, 5 mm long, 2.1 mm wide, the disc 
with a pair of verrucose, converging calli above the middle, broadly sulcate 
centrally, the apical half markedly verrucose including the rounded, yellow 
apex; column greenish white, semiterete, 4 mm long, the short foot 1 mm 
long with a minute extension. 


1979 Luer, Miscellaneous new species 


Etrymo.Locy: From the Latin scaber, “rough,” and -linguis, “-tongued,” 
referring to the verrucose lip. 

Type: PANAMA: Cuirieur: Cerro Gordo, collected by R. L. Dressler s.n., 
1977, cultivated at SEL, greenhouse acc. no. 77-1707, flowered in cult. 6 
March 1978, C. Luer 2788 (Hotortyre: SEL). 


DisTRIBUTION: Western Panama. 


The small species is similar to M. attenuata, but differs in the smaller 
flowers glabrous within, and a lip markedly verrucose above the middle. 


Masdevallia utriculata Luer, sp. nov. 


Planta parva caespitosa, caulibus secundariis abbreviatis, foliis anguste 
oblongis breviter petiolatis, pedunculo tereti brevi, flore successivo carnoso 
luteo intus rubro verrucoso, sepalis in tubum cylindricum connatis, cauda 
sepali dorsalis erecta clavata compressa, sepalis lateralibus late expansis 
ecaudatis, petalis oblongis bicarinatis, labello oblongo apice rotundato sub- 
verrucoso basi bi-utriculato, disco supra medium cum carinis humilibus semi- 
circularibus. 


Plant small, epiphytic, caespitose; roots coarse, flexuous. Secondary 
stems terete, unifoliate, ca. 1 cm long, enclosed by 2 tubular sheaths. Leaf 
erect, coriaceous, narrowly oblong-obovate, shortly petiolate, 6-8.5 cm long 
including the 1-1.5 cm long petiole, 1.2-1.5 cm wide, the apex subacute, tri- 
denticulate, cuneate below into the petiole. Inflorescence a contracted, few- 
flowered raceme of successive, rigidly fleshy flowers borne by a stout, sub- 
erect to horizontal, terete peduncle 1.5-2 cm long, with a bract near the 
base, from a node low on the secondary stem; floral bract 4 mm long, pedi- 
cel 7 mm long; ovary subverrucose, 3-4 mm long; dorsal sepal yellow, rec- 
tangular, 8 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, connate to the lateral sepals for 5 mm to 
form a cylindrical tube, the free portion broadly triangular, the obtuse apex 
produced into an erect, recurved, clavate, laterally compressed tail ca. 11 
mm long; lateral sepals pale yellow, studded with multiple, red excrescences 
within, connate 15 mm into an ovate, coarsely verrucose, expanded, bifid 
lamina above the cylindrical basal portion with a broadly rounded mentum 
at the base, the apices, tnangular, acute, free for 5-6 mm, the total length 20 
mm, the width 15 mm spread out; petals oblong, 5.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, 
the apex broad, bifid, with a longitudinal carina along both margins, the 
upper overhanging at the apex; lip yellow, intensely marked with red-purple, 
oblong-obovate, 6.5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, the apex rounded, subverru- 
cose, the base bilobed, each lobe deeply saccate, the disc with a pair of low, 
semicircular folds above the middle; column semiterete, 5 mm long, the foot 
equally long with an incurved extension. 


EtrymoLocy: From the Latin utriculatus, ‘“‘with small bladders,” (uter, 
utris, “‘bag, or bladder’’), referring to the configuration of the base of the 
lip. 

Type:PANAMA:Cuiriqui: epiphytic in cloud foreston Cerro Pate Macho, 
alt. ca. 2200 m, 27 Feb. 1979, R. L. Dressler & J. Kuhn s.n. (Houotyre: 
SEL). Illustration C. Luer 4073. 


DiIsTRIBUTION: Western Panama. 


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Only a few plants of this species were discovered by Dr.Robert L. 
Dressler on a recent field trip with Janet Kuhn. The fleshy flower is borne 
from a short, horizontal peduncle. From the cylindrical sepaline tube, the 
red-verrucose lateral sepals expand broadly and end in a bifid, tailless lamina. 
The erect tail of the dorsal sepal is clavate. The lip is remarkable in the deep- 
ly saccate development of the pair of “‘nectaries”’ at the base. 


Pleurothallis masdevalliopsis Luer, sp. nov. 


Herba parva dense caespitosa, caulibus secundariis abbreviatis, foliis 
carnosis linearibus semiteretibus, flore grandi albovirescenti solitario, pedun- 
culo brevi, ovario multicristato, sepalo dorsali libro ovato caudato, sepalis 
lateralibus anguste ovatis caudatis, petalis membranaceis orbicularibus, 
labello obovato trilobato, lobo antico suborbiculari deflexo verrucoso lacer- 
ato, lobis lateralibus parvis erectis, disco bicalloso, basi concavo pedem 
columnae elongatum continenti. 


Plant small, epiphytic, caespitose; roots fine, flexuous. Secondary stems 
terete, abbreviated, 5-10 mm long, unifoliate, concealed by 2-3 basal, tubular 
sheaths. Leaf suberect, thickly coriaceous, semiterete, linear to very narrow- 
ly obovate, 3-5 cm long, 4-5 mm wide, the apex obtuse, tridenticulate, 
gradually cuneate at the base. Inflorescence a proportionately large, greenish 
white, solitary flower borne by a suberect, slender peduncle 15-20 mm long, 
from a node on the secondary stem; floral bract thin, 5 mm long; pedicel 
18-20 mm long; ovary 4 mm long with 12 irregular, undulating crests; dor- 
sal sepal ovate, concave, the apex acuminate into a slender, erect tail, 35 mm 
long including the tail, 8 mm wide, connate basally to the lateral sepals for 1 
mm; lateral sepals connate 4 mm, narrowly ovate, the apices attenuated into 
slender tails, 38 mm long, 8 mm wide together; petals translucent yellowish 
white, membranous, suborbicular, 6.5 mm long, 5 mm wide; lip yellow- 
green, white toward the base, obovate, 5 mm long, 2.75 mm wide, 3-lobed, 
the anterior lobe deflexed, suborbicular, verrucose, minutely lacerate, the 
lateral lobes below the middle, small, erect, obtuse, the disc with a pair of 
flat calli below the middle, cleft between, the base concave, attached to the 
under surface of the column-foot; column white, stout, 1.5 mm long, witha 
pair of narrow wings, the foot incurved, narrow, elongated, 2 mm long. 


Erymotocy: Named for the resemblance of the species to the genus 
Masdevallia. 


Type:ECUADOR: Lousa: epiphytic in cloud forest in the Cordillera de 
Sabanilla, alt. ca. 2500 m, B. Malo, s.n., cultivated near Cuenca, flowered 
in cult. 12 Feb. 1979, C. Luer 3965 (Hotoryre. SEL). 


DistrisuTION : Southern Ecuador. 


This species appears deceptively similar to a species of Masdevallia Ruiz 
& Pav., and it was believed to belong to that genus until the flowers were 
closely examined. The sepals of the solitary, large, greenish white flowers are 
long-candate, but the membranous petals are round without any callus or 
other thickening. The base of the lip is concave to accomodate the slender, 
incurved prolongation of the column-foot. 


——————— 


L979 Luer, Miscellaneous new species 


Pleurothallis stonei Luer, sp. nov. 


Species haec P. lappiformis Heller & L. O. Wms. affinis sed sepalo dor- 
sali libro elliptico, petalis claviformibus rugosis, lobis lateralibus labelli 
anguste uncinatis et lobo antico rugoso notabilis. 


Plant medium in size, epiphytic, shortly repent, the rhizome stout, 1-3 
cm long between secondary stems, sheathed at short internodes, rooting at 
the nodes; secondary stems stout, erect, terete, 3-9 cm long, unifoliate, en- 
closed by 3-4 large, loose, tubular, imbricating sheaths, soon fragmented. 
Leaf erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, 7-15 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, the 
acute apex tridenticulate, the base cuneate, conduplicate. Inflorescence a 
solitary flower produced from a lower node of the secondary stem or from 
the axil with the rhizome; peduncle ca. 1 cm long, with 2 nbbed sheaths; 
floral bract ca. 1 cm long, ribbed; pedicel 8-9 mm long, pubescent; ovary 34 
mm long, densely villous; sepals fleshy, dark red-purple, covered externally 
by thick, white hairs from wart-like bases, covered by tall, lamellate tuber- 
cles within, the dorsal sepal elliptical, 20 mm long, 8 mm wide, the subacute 
apex free, the lateral sepals connate into a concave, obtuse synsepal, 22 mm 
long, 12 mm wide unspread; petals purple, oblong, clavellate, 11 mm long, 4 
mm wide, the rounded apical portion transversely rugose; lip red-purple, 
fleshy, oblong, 9 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, the rounded apex rugose, with for- 
wardly projecting, narrowly uncinate, marginal lobes below the middle, the 
truncate base broadly and inflexibly attached to the column-foot, the disc 
with a smooth, transverse callus just above the base and a parallel pair of 
high, smooth, rounded calli near the middle; column dark red, terete, 6 mm 
long, with a thick foot 3 mm long. 


Erymotocy: Named in honor of Richard L. Stone of Los Altos Hills, 
California, who discovered this species. 


Type: COSTA RICA: San Jose: epiphytic in cloud forest southeast of 
San Jose, cultivated in California, flowered in cult. 3 March 1978, sub- 
mitted to the OIC, no. 2022, C. Luer 2781 (Houotype : SEL). 


DistTrRiBuTIon : Costa Rica. 


This rare species is closely allied to Pleurothallis lappiformis from which 
it is indistinguishable vegetatively. Single, dark-red, densely pubescent 
flowers are borne by short peduncles from the rhizome or low on the 
secondary stem. The flowers of P. stonei may be distinguishable by the 
broader dorsal sepal the apex of which is free from the synsepal, the clavel- 
late, rugose petals, and the narrowly uncinate lateral lobes of the lip. 


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"LICHEN ECOLOGY" edited by Mark R. D. Seaward, x & 550 pp., 24 b/w 
fig., 58 tab., 13 maps & 21 photo. Academic Press Ltd., New 
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"This [outstanding] book essays a compilation of current knowl- 
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The last paper is by the only American author, William A, Weber, 
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non-transmissible environmental modifications. "Must the lichenolo- 
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as worthy of formal taxonomic rank, or maybe attribute some of this 
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some genera, such as Aspilicia, Staurothele, Verrucaria and Acaro- 
spora, the pyramid of names based on what I interpret as environ- 
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One appendix provides a selected glossary and the other "A Bibli- 
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quote that "Lists of records that cannot be verified are mere waste 
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"ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY" by E. C. Pielou, viii & 164 pp., 21 b/w fig. 
& 12 tab. A Wiley Interscience Publication of John Wiley & 
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In the introduction the author, who is highly competent as both a 
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"ATLAS OF UNITED STATES TREES - Volume 2 - Alaska Trees and Common 
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pp., 28 general & 82 distribution map plates. United States 
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These well detailed, large page maps indicate the native distri- 
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"ATLAS OF UNITED STATES TREES - Volume 3 - Minor Western Hardwoods" 
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"TREES AND SHRUBS OF THE UNITED STATES -- A Bibliography for Iden- 
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"FLORA OF BUCK ISLAND REEF NATIONAL MONUMENT (U. S. Virgin Islands) 
by Roy O. Woodbury & Elbert L. Little, Jr. U. S. Forest Ser- 
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records 646 references for 643 additional genera, The genera are lis- 
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graphic references including mentioned electron and optical micro- 
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CONTENTS 
ZANDER, R. H., Notes on Barbula and Pseudocrossidium (Bryopsida) 

in North America and an annotated key to the taxa....... 177 
MOLDENKE, H. N., Notes on new and noteworthy plants. CXXIX..... 215 
Be VENKE, H. N., Additional notes on the genus Vitex. XIJ........ 216 

‘SMIT H, L. B., and WASSHAUSEN, D. C., Begonia of Ecuador........ 233 
ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). XVIII. A new 

. REMUS TCU RRO DSID 2 FEN ead uh wie a ae etal A ae 257 
ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). XIX. Four 
: new ‘species. of: Calea. from Brazil * 3.0). ORs Le ee 270 
pone H., Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). XX. Notes 

and new species in CG ubadtine: 2 Oe oS eke oe ek 280 
ROBINSON, H., New species of Vernonieae (Asteraceae). II. Five new 
3 species oF Vernonia from Banid = 02 Us aise suc i ee 287 
ROBINSON, H., New species of Vernonieae (Asteraceae). III. Additions 

to Piptocorvha ERD eT a MeoMbE PERE A Mme MMe oe OUR Na fit 2 300 
NIEZGODA, C. J., & NEVLING, L. I., Jr., The correct generic placement 

of Albi izia carbonaria Briton beg ehaiie boat! gushed cine 0) rah Sere Bal Dara 307 
WEBER, W. A., & HARTMAN, R., Pseudostellaria jamesiana, comb. nov., 

A North American Saphasentatiue of a Eurasian genus ...... 313 
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Ni yv YORK 
roNICAL CARNEANI 


NOTES ON BARBULA AND PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM (BRYOPSIDA) 
IN NORTH AMERICA AND AN ANNOTATED KEY TO THE TAXA 


Richard H. Zander 


Clinton Herbarium, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo NY 1,211 


This preliminary study of Barbula s. lato was prepared in the 
course of work on taxa of Pottiaceae for the proposed moss floras of 
Mexico (ed. A.J. Sharp) and of Arctic North America (ed. W.C. Steere, 
G.S. Mogensen & R.R. Ireland). It is a synthetic treatment based on 
representative specimens from a wide geographic area and is offered 
as an alternative to the usual floristic evaluation of species based 
only on regional collections. In adopting a broader species concept 
in this and in recent work (Zander, 1977, 1978a, 1978), I feel that 
the taxa recognized have gained in biological meaningfulness. 
Nomenclatural designations for some extreme expressions, permutations 
of character states, and geographic variants have been lost. But 
these morphs, in any case, cannot be dealt with by type methodology 
and the principle of priority, because of lack of clear discontinu- 
ities, and must be designated, if at all, by informal names. Gained, 
hopefully, is a sense of proportion in the recognition of patterns 
of variation, within and between taxa, that are often interpretable 
as evolutionary trends or adaptations; the realization that many 
genera and species of Pottiaceae are widely distributed in the world 
in, geographic patterns often correlating with certain climates or 
topographic features; and, the practical value of being able to use 
good technical characters to fairly easily name distinguishable 
entities in a moss family whose taxonomy has long been reputed to be 
"cursed" and "difficult and nasty" (Anon., pers. comm.). It is often 
said that overly broad species concepts are more difficult to 
correct, at a later time, than overly narrow concepts. However, 
this is a simplistic view in that most of the effort of present-day 
revisionary work is in making sense of the overly analytical results 
of past one-character or regional taxonomy. Such difficultities are 
discussed as length by Best (1905) who invoked a kind of botanical 
Manichaeism in early rebellion against atomistic taxonomic attitudes 
similar to those espoused by Grout (1938a). 


"Andro—" and "gynogametophyte" are terms used here instead of 
"male" and "female plant" because the former terms ought to be used 
to distinguish sexually differentiated gametophytes (dioicy) while 
the latter terms refer to sexual differentiation of sporophytes 
(dioecy). Sporophytes of mosses are always sexless, but the gameto- 
phytes may be dioicous or monoicous. Sporophytes of seed-bearing 
plants may be monoecious or dioecious, but the gametophytes are 
always dioicous. Dioicy and monoicy are associated with homospory 
and the production of gynandrogametophytes, or of both andro- and 
gynogametophytes, from the same sporangium, but dioecy and monoecy 
are associated with heterospory 55 a production of andro- and 


178 PaY T 0.4.0 G4374 Vol. 44, No. 4 


gynogametophytes from different sporangia. Although I consider 
the substitution of the terms "phyllidium" and "caulidium" for the 
moss "leaf" and "stem," respectively, to be an unnecessary nicety 
that does not reflect major genetic differences, the above sexual 
distinctions are of evolutionary importance and should not be 
confused or minimized by false homology. 


In a study of the very closely related genus Didymodon 
(Zander, 1978a), I supported the use of Saito's (1975) distinctions 
between Didymodon and Barbula, which are based largely on gameto- 
phyte characters. These were presented in a table. The North 
American representation of species previously recognized in Barbula 
are here placed in two genera and included in the same key to 
facilitate identification. 


KEY TO PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM AND SUBGENERA AND SECTIONS OF 
BARBULA IN NORTH AMERICA 


1. Upper leaf margins broadly revolute to spiral-revolute, with cells 
often more strongly chlorophyllose than medial leaf cells; 
abaxial stereid band of costa usually strong but adaxial band 
weak or commonly absent; costa usually excurrent as a stout 
mucro or short awn.......... Pseudocrossidium Williams 


1. Upper leaf margins narrowly recurved to plane, with cell 
chlorophyll content equal to that of medial cells; both stereid 
bands usually clearly differentiated, the adaxial usually 
present though occasionally weak or absent; costa ending below 
leaf apex, percurrent or excurrent aS 4 MUCTOccccecceeceesere Ze 


2. Leaves spathulate, costa excurrent as a sharp mucro, laminal 
cells smooth, adaxially bulging and abaxially nearly plane, 
ANNULUS LEVOlUDLE. cccccccccccccccccccscescccsesvsccccces : 
eeeeeeee Barbula subg. Hyophiladelphus (C. Mull.) Zander 


2. Leaves lanceolate to ligulate or ovate, costa subpercurrent 
to excurrent, laminal cells papillose to nearly smooth, 
either similar on both sides of leaf or more strongly 
convex adaxially than abaxially but then costa percurrent, 
ANNULUS persistenteccccccccccccccccvccsccccesscccseccese J 


3. Leaves flaccid when wet, upper laminal cells rectangular, 
usually epapillose, often adaxially more convex than abaxially... 
secscoeceeeee Barbula sect. Hydrogonium (C. Mull.) K. Saito 


3. Leaves firm when wet, upper laminal cells quadrate, papillose, 
both exposed surfaceS Similar..cccccccccccccccccccccccccccces He 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 179 


4. Upper leaf margins usually recurved, propagula (when 
present) small, of 1-10(15) cells; perichaetial leaves 
seldom strongly differentiated, with cells mostly paren- 
ChymatouS..ececeeeeeeee Barbula Hedw. sect. Barbula 


lL. Upper leaf margins plane, propagula (when present) often 
large, of 4-50 or more cells; perichaetial leaves oft~@m 
convolute-sheathing, with cells highly prosenchymatous..... 
ecccsccceccecesccecevcecse Barbula sect. Convolutae B.S.G. 


KEY TO SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF BARBULA AND PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM 
IN NORTH AMERICA 


1. Leaves spathulate; upper laminal cells adaxially bulging and 
abaxially flat, epapillose; costa sharply excurrent; annulus 
revoluble; U.S.A. (Gulf Coast states), Mexico... .cccccccscccccess 
eccccccecrcccccccccccccoseces Ll. Be agraria Hedw. 


1. Leaves lanceolate to ligulate or ovate; upper laminal cells 
superficially similar on both sides of leaf, or adaxially more 
strongly convex than abaxially but then costa percurrent, usually 
papillose, seldom smooth or nearly so; costa ending variously; 
STMTLIUS PETSISE Eco cccsccsiccccdccccvcsscccccssscesesssscesese Le 


2. Upper laminal cells often lax, quadrate to rectangular, 
usually not or weakly papillose, leaves rather flaccid 


when WEG a co tne bu be 6 eho d Ob 08h ES 686s cde SUSU AaOMENN EE Tee a 


2. Upper laminal cells firm, quadrate, usually distinctly 
papillose, leaves usually firm when Wet.ccccccccccccccee de 


3. Leaves ovate-lanceolate margins usually plane, laminal cells 
11-15 ym wide, 1(-2):1; U.S.A. (southcentral and southwestern 
states), Mexico........ 9. B. ehrenbergii (Lor. ) Fleisch. 


3. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to long-triangular, margins narrowly 
recurved to near apex, laminal cells 8-12 pm wide, 1-2:1; 
MEELEOvesoretececscwees 10. B. arcuata Griff. 


L. Abaxial costa surface doubly prorulose (i.e. with both ends 
of rectangular superficial cells protruding) near apex, 
often with coarsely mamillose or very rough appearance; leaf 
base not sheathing; Canada (Alberta), U.S.A. (southeastern 
ami ‘Southwestern states); Mexicos sis. scscsdecceccccceacsecss 
pescdesahseanecees De Bd Stereos (aun. ) puree. 


4. Abaxial costa surface with hollow or solid papillae or 
epapillose, seldom distinctly prorulose near apex (but 
then leaf base is strongly sheathing), leaf base occa~ 
SAGneLAY SUSSLIUNE, tasrradnceedseus sca ectstouneneeessue De 


180 P BODE OrL. OG Fh Vol. 44, No. 4 


5. Leaf apex acute to somewhat blunt, margins plane or weakly 
recurved RELOM, bs bob cwbind bs ade Sol wacom & weal dam Cele 6. 


5. Leaf apex rounded, margins plane to revolute (apex occasionally 
acute but then margins recurved above midleaf)...ccscccccccee Se 


6. Costa stoutly short-excurrent, leaf base sheathing; 
propagula usually present, axillary; Canada (Northwest 
Territories), U.S.A. (Alaska, Arizona). .cesvessege senna 
scccccccsccccccssosos Of Be amplexifolia (Mitt.) Jaege 


6. Costa 1-6 cells subpercurrent, leaf apex entire or 
occasionally apiculate by a clear or weakly papillose 
conical cell, leaf base not sheathing; propagula often 
present, borne on baSal rhizoidS.cccccccccccvesccccccsse fe 


7. Perichaetial leaves acute to abruptly subulate, loosely sheathing; 
western Canada, western U.S.A. south to Texas.. se eeeceeececececs 
e@eseeeeceoeeeeveoeaeweeeaeveeeve ee eee 8. B. eustegia Card. & Ther. 


7. Perichaetial leaves obtuse to broadly acute, convolute- 
sheathing; Canada, UeSeAc, MEXICO. so 0 0nbeseeee 600040n 5knn eee 
@eeeeeeaeeoeea eevee eee eeeeeve8 Tae B. convoluta Hedw. var. convoluta 


8. Leaves PEG CON o 2 s'6 60 0 6 ose METAS s Che 00h be02 kkk eee 9. 
8. Leaves apiculate, mucronate, Or aWNned.cccccccccccccccee 12. 


9. Leaf margins plane or recurved to midleaf, propagula 
WAL Ce LA ol <6 tebe bhde 466 60d Oe kan Owes heeonn hs 60 nee 1, 


9. Leaf margins recurved to near apex, propagula unicellular... ll. 


10. Propagula borne on basal rhizoids, leaves ligulate to oval, 
costa usually subpercurrent by 4-8 cells; Canada, U.S.A.. 
Mexico..esceeceees 7ae Be convoluta Hedw. var. convoluta pep. 


10. Propagula borne in upper leaf axils, leaves oval, costa 
subpercurrent by 2-4 cells; Canada (Northwest Territories), 
U.S.A. (Alaska).. 7b. B. convoluta var. gallinula Zander 


ll. Leaves ovate, marginal cells not differentiated as a border; 
propagula common, yellow-brown, borne in axillary masses; U.S.A. 
(North Carolina), Mexico..... 4. B. inaequalifolia Tayl. 


11. Leaves ligulate, marginal cells often thick-walled in 2-3 rows; 
propegula uncommon, red-brown, few in leaf axils; MeXLCO.seeeee 
@eeeeeveeev eevee eevee ee eee eee eae eeeneeseeaened Se B. calcarea Ther. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 181 


12. Leaves short-armed; U.S.A. (southwestern states), 
Mexico..e.eeeeees Ly. P. aureum (Bartr.) Zander 


12, -beaves apie a.6..oF MICTOnAL Rs n.s s00<cncleinwm dais anlide wae, Los 


13. Leaf margins plane or weakly recurved below midleaf; Canada, 
U.S.A-, Mexico... 7a. Be convoluta Hedw. var. convoluta p.p. 


13. Leaf margins recurved to spiral-revolute, usually to near 


APCKeeccvccccscssccvvcssescesssesesesesessssessecsssseseesees Ae 


li. Costa with adaxial stereid band distinct; leaf margins 
narrowly recurved, marginal cells not differentiated... 15. 


ly. Costa usually lacking adaxial stereid band; leaf margins 
broadly recurved to spiral-revolute, cells often weakly 
papillose on exposed portions of margins, and thin-walled, 
highly chlorophyllose within the spiralled portion.... 16. 


15. Leaf apex obtuse to broadly acute, margins recurved in lower 
1)2-0/35 propagula apparently not produced in nature; Canada, 
U. Ba hs b | Mexico. eeeeveeene a. B. ungui culata Hedw. 


15. Leaf apex abruptly rounded to emarginate, margins recurved 
to near apex; propagula spherical, in leaf axils; Mexico....... 
@eeeeeoeve eee eee eee e ee een e29 Ze B. orizabensis Gc. Moll. 


16. Leaf margins strongly recurved to once (seldom more) 
revolute, propagula occasionally present on adaxial 
surface of costa, inner perichaetial leaves convolute- 
sheathing; Canada (British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest 
ferritories),,UsS A. (Oregon, California) «sccuspemenepee ss 
segpe cévesnases d2> Pp. revolutum (Brad. in Scheel. J ;eauder 


16. Leaf margins strongly spiral-revolute, propagula absent, 
inner perichaetial leaves not or little differentiated; 
i. Sed, -(soubhwesteri States), Mexico... jassaccuve meus evden 
p anv aeS rae ohiaie wet 1300 Pe. replieatum.(Tayl.). ander 


182 PHYTOL Oe DA Vol. 44, No. 4 


BARBULA Hedw., Spec. Musc. 115. 1801, nom. cons. 


Type species: Barbula unguiculata Hedw. (lectotype 
fide Steere, 1938). 


The genus Barbula is commonly distinguished from Tortula 
Hedw. by the presence of two stereid bands in its costa rather than 
only one. However, the adaxial stereid band is often absent in 
certain species of Barbula. In such cases, the presence of a 
differentiated epidermis of large-lumened or at least larger-sized 
cells on the abaxial surface of the costa will distinguish Barbula 
species. Such an epidermis is not or is only poorly differentiated 
in Tortula. The North American taxa of Barbula are distinctive and 
fairly easy to identify by diagnostic characters, although some of 
the species are polymorphic. 


BARBULA Hedw. sect. BARBULA 


Synonyms: Barbula sect. Unguiculatae B.S.G., Bryol. bur. 
2: 80. 1842 (fasc. 13-15 Mon. 18) (nom. illeg. incl. 
typ. gen.). — Barbula sect. Eubarbula C. Mill., Syn. 
Musc. 1: 623. 1849 (nom. illeg.). — Barbula sect. 
Senophyllum C. Mill., Syn. Musc. 1: 606. 1849 (nom. illeg. 
incl. typ. gen.). —- Barbula sect. Helicopogon (Mitt. ) 
Chen, Hedwigia 80: 215. 1941 (nom. illeg. incl. typ. gen.). 


Additional synonymy is given by van der Wijk, et al. (1959- 
1969). 


Sect. Barbula is characterized by firm leaves; upper leaf 
margins generally narrowly recurved, occasionally plane; laminal 
cells papillose; perichaetial leaves seldom strongly differentiated; 
and, propagula (when present) small, each composed of 1-10(15) 
cells. 


1. Barbula unguiculata Hedw., Spec. Musc. 118. 1801. 


=——— — bh 
=e Se SES OS SE SE ES SS 


sain 3) given by Podp&ra (1954), Saito (1975) and Steere 
1938). 


This well-known, common species of ruderal habitats is described 
and illustrated by most authors of moss identification manuals for 
temperate zone areas. Barbula umguiculata fo. pro osa Crum is a 
synonym of B. indica, q.v. I agree with Cardot TiBs5) and subsequent 
authors that Barbula stricta Hedw., Spec. Musc. 119, 1801 (type: 
U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Muehlenberg s.n., G—holotype) is a synonym of 


Be unguiculata. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 183 


This species is readily distinguished from the similar 
B. indica by the usually stoutly mucronate costa, which has 
scattered simple papillae abaxially above midleaf, and the leaf 
margins more strongly recurved. Barbula unguiculata is rare in 
Mexico, apparently replaced by the closely related B. orizabensis. 


Propagula have never been observed in herbarium collections 
of Be unguiculata, although occasional swollen ends of rhizoids 
("galls" fide Whitehouse, 1973) may mimic rhizoidal propagula 
(= "tubers" or "brood bodies"). However, specimens cultivated on 
nutrient agar by D.V. Basile at NY and on moistened perlite by 
myself at BUF have produced unicellular, green or brown, elliptical 
propagula, each ca. 20-25 pm long, borne in clusters of uniseriate 
chains on the ends of long, brown rhizoids arising from the bases 
of the stems. 


See a a ee Se SS SS ESS 
SSS SS 


Synonyms: Barbula recurvicuspis C. Mull., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
5: 557. 1897. Type: Jamaica, Bridge Hill, Harris 11038 
(BM—-lectotype), Contenti Road, Harris 10082 (BM— 
syntype). 


Barbula stenotheca Ther., Smiths. Misc. Coll. 85(4): 21. 1931, 
syn. nov. Type: Mexico, Distrito Federal, Rio Frio, 
Amable 1726 (PC—holotype). 


Barbula orizabensis is easily distinguished from B. unguiculata 
by the characters in the key, although I agree with Theriot Tiss) 
that the two species are closely related. It is described and 
illustrated by Bartram (1949) and is known from many states in 
Mexico (Crum, 1951) and from Guatemala (Bartram, 1949) and Jamaica 
(Crum & Bartram, 1958). It occurs on soil or rock, usually at 

high elevations. The synonym B. stenotheca was described as a 
species of Barbula sect. Streblotrichum (= sect. Convolutae) on 
account of the convolute-sheathing perichaetial leaves of the type 
specimen. Species of sect. Barbula occasionally have rather 
differentiated perichaetia while those of sect. Convolutae 
occasionally have undifferentiated perichaetia. On the basis of 
evaluation of all characters ("Summe der Merkmale" of Loeske, 1910), 
however, B. orizabensis belongs in sect. Barbula. 


Synonym: Barbula linguaefolia Bartr., Bryologist 50: 204. 1947, 
syn. nov. Type: Guatemala, Suchiate, Finca El Naranjo, 
Svihla 2879a (FH—holotype). 


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Barbula calcarea was described and illustrated by Theriot 
(1931) and, as B. linguaefolia, by Bartram (1949). This species 
is closely related to B. inaequalifolia, from which it differs by 
the characters in the key. The upper leaf margins are occasionally 
bistratose in small patches and the perichaetial leaves convolute- 
sheathing in the lower 1/3-2/3. The original description of the 
synonym B. linguaefolia is incorrect in ascribing plane margins to 
the type. Propagula were seen only in the lectotype and syntype 
of B. calcarea. These were found, unattached, in leaf axils, 2-4 
per axil, not borne in massive axillary clumps as in B. inaeouali- 
folia. I have seen collections of B. calcarea from Mexico (Distrito 
Federal, Mexico, Michoacan) and Guatemala; these occurred on soil or 
calcareous rock at 2600-2800 m elevation. 


eo eee ae = SS SS 
a 


For complete synonymy see Zander (1968). 


A description and illustrations were given by Zander (1968), 
who cited specimens from U.S.A. (North Carolina), Colombia, Ecuador, 
China, and Java. An additional station has been noted (Zander, 1976) 
in Chiapas, Mexico. The following collections extend the geographic 
range of this species: Mexico: Mexico, between Mexico and Puebla, 
Dull, 1966 (BUF); Michoacan, Uruapan, Ere & e 3051a (TENN); 
Panama: Chiriqui, Volcan Baru, Pineda 96) (MO); Venezuela: Trujillo, 
Bocono, Paramo de Guirigay, Lopez & Rodriguez 8788-a (FLAS); India: 
Uttar Pradesh, Kumaun, Debidhura, Pithoragarh, Srivastava 4348 
(BUF). The habitat includes roadsides, banks, paramos, on soil, 
rock, walls, from 700-3100 m elevation. Husnotiella revoluta Card. 
occasionally has axillary masses of unicellular propagula (Bartram, 
1926; Zender, 1977) and when sterile may be confused with 
B. inaequalifolia. The former species differs in the following 
combination of characters states: leaves short-oval to deltoid 
oval, laminal cell walls evenly thickened, laminal papillae solid, 
low, broad, simple to multiplex, usually lens-like, and costa with 
only one stereid band. 


In spite of the peristome being red, well developed and twisted 
1-4 turns, B. inaequalifolia may be better placed in Bryoerythro- 
phyllum Chen because of its red coloration and closely hollow- 
papillose, thin-walled upper leaf cells. It has much the same 
general appearance as does Bryoerythrophyllum bolivianum (C. Mu11. ) 
Zander, which, however, has plane margins, lacks propagula, and has 
the rudimentary peristome typical of Bryoerythrophyllum species 
(Zander, 1978b). This is another confounding example of a moss 
species with a gametophyte matching the characters of one genus 
and a sporophyte those of another. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 185 


BARBULA sect. CONVOLUTAE B.S.G., Bryol. Eur. 2: 91. 1842 (fasc. 
13-15 Mon. 29). Lectotype: Barbula convoluta Hedw. 


Synonyms: Streblotrichum P. Beauv., Mag. Inc. 5: 317. 1804. — 
Barbula sect. Streblotrichum (P. Beauv.) Limpr., Laubm. 
Deutsch. 1: 626. 1888. — Barbula subg. Streblotrichum 
(P. Beauv.) K. Saito, Jour. Hattori Bot. Lab. 39: 499. 
1975. Type: Barbula convoluta Hedw. 


This section is distinguished by the combination of the 
following character states: leaves firm when wet; plane or weakly 
recurved leaf margins; papillose laminal cells; adaxial stereid 
band of costa usually distinct; perichaetial leaves usually 
convolute-sheathing; and, propagula (when present) often large, 
composed of 4-50 or more cells. 


5. Barbula indica wae Spreng. in Steud., Nomencl. Bot. 
~ 2: 72. 182). [Sensu amplo. 
Basionym: Tortula indica Hook., Musci Exot. 2: 135. 1819, 
nom. nov. for Trichostomum indicum Schwaegr., Spec. Musc. 
Suppl. 1(1): 142, 1811, hom. illeg. non Trichostomum 
indicum Willd. ex Schrad., 1803. Type: India, Madras, 
Tranquebar, Rottler s.n. (NY—isotype). 


Synonyms: Trichostomum orientalis Web., Arch. Syst. Naturgesch. 
1(1): 129. 1804. — Barbula orientalis (Web.) Broth., Nat. 
Pfl. 1(3): 403. 1902, non B. orientalis Brid., 1819. — 
Semibarbula orientalis (Web.) Wijk & Marg., Taxon 8: 75. 
1959. 


Barbula cruegeri Sond. ex C. Mull., Syn. Musc. 1: 618. 189, 
syn. nov. Type: Trinidad, La Ventille, Crueger, 1846 
(SPA—isotype). 


Tortula gregaria Mitt., Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. London Suppl. 
1: 29. 1859, syn. nov. Type: Nepal, Tambar R., Hooker 166 
(NY—syntype). — Barbula gregaria (Mitt.) Jaeg., Ber. S. 
Gall. Naturw. Ges. 1871-72: 424. 1873 (Ad. 1: 272). 


Barbula erosa Hampe in C. Mull., Bot. Zeit. 20: 348. 1862, syn. 
nov. Type: Venezuela, Baruta, T ff, 1857 (BM—isotype). 


Barbula rufipes Schimp. ex Besch., Mem. Soc. Nat. Sci. Nat. 
Cherb. 16: 180. 1872, syn. nov. Type: Mexico, Verzcruz, 
Orizaba, Mueller, 1853 (BM—holotype). -- Semibarbula 
rufipes (Schimp. ex Besch.) Hilp., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 
5O(a)F 622. 1933. 


Barbula cancellata C. Mull., Flora 56: 483. 1873. 


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Barbula wrightii Sauerb. in Jaeg., Ber. S. Gall. Naturw. Ges. 
1877-78: 409. 1880 (Ad. 2: 673), syn nov., nom. nov. for 
Barbula obscura Sull., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 5: 277. 
1861, non B. obscura Mitt., 1859. Type: Cuba, Wright 31 
(BM, NY—-isotypes). —- Tortula obscura (Sull.) Mitt., 
Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 12: 150. 1869. 


Barbula purpuripes C. MWll., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 558. 1897, 
syn. nov. Type: Jamaica, Cinchona, Harris 11022 (BM, NY— 
isotypes). ; 


Barbula microglottis C. Mull., Hedwigia 37: 232. 1898, syn. nov. 
Type: Haiti, "Cape Haytien," Eggers, 1887 (NY-—isotype). 


Barbula hypselostegia Card., Rev. Bryol. 36: 84. 1909, syn. nov. 
Type: Mexico, Puebla, Honey Station, Pringle 10653 (PC— 


holotype, TENN--isotype). -- Streblotrichum hypselostegium 
(Card. ) Hilp., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 50(2): 635. 1933. 


Barbula muenchii Card., Rev. Bryol. 36: 84. 1909, syn. nov. 
Type: Mexico, Chiapas, San Cristobal, Muench, 1907 (NY— 
isotype). 


Barbula pringlei Card., Rev. Bryol. 36: 85. 1909, syn. nov. 
Type: Mexico, Morelos, Cuernavaca, Pringle 10637 (PC— 
lectotype, BM, FH, erp 15177 (PC--syntype). 
—- Streblotrichum pringlei (Card. ) Hilp., Beih. Bot. 


Centralbl. 50(2): 635. 1933. 


Hyophila uliginosa E.G. Britt., Bull. Torrey Bot. Cl. 42: ke 
1915. Type: St. Jan, Bethania, Britton & Shafer 367 
(NY—holotype). 


Barbula unguiculata fo. propagulosa Crum, Bryologist 72: 241. 
1969, syn. nov. Type U.S.A., Tennessee, Montgomery Co., 
Clebsch 581 (MICH—holotype). 


Barbula horrinervis K. Saito, Jour. Hattori Bot. Lab. 39: 486. 
1975, syn. nov. Type: Japan, Tokyo, Okutama, Saito 4936 
(MICH--isotype). 


Additional synonymy is given by Crum and Steere (1957), Saito 
(1975) and Steere (1938). 


Plants turf-forming, yellow-green to brown; stems seldom 
branching, to 1.2 cm tall, in transverse section pentagonal, central 
strand distinct, cortex of smaller, darker cells, epidermis not 
differentiated; axillary hairs usually of 4-8 uniseriate cells, all 
clear or the basal 1(-2) with somewhat thickened walls and yellow- 
brown coloration; tomentum absent. Leaves crowded to rather distant, 
about eaual in size from base to apex, when dry incurved-appressed, 
often infolded above, occasionally catenulate, when wet erect- 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 187 


spreading, incurved to plane, ovate to ligulate, occasionally 
lanceolate or long-trangular, 0.5-1.8 mm long, with a deep, narrow 
groove adaxially along the costa, margins plane to weakly recurved 
at midleaf, entire; leaf apex somewhat incurved or weakly cucullate 
to nearly plane, rarely reflexed, rounded to bluntly acute, 
apiculate by a clear, not or little papillose, conical cell, rarely 
muticous; leaf base scarcely differentiated to much broadened, 
square to rectangular or oval, basal margins not or shortly 
decurrent; costa usually percurrent or ending 1-4 cells below apex 
or occasionally excurrent in a short, sharp mucro, abaxial super- 
ficial cells near apex long- to short-rectangular or quadrate, 
doubly prorulose (distal and proximal ends of cells protuberant), 
occasionally nearly smooth or both prorulose and simply papillose, 
adaxial superficial cells long- to short-rectangular, smooth, or 
quadrate and papillose in patches above midleaf; costa in transverse 
section semicircular to elliptical, ventrally flat to convex, lamina 
inserted at about 90° angle, adaxial epidermis often differentiated 
as one layer of thin-walled cells, adaxial stereid band absent or 
weak, guide cells in one layer of 2-4 cells, abaxial stereid band 
strong, abaxial epidermis undifferentiated or represented by one 
layer of thick-walled cells with semicircular lumens or with thin 
walls and circular lumens. Upper laminal cells quadrate, 7-9(10) pm 
wide, Walls thin to evenly thickened, superficially weakly bulging 
to conic-protuberant, lumens angular, arranged in a weak pattern of 
longitudinal rows, papillae low-multiplex, mostly hollow, with 4-8 
salients per lumen, occasionally coroniform above strongly protuber- 
ant cell walls; basal laminal cells medially smooth, 8-12 pm wide, 
2-5:1, rectangular, evenly thickened or thin-walled, usually bordered 
on the margins by 1-4 rows of short-rectangular cells. Propagula 
often present, borne on stalks in leaf axils issuing just above the 
axillary hairs, obovoid, clavate, spindle-shaped, elliptical, or 
spherical, smooth, colliculate or armed with l-several short, pointed 
branches, ‘70-300 pm long, of 8-50 or more cells, green to brown. 
Dioicous; perichaetia terminal, leaves ovate, entirely prosenchy- 
matous and convolute-sheathing grading to lanceolate, prosenchy- 
matous only in the lower 1/3 of the leaf and weakly sheathing, 
0.8-2.5(3.0) mm long; perigonia terminal on smaller plants, gemmate, 
leaves oval. 


Seta 0.7-1.3 cm long, red-brown, twisted clockwise; urn 0.61.8 
mm long, red-brown, smooth when dry, elliptical to ovoid, occasion- 
ally curved, neck little differetiated, exothecial cells 18-25 pm 
wide, 3-6:1, thin- or thick-walled, evenly thickened, stomates 
present at base of urn, phaneropore, annulus weakly differentiated; 
peristome inserted on mouth of capsule, of 32 teeth weakly fused in 
16 pairs, 0.7-1.7 mm long, teeth linear, densely spiculose, red to 
orange, with many articulations, little to strongly twisted 0.25-3.0 
times, counterclockwise; spores (8)9-12 pm in diameter, smooth to 
weakly papillose, light brown to yellow-brown; operculum 0.8-1.7 mm 
long, long- to short-conic, cells twisted counterclockwise. Calyptra 
2.0-2.2 mm long, cucullate, usually rough apically with prorulose 
cells. 


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The habitat of B. indica includes soil, clay, limestone, 
coral walls, roadbanks, riverbanks, walls, limepit, tree trunks, 
from near sea level to 3900 m. I have examined specimens from 
Canada (Alberta), U.S.A. (southeastern and southwestern states and 
Hawaii), Bermuda, Mexico (Chiapas, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, 
Morelos, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Veracruz), Guatemala, 
British Honduras, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto 
Rico, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Jan, New Providence, Martinique, 
Trinidad, Venezuela, Surinam, Colombia, Peru, Nepal, India, Hong 
Kong, Japan, Philippines, and New Guinea. 


Barbula indica (Fig. 1-14) is a polymorphic species, occurring 
mainly in tropical and warm temperate areas, and includes a profu- 
sion of variants with various permutations of character states. 
Under this name or its synonyms, it is illustrated and described by 
Saito (1975) and Steere (1938) among others. On account of the 
Considerable synonymy accepted here, a redescription is given above, 
based on New World specimens. Certain characters that are usually 
conservative in other species, e.g. length and degree of twisting 
of peristome teeth, degree of differentiation of perichactial leaves, 
size, shape and position of propagula, vary markedly. For this 
reason, synonyms include combinations in other generic names such as 
Hydrogonium (C. Mull.) Jaeg., Semibarbula Herz. ex Hilp. and 
Streblotrichum P. Beauv. 


Previous authors have treated the Old world and New World 
representations as separate entities, although variation is similar 
throughout the tropics. Saito (1971) reduced certain Asian names 
to synonyms of the New World B. cruegeri, but later (1975) referred 
these to B. indica instead. In North America north of Mexico, 

B. indica has been known under the synonym B. cruegeri, as discussed 
by Steere (1938). Recently, the checklist of Crum et al. (1973) 
replaced B. cruegeri (sensu North American authors) with the name 

B. cancellata, because (H. Crum, pers. comm.) the Texan type of the 
latter has the small, obovoid propagula characteristic of most 
collections in North America north of Mexico, while there were 
indications that B. cruegeri (with a type from Trinidad) represents 
a different, tropical taxon. 


There appear to be two major trends in morphological appearance 
in B. indica. Barbula indica s. str. has narrowly oval to elliptical 
leaves, with margins plane or weakly recurved at midleaf, and small, 
green, obovoid propagula occurring in masses in upper leaf axils. 
The type from India has propagula 70-90 pm long. This expression is 
found throughout the range of the species. A somewhat different- 
looking plant in extreme form is B. indica facies "B. gregaria," 
which was well illustrated by Saito (1975) under the synonym 
B. horrinervis. This morph has broadly oval leaves with plane 
margins and massive, brown, elliptical to spherical, many-celled 
propagula occurring singly or very few together in upper leaf axils. 
Facies "B. gregaria" is seldom found in temperate areas although it 
is known from Japan (type of B. horrinervis) and from Canada 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 189 


Vitt 2189--ALTA, Horton 15697--ALTA). A third, less distinctive 
trend that is widespread in the tropics is the production of 
propagula, these usually massive, on basal rhizoids, but uncorrelated 
with leaf morphology. Some of these propagula are apparently formed 
from an apical cell with two cutting faces and are similar to the 
"bilateral tubercles" of Leptob pyriforme (Hedw.) Wils. illu- 
strated by Berthier (1978). The type of B. cruegeri has elliptical, 
plane to recurved leaves, and brown tubers borne on rhizoids from 
lower leaf axils or buried in the soil, ranging from 95-300 pm in 
length, from 15 to many cells in composition, and obovoid, spindle- 
like, elliptical or spherical in shape, superficially smooth to 
colliculate (raspberry-like). 


Because of considerable intergradation in characters between 
these variants, infraspecific categories are not recognized. 
Individual collections were mostly stenomorphic between plants in 
expression of particular character states. The characters of the 
propagula were, however, variable within some collections. In 
certain specimens, massive propagula on basal rhizoids occurred 
together with either small, obovoid or massive axillary propagula 
or with intermediate-sized axillary propagula. Saito (1975) 
illustrated the Japanese synonym B. horrinervis as having massive, 
elliptical, apiculate propagula. In fact, in tropical and sub- 
tropical areas worldwide, specimens of B. indica may be found with 
propagula of various sizes and shapes that have one or more apiculi 
or spines, apically or laterally, resulting in spindle shapes, 
"ocarina" shapes and "mine" shapes. Saito (1975) also indicated 
that, in Japan, plants with massive propagula have plane leaf margins 
(B. horrinervis) and those with small propagula have recurved leaf 
margins (B. indica), but this correlation is only poorly reflected 
on a worldwide basis. 


Although intergrading variants that are distinctive in the 
extreme are often recognized, and although the two major variants 
of B. indica may be biological entities deserving infraspecific 
scientific names, satifactory disposition of the multiplicity of 
taxonomic synonyms following non-discontinuous, non-exclusive 
criteria (e.g. the "75 percent convention" discussed by Mayr, 19/2) 
is impossible or at least arbitrary, if type methodology is 
rigorously followed. This is a rather subtle, non-biological, 
bookkeeping limitation of the Code to practicality of specific 
and infraspecific concepts. 


The term "prorula" referring to a protrusion of the distal or 
proximal ends of superficial cell walls, or of both (doubly 
prorulose), was coined by Argent (1973) as pointed out by Manuel 
(1974). Weber and Simone (1977) suggested the term "scindula" for 
the same feature, and During (1977, p. 15) further discussed this 
morphological trait. Above midleaf, the abaxial costal surface of 
B. indica is usually distinctly doubly prorulose; however, some 
specimens may have relatively smooth costal surfaces or be covered 
with quadrate, hollow-papillose cells. Usually, such collections 


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Figures 1-14. Variation in leaf and propagulum morphology in 
Barbula indica (Hook.) Spreng. Leaves, X32; propagula (which are 
axillary unless noted), X82. 1. U.S.A. Kentucky, Zander 4640 (BUF). 
2. Mexico: Frye 2143 (NY). 3. Mexico: Richards et al. 629 (FH). 

4. Mexico: McGregor 5314 (NY). 5. Venezuela: Griffin & Lopez 415 
(FLAS). 6. Venezuela: Dall'Aglio 367 (BUF). ‘7. Canada: Alberta, 
Vitt 24189 (ALTA). 8. Cuba: Ekman 8267 (NY). 9. Puerto Rico: 
Britton 5157 (NY)—-mixture of rhizoidal and axillary propagula. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 191 


10. Peru: Mexia 62589 (MO). 11. Jamaica: Hermann 22948 ah 
L005 


12. Haiti: Bartlett 17583 (NY). 13. Mexico: Sharp FH). 
14. Trinidad: Crueger, sen. (SPA--type of Barbula creugeri 
Sond. ex C.Mill. )--axillary and rhizoidal propagula. 


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may be referred to B. indica by the following combination of 
gametophyte characters: leaves ligulate to oval, base not 
sheathing, margins plane or weakly recurved at midleaf, apex 
rounded-obtuse to bluntly acute, apiculate with a clear cell, 
upper laminal cells papillose, quadrate, mostly 7-9 pm wide, and 
costa ending 1-4 cells below apex. 


In Leptobryum pyriforme, environmentally triggered switch 
mechanisms apparently control the formation of the three possible 
kinds of propagula found in this species (Berthier, 1978). However, 
variation in propagula size, number, ornamentation and position in 
B. indica may be genetically based, possibly as the result of 
selection for certain modes of diaspore dispersal appropriate in 
different habitats. The small axillary propagula are abundant, 
usually 50-100 pm long, of 3-6 cells, thin-walled, clavate to 
spindle-shaped, have few or no internal oil globules, and may be 
interpreted as an adaptation for colonization through wide dispersal 
by water and immediate regeneration. However, the massive axillary 
or rhizoidal propagula are few, usually 100-230 pm long, many-celled 
(to 50 or more), thick-walled, elliptical to spherical and often 
branching, have abundant oil and may well be a specialization for 
very local dispersal or non-dispersal. In the large size, anchoring 
arms, and position often buried in the soil, massive propagula may 
be examples of "atelochory" (van der Pijl, 1972) or "precinctiveness" 
(Carlquist, 1966, 1974) of diaspores of vascular plants in insular 
situations. Intermediate-sized propagula are common, however, and 
many collections lack propagula altogether. That plants of B. indica 
with numerous, small propagula are typically Temperate Zone in 
distribution while those with few, large propagula are typically 
tropical indicates the possibility of a response to a north-south 
cline in selection for the above features, perhaps corresponding 
to the temperate and tropic regional differences in r- and 
K-selection discussed by Pianka (1970). Studies in cultivation and 
the correlation of propagula size with environmental parameters need 
to be done before the above suggestions can be considered anything 
more than hypotheses. Large, buried propagula are found in other 
species of Barbula sect. Convolutae as well as elsewhere in the 
Pottiaceae and in other moss families (Whitehouse, 1966, 1976). 


There are several additional regional variants with unusual or 
locally stenotypic character states that may be geographic races. 
Two collections from Canada (Alberta: Vitt 2/184—ALTA, Horton 
15697--ALTA) are geographically isolated, have massive elliptical 
propagula in the upper leaf axils and all leaves are muiticous, 
lacking the characteristic clear apiculus; however, many plants of 
the type of the synonym B. hypselostegia, from Mexico, match those 
of the Albertan collections exactly. Some specimens that I have 
seen from India have unusually thin, collapsed leaf cell walls that 
do not regain their original shapes after thorough wetting. Most 
specimens from the Philippines have the abaxial costal surface 
extremely rough with strongly protruding prorulae. Many collections 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 193 


from the West Indies show an unusual development of an epidermis 
of sub-quadrate, hollow—papillose cells on the distal abaxial 
surface of the costa; others have leaves that are long-ligulate and 
have capitulate, massive laminal papillae. These variants are not 
given infraspecific names because of abundant intergradation of 
character states and because most would be necessarily based on 
"one-character taxonomy," which I eschew. 


Anoectangium aestivum (Hedw.) Mitt. when sterile may be 
confused with forms of B. - B. indica; however, in the former the leaf 
base is usually poorly differentiated, the costa has only one 
stereid band and abaxial prorulae are lacking. 


Basionym: Tortula amplexifolia Mitt., Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
Suppl. 1: 29. 1859. Type: India, Uttar Pradesh, Kumaun, 
western Himalayas, Strachey & Winterbottom 15/37 (NY— 
holotype). 


Synonyms: Hydrogonium amplexifolium (Mitt.) Chen, Hedwigia 
80: 240. 1941. 


Barbula haringae Crum, Southw. Naturalist 1(1): 36. 1956, syn. 
nov. Type: U.S.A., Arizona, Cochise Co., Huachuca 
Military Reserve, Goodding Cry. 85 (Haring 10000) (CANM—- 
holotype, aaa (ee 3; south Huachuca Game Preserve, 


ee (Haring 10285a), Goodding Cry. 293 
(Haring Meas " CANM—paratypes ). 


Barbula amplexifolia has been eae and illustrated by 
Gangulee (1972) as Hydrogonium exifolium and by Crum (1956) as 
B. haringae. Barbula coreensis ae K. Saito, described and 
illustrated by Saito (1975), is Spear distinct. In addition to 
the type specimens of the synonym B. haringae that were reported 
from Arizona by Crum (1956) and the fo oe Alaska collection 
reported as B. coreensis (det. R. Zander) by Steere (1978), the 
following collections represent the known New World distribution: 
Canada: Northwest Territorigs, District of Mackenzie, Liard Range, 
12.8 km SW of Mt. Flett, 60° 3h'N, 123°45'W, Vitt 20521 ( ALTA); 
Nahanni National Park, South Nahanni R., Virginia ie 61° 38'N, 
125° 42", Steere 76-605 (NY); U.S.A.: Alaska, Chandalar Quad., 
Yukon R.-Prudhoe Bay Haul Rd., Wiehl Mt., 6 67° 39'N, 1,9° LOW, 
Murray 76-691B (ALA). The habitat includes mountain slopes, wet 
limestone cliffs, tundra, on or under damp rocxs, mist zone of 
waterfall, at 760-1800 m elevation. 


The short-ovoid to nearly spherical propagula of B. amplexi- 
folia are found in masses in the leaf axils. The propagula are 
similar in and between most collections in the red-brown coloration 
and the size, usually 40-90 pm long. However, the very ample 


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collection Steere 76-605, which includes many small sods, has 
propagula generally similar within each sod but heterogeneous 
between sods, grading from the normal size in some sods up to 

150 pm long, short-elliptical, mostly only 3-4 in each axil, in 
other sods. Plants of sods with umusually large propagula have 
broader leaves than usual, these ovate-triangular, and approach the 
morphology of B. convoluta var gallinula (see below). Plants of 
this latter taxon may also be found in this collection and 
hybridization amy be the cause of intergradation in propagula 
characters in the Virginia Falls station; however, sporophytes of 
neither B. amplexifolia nor B. convoluta var. gallinula have been 
seen in the New World. A more probable explanation might be a 
plastic response on the part of certain sods of B. amplexifolia 
to unusual environmental factors, but there is no evidence at 
present to support this. 


The abaxial costal surface is usually smooth in B. amplexi- 
folia but in some specimens double prorulae similar to those of 
B. indica may be found. The former species differs from the latter 
in the stout costa, which is commonly short-excurrent, the sheathing 
leaf base and the propagula borne only in the leaf axils, subspheric, 
red-brown, and usually 40-90 pm long. 


oe —— SS 
= SS OS SS SS == Se ee SS 


Synonyms: Tortula convoluta (Hedw.) Gaertn., Meyer & Scherb., 
Oek. Techn. Fl. Wetterau 3(2): 92. 1802. — Streblotrichum 
convolutum (Hedw.) P. Beauv., Prodr. 89. 1805. 


Additional synonymy is given by Podpera (195,) and Steere 
(1938). 


Barbula convoluta is a well-known, common, widely distributed, 
Temperate Zone species described and illustrated by Saito (1975), 
Steere (1938) and others. The shape of the leaf apex is quite 
variable. It is known from Mexico from a single report from 
southern Baja California (Koch & Crum, 1950). Spherical to ellip- 
tical, red-brown multicellular propagula, often massive, are found 
on rhizoids buried in the soil in most collections. Rhizoidal 
propagula are seldom mentioned in descriptions although illustrated 
for B. convoluta by Hilpert (1933), Moenkemeyer (1927) and Wilczek & 
Demaret (1976). When present, such propagula allow this species to 
be distinguished with ease from the similar B. unguiculata, in which 
propagula have never been found in nature. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 195 


=——— — EE a 
 —  ——— === SSS SE 


Varietati typicae similis, sed propagulis portatis in pedicellis 
intra axillas foliorum superorum differt; folia ovalia, costis 


Similar to the typical variety but differing by the propagula 
being borne on stalks in the axils of the upper leaves; leaves oval, 
with costae ending 2-4 cells below the leaf apices. 


Type: Canada: Northwest Territories, District of Mackenzie, 
Nahanni National Park, South Nahanni 2., Virginia Falls, 61° 38'N, 
125° 42'W, Scotter 22433, 3 Sept. 1974 (NY-—-holotype; BUF--isotype). 
Paratypes: Canada: same locality, Scotter 22408 (1X), Steere J6-605 
pep. (NY); South Nahanni R., Kraus Hot Springs, 61° 15'N, 124° 03", 
Steere 76-290 pep. (ALA); U.S.A.: Alaska, Survey Pass Quad., con- 
fluence of Altna and Nahtuk Rivers, 67 25'N, 153° 43'W, Murray 5067c 
(ALA); Philip Smith Quad., Yykon R.-Prudhoe Bay Haul Rd., W end of 
Atigun Canyon, 68 27'N, 149° 18'W, Murray 77-228 (ALA); Harrison Bay 
Quad. , National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, Fish Creek Test Well 1, 
70° 19'n, 151° 58'W, Murray 77-813B (ALA). 


Barbula convoluta var. gallinula (Fig. 15-19) is known only 
from sterile plants in alpine-montane areas of northwestern North 
America. The plants are not common where found and grow gregariously 
or as small sods on rock—mainly limestone-—-or soil, in lowland 
tundra slopes, on cliffs, or mist areas of waterfalls, from near sea 
level to 400 m elevation. The new variety differs from var. 
convoluta in the characters cited in the diagnosis above. Under the 
dissecting microscope, the egg-shaped propagula are easily visible in 
the axils of the leaves of wet or dry plants. The general appearence 
of the plants is reminiscent of poultry, whence the name. The 
axillary propagula are red-brown, spherical or elliptical, massive, 
120-250 pm long, lacking apiculi or spines but otherwise similar to 
the propagula of facies "B. gregaria" of B. indica. There appears to 
be morphological and geographical discontinuity in the characters of 
propagula position in B. convoluta while no clear, similar discon- 
tinuity can be discerned in B. indica. Because B. indica with large 
axillary propagula has also been found in Canada, it is necessary to 
carefully determine the presence of simple papillae (not prorulae) 
on the abaxial costal surface. In addition, the leaf cells of 
B. convoluta var. gallinula are 9-12 ym wide, as opposed to 7-9(10) 
um for Be indica. Barbula convoluta var. gallinula consistently has 
oval leaves; the var. convoluta occasionally may have ovel leaves but 
usually such specimens have the costa ending 4-6 cells below the leaf 
apex. Barbula amplexifolia c.v. may approach B. convolute var. 
gallinula closely in size of the propagula and in unusual, broadly 
deltoid leaves when both occur at the same station. 


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Figures 15-19. Barbula convoluta var. gallinula Zander. 
15. Gametophore, 432. 16. Leaves, 446. 17. Costal transverse 
section near midleaf, %320. 18. Axillary propagulum, 320. 
19. Leaf apex, X320. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 197 


The European Barbula convoluta var. propagulifera Glow. 
(Yugoslavia: Soca Tal, Kanal, Glowacki, 1909, GJO—-holotype) is a 
new synonym of Gymnostomum aeruginosum Sm. The type corresponds to 
the facies "G calcareum" and has small, clavate, axillary propagula 
(see discussion by Zander, 1977). 


8. Barbula eustegia Card. & Ther., Bot. Gaz. 30: 17. 1900. 


Synonym: Barbula whitehouseae Crum, Southw. Naturalist 1(1): 
35. 1956, syn. nov. Type: U.S.A., Texas, Fannin Co., Lake 
Crockett, ca. 19 km N of Honey Grove, Whitehouse 21001 
(CANM--isotype); Tarrant Co., Eagle Mountain Lake, 
Whitehouse 179&, (CAllt+—isoparatype). 


For additional synonymy, see Steere (1938). 


This species was described and illustrated by Flowers (1973), 
Lawton (1971) and Steere (1938). It is known from Washington, 
Idaho, Montana, Utah and Texas in the U.S.A. and was reproted from 
British Columbia, Canada, by Crum (1965). Androgametophores are 
usually not noted in descriptionsofB. eustegia. These are smaller 
than the gynogametophores and mixed with them, and are often minute, 
largely buried in the soil, with perigonia terminal (singly or 
paired). Propagula, similar to those of B. convoluta, are present 
on basal rhizoids in the soil in most specimens including the types 
of B. eustegia and B. whitehouseae. Both of these type collections, 
also, have apiculate leaf apices, and the lack of the apiculus is 
not a good character state for distinguishing B. eustegia from 
&. convoluta though indicated as such by some authors. Barbula 

ustegia apparently differs from B. convoluta only in the appea: appearance 
= the perichaetial leaves (see key) and in its largely western 
distribution. It may better be recognized as a variety of 
B. convoluta (if at all) but is here presented as a "columbariate" 
(elzcontols) species (cf. Zander, 1978a) pending further study. 

Crum. (1965) and Steere (1938) considered B. eustegia to be closely 
related to the European B. flavipes B.S.G. (= B. enderesii Garov. ). 
The perichaetial leaves of the Latter species are far larger and 
more strongly differentiated in the specimens I have see than are 
those of B. eustegia. However, there is probably a close relation- 
ship—Moenkemeyer (1927) pointed out that the propagula of both 
B. convoluta and B. flavipes are similar in morphology and rhizoidal 
position. 


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BARBULA sect. HYDROGONIUM (C. Mull.) K. Saito, Jour. Hattori Bot. 
Lab. 39: 492.1975. 


Basionym: Trichostomum sect. Hydrogonium C. Mull., Linnaea 


LO: 297. 1876. Type species: Barbula ehrenbergii 
(Lor. ) Fleisch. (lectotype by Saito, 1975). 


Synonyms: Hydrogonium (C. Muell.) Jaeg., Ber. S. Gall. Naturw. 
Ges. 1877-78: 405. 1880. -—- Barbula subg. Hydrogonium 
(C. Mull.) Fleisch., Musci Fl. Buitenzorg 1: 352. 1904. 


This taxon is distinguished from the other sections of Barbula 
subg. Barbula by the leaves lax when wet; upper leaf margins plane 
to narrowly recurved, laminal cells usually rectangular, epapillose 
or seldom weakly papillose, their surfaces often adaxially more 
strongly convex than abaxially; the perichaetial leaves often 
convolute-sheathing; and, propagula often present, usually stellate 
and brown to green in color. 


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Basionym: Trichostomum ehrenbergii Lor., Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. 
Berlin 1867: 25. 1868. 


Synonym: Barbula ehrenbergii var. mexicana Ther., Smiths. 
Misc. Coll. 85(4): 19. 1931, syn. nov. Type: Mexico, 
Nuevo Leon, Monterray, Abbon 10969 (PC--holotype). 


For additional synonymy, see Podpéra (195i). 


Description and illustration of B. ehrenbergii has been given 
by Flowers (1973) and Steere (1938), among others. This species 
intergrades with B. arcuata in Mexico and Central America; some 
collections (e.g. Belize: Big Falls, Lundell, 1965--NY) are quite 
impossible to assign to either species. In the New World, 

B. ehrenbergii is largely a Temperate Zone species, while B. arcuata 
is restricted to the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, and 

areas of South America. The leaves of the former are more commonly 
papillose (albeit weakly so) than are those of the latter. Nonethe— 
less, the two should be considered columbariate species until an 
intensive study can be made of their relationship. 


Barbula abbonii Ther. (Mexico: Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Abbon 
10970, PC—holotype) is referred to B. ehrenbergii by Crum (1951); 
however, the tubulose, relexed leaves with broadly decurrent basal 
margins and yellow-brown upper laminal cells, lead me to believe that 
it is a synonym of Didymodon tophaceus (Brid.) Lisa. 


Barbula ehrenbergii is reported (Crum, 1951; Flowers, 1973; 
Steere, 1938) in North America from the U.S.A. in Missouri, Texas, 
Okalahoma and Utah, and from Mexico in Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and San 


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Luis Potosi. I have also seen a Mexican collection from Chihuahua, 
Sta. Elena Canyon of Rio Grande, Fern Canyon, 29° o9'n, 103° 39'W, 
Wendt & Lott 101 (TENN). In other areas of the New World it is 
known from Belize (Steere, 1934) and Cuba (Theriot, 1939-1941; 
Welch, 1950). I agree with Crum and Steere (1958) that the report 
of this species from Haiti (Theriot, 194) was based on a specimen 
(PC!) that is actually Hymenostylium recurvirostrum (Hedw.) Dix. 
The habitat of B. ehrenbergii is wet rocks, usually calcareous, 
often in springs or running water, often tufa-forming. 


Barbula ehrenbergii (Lor.) Fleisch. is indicated to be an 
illegitimate homonym in the Supplement (Volume 5) of Index Muscorum 
(van der Wijk, 1959-1969). However, the supposed earlier name was 
apparently only a mispelling of B. ehrenbergiana on the part of 
Kindberg (1888-1891) and is not listed in Steere and Crum's (1977) 
catalogue of Kindberg's new combinations and new taxa. 


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SS 


Synonyms: Hydrogonium arcuatum (Griff.) Wijk & Marg., Taxon 


Barbula subulifolia Sull., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 5: 227. 
1861, syn. nov. Type: Cuba, Wright 32 (BM—isotype). — 
Tortula subulifolia (Sull.) Mitt., Jour. Linn. Soc. 

Bot. 12: Lol. 1869. 


Barbula crispula Hampe in Jaeg., Ber. S. Gall. Ges. 1871-72: 
138. 1873 (Ad. 1: 286), syn. nov. Type: Cuba: Wright 27 
(BM—holotype). 


Barbula macrogonia Besch., Jour. de Bot. 8: 61. 1894, syn. nov. 
Type: Guadeloupe, Baines Jaunes, Marie s.n. (BM—isotype). 


Barbula suberythropoda C. Mull., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 194. 
1897, syn. nov. Type: Guatemala, Alta Vera Paz, Pansamala, 
Tuerckheim, 1887 (BM, NY——isotypes). 


Barbula ferrinervis C. Mull., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 557. 1897, 
syne nov. Type: Jamaica, Bridge Hill, Harris 11026 (BM, 
NY-—isotypes ). 


Barbula ferrinervis var. eggersiana C. Muell., Hedwigia 37: 232. 
1898, syn. nove Type: Santo Domingo, Rio Cami, Eggers 268 
(June 1887) (BM—isotype). —- Barbula eggersiana (C. oar) 
C. Mull., Gen. Muse. Frond. 437. 1900. 


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Trichostomum setifolium C. Mull., Hedwigia 37: 234. 1898, 
syn. nov. Type: Puerto Rico, Sabana, Sintensis, 1886 
(BM, NY--isotypes). -- Barbula setifolia (C. Mull.) 
Broth., Nat. Pfl. 1(3): 408. 1902. 


Barbula stillicidiorum Card., Rev. Bryol. 37: 126. 1910, syn. 
nov. Type: Mexico, Veracruz, Barnes & Land, 1906 (NY-- 
isotype). 


Barbula rubricaulis Ther., Smiths. Misc. Coll. 85(4): 19. 1931, 
syn. nov. Type: Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Abbon 
10968 (FH--isotype). 


For additional synonymy, see Gangulee (1972) and Saito (1975). 


Barbula arcuata is known in the Old World from India, Burma, 
Malaysia, Indonesia, Molucca, New Guinea, the Philippines, China, 
Japan and western Oceania. It has been well described and illus- 
trated by Gangulee (1972) and Saito (1975). Its New World distribu- 
tion is similarly tropical and subtropical. I have seen material 
from Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Veracruz), Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, 
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, and Venezuela. Steere 
(1948) reported it, as the synonym B. subulifolia, from Ecuador. 
Judging from the checklist of Pursell (1973), I here report this 
species as new to Venezuela: Miranda, between Los Ocumites tunnel 
and Cortada de Maturin highway (Caracas-Valencia), Ramirez Cr 46-74 
(TENN). The habitat includes wet cliffs, riverbanks, calcareous 
soil, wet rock, travertine, at 150-1350 m elevation. 


As is common in hygrophytes, Barbula arcuata is polymorphic. 
The leaf shape is especially variable; some forms approach the 
broad-elliptical leaves of B. ehrenbergii and other forms, these 
mainly in the West Indies, have very narrow, subulate leaves, such 
as in the types of B. ferrinervis or B. setifolium, synonyms. The 
terminal perigonia may be visually accentuated in plants with very 
narrow leaves (e.g. the type of the synonym B. macrogonia). Multi- 
cellular, green, fusiform to stellate propagula are commonly present, 
borne on branching stalks in the leaf axils, and are similar to 
those of Hyophila involuta (Hook.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. Whitehouse (1976) 
has discussed the considerable variation in size and degree of 
ornamentation of propagula of B. arcuate. 


Barbula arcuata is similar to B. indica in the red, spiculose, 
usually highly twisted peristome. The two species often grow inter- 
mixed. In hygric habitats, the leaves of B. indica are more flaccid 
than usual and may be confused with those of B. arcuata. Barbula 
arcuata differs from B. indica in the long-triangular leaves with 
1-3 apical teeth, costa abaxially smooth or sharply crenulate by 
projecting cell cross walls, adaxial surface of costa often bulging, 
not in a groove, adaxial stereid band of costa often nearly as large 
as the dorsal, and laminal cells smooth, short-rectangular. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 201 


BARBULA subgenus HYOPHILADELPHUS (C. Mull.) Zander, stat. nov. 


Basionym: Barbula sect. Hyophiladelphus C. Mull., Syn. Musc. 
1: 604. 1848. Type: Barbula agraria Hedw. (lectotype). 


Synonyms: Tortula sect. Hyophiladelphus (C. Mull.) Broth., Nat. 


Pfl. 173): 429. 1902. 


Barbula sect. Agrariae Steere in Grout, Moss Fl. No. Amer. 1(3): 
173. 1938, nom. illeg. Type species: Barbula agraria 
Hedw. 


Steere (1938) speculated, with good reason, that Barbula 
agraria Hedw. was probably sufficiently different from both Barbula 
and Tortula to justify the designation of a new genus. [I agree that 
it is rather distinctive but recognize it here in a monotypic sub- 
genus. The salient character states of subg. Hyophiladelphus are 
the long, red, spiculose, twisted peristome teeth, the revoluble 
annulus, the moderately differentiated perichaetial leaves, the 
spathulate, epapillose leaves with adaxially strongly bulging cell 
walls, and the costa sharply mucronate, with two stereid bands and 
ventral surface of longitudinally elongate cells. Luisierella 
barbula (Schwaegr.) Steere has a similar strongly colliculate 
adaxial laminal surface and nearly smooth abaxial surface, but the 
peristome is not twisted, the leaves are ligulate, the laminal cells 
have rounded, not cquadrate lumens, the costa has an adaxial epi- 
dermis of cells similar to those of the lamina, and propagula are 
often present. 


Synonyms: Tortula agraria (Hedw.) P. Beauv., Prodr. 91. 1805. 


Bryum stellatum Dicks. ex With., Syst. Arr. Brit. Pl. ed. 4, 3: 
796. 1801. Type: Anon., s.n. (BM--holotype?). — Tortula 
stellata (Dicks. ex With.) Sm., Fl. Brit. 3: 1254. 180k. 
— Barbula stellata (Dicks. ex With.) Brid., Mant. Musc. 
88. 1819. 


Tortula linearifolia P. Beauv., Prodr. 92. 1805. 


Tortula pallens Brid., Spec. Musc. 1: 246. 1806. — Barbula 
pallens (Brid.) Brid., Mant. Musc. 88. 1819. 


Tortula decipiens Brid., Spec. Musc. 1: 247. 1806, nom. inval. 
incl. spec. prior. [T. linearifolia P. Beauv., 1805]. 


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Barbula acuminata Brid. in Roehl., Deutsch. Fl. Krypt. ed. 2, 
3: 79. 1813 non. B. acuminata Hedw., 1801. — Barbula 
agraria var. acuminata (Brid.) Brid., Mant. Musc. 86. 
1819. -—- Tortula agraria var. acuminata (Brid.) Mont., 
fnn. Sei. Nat. Bot. ser. 2, Lies 3547. LEO. 


Barbula domestica Brid., Mant. Musc. 89. 1819. Type: Antilles, 


Barbula latifolia Brid., Bryol. Univ. 1: 536. 1826. -- Tortula 
latifolia (Brid.) Mont. in Ramon de la Sagra, Hist. Fis. 
Cuba Bot. Pl. Cell. 513. 1838-1842 non T. latifolia 
Bruch ex Hartm., 1832. 


Barbula rauii Aust., Bull. Torrey Bot. Cl. 6: 43. 1875. 


Barbula husnotii Schimp. ex Besch., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. ser. 6, 
33; 199. 1876, syn. nov. Type: Martinique, Gueydon, and 
Guadeloupe, Basse-Terre and bridge of Noire R. (apparently 
a mixture), Husnot s.n. (Husnot, Pl. des Antilles = (BM, 
FH--isotypes). —- Tortula husnotii (Schimp. ex Besch. 
Broth., Nat. Pfl. 1(3): 429. 1902. 


Barbula subagraria C. Mull., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 193. 1897. 
—- Tortula subagraria (C. Mull.) Broth., Nat. Pfl. 1(3): 
429. 1902. 


Barbula agraria fo. involuta Biz. & Thér., Mem. Soc. Cub. Nat. 
Hist. 13: 273. 1939, nom. inval. descr. gall., syn. nov. 
Type: Cuba, Oriente, Baracoa, Ekman 44,90 (FH—isotype). 


———— 


Barbula agraria was illustrated and described by Bartram (1949), © 


Breene (1963), Crum and Steere (1957), and Steere (1938). Crum 
(1951) gave the distribution of this common tropical moss as U.S.A. 
(Florida, Louisiana, Texas), Mexico (Campeche, Hidalgo, Quintana 

Roo, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Yucatan), Guatemala, West Indies, and 
northern South America. The habitat includes soil, rocks, walls, 
coral, limestone, sandstone, brick, from near sea level to 350 m 
elevation. Although certain other species of Barbula (B. arcuata, 

B. indica)that are also widespread in tropical America have proven to 
be pantropical, B. agraria is apparently a New World endemic. There 
are no closely related species. Species of Hyophila also have an 
areolation of epapillose, adaxially bulging cells. But these species 
have laminal cells with evenly thickened walls, subquadrate to 
rounded lumens and a yellow-brown color cast, giving a far different 
appearance. The areolation of B. agraria is of thin-walled, rectan- 
gular cells and lumens, with a clear to light yellow coloration. 


Although it has a spathulate leaf shape and long, twisted peri- 
stome of 32 spiculose teeth, B. agraria differs from Tortula species 
in the distinctive leaf areolation and the costa having two stereid 
bands. It differs from other species of Barbula in the areolation, 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 203 


the revoluble annulus, and the spathulate leaf shape. A further 
difference may be in sexual condition. Barbula species are con- 
sistently dioicous. Most authors (including Hedwig, 1787-1797) who 
have described B. agraria (under synonyms) apparently have been 
unable to determine sexual condition. However, Swartz (1806) 
indicated that this species has distinct androgametophytes, but 
Miller (1949) described it as monoicous, the androecia being 
terminal on a basal branch. In fact, perigonia are very difficult 
to locate and are absent, seemingly, in many collections. When 
found, they occur on what appear to be separate, minute androgameto- 
phores that grow contiguous to the gynogametophores. The possibility 
that B. agraria is rhizautoicous, remains, is taxonomically impor- 
tant, and should be tested in experimental cultivation. 


PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM Williams, Bull. Torrey Bot. Cl. 42: 396. 1915. 
Type species: Pseudocrossidium chilense Williams. 


Synonyms: Barbula sect. Revolutae B.S.G., Bryol. Hur. 2: 89. 
1842 (fasc. 13-15 Mon. 27), syn. nov. ‘Type species: 
Barbula revoluta Brid. in Schrad. -- Barbula subsect. 
Revolutae (B.S.G.) Chen, Hedwigia 80: 209. 1941. 


As discussed by Zander and Steere (1978b), this genus is 
distinguished from Barbula mainly by the trend to elaboration of 
parts of the leaf as photosynthetic organs, either in differentia-— 
tion of a pad of adaxial costal filaments, as is found in Crossidiun 
Jur. of the Pottieae, or of thin-walled, hollow-—papillose cells of 
the interior of the often spiral-revolute upper leaf margins, as in 
certain species of Tortula sect. Cuneifoliae (B.S.G.) Spruce, or 
both elaborations may occur in the same species. Character states 
associated with the strongly revolute margins are thickening of the 
superficial laminal cell walls, often of a deep yellow-brown color, 
of the exposed adaxial laminal surface near the margins. This 
thickening is only medial on the abaxial surface of the leaf. Addi- 
tional characters are leaves usually lacking an adaxial stereid band, 
and perichaetial leaves usually highly differentiated, convolute- 
sheathing and largely prosenchymatous in most species. Although many 
specimens of Pseudocrossidium species are similar to Tortula in 
having only one stereid band, Pseudocrossidium is easily distinguish- 
ed from Tortula by the differentiation of an abaxial costal epi- 
dermis. This consists of one layer of either comparatively thin- 
walled, wide-lumened cells or thick-walled cells with small, semi- 
circular lumens, or intergradations between these expressions. An 
abaxial costal epidermis is lacking or rarely poorly differentiated 
in Tortula. This convenient distinction has not been previously 
recognized and one might expect to find further synonyms in Tortula 
that rightly belong in Pseudocrossidium if other characters agree. 
Pseudocrossidium is, however, similar to Tortula in the presence of 
Begleiter (leaf strand) cells. These are located between the 
abaxial stereid band and the guide cells in P. apiculatum, P. aureun, 


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P. leucocalyx, P. replicatum and P. revolutum. I have never seen 
Begleiter cells in costal sections of species of Pleuroweisieae; 
however, these occur in some taxa of Barbuleae (e.g. Barbula 
unguiculata, B. orizabensis) and in many taxa of Pottieae, including 
species of Tortula and Crossidium. Pseudocrossidium is somewhat 
intermediate in character between Barbula sect. Barbula and Tortula, 
but is probably best placed in the Barbuleae near Barbula on the 
basis of the abaxial costal epidermis and the occasional presence of 
an adaxial stereid band in the costa of some species. 


Pseudocrossidium species appear to form a north-south gradient 
in morphological elaboretion, in that North American and European 
species lack some of the salient characters distinguishing the South 
American species (see appended key to South American species). The 
northernmost-ranging species, P. revolutum, is much reduced in size 
and lacks most of the distinguishing characters of the genus but is 
related through P. aureum and P. replicatun. 


12. Pseudocrossidium revolutum (Brid. in Schrad.) Zander, comb. nov. 


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Basionym: Barbula revoluta Brid. in Schrad., Jour. Bot. (Gott. ) 


1800(2): 299. 1801. 


Synonyms: Tortula revoluta (Brid.) Schrad., Bot. Zeit. Regens- 
burg 1: 21. 1802. 


Barbula platyneura C. Mull. & Kindb. in Macoun, Cat. Canad. Fa, 
: 52. 1892, syn. nov. Type: Canada, British Columbia, 
Deer Park, Arrow Lake, Macoun 24/, (CANM—isotype). 


Desmatodon ellesmerensis Brassard, Bryologist 74: 208. 1971, 
syn. noy. Type: QGanada, Northwest Territories, Zllesmere 
Is., 82° 30'l, 62° 20'N, Brassard 4467 (BUF——isotype). 


Pseudocrossidium revolutum is described and illustrated by 
Zuropean authors as Barbula revoluta, a synonym. This species is 
widespread in Europe, western Asia and northern Africa (Podp#ra, 
1954), and occurs in South Africa fide Index Muscorum (van der Wijk 
et al., 1959-1969). I have seen New World material (cited below) of 
P. revolutum from several areas in north Canada and from the Pacific 
Coast of Canada and the U.S.A. ‘When present, the convolute-sheathing 
perichaetial leaves and the propagula borne on the adaxial surface of 
the costa easily distinguish P. revolutum from the very similar 
southern species P. replicatum. However, none of the North American 
specimens bore sporophytes and in only one (isotype of B. platyneura 
at DUE) were propagula found on the leaves. However, the small 
plant size and weakly recurved leaf margins that are not or weaxly 
differentiated as photosynthetic organs indicate appropriate 
referral to P. revolutum. The gametophores regenerating in experi- 
mental culture from U.S.A., California, Galloway 242 (H-L.K. White- 
house, pers. comm.) formed differentiated perichaetial leaves cuite 
unlike those of P. replicatum. An Ecuadorian specimen in a small 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 205 


packet glued to a sheet together with the type of Barbula replicata 
Tayl. at BM is possibly FP. revolutum. It has the highly differen- 
tiated perichaetial leaves seen in Huropean collections of 

P. revolutum and the capsules are much smaller than those of 

P. replicatum, being only 1.1-1.3 mm long. The leaves are similar 
to those of P. revolutum, but this fragmentary specimen may be only 
a poorly developed form of P. excavatum (Mitt.) Williams, which 
normally has well-developed marginal photosynthetic organs (see 

key below). 


North American specimens of P. revolutum have apiculate to 
short-mucronate, subacute to blunt leaf apices that are similar to 
P. revolutum in Hurope, but are perhaps more strongly mucronate. 
The synonym Barbula platyneura was indicated by Steere (1938) to be 
an "American counterpart of the Zuropean B. hornschuchiane." How- 
ever, the latter is distinguished from P. revolutum by the very 
narrowly acute leaf apex with a strongly excurrent mucro, and 
apparently never produces propagula. A combination in Pseudo- 
crossidium is given here for this Europeai taxon. 


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Basionym: Barbula hornschuchiana Schults, Flora 5(Syl1.): 
36901822. 


Synonyms: Barbula revoluta var. hornschuchiana (schultz) Brid., 
Bryol. Univ. 1: 572. 1826. -- Tortula hormschuchiana 
(Schultz) De Not., Syll. 179. 1838. -- Tortula revolute 
var. hornschuchiena (Schultz) De Not., Mem. Roy. Acc. Sci. 
Torino 40; 315. 1838. 


Combination of these European names in the heretofore exotic 
genus Pseudocrossidium may be disconcerting to some bryologists; 
however, it is possible that the study of neotropical taxa is the 
key to understanding the relationships of many European species. 


New World collections of P. revolutum, other than the types 
cited above, include: Canada, Yukon, Firth River Basin, lower 
Menche Creek, Sharp 58219b (NY); U.S.A., Oregon, Sherman Co., along 
white R. tributary, Deschutes R., Pechanec 1259 (herd. G.ik. Bras- 
sard), California, San Diego Co., Descanso Distr., Cleveland National 
Forest, Boulder Creek Rd., Galloway 22 (CSPU). Possibly P. revo- 
lutum is: Ecuador, Pichincha, Quite, Jameson s.n., as "Tortule 
replicate?" (BM). The habitat includes soil, rocks, north-facing 
cliffs, calcareous outcrops and soil, from 75-1050 m elevation. 


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Basionym: Barbula replicata Tayl., London Jour. Bot. 5: 9. 
1846. Type: Ecuador, Pichincha, Quito, walls, Jameson, 
1847 (BM, NY--isotypes). 


Synonyms: Tortula replicata (Tayl.) Wils., London Jour. Bot. 
5: 4.5. 16,6. 


Barbula spiralis Schimp. ex C. Mull., Syn. Musc. 1: 622. 1819, 
syne nove Types: Mexico, i ia Yarrea, Mirador, 
Liebman, 1842 (Blt+-isotype). — Tortula spiralis (Schimp. 
ex O. Mull.) Mitt., Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 12: 151. 1869. 


Barbula apiculata Hampe, Linnaea 31: 519. 1862 non B. apiculata 
Hedw., 1601. —- Tortula apiculata Mitt., Jour. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 12: 153. 1869 (nom. nov. for B. apiculata Hampe) non 
T. apiculate (Hedw.) Turn., 1804. 


Barbula perlinearis C. Mull., Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 195. 1897, 
syne nove Type: Guatemata, Quezaltenango, Bernoulli & 
Cario 118 (NY—isotype). 


Barbula spiralis var. emarginata Card., Rev. Bryol. 36: 8. 


1909, syn. nov. Type: Mexico, Mexico, Amecameca, Pringle 
10611 (BM, MEXU, F, FH——isotypes). 


F. Bowers (pers. comm.) has studied Pseudocrossidium and agrees 
with me that P. replicatum is appropriately placed in this genus. 
This species is unusual but not alone in the genus in having only 
weakly differentiated perichaetial leaves and the costa being merely 
mucronate, not short-awned. However, the strongly spiralled leaf 4 
margins, with thin-walled, hollow-—papillose, deeply chlorophyllose 
interior cells, the upper laminal cells papillose medially but 
becoming epapillose towards the margins (on the exposed lamina), 
and the distinctive transverse section of the costa that shows only 
one stereid band and often Begleiter cell development, are in 
combination diagnostic features. It is closely related to P. aureun, 
in which the margins are not modified as photosynthetic organs and 
the costa is short-awned. A specimen of P. replicatum from Ecuador 
(Tungurahua, Ambato, opruce 231—NY) has a strongly excurrent costa 
similar to that of P. aureum. Both species may develop a charac- 
teristic line of large-lumened, superficially thick-walled cells, 
orten of a deep yellow or orange color, abaxially at the juncture 
of the costa and lamina, though this is less common in P. replicatum 
than in P. aureum. There is also a close relationship of P. rep- 
licatum to P. revolutum, but P. replicatum has more strongly revolute 
leaf margins, never has the propagula that are commonly found at 
least in European collections of P. revolutum, and never develops 
convolute-sheathing, largely prosenchymatous perichaetial leaves. 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 207 


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Basionym: Tortula aurea Bartr., Bull. Torrey Bot. Cl. 51: 
339. 1924. Type: U.S.A., Arizona, Pima Co., Santa 
Catalina Mts., Bear Canyon, Bartram 307 (Bartram, Mosses 
So. Arizona 98) (FH—holotype, CU—isotype). 


Synonym: Barbula aurea (Bartr.) Zander in Zander & Steere, 
Bryologist 81: 466. 1978. 


This species was described and illustrated by Bartram (1921) 
and Steere (1938). It has been know from U.S.A.: Arizona, New 
Mexico and Texas (Steere (1938) and Mexico: Chihuahua, Coahuila, 
Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Zacatecas (Crum, 1951). An 
additional locality is Mexico: Puebla, 6 km Wi of Zacatepec, 
Delgadillo 3603b (MEXU). Its habitat is very dry or desert areas, 
on ledges, soil, canyon walls or rock outcrops, at 800-2350 m 
elevation. Magill (1976) noted that in Big Bend National Park in 
southwestern Texas, U.S.A., it is both locally abundant and the most 
frequently encountered moss of desert or grassland communities; 
Bartram (1924) indicated that it is common on dry ledges in the 
region of the type locality. The sporophytes of this species are 
unknown. The leaf margins vary between collections from broadly 
once-revolute to narrowly recurved. It is placed in Psuedocrossidium 
on the basis of the lack of an adaxial stereid band and presence of 
an abaxial epidermis in the costa, in addition to having Begleiter 
cells and the general appearance of the genus. Although closely 
related to P. replicatum, it differs in lacking marginal photo- 
synthetic organs and in having a short awn. Pseudocrossidiun 
aureum often has a row of large-lumened, cubical to short-oblong 
superficial cells, slightly larger than the laminal cells, abaxially 
along the juncture of the upper costa and leaf lamina. These 
distinctive cells are often superficially thick-walled and deep 
yellow-brown or orange in coloration, with the appearance of a row of 
ocelli. 

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The foregoing key to taxa of Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 
will suffice for all species of Pseudocrossidium in North and 
Central America. The species in South America may be distinguished 
by the very tentative key given below, which is based largely on 
specimens at NY. I have not seen material of P. elatum or P. pachy- 
gatrellum. However, F. Bowers (pers. comm.) has studied the former 
species and believes it to be a Pseudocrossidiun. 


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KEY TO SPECIES OF PSEUDOCROSSIDIUM IN SOUTH AMERICA 


1. Adaxial epidermal cells of costa in one layer above guide 
cells, not forming LiLamenntscécsnecdsdcas vbcaekede buna ee ps 


1. Adaxial epidermal cells of costa in 2 to several layers above 
guide cells, usually differentiated as separate filaments..... 3. 


2. Leaf margins recurved, upper medial laminal cells with 
spiculose papillae centered over the bulging lumens; 
Chides .ivssveesdeesssos Pa Seucocalyx (Marts itive 


w 
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Leaf margins once revolute to spiral-revolute, upper medial 
laminal cells with low, bifid to multiplex papillae 
apparently scattcred over the wealily convex lumens; through- 
out AndeS...ssceceeceee Feo replicatum (Tayl.) Zander 


3. Leaf margins not differentiated as photosynthetic organs..ceoe he 


3. Leaf margins spiral-revolute, interior cells strongly chlorophyllose, 
thin-walled, HOLLow—papillose..cccccccccccccsscvcccesevcscsccece 5 


4. Leaves apiculate, costa percurrent, perichaetial leaves 
weakly differentiated; PCY Us die co 8 ae esl a Sele Slee ele ol a.e) pieieretalananrarane 
Ccdusvastecnswiecsossers: GLatum (Williams) Delgadiiag 


4. Leaves obtuse, costa ending below apex, perichaetial leaves 
strongly differentiated; Chile... P. chilense Williams 


5. Leaves 0.5-0.7 mm long, apiculate; Ecuador. cecccccccccccccccccces 
eee eresecesccsecsecsesele excavatum (Mitt. ) Williams 


oe Leaves 1.2-1.6 nm long, mucronate to Short—awmedeccecccscccoes 6. i 
6. Leaves mucronate; Bolivia... P. pachygastrellum (Herz. ) Broth. 


6. Leaves short—awmeds; Peru, Chile.ccccccrcccccccccccesccvceces 
@eeeeeoveoeeneeeaeveee eee eene eeeeee P. apiculatum Williams 


EXCLUDED TAA 


In a treatment of the genus Tuerckheimia (Zander, 1978c), I in- 
dicated that T. linearis (Web. & Mohr) Britt. should be recognized as 
Barbula linearis Web. & Mohr, because of a supposed close relation-— 
ship to B. indica. This was incorrect, being based upon a series of 
specimens at NY that included both T. linearis and West Indian ex- 
pressions of B. indica with unusually long leaves and often rather 
massive laminal papillae. Material, including an isotype of 
T. lineare, that had been examined by Britton (1913) and Crum and 
Steere (1957) for their discussions of T. lineare has been located at 
NY, for which I thank W.R. Buck. On examination of these specimens 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 209 


and of the holotype ("Fl. Ind. Or." leg. Swartz s.n.) from SPA, 

I find that I. linearis is probably best recognized as Oxystegus 
linearis (iWieb. & Mohr) Hilp. The illustrations by Crum and Steere 
(1957), which I had suggested were probably QO. tenuirostris (Hook. & 
Tayl.) A.J.E. Sm., are actually quite representative of most material 
of QO. linearis. Oxystegus linearis is distinguished from Barbula 
indica by the broad costa with two layers of guide cells (in most 
collections), the lamina inserted laterally on the costa, not 
adaxially and thus not forming an adaxial laminal groove, and the 
basal laminal cells sharply differentiated, inflated, comprising 

an oval, somewhat sheathing leaf base. It differs from 0.tenui- 
rostris by the 32 anastomosing, filiform, closely spiculose, red 
peristome teeth borne on a distinct basal membrane, the weakly 
sheathing leaf base and the two layers of guide cells usually found 
in the costa. The differences in peristome structure between 

Q. linearis and 0. tenuirostris may seem extreme; however, Grout 
(1938b) noted similar variation to occur between different collections 
of Trichostomum jamaicense (Mitt.) Jaeg. in the Wiest Indies. Also, 
many collections of Trichostomum species have peristomes lacking 
basal membranes, and the usual distinctions between the genera 
Oxystegus and Trichostomum seem to me rather arbitrary or even 
baseless in respect to peristome characters. Clarification of 
relationships between genera of Trichostomoideae await more inten- 
Sive study, however. 


Other North American species of Barbula that are not listed 
here or in the lists of synonymy cited above, or which are not 
treated in my review of Didymodon for North America north of Mexico 
(Zander, 19'78a), are synonyms of species of Didymodon and will be 
discussed in a forthcoming paper on Didymodon in Mexico. However, 


Barbula crassicuspis H. Robinson is a synonym of Morinia crassicuspis 
(H. Robinson) Zander (Zander, 1978b). 


CORRECTIONS 


In a treatment of Didymodonin North America north of Mexico 
(Zander, 1978a), I dealt with the Didymodon fallax group of species 
as Didymodon sect. Graciles (Milde) K. Saito. However, an earlier 
name, noted in the Supplement to the Index Muscorum (van der Wijk et 
al., 1959-1969), is available at the sectional level. 


a aes eS 
SS SSS SSS ————— 


Basionym: Tortula sect. Fallaces De Not., Mem. Roy. Acc. Sci. 
Torino 40: 287. 1838. Type species: Barbula fallax Hedw. 


Synonyms: Barbula sect. Fallaces (De Not.) Steere in Grout, 
Moss Fl. No. Amer. 1; 174. 1938. 


Barbula sect. Graciles Milde, Bryol. Siles. 117. 1869. 
Type species: Barbula rigidicaulis C. Muell. — 


210 Uy ron Oe rh Vol. 44, No. 4 


Didymodon sect. Graciles (Milde) K. Saito, Jour. Hattori 
Bot. Lab. 39: 504. 1975. 


Barbula subsect. Fallaciformes Kindb., Eur. No. Amer. Bryin. 
2: 246. 1897. 


Additional synonyms are given by Saito (1975). 


In the same paper, Didymodon reedii H. Robins. was inadver- 
tently left out of the key. "See ll. D. reedii" should be inserted 
next to D. brachyphyllus (Sull. in Whipple) Zander on page 17. 


SUMMARY 
Taxa recognized in North America: 
Barbula Hedw. subg. Barbula 


sect. Barbula 
Be unguiculata Hedw. 
B. orizabensis C. Mull. 
B. calcarea Ther. 
B. inaequalifolia Tayl. 


sect. Convolutae B.S.G. 
B. indica (Hook.) Spreng. [s. ampl. ] 
B. amplexifolia (Mitt.) Jaeg. 
B. convoluta Hedw. 
var. convoluta 
var. gallinula Zander, var. nove 
B. eustegia Card. & Ther. [colunb. | 


sect. Hydrogonium (C. Mull.) K. Saito 
B. ehrenbergii (Lor.) Fleisch. [colunb. ] 
B. arcuata Griff. [s. ampl. & columb. | 
Barbula subg. Hyophiladelphus (C. Mull.) Zander, stat. nov. 
Be. agraria Hedw. 
Pseudocrossidium Williams 
. revolutum (Brid. in Schrad.) Zander, comb. nov. 


- replicatum (Tayl.) Zander, comb. nov. 
aureum (Bartr.) Zander, comb. nov. 


al 


Other nomenclatural novelty: 


Pseudocrossidium hornschuchianum (Schultz) Zander, comb. nov. 


211 


1979 Zander, Barbula and Pseudocrossidium 


Barbula sect. Revolutae B.S.G. = Pseudocrossidium 


Didymodon tophaceus 

involuta Bix. & Ther. = B. agraria 

Barbula convoluta var. propagulifera Glow. = Gymnostomun a2eruginosum 
Barbula crispula Hampe in Jaeg. = Be arcuata 
Barbula cruegeri Sond. ex C. Mill. = B. indica 

Barbula ehrenbergii var. mexicana Ther. = B. ehrenbergii 
Desmatodon ellesmerensis Brassard = P. revolutum 


Barbula abbonii Ther. = 
Barbula agraria fo. 


Barbula erosa Hampe in C. Mull. = B. indica 

Barbula ferrinervis C. Mull. = B. arcuata 

Barbula ferrinervis var. eggersiana C. Mull. = B. arcuata 
Tortula gregaria Mitt. = B. indica 

Barbula haringae Crum = B. amplexifolia 


= 


horrinervis K. Saito = B. indica 
husnotii Schimp. ex Besch. = B. agrari 


Barbula hypselostegia Card. = B. indica 
Barbula linguaefolia Bartr. = B. calcarea 


macrogonia Besch. = B. arcuata 


Barbula microglottis C. Mull. = B. indica 
Barbula muenchii Card. = B. indica 


perlinearis C. M - = P. replicatun 


platyneura C. Mull. & Kindb. = P. revolutum 


Barbula pringlei Card. = B. indica 
Barbula purpuripes C. Mull. = B. indica 


rubricaulis Ther. = B. arcuate 
rufipes Schimp. ex Besch. = B. indica 


Trichostomum setifolium C. ifill. = 


B. arcuata 


Barbula spiralis Schimp. ex C. Mull. = P. replicatum 
Barbula spiralis var. emarginata Card. = P. replicatum 


Barbula stenotheca Ther. = B. orizabensis 
Barbula stillicidiorum Card. =B. arcuata 


Barbula suberythropoda C. Mull. = B. arcuate 


Barbula subulifolia Sull. = B. arcuata 
Parbula unguiculata fo. propagulosa Crum = B. indica 


whitehouseae Crum 


B. eustegia 


Barbula 
Barbula wrightii Sauerb. in Jaeg. = B. indica 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 


For valuable discussions, suggestions end criticism, and for 
bringing certain specimens to my attention, I thank L.E. Anderson, 
GR. Brassard, ii.R. Buck, H.-A. Crum, F. Bowers, H.O. Hill, D. Horton, 
B.M. Murray, C. Delgadillo M., A.J. Sharp, W.C. Steere, D.H. Vitt and 
H.L.k. Whitehouse, among others. I am grateful to the curators of 
the herbaria mentioned in the text for loan of specimens. Especial 
thanks are given to P.M. Eckel for rendering the diagnosis into Latin 
and for doing the illustrations. 


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NOTES ON NEW AND NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. CXXIX 


Harold N. Moldenke 


AEGIPHILA MEMBRANACEA var. BOLIVIANA Mold., var. nov. 

Haec varietas a forma typica speciei pubescentibus distincte 
longioreque brunneo—hispidulis vel villosulis recedit,. 

This variety differs from the typical form of the species chiefly 
in having the conspicuous pubescence on the branches, branchlets, and 
larger venation on the lower leaf-surface longer and stiffly brown- 
villosulous or hirsutulous, spreading at right angles to the substrate. 

The type of the variety was collected by William R. Anderson (no, 
11929) in roadside thickets (capoeira) 5--10 km. northwest of Guay- 
aramerin on the road to Cachuela Esperanza, El Beni, Bolivia, on Jan- 
uary 31, 1978, and is deposited in the Britton Herbarium at the New 
York Botanical Garden. The collector describes the plant as a slender 
unbranched shrub 2.5 m. tall, the fruits yellow. 


JUNELLIA JUNIPERINA var. CAMPESTRIS (Griseb.) Mold., comb. nov. 
Verbena juniperina var. campestris Griseb., Pl. Lorentz. 193, 1874. 


LANTANA CANESCENS f£. GRANDIFOLIA Mold., f. nov. 

Haec forma a forma typica speciei laminis foliorum distincte ova- 
libus usque ad 11 cm. longis 5 cm. latis recedit. 

This form differs from the typical form of the species in its much 
larger leaves, the blades of which are distinctly oval, to about 11 
cm. long and 5 cm. wide. 

The form is based on Herrera 211 collected in the Quebrada de 
Cules, Rio Cules, dept. Famailla, Tucuman, Argentina, on March 4, 1945, 
and is deposited in the Britton Herbarium at the New York Botanical 
Garden. 


PAEPALANTHUS JAUENSIS var. CAULESCENS Mold., var. nov. 

Haec varietas a forma typica speciei habitu distincte caulescente 
recedit. 

This variety differs from the typical form of the species in that 
it is distinctly caulescent, the stems often to at least 8 cm. in 
length and densely foliose throughout, the leaves erect to ascending. 

The type of the variety was collected by Julian A, Steyermark, Vic- 
tor Carreno Espinosa, Roy McDiarmid, and Charles Brewer-Carfas (no, 
115893), growing in tufts, the leaves grass-green, at 2460--2500 n. 
altitude on the Cumbre de Aprada-tepui, lat. 5°22' N., long. 62°20' E., 
Bolivar, Venezuela, on February 25, 1978, and is deposited in my per- 
sonal herbarium. The collectors note that the plant seems related to 
"Paepalanthus jauensis and duidae but stems elongated and caulescent; 
see also Syngonanthus phelpsae var. elongatus but bracts have differ- 
ent color, etc." 


SYNGONANTHUS COWANI var. TABULATUS Mold., var. nov. 
Haec varietas a forma typica speciei caulibus elongatis rosetta 
215 


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foliorum medio ornatis recedit. 

This variety differs from the typical form of the species in its 
very diminutive stature, mostly only 2.5--5.5 cm. tall when in full 
anthesis, the stems decidedly elongated and bearing a rosette of 
leaves exactly similar to the basal rosette at or somewhat above the 
midpoint. 

The type of the variety was collected by Otto Huber (no. 1684) on 
a small savanna in the woods around the southwest base of Cerro Yapa- 
cana, 66°50' E., 3°40' N., at about 100 m. altitude, between February 
14 and 28, 1978, and is deposited in my personal herbarium, The col- 
lector notes: "Hierba diminuta de unos 5--7 cm de alto, muy comin en 
esta sabana. Cabezuelas color blanco-gris&ceo....Dept. Atabapo, 
cabecera del Cano Cotta hasta el pié occidental del Cerro Yapacana.... 
Sabana arenosa,..sObre terrenos planos parcialmente inundados dirante 
la @poca de lluvias." 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS VITEX. XII 


Harold N. Moldenke 


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In Menninger's work on flowering vines (1970) the index indicates 
that Vitex is listed on p. 369, but actually it is the unrelated genus 
Vitis (Vitaceae) that is there discussed. Similarly, items 9635, 
9686, & 9902 cited by Farnsworth (1970) as applying to Vitex actually 
apply to Vitis. The Endlicher (1838) reference in the bibliography 
above is often cited as "1836--1856", but the pages involved here 
were actually issued in 1838. Biological Abstracts (1977) erroneous- 
ly spells the surname of R. B. Faden (1976) as "Raden". The Foreman 
(1972) publication bears the erroneous date "1971" on its titlepage. 
The index in the work by Pandeya, Puri, & Singh (1968) indicates a 
mention of Vitex on p. 29, but I fail to find it on that page. Simi- 
larly, the "p. 121" reference in the Kobayashi work (1970) appears 
to be erroneous. 

Brown (1954) informs us that "vitex, -icis" is the classical Latin 
name for the chastetree native to Italy, Vitex agnus-castus L. Wang 
(1961) states that plants of this genus, along with Corylus, Ostryop- 
sis, and Deutzia, cover great expanses of the mountain slopes and 
foothills in the deciduous broadleaf forests of the northern provinces 
of China. 

Miejer (1968) asserts that the leaves of Vitex are without oil- 
glands, but he surely did not examine the leaves of a sufficient num- 
ber of species. The chromosome number for the genus is reported as 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 219 


x = 6 or 8. Martin (1946) reports that the seeds of Vitex contain 

endosperm. Gibbs (1974) reports the presence of agnuside (an aucubin- 

like glucoside) and aucubin, while saponins and tannins are absent or 

probably so, shikimic acid is present, but L-bornesitol is absent. 

Raffauf (1970) reports the presence of vitricene (C,H,.NO,) and 
ears 2 at Ge eta 

nishindine (C H,,NO). 

Huang (19733 describes the pollen for the genus as "Grains 3-col- 
pate; prolate to prolate-spheroidal; 27--40 x 18--33 mu; amb circular- 
lobate; exine 2 mu thick; tectum with scabrate processes; sexine with 
OL-pattern; nexine as thick as sexine". In a genus of 400 taxa as 
now recognized one must wonder how reliable these descriptions are 
when given for the genus as a whole. Voss (1895) considered the genus 
as one of only 60 species in "wdrmeren Gegenden"; Ohwi (1965) regarded 
it as containing 100 species "chiefly in the Tropics, few in temperate 
regions of Europe and e. Asia". Jones & Luchsinger (1979), probably 
due to a stenographic error, give "3" as the number of species in the 
genus! The genus, according to Savage (1945), is genus number 811 in 
the Linnean Herbarium. Jack (1820) comments rather unnecessarily 
that the only other genus in the Verbenaceae with compound leaves 
[known to him] is the genus Peronema, and that this is “abundantly 
distinct". Actually, at least 5 other genera in the family have com- 
pound leaves: Petraeovitex, Petitia, Pseudocarpidium, Teijsmannioden- 
dron, and Viticipremna, albeit in some cases 1-foliolate. 

Sharma (1975) reports an unidentified species of Vitex cultivated 
as a hedge in the Punjab -- this is probably one of the varieties of 
V. trifolia. In 1849 Hooker and Bentham regarded the "African oak" 
and "African teak" of Africa as probably members of the genus Vitex, 
but in this they were in error; the latter, at least, actually is 
Oldfieldia africana Benth. & Hook. f. in the Euphorbiaceae. 

The genus Tomex L., sometimes cited in the synonymy of Vitex, ac- 
tually belongs, instead, in that of Callicarpa L. It is of interest 
to note, in passing, that Caruel (1884) is among those botanists who 
correctly accredit the name Vitex to Tournefort, rather than to Lin- 
naeus, who merely adopted it. 

Dalla Torre & Harms (1963), regarding it as a genus of 100 species, 
divide Vitex as follows: 

Sect. 1. Agnus castus Endl. 
Subsect. 1. Terminales Briq. 
Subsect. 2. Axillares Briq. 
Subsect. 3. Glomerulosae Briq. 

Sect. 2. Pyrostoma Schau. 

Sect. 3. Chrysomallum Schau, 

Sect. 4 Glossocalyx Clarke 

Capuron (1972, p. 45) refers to a Section "Laniculatae", apparent- 
ly a typographic error for Paniculatae Schau. 

It is also of interest to note that Dietrich (1837) places Vitex in 
his Family 57, Viticeae, and not in Family 58, Verbenaceae. 

Sweet (1839) has pointed out that Wallrothia is a valid genus in 
the Ammiaceae, so the homonym proposed in the Verbenaceae, if main- 
tained as a separate genus, must be renamed. 

Langsdale-Brown and his associates (1964) list several unidenti- 
fied species from Uganda that inhabit the Butyrospermum-Hyparrhenia 


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savannas, Acacia-Albizzia-Panicum-Chloris savannas, Albizzia-Combre- 
tum woodlands, Vitex-Phyllanthus-Sapium-Terminalia woodlands, Combre- 
tum-Hyparrhenia savannas, Borassus-Hyparrhenia rufa palm savannas, 
Borassus-Hyparrhenia dissolute palm savannas, Albizzia-Combretum- 
Terminalia-Hyparrhenia rufa savannas, and Hyparrhenia grass savannas 
derived from Butyrospermum savannas in Africa. Kurz (1870 has listed 
another unidentified species from the Andaman Islands. Kotschy (1865) 
lists an unidentified species of the Chrysomallum section from Ethi- 
opia, Irvine (1970) lists two from Gold Coast, Puri (1960) lists one 
from India, Foreman (1972) one from New Guinea, Jaffré (1974) one from 
New Caledonia, and Vergiat (1970) describes two from Ubangi which 
"Pour faire bonne péche les Sangos frottent leurs filets avec des 
feuilles de cette plante,. Les petites fourmis hantant les rameau 
sont utilisées comme appat pour la p@che, on les répand sur l'eau. 

La poudre obtenue en pilant les fruits avec les fourmis qui vivent 

sur cette plante est vénéneuse. Antidote: décoction de racines de... 
Bauhinia thonningii", Another species, unidentified, "C'est 1'écorce 
brulée de cette espéce qui est utilisée, par les indigénes islamisées 
de race Haoussa, pour la fabrication de leur encre, les cendres sont 
diluées dans de l'eau natronée". 

Vernacular names reported for the genus as a whole or for unidenti- 
fied members of it include: "hamago zoku" (in Japan), "Keuschbaum", 
"Keusch-lamm", and "Ménchspfeffer", as well as "Miillen" (in Germany), 
"yénu-ka-bij", "shambhaloo-ka-bij", and "tukm-i-panjangusht" (in In- 
dia), "aceituma" and "totumillo" (in Venezuela), "afetewa" and 
“akwakora gyahina" (in Gold Coast), "burlya", "deniya", "gbabili", 
"oko alya", and "tela" (in Africa), "wallrothia" (in England), 
"muxillo-xyllo" (in Angola), "kachinori-—pini" (in Peru), and "pala 
bikunda" (in western Africa). 

Aristeguieta (1973) describes the Venezuelan members of the genus 
as very ornamental and "bastante resistentes", suitable as street and 
park trees. Dymock (1884) says of an unidentified species of Vitex in 
western India that the "small fruit is considered by native physicians 
to be astringent, resolvant and deobstruent, and useful for removing 
obstructions of the brain and liver. It is also given in enlargement 
of the spleen and dropsy.....The drug is imported from Persia". DeWit 
(1967) says that the genus is reputedly aphrodisiac -- a curious 
claim since the best-known species, V. agnus-castus, is widely re- 
garded as an anti-aphrodisiac! 

Hartwell (1971) reports an unidentified species in Angola is used 
to treat tumors of the breast and another is used in Peru to treat can- 
cerous ulcers. DeWildeman (1920) reports an unidentified species in 
western Africa whose wood is used to make wooden utensils and in other 
woodwork. 

Vitex species are attacked by the fungi, Meliola viticicola Hansf. 
(in Zaire) according to Hansford (1961), based on Hendrickx 2390, M. 
paraensis P. Henn. (in Brazil), also according to Hansford, based on 
Huber 4 at Stockholm, M. cookeana Speg. (in Zaire), also according to 
Hansford, based on Vanderyst 38577, 43953, 44309, & 44340, Leptosphaer- 
ia casta according to Anon. (1969), Ciferriella domingensis, Meliola 
campylopoda, Mycosphaerella viticis, Olivea acitula, Phoma viticicola, 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 221 


Pleurotus guaraniticus, Pucciniastrum clemensiae, and Vizella grandis 
according to Anon. (1957), a leaf-spot, Cercospora weberi, according 
to Pirone (1978), another leaf-spot, C. viticis (in Louisiana and Tex- 
as), and a root-rot, Phymatotrichum omnivorum (in Texas) according to 
Westcott (1971), and the white-flies, Aleurotrachelus viticis Corbett 
(in Malaya), Dialeurodes dicksoni (in Malaya), and D. vitis Corbett 
(in Malaya). 

The Baileys (1976) refer to the plants of this genus as "vitexes" 
and note that the cultivated ones "do well in any good soil. Propa- 
gated by seeds in spring, layers, and greenwood cuttings under glass". 

Anatomical studies made by Gray & DeZeeuw are reported by Richards 
(1978) as follows: "The secondary xylem anatomy of the genus Vitex has 
been studied comparatively to prepare a more precise definition of the 
structural variation within the genus, to find possible relationships 
of anatomical structure to geographical regions, and to determine 
the possible cause or causes of the reported slow air-drying of the 
wood of several species in this genus. The material examined was world- 
wide in origin and more extensive than for any of the previous region- 
al studies. Anatomical evidence obtained from this investigation 
corroborates existing data that the wood structure of Vitex is essen- 
tially homogeneous. The only exception is a slight trend for segre- 
gating African species by the more common presence of multiperforate 
perforation plates as well as low density and generally pale colored 
wood. Multiperforate and scalariform perforation plates in vessel 
elements were observed in many species, in contrast to previous reports 
which indicated that these specialized perforations were very rare in 
Vitex. The presence of multiple calcium crystals per parenchyma cell 
in a majority of species studied is a possible diagnostic character 
for the genus, while the presence of silica sand and specialized cell 
wall sculpturing can be used for diagnostic features for certain spec- 
ies within the genus. Unusual amounts of starch deposits observed in 
the septate fibers of the heartwood in over half of the species studied 
is suggested as a diagnostic character for the genus and as a possible 
cause for the reported slow drying characteristics for these species." 

The Helfer 304, distributed as a species of Vitex, actually is one 
of Buddleia (Buddleiaceae), while Kostermans 24039 is Clerodendrum ser- 
ratum (L.) Moon, Fosberg & Mueller-Dombois 50142 is Glossocarya scan- 
dens (L. f.) Trimen, Prance, Rodrigues, Ramos, & Farias 8339 & 8344 
are Metradorea sp. (Rutaceae), T. Anderson 133 is Peronema canescens 
Jack, Oldham 679 is Premna microphylla Turcz., T. Anderson 183 and 
Griffith 6065/1 are Teijsmanniodendron coriaceum (C. B. Clarke) Kosterm., 
E. D. Merrill 2852 is Viticipremna philippinensis (Turcz.) H. J. Lam, 
Bernardi 3360 and R. V. Moran 7742 are in the Bignoniaceae, Frodin 
NGF.26450 is in the Rubiaceae, and T. Anderson 131, Claussen s.n. [Min- 
as Gerais], G. P. Cooper 111, Daniel & Tomas 3368, Gilbert 2168, Good- 
land 389, Herb. Richard s.n., Hinton 16235, and Nadeaud s.n,. are not 
verbenaceous, 

To the lists of taxa excluded from the genus previously published by 
me the following are to be added or emended: 

Vitex aherniana Merr., Bur. Govt. Lab. Manila Publ. 6: 18. 1904 = 
Teijsmanniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh. 


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Vitex ahernianum Merr. ex Mold., Phytologia 5: 258, in syn. 1955 = 
Teijsmanniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh. 

Vitex ?bantamensis Koord. & Val., Bijdr. Booms. Java 7: 210. 1900 = 
Vavaea bantamensis (Koord. & Val.) Koord. & Merr., Meliaceae 

Vitex caribaea Hook. & Arn. ex Schau. in A, DC., Prodr. 11: 696, in 
syn. 1847 = Vitis californica Benth., Vitaceae 

Vitex bahiensis Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 687. 1847 = Arrabidaea 
bahiensis (Schau.) Sandw. & Mold., Bignoniaceae | 

Vitex bankae H. J. Lam in Lam & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz., ser. 
3, 3: 62. 1921 = Teijsmanniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh. 

Vitex bogariensis H. J. Lam ex Mold., Alph. List Inv. Names 58, in 
syn. 1942 = Teijsmanniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh. 

Vitex bogoiensis H. J. Lam ex Mold., Phytologia 28: 465, in syn. 
1974 = Teijsmanniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh. 

Vitex bogoniensis H. J. Lam ex Mold., Fifth Summ, 2: 714, in syn. 
1971 = Teijsmanniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh. 

Vitex bogoriensis H. J. Lam in Lam & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz., © 
ser. 3, 3: 60. 1921 = Teijsmanniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh. 

Vitex clarkeana Gamble in King & Gamble, Journ, Asiat. Soc. Beng. 74: 
845. 1908 = Teijsmanniodendron hollrungii (Warb.) Kosterm, 

Vitex clarkeana King & Gamble ex Mold., Phytologia 5: 258, in syn. 
1955 = Teijsmanniodendron hollrungii (Warb.) Kosterm, 

Vitex coriacea C. B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 586. 1885 
= Teijsmanniodendron coriaceum (C,. B. Clarke) Kosterm. 

Vitex curranii H. J. Lam, Verbenac. Malay. Arch. 207. 1919 = Teijs- | 
manniodendron ahernianum (Merr.) Bakh, 7 

Vitex curtifrutescens Elm., Leafl. Philip. Bot. 8: 2873. 1915 = Cla- 
oxylon Spe, Euphorbiaceae | 

Vitex hollrungii Warb., Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 18: 208. 1894 = Teijsmanni- 
odendron hollrungii (Warb.) Kosterm. 

Vitex holophylla Baker, Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 1896: 25. 1896 = Teijs- 
manniodendron holophyllum (J. G. Baker) Kosterm. 

Vitex japonica Farnsworth, Pharmacog. Titles 5 (4): xii, sphalm. 1970 
= Vitis japonica Thunb., Vitaceae 

Vitex flabelliflora Hall. f., Meded. Rijks Herb. Leid. 37: 50. 1918 = 
Teijsmanniodendron bogoriense Koord. 

Vitex koordersii H. J. Lam in Lam & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz., 
ser. 3, 3: 64. 1921 = Teijsmanniodendron pteropodum (Miq.) Bakh. 

Vitex lanceolata Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36 (2): 224. 1863 = 
Psychotria sarmentosa Blume, Rubiaceae 

Vitex novae pommeraniae Warb. ex K. Schum. & Lauterb., Fl. Deutsch. 
Schutzgeb. Sudsee 524, 1900 = Viticipremna novae-pommeraniae 
(Warb.) H. J. Lam 

Vitex novae-pommeraniae Warb., Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 13: 429. 1891 = 
Viticipremna novae-pommeraniae (Warb.) H. J. Lam 

Vitex novo-guineensis Kaneh. & Hatus., Bot. Mag. Tokyo 56: 116, fig. 
B. 1942 = Teijsmanniodendron novo-guineense (Kaneh,. & Hatus.) 
Kosterm, 

Vitex novoguineensis Kaneh. & Hatus. apud Kosterm., Reinwardtia 1:103, 
in syn. 1951 = Teijsmanniodendron novo-guineense (Kaneh. & Hatus.) 
Kostern. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 223 


Vitex peralata Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. Sum. 242 & 567. 1862 = 
Teijsmanniodendron pteropodum (Miq.) Bakh. 

Vitex philippinensis J. J. Lam ex Mold., Résumé 388, in syn. 1959 = 
Teijsmanniodendron pteropodum (Miq.) Bakh. 

Vitex philippinensis Merr., Forest. Bur. Philip. Bull. 1: 52. 1903 = 
Teijsmanniodendron pteropodum (Miq.) Bakh, 

Vitex philippnensis Merr. ex Mold., Résumé 388, in syn. 1959 = Teijs- 
manniodendron pteropodum (Miq.) Bakh. 

Vitex premnoides Elm., Leafl. Philip. Bot. 8: 2874. 1915 = Mastixia 
premnoides (Elm.) H. Hallier, Mastixiaceae 

Vitex pteropoda Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. Sum. 242 & 567. 1862 = 
Teijsmanniodendron pteropodum (Miq.) Bakh. 

Vitex sarawakana H. H. W. Pearson, Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 1907: 60. 
1907 = Teijsmanniodendron sarawakanum (H. H. W. Pearson) Kosterm, 

Vitex simplicifolia C. B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 586. 
1885 = Teijsmanniodendron hollrungii (Warb.) Kosterm. 

Vitex smilacifolia H. H. W. Pearson, Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 1907: 159. 
1907 = Teijsmanniodendron smilacifolium (H. H. W. Pearson) 
Kosterm. 

Vitex subspicata Hall. f., Meded. Rijks Herb. Leid. 37: 52. 1918 = 
Teijsmanniodendron subspicatum (H. Hallier) Kosterm. 

Vitex tetragona Hall. f., Meded. Rijks Herb. Leid. 37: 53. 1918 = 
Teijsmanniodendron sarawakanum (H. H. W. Pearson) Kosterm. 

Vitex tridentata Menzies ex Mold., Phytologia 28: 465, in syn. 1974 = 
Viola tridentata Menzies, Violaceae 

Vitex venosa H. J. Lam in Lam & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz., ser. 
3, 3: 61. 1921 = Teijsmanniodendron coriaceum (C. B. Clarke) 
Kosterm,. 

Vitex vinifera Farnsworth, Pharmacog. Titles 5 (3): vii, sphalm. 1970 
= Vitis vinifera L., Vitaceae 

Vitex zeylanica Burm. f., Fl. Ind. 138. 1768 = Stereospermum sp., Big- 
noniaceae 

Wallrothia divaricata Presl, Delic. Prag. 134. 1822 = Carum alpinum 
Benth. & Hook., Ammiaceae 

Wallrothia splendens Spreng. ex Schult. in L., Syst. Veg. 6: 557. 
1820 -- in the Ammiaceae 

Wallrothia tenuifolia DC. = W. splendens Spreng., Ammiaceae 

Wallrothia tuberosa Spreng., Pl. Min. Cog. Pugill. 2: 52. 1815 = Ca- 
rum alpinum Benth. & Hook., Ammiaceae 


VITEX ACUMINATA R. Br. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex melicarpa Janssonius, Mikrogr. Holz. 
812, sphalm. 1926. 

Additional bibliography: Wall., Numer. List 86. 1831; D. Dietr., 
Syn. Pl. 3: 612. 1843; Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calc. 473. 1845; Schau. 
in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 695. 1847; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 
501. 1858; R. Schomb., Fl. S. Austr. 52. 1875; Janssonius, Mikrogr. 
Holz. 812. 1926; Willaman & Schubert, Agr. Res. Serv. U. S. Dept. Agr. 
Tech. Bull. 1234: 237. 1961; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.13: 569. 1968; 
Mold., Phytologia 16: 491. 1968; Mold., Biol. Abstr. 50: 942. 1969; 
Beard, West Austr. Pl., ed. 2, 113. 1970; Mold., Fifth Sum. 1: 349 


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(1971) and 2: 722 & 922. 1971; Serbanescu-Jitariu & Mitroiu, Act. Bot. 
Hort. Bucurest,. 1972-73: 116. 1973; Mold., Phytologia 34: 280. 1976. 

Dietrich (1843) describes this species as "foliolis ovato-oblongis 
acuminatis glabris integerrimis; paniculae rachi stricta; ramis dich- 
otomis; calyce subdentulo; staminibus inclusis". Recent collectors de- 
scribe it as a tall shrub, "deciduous shrub-tree", or "upright green 
tree", to 25 feet tall, the bark gray, flakey, the trunk 6 inches in 
diameter, usually with several branches from the base, and the fruit 
[immature?] green. They have encountered it in creekbeds with Eucalyp-— 
tus camalduensis, in monsoon forests, and "rare growing against rocks", 
flowering and fruiting in February and March. The corollas are said 
to have been "mauve" in color on Swinbourne 686. A wood sample accom- 
panies Perry 1052. 

According to Bentham, V. acuminata usually has its petioles shorter 
than the leaflets, the petiolules being very short or to 1/4 inch 
long, and the flowers in a thyrsoid panicle, terminal or in the upper- 
most leaf-axils only. Vitex glabrata, on the other hand, has the pet- 
ioles over 2 inches long, the petiolules always 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, 
and the flowers borne in loose, dichotomous, axillary cymes, 

Serbanescu-Jitariu & Mitroiu (1973), based on Herb. Mus. Bot. Haun. 
122 [Herb. Univ. Cluj 138426], describes the pollen of V. acuminata as 
follows: "subprolat; 3-colpat; vazut apical 20,8--36,4 mu in dian., 
din profil inalt 26--52 mu, lat 20,8--33,8 mu. Polenul scuturat din 
antere si vazut cu ochiul liber este galben-portocaliu, in apa la 
microscop, portocaliu, iar in chloralhidrat, verzui-incolor. In gen- 
eral prezinta caractere asemanatoare cu cele intilnite la V. agnus 
castus cu deosebirea ca sporoderma este mai subtire, iar veruculli 
mai mari. Colpii 3/4 din raza microsporilor, sint mai lungi si de 
asemenea mai ingusti si foarte ascutiti la capete", 

Material of V. acuminata has been misidentified and distributed in 
some herbaria as V. glabrata R. Br. On the other hand, the A. Cunning- 
ham 256, cited previously by me as V. acuminata, actually represents 
V. glabrata. 

Additional citations: AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: Byrnes NB.556 
(Ai--14365); Schomburgk s.n. [North Coast] (W--74072); Swinbourne 686 
(Ai--10030). Queensland: Helms 122 (W--1271357); Re Ae Perry 1052 
(Ai). 


VITEX AGELAEIFOLIA Mildbr. ex Pieper, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 62, Beibl. 141: 
55. 1928 [not V. agelaeifolia Mildbr., 1922, hyponym]. 

Additional bibliography: Good & Exell, Journ. Bot. 69, Suppl. 2: 144 
& 145. 1930; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 57 (2): 402. 1938; 
Schnell & Grout de Beaufort, Mém. Inst. Fond. Afr. Noire 75: [Contrib. 
Etud. Pl. Myrmecod.] 9 & 45--47, pl. 10, fig. H--J. 1966; Mold., Phyto- 
logia 16: 491. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 225 & 231 (1971) and 2: 710 
& 922, 1971. 

Illustrations: Schnell & Grout de Beaufort, Mem. Inst. Fond. Afr. 
Noire 75: [Contrib. Etud. Pl. Myrmecod.] 47, pl. 10, fig. H--J. 1966. 

Schnell & Grout de Beaufort (1966) describe the myrmecophily of this 
species and illustrate the nodal and internodal openings to the inter- 
nal nests in the branches, based on Jacques-Felix 2307 from Cameroons, 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 225 


Lebrun 1847 from Zaire, Le Testu 5892 & 5945 from Gabon, and Le Testu 
7785 from Cameroons. 

Good & Exell (1930) describe the species as "a climbing shrub, 
sporadic in abandoned native plantations", flowering and fruiting in 
January. 

The Vitex agelaeifolia Mildbr. (1922) of Subgenus Euvitex, Section 
Axillares, Subsection Paniculatae, is a synonym of V. phaseolifolia 
Mildbr. 


VITEX AGELAEIFOLIA var. RUFULA Mold. 

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Additional citations: ZAIRE: Germani 5232 (E--2168604). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS L. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Vitex, sive Agnus Castus Gerarde, 
Herbal, ed. 1, 3: 1387. 1597. Agnus Castus Cast. ex Schr6d., Pharm. 
Med. 4: 10. 1649. Elaeagnon Theophrasti Lob. ex Schréd., Pharm. Med. 
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L277. 1679; Vitex agnus castes i; Sp. Pl.) edie Ly) imp. 15. 638, 
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Mold., Phytologia 28: 465, in syn. 1974, Vitex ilensis Runkewitz ex 
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Mold., Phytologia 31: 412, in syn. 1975 [not V. negundo Curtis, 1832, 
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logia 34: 279, in syn. 1976. Vitex agnus-catus Lewis & Elvin-Lewis, 
Med. Bot. 332, sphalm. 1977. Vitex angus-castus var. angus-castus 
To. 1, a0 herp: 

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Book Shrubs, ed. 4, 404. 1942. [to be continued} 


BEGONIA OF ECUADOR 


Lyman B. Smith and Dieter C. Wasshausen 
Smithsonian Institution 
Washington, D. C., U. S. A. 


This revision is preliminary to a detailed manuscript for 
"Flora of Ecuador" edited by Gunnar Harling and Benkt Sparre. 

It enables us to place a number of new species on early record 
and to lay a framework for further study as more herbaria are 
consulted. So far we have studied in any depth only the herbaria 
of AA, AAU, GB, GH, NY, S, and Us. 

Our key is frankly artificial because the distinctions of 
placental form are highly impractical due to a lack of both pis- 
tillate flowers and fruit in a very large proportion of the 
specimens examined. For a taxonomic key to the sections see 
Irmscher in Pflanzenfam. ed. 2. 21: 579-580. 1925. 


1. Flowering plant leafless. 
2. Inflorescence small, few-flowered, irregular; apical stipules 
imbricate. 33. B. parcifolia 
2. Inflorescence large, many-flowered, regularly dichotomous. 

3. Cortex yellow-brown, sublustrous, finely striate or rugulose 
when dry; stem tough, woody, ca. 3 dm long; capsule-wings 
subequal. 34. B. compacticaulis 

3. Cortex bluish gray, lustrous, smooth but crustose; stem 
soft, hollow, to 4 m long; capsule-wings very unequal. 

35. B. erythrocarpa 
1. Flowering plant leafy. 
4, Blades peltate. 
5. The blades subentire to doubly dentate but not lobed. 
6. Blades strongly asymmetric, oblique, doubly dentate; leaves 
fasciculate at the end of the short stem. 
36. B. asympeltata 
6. Blades symmetric or nearly so. 

7. The blades broadly ovate or elliptic to suborbicular, 8-24 
em wide, nearly as wide as long; leaves fasciculate; stem 
short. 37- B. serotia 

{- The blades ovate, much longer than wide; plant caulescent, 
mostly scandent. 

8. Umbo close to the broadly truncate blade-base; blade to 
2h em long, 7-11 cm wide; stamens few; largest capsule- 
wing falciform, ascending. [- Be aeranthos 

8. Umbo about equidistant from the rounded base and sides of 
the blade or the blade subcordate at base. 

9. Stamens free or on a low torus. 
10. Inflorescence dichotomously branched. 
11. Blade-base more or less indented; margins crenate- 
dentate; stamens numerous, clavate. 9. B. ynesiae 
ll. Blade-base broadly rounded; margins subentire. 
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12. Cortex gray, friable. 
13. Filaments slender, longer than the elliptic 
anthers. 10. B. pululahuana 


13. Filaments short or lacking; stamens clavate. 
ll. B. tropaeolifolia 
12. Cortex reddish, persistent; stamens clavate; fila- 
ments short to almost lacking. 12. B. sodiroi 
10. Inflorescence unbranched, not more than 3-flowered. 
14. Peduncles solitary, axillary. 
15. Outer staminate tepals 14-15 mm long; stamens 
numerous; cortex gray, crustose. 13. B. hitchcockii 
15. Outer staminate tepals not over 6 mm long; stamens 
few. 
16. Blades subentire, bicolorous. 14. B. truncicola 
16. Blades coarsely dentate, concolorous. 
15. B. segregata 
14. Peduncles several and secund from leafless branches; 
stamens few. 17. B. dodsonii 
9. Stamens on a long column, numerous; outer staminate 
tepals 8-20 mm long. 
17. Blades coarsely dentate; cortex reddish brown; outer 


staminate tepals dentate. 18. B. maurandiae 
17. Blades subentire; cortex gray, crustose; outer stami- 
nate tepals entire. 19. B. geminiflora 
5. The blades strongly lobed, digitate-nerved; stem stout, 
erect. 35. B. erythrocarpa 


4, Blades basifixed. 
18. The blades strongly lobed, digitate-nerved; stem erect; 
internodes distinct. 

19. Stem gray, crustose, stout; blade-lobes 4-5, attenuate; 
inflorescence 2-3-dichotomous; capsule-wings only slightly 
unequal. 35. B. erythrocarpa 

19. Stem not crustose. ' 

20. Petiole-apex bearing a dense ring of slender trichomes; 
blade-lobes irregularly sinuate or lobed; ovary-wings 
narrow. 38. B. ludwigii 

20. Petiole-apex without a ring of trichomes. 

21. Inflorescence to 7 times dichotomous; flowers more than 
100; tepals 4 mm long; capsule-wings equal. 
3. B. parviflora 
21. Inflorescence only a few times dichotomous; flowers 
relatively few; tepals 10-25 mm long; capsule-wings 
very unequal. 4h, B. acerifolia 
18. Blades not strongly lobed. 

22. The blades straight or nearly so, the longest nerve 
continuing the direction of the petiole. 

23. Blades digitate-nerved, generally less than twice as long 
as wide and widest below the middle, sometimes combined 
with oblique blades on the same plant. 

2h. Leaves fascicled; petioles to 45 cm long; stem short; 
internodes mostly shorter than the stipules. 
25. Tepals subacute, usually dark red; stamens oblong. 


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30. B. froebelii 
25. Tepals rounded, pale. 

26. Staminate tepals 6-8 and pistillate tepals 6 or if 
less then some deeply lobed; capsule-wings very 
unequal, the largest subtriangular, acute or 
subacute. 

27. Blades triangular-acute; tepals 8-13 mm long; 
inflorescence elongate, its branches secund. 

28. B. aequatorialis 

27. Blades rounded throughout or apiculate; tepals 20-30 
mm long; inflorescence short, few-flowered, irregu- 
larly branched. 29. B. octopetala 

26. Staminate tepals 4 and pistillate tepals 5, never 
lobed; blades shallowly lobed. 

28. Upper blade-lobes semiorbicular, their sinuses nar- 
row; blades sparsely vestite beneath; inflorescence 
once dichotomous. 39. B. triramosa 

28. Upper blade-lobes subtriangular, their sinuses broad; 
inflorescence racemose or subracemose. 

33- B. parcifolia 
oh, Leaves separated by distinct internodes; plants caules- 
cent. 
29. Stem scandent. 

30. Inflorescence dichotomously branched. 

31. Blades broadly rounded or minutely cordate at base, 
4-15 cm long, sometimes undulate but otherwise en- 
tire; capsule-wings very unequal. 6. B. glabra 

31. Blades deeply cordate at base, 4-7 cm long, crenate- 
dentate; capsule-wings subequal, small; stamens 
numerous, clavate. 9. B. ynesiae 

30. Inflorescence simple, not more than 3-flowered. 

32. Stamens few, free or on a low torus. 


33. Peduncles solitary, axillary. 15. B. segregata 
33. Peduncles several and secund from leafless 
branches. 16. B. secunda 
32. Stamens many on a long column; outer staminate tepals 
dentate. 18. B. maurandiae 


29. Stem erect or ascending. 
34. The stem short, very much exceeded by the peduncles; 
blades strongly vestite beneath; tepals red, 20-35 
mm long. 30.8. froebelii 
34. Stem elongate; peduncles very short; blades glabrous 
or nearly so; tepals pale, 3-9 mm long. 
35. Stipules and bracts fimbriate; blades narrow, atten- 


uate; capsule-wings very unequal. 45. B. fischeri 
35. Stipules and bracts crenate; blades ample, apiculate; 
capsule-wings equal. ho. B. tiliifolia 


23. Blades pinnate-nerved, generally at least twice as long 
as wide and widest near the middle, rarely combined with 
oblique blades on the same plant; plants caulescent, 
usually erect. 

36. Inflorescence long and narrow, many-flowered; blades 


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slightly asymmetric with the abaxial side somewhat the 
wider. 

37- Plant pubescent; tepals elliptic or ovate; pistillate 
tepals 4-5; pistillate bracteoles serrate, about equal- 
ing the ovary; largest capsule-wing ovate, ca. 1 em 
wide. 4. B. buddleiifolia 

37. Plant nearly glabrous; tepals suborbicular; pistillate 
tepals 2; pistillate bracteoles obscurely undulate or 
entire, very ample, accrescent; largest capsule -wing 


faleate, 2-4 cm wide. 27. B. rossmanniae 
36. Inflorescence broad and regularly dichotomous or few- 
flowered. 


38. Blade-bases subsymmetric with both sides cuneate or 
broadly rounded; anthers suborbicular or obovate, much 
shorter than the filaments; capsules alate. 

39. Blade-base cuneate, then narrowly rounded; blade 
oblanceolate, 10-28 em long; capsule-wings subequal. 
46. B. maynensis 
39. Blade-base broadly rounded; blade elliptic, 4-6. 9 em 
long; capsule-wings very unequal; (also scandent). 
8. B. holtonis 
38. Blade-base strongly asymmetric. 
4O. The blade-base with both sides meeting the petiole at 

the same point, one side cuneate or both rounded. 

41. Blades with one lateral cusp on the larger side, 
obliquely cordate at base; pistillate tepals 4. 

47. B. harlingii 
41. Blades with only a terminal cusp. 
hO,. Inflorescence 2-5 times dichotomous; capsule-wings 
unequal. 

43. Larger basal blade-lobe overlapping the petiole 
and the blade often appearing dimidiate, sharply 
serrate; inflorescence 5-dichotomous. 

48. B. guaduensis 

43, Larger basal blade-lobe strongly divergent from the 
petiole; blades obscurely serrulate; inflorescence 
2-3-dichotomous (herbarium specimens not always 
obviously climbing). 31. B. consobrina 

hO,. Inflorescence unbranched or once dichotomous; 
capsule-appendages equal. 

4, Blades glabrous; capsule alate; tepals 2-3 mm long. 

1. B. semiovata 

44, Blades subdensely vestite with coarse tumid-based 

hairs; capsule horned; tepals 15-25 mm long. 
20. B. longirostris 
4O. The blade-base dimidiate with one side decurrent on 
the petiole. 
4S. Stipules persistent; plant glabrous; ovary and 
capsule ellipsoid or globose, unequally alate. 
5. B. foliosa 
45, Stipules deciduous; plant vestite especially on the 
branchlets and blade-nerves; ovary and capsule 


4 


1979 Smith & Wasshausen, Begonia of Ecuador 237 


turbinate, equally 3-horned. 
46. Stamens i staminate tepals 11-16 m long. 
47. Staminate tepals very unequal, ovate, acute; 


blades glabrous above. el. B. tetrandra 

47. Staminate tepals subequal, oblong, deeply retuse; 
blades hirtellous above. ee. B. valvata 

46. Stamens more than 4; staminate tepals 3-8 mm long; 
blades variable. 23. B. urticae 


22. Blades oblique to transverse, their longest nerve making 
an angle with the petiole. 

48. Blade-base cuneate on one side; blade pinnate -nerved 
(climbing habit not always evident in herbarium 
specimens). 

49. Peduncle less than 1 cm long; inflorescence densely few- 


flowered. 43. B. albomaculata 
49. Pedunecle much more than 1 cm long; inflorescence laxly 
2-3-dichotomous. 32. B. consobrina 


48. Blade-base cordate. 
50. Stipules and bracts fimbriate, persistent; inflorescence 
Simple or once dichotomous. 
51. Plant low, soft, annual or of shorter duration, tepals 
2-4 mm long. 2. B. humilis 
51. Plant medium, firm, perennial; staminate tepals to 
8 mm long; pistillate tepals 3-6 mm long (blades also 
straight). 4S. B. fischeri 
50. Stipules and bracts entire, sometimes quickly 
deciduous; inflorescence mostly many-flowered. 
52. Stem short, stout, exceeded by the petioles; peduncles 
much exceeding the leaves (blades also straight). 
30. B. froebelii 
52. Stem long, slender, much exceeding the petioles; 
peduncles slightly if at all exceeding the leaves. 
53. Stipules inconspicuous, quickly deciduous, stems 
glabrous. 

54. Inflorescence simple, 3-flowered (staminate) or 
1-flowered (pistillate); capsule turbinate, equally 
3-horned. eh. B. mariae 

54. Inflorescence once or more often twice dichotomous. 

55. Staminate pedicels much enlarged toward apex; 
capsule turbinate, equally 3-horned. 
25. B. fuchsiiflora 
55. Staminate pedicels very slender throughout; capsule 
ellipsoid, unequally 3-alate. 49. B. piurensis 
53. Stipules conspicuous, persistent; inflorescence 1-3 
times dichotomous. 

56. Inflorescence with many flowers in dense terminal 
clusters; stem, petioles, blades and inflorescence- 
branches villous; capsule exalate. 26. B. exalata 

56. Inflorescence lax throughout; stem, petioles, blades 
and inflorescence-branches sparsely pubescent to 
glabrous; capsule alate. 

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deciduous. 50. B. microcarpa 
57. Stipules, bracts and bracteoles ample; bracteoles 
persistent. 31. B. pastoensis 


Section DORATOMETRA (Kl.) A. IC. 
(Section Poecilia A. IC.) 

1. B. SEMIOVATA Liebm., Kjoeb. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852: 22. 
1853. B. spruceana A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 142. 1859. 

B. flexuosa A. DC., loc. cit. B. guyanensis A. IC., loc. cit. 
B. guyanensis var. glaberrima C. DC., Bot. Gaz. 20: 540. 1895. 

Type: Oersted 209 (Holotype, C; photo, F), Nicaragua. 

Ecuador: Cotopaxi, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Rios, Napo, 
Pastaza, Pichincha, Tungurahua. Mexico to Guiana and Peru. 

2. B. HUMILIS Dryand. in Ait., Hort. Kew. 3: 353. 1789. B. 
lucida Haworth, Saxifrag. Enum. 197. 1821. B. meyeniana Walp. in 
Nov. Act. Leop.-Carol. 19, Suppl. 1: 409. 1843. B. subhumilis 
A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 124. 1859... B. pavoniana As TGs 
Op. cit. p. 142. 

Type: Kew Hortus s n (Holotype, BM; photo, GH), West Indies. 

Stems and petioles glabrous or (B. subhumilis) with a few 
fine hairs toward their apices. 

Ecuador: Los Rios, Morena-Santiago, Napo, Zamora-Chinchipe. 
West Indies to Peru and Brazil. 


Section SCHEIDWEILERIA (Kl.) A. IC. 

3. B. PARVIFLORA Poepp. & Endl., Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 7, pl. 
12. 1835. B. micrantha Steud., Nomencl. ed. 2. 1: 194. 1840. 
Scheidweileria parviflora (Poepp. & Mndl.) Kl. Begon. 59. 1855. 
Begonia myriantha Britton, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 18: 35. 1891. 

Type: Poeppig s n (Holotype, W), Peru. 

Ecuador: Bolivar, Cotopaxi, Loja, Morona-Santiago, Napo, 
Pastaza, Pichincha, Santiago-Zamora, Tunguruahua. Colombia to 
Bolivia. 


Section PILDERIA (Kl.) A. DC. 

4, B. BUDDLEIIFOLIA A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 141. 1859. 
Pilderia urticaefolia Kl., Monatsb. Berlin Akad. 127. 1854. 
Begonia urticaefolia Hort. ex Kl., Monatsb. Berlin Akad. 127. 
1854, nomen. B. lantanaefolia A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 
141. 1859. B. pilderia A. DC. in DC. Prod. 15, pt. 1: 380. 1864. 
B. urticifolia (i) Warb., Pflanzenfam. 3, Abt. 6a: 144. 1894, 
non Smith 1790. 

Type: Spruce 3998 (Holotype, G; photo, GH), Peru. 

Ecuador: Morona-Santiago, Pastaza, Santiago-Zamora, Tungurahua 
Venezuela, Colombia, Peru. 


Section LEPSIA (K1l.) A. DC. 

5. B. FOLIOSA H.B.K., Nov. Gen. & Sp. Pl. 7: 183, pl. 642. 
1825. ? B. elegans H. B. K., op. cit., 182. B. putzeysiana A. 
DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 139. 1859. B. jamesoniana A. 1., 
loc. cit. B. foliosa H. B. K. var. rotundata L. B. Smith & 
Schubert, Caldasia 4, no. 18: 192, pl. 17. 1946; var. putzeysiana 


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(A. DC.) L. B. Smith & Schubert, loc. cit.; var. australis L. B. 
Smith & Schubert, op. cit. p. 194, pl. 17. 

Type: Humboldt & Bonpland s n (Holotype, P; photo, US), 
Colombia. 

Ecuador: Azuay, Carchi, Morona-Santiago, Pastaza, Pichincha, 
Tungurahua. Venezuela, Colombia. 


Section PRITZELIA (Kl.) A. DC. 
(Section Wageneria A. DC.) 

6. B. GLABRA Aubl. Pl. Guian. 2: 916, pl. 349. 1775. B. 
scandens Sw. Prod. 86. 1788. B. elliptica H. B. K., Nov. Gen. & 
Bp. 720 100, | pls Gay. 1625. ‘B: “lucida Otto & Dietr., Allg. 
Gartenz. 16: 162. 1848. B. mortiziana Kunth & Bouché, Ind. Sem. 
Hort. Berol. 16. 1848. B. physalifolia Liebm., Kjoeb. Vidensk. 
Meddell. 1852: 19. 1853. : 

Type: Aublet s n (Holotype, BM; photo GH), French Guiana. 

Ecuador: Cotopaxi, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Los Rios, Manabi, Napo, 
Oro, Pastaza, Pichincha, Santiago-Zamora, Tungurahua. Southern 
Mexico and the West Indies to Guiana, Peru and Bolivia. 

(.- B. AERANTHOS L. B. Smith & Schubert, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
8: 36, ER 2 a-e. 1952. 

Type: Camp E-1317 (Holotype, NY; photo, US), Ecuador. 

aa Zamora -Chinchipe fEsditiecc:Yanhoea ys 


Section MEIONANTHERA A. IC. 

8. B. HOLTONIS A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 141. 1859. 7B. 
umbrata A. DC. in IC. Prod. 15, pt. 1: 396. 1864. B. foliosa H. 
B. K., var. amplifolia L. B. Smith & Schubert, Caldasia L, no. 
oa clube: pl. 17. 1946. B. schimpfii Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 74: 
604. 1949 

Type: Holton 725 (Holotype, G; isotype, GH), Colombia. 

Ecuador : : Azuay, Bolivar, Guayas. Colombia. 


Section GOBENIA A. Ic. 

9. B. YNESIAE L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. AB. 
sodiroi C. DC., cui affinis, foliorum laminis margine crenato- 
dentatis, basifixis profunde cordatisque vel peltatis et basi 
plus minusve indentatis differt. 

Plant climbing, perennial, glabrous; stem flexuous, woody; 
cortex red becoming gray, rimose and friable on old stems; inter- 
nodes 1-3 cm long. Stipules persistent, broad, to 5 mm long, en- 
tire, thin, brown. Petioles to 9 cm long, red. Blades broadly 
ovate, acute or acuminate, 4-7 cm long, crenate-dentate, basi- 
fixed and deeply cordate or peltate and more or less indented at 
base, pale beneath. Peduncles usually single and axillary, 1.5- 
4 em long, very slender. Inflorescence several times dichoto- 
mous; bracts persistent, like the stipules. Staminate pedicels 
2-5 mm long; tepals 4, red, the outer broadly ovate, obtuse, 12 
mm long, entire, the inner elliptic, ca. 10 mm long. Stamens 
many on a low torus, clavate with short or no filaments, the en- 
larged connective enveloping the pollen sacs. Pistillate pedi- 
cels to 10 mm long in fruit; bracteoles suborbicular, covering 


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the young ovary; tepals 6, ovate, subequal, 4 mm long. Ovary 4- 
celled, subglobose; wings subequal, small; placentae bilamellate, 
ovuliferous throughout; styles less than 1 mm long, the stigmatic 
tissue reniform. Pl. l. 

Type: Ecuador: Pichincha: Canton Quito: Alaspongo; trail 
Nono to Gualea; dense forest, alt. 3124 m, Ynes Mexia 7706 
(Holotype, AA; isotype, US). 

Paratypes: Corazon (7), André 3661 (NY). Quito-Mindo road, 
ek side Andes, rainforest, Prescott 1467 (NY); L494 (NY); 1505 

NY). 

10. B. PULULAHUANA C. DC., Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 8: 325. 
1908. 

Type: Sodiro 589 (Holotype, G; photo F), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Loja, Napo, Pichincha. 

11. B. TROPAEOLIFOLIA A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 120. 1859 

Var. TROPAROLIFOLIA. 

Type: ‘Triana 3637 (Holotype, G; photo US; isotype, BM). 

Peduncle and inflorescence glabrous. 

Ecuador: Not yet found. 

Var. PUBERULA L. B. Smith & Schubert, Lloydia 13: 87. 1950. 

Type: Steyermark 54173 (Holotype, GH; isotype, F). 

Pedunele and inflorescence puberulous. 

Ecuador: Oro. 

12. B. SOBIROL GC. DC., Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 8: 323. 1905, 

Type: Sodiro 588 (Holotype, G; photo, F), Ecuador. 

Eeuador: Cotopaxi, Napo, Pichincha. 

13. B. HITCHCOCKII Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 74: 620. 1949. 

Type: Hitchcock 21800 1/2 (Holotype, US), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Napo, Tungurahua. 

14. B. TRUNCICOLA Sodiro ex C. DC., Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 8: 
323. 1908. 

Type: Sodiro 587 (Holotype, G; photo, F), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Carchi, Cotopaxi - Pichincha. 

15. B. SEGREGATA L. B. Smith & Schubert, Begonian 27: 22h, 
pl. 1960. 

Type: Alston 8455 (Holotype, BM), Colombia. 

Ecuador: Carchi. Colombia. 

16. B. SECUNDA L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. AB. 
maurandiae A. DC., cui affinis, foliorum laminis subintegris, 
pedunculis aliquot e ramis exfoliatis secunde portatis, tepalis 
masculinis suborbicularibus minoribus differt. 

Plant climbing, perennial; stem flexuous, woody, yellow-brown, 
sulcate, laxly and minutely glandular; internodes ca. 2 cm long. 
Stipules persistent, broadly ovate to suborbicular, acuminate, 2 
mm long, entire, thin, brown, nerveless, glabrous. Petioles to 
6 ecm long, glabrous. Blades basifixed, ovate, attenuate, trun- 
cate or slightly retuse at base, 8 cm long, 4 cm wide, subentire, 
subglabrous, pale beneath. Peduncles several and secund from 
leafless branches, 2 cm long, filamentous, glabrous. Inflores- 
cence 3-flowered with the single staminate flower central; bracts 
persistent, like the stipules. Staminate pedicel 2 mm long; 
tepals 4, the outer subreniform, 3.5 mm wide, entire, red, very 


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sparsely pubescent, the inner saccate, 1.5 mm long, white. Sta- 
mens few, nearly free; filaments longer than the anthers; anthers 
ellipsoid with the enlarged connective enveloping the pollen 
sacs. Pistillate pedicels 15 mm long, longer in fruit; 
bracteoles persistent, ample, covering the ovary and capsule; 
tepals 5 (7), suborbicular, fleshy, the outer 1.5 mm long, the 
inner smaller, reniform. Ovary subglobose; wings very unequal, 
the largest falcate, ascending, to 10 mm wide and 5 mm high in 
fruit; placentae bilamellate, ovuliferous throughout; styles less 
than 1 mm long, the stigmatic tissue reniform. Pl. 2. 

Type: Ecuador: Pichincha: Tandapi, epiphytic on tree trunk 
in forest, I. Holmgren 847 (Holotype, S; photo, US). 

17. B. DODSONII L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. AB. 
truncicola Sodiro ex C. IC., cui valde affinis, foliorum laminis 
grosse sSinuato-dentatis concoloribus differt. 

Plant climbing, perennial; stem slightly flexuous, woody, 
gray-crustose on thicker parts, climbing to 5 m level (! Dodson). 
Stipules persistent, ovate, acuminate, 5 mm long, brown, 
glabrous. Petioles to 7 cm long, glabrous. Blades peltate, 
ovate, acuminate, evenly rounded at base, to 11 cm long, 4.5 cm 
wide, coarsely sinuate-dentate, concolorous, very sparsely pubes- 
cent beneath when young. Peduncles several from leafless branch- 
es, 2 cm long, filamentous, glabrous. Inflorescence 3-flowered 
with the single staminate flower central; bracts persistent, like 
the stipules. Staminate pedicel 5 mm long; tepals 4, entire, 
orange (! Dodson), the outer suborbicular, 5 mm long, the inner 
broadly obovate, if mm long. Stamens few, free, broadly clavate 
with filaments shorter than the anthers; the connective envelop- 
ing the pollen sacs. Pistillate pedicels 10 mm long in fruit; 
bracteoles persistent, broadly elliptic, entire or sparsely den- 
tate, covering the fruit; tepals 5 (7), elliptic, ca. 1 mm long. 
Ovary subglobose, white (! Dodson); wings very unequal, the 
largest 10 mm wide and 4 m high in fruit; styles less than 1 mm 
Sees: @ Fl. 3< 

Type: Ecuador: Pichincha: Canton Santo Domingo, Centinela, 
12 km east of Patricia Pilar, alt. 600 m, C. H. Dodson, TI. Dodson 
& A. Embree 7115 (Holotype, SEL; isotype, US). 

18. B. MAURANDIAE A. IC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 119. 1859. 

B. hederacea A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 120. 1859. 

Type: Triana 386 (Holotype, K; isotype, GH), Colombia. 

Ecuador: Azuay, Carchi, Imbabura, Napo, Pichincha, Santiago- 
Zamora, Tungurahua. Colombia. 

19. B. GEMENEFLORA L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. 

A B. hitchcockii Irmsch., cui affinis, tepalis masculinis ellip- 
ticis, staminum columna elongata differt. 

Plant climbing, perennial; stem flexuous, woody, gray-crus- 
tose, hirtellous; internodes ca 2 cm long. Stipules of stem 
large, soon disintegrating, those of branches persistent, ovate, 
acuminate, 2 mm long, l-nerved, brown, glabrous. Petioles to 7 
em long, soon glabrous. Blades peltate, ovate, acute or acumi- 
nate, evenly rounded at base, 10 cm long, 6 cm wide, subentire, 
sparsely puberulent beneath around the umbo, pale beneath. 


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Peduncles 4 cm long, sparsely pubescent, soon glabrous. Inflo- 
rescences unisexual with evidently the single staminate flower 
suppressed in one and the 2 lateral pistillate in the other; 
bracts persistent, elliptic, 3 mm long, entire, thin, brown 
pubescent. Staminate pedicel 3 mm long, pubescent; tepals i 
entire, red, the outer broadly elliptic, 20 mm long, sparsely 
pubescent, the inner shorter. Stamens many on a 12 mm long 
column; filaments about equaling the anthers, stout; anthers 
obovoid with the connective enveloping the pollen sacs. Pistil- 
late pedicels 2 cm long; bracteoles persistent, suborbicular, 
covering the fruit; tepals 5 (7), elliptic, 2 mm long. Ovary 
subglobose; wings very unequal, the largest 15 mm wide and 6 mm 
high in fruit; styles less than 1 m long. Pl. 4. 

Type: Ecuador: Pichincha: Road from Santo Domingo to Quito, 
Cornejo Astorga (Tandapi), climbing in shrub vegetation, alt. ca. 
1800 m, Harling, Storm & Strom 9262 (Holotype, US; isotype, S$). 


Section CASPARYA (A. DC.) Warb. 
(Semibegoniella C. DC.) 

20. B. LONGIROSTRIS Benth., Pl. Hartweg. 185. 1845. Casparya 
grewiaefolia A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. il: 117. 1859. C. grewi- 
aefolia var. jamesoniana A. DC.; var. voniana A. DC. in I. 
Prod. 15, pt. 1: 272. 1864. C. longirostris (Benth.) A. IC., 
loc. cit. Begonia grewiaefolia (A. DC.) Warb. in Pflanzenfam. 3, 
Abt. 6a: 146. 1894. Semibegoniella jamesoniana (A. DC.) Cc. D., 
Bull... Herb. Boise. IL. $3,327. 1908. C. sodiroi C.: DOs, Boss 
cit. Begonia colombiana L. B. Smith & Schubert, Caldasia 4, no. 
16: 29, pl. 6. 1946. 

Type: Hartweg s n (Holotype, K; photo, GH), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Imbabura, Napo, Pastaza, Pichincha. Colombia. 

21. B. TETRANDRA Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 74: 626, pl. 7. 1949. 

Type: Lobb s n (Paratype, W), Peru; Hitchcock 21889 (Para- 
type, US), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: WNapo, Pastaza, Tungurahua. Peru. 

22. B. VALVATA L. B. Smith & Schubert, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
8: 40, fig. 2 P-i. 1952. 

Type: Camp E-1560 (Holotype, NY), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Morona-Santiago. 

23. B. URTICAE L. f., Suppl. 420. 1781. 3B. columnaris Benth., 
Pl. Hartweg. 131. 1844. Sassea glabra Kl., Monatsber. Berlin 
Akad. 128. 1854. Casparya columnaris beta glabra (K1.) A. DC. 
in DC. Prod. 15, pt. 1: 274. 1864. Begonia monticola C. I., 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 8: 325. 1908. B. torresii Standi., 
Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 17: 313. 1927. B. chiriquensis 
Standl. in Woodson & Schery, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 32l. 
1940. 3B. columnaris Benth. var. glabra (Kl.) L. B. Smith & 
Schubert in Macbride, Fl. Peru in Field Mus. Pub. Bot. 13, pt. 
4: 187. 1941. 

Type: Mutis s n (Holotype, M?), Colombia. 

Keuador: Azuay, Carchi, Imbabura, Loja, Morona-Santiago, 
Napo, Pichincha, Zamora-Chinchipe. Venezuela and Costa Rica to 
Peru. 


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24. B. MARTAE L. B. Smith, Phytologia 27: 213, pl. 2. 1973. 

Type: John J. & Marie L. Wurdack & Tillett 2782 (Holotype, 
US; isotype, VEN), Venezuela. 

Ecuador: WNapo. Venezuela. 

25. B. FUCHSIIFLORA (A. DC.) Warb. in Pflanzenfam. 3, Abt. 
6a: 146. 1894, as "fuchsiifolia"; Baranov & Barkley, Phytologia 
26: 220. 1973. Casparya fuchsiaeflora A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 
11: 116, 1859. 

Type: Jameson 415 (Holotype, G; photo, F), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Imbabura, Napo. 


Section APTERON C. IC. 
26. B. EXALATA Cc. DC., Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 8: 326. 1908. 
Type: Sodiro 597 (Holotype, G; photo, F), Ecuador. 
Ecuador: Bolivar, Pichincha. 


Section ROSSMANNIA (K1.) A. Dc. 
27. B. RCSSMANNIAE A. DC. in DC. Prod. 15, pt. 1: 333. 1864. 


Type: Ruiz & Pavon s n (Holotype, BM), Peru. 


Ecuador: Morona-Santiago, Napo, Pastaza, Santiago-Zamora, 
Tungurahua. Colombia to Peru. 


Section EUPETALUM (Lindl.) A. DC. 
(Section Huszia A. IC.) 

28. B. AEQUATORIALIS L. B. Smith & Schubert, Lloydia 13: 85. 
1950. 

Type: Steyermark 52878 (Holotype, GH; isotype, F), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Azuay, Chimborazo. 
_ 29. B. OCTOPETALA L'Hérit., Stirp. Nov. 101. 1788. B. grandi- 
flora Knowles & Westcott, Flor. Cab. 1: 51. 1837. Huszia octo- 
petala (L'Hérit.) K1., Begon. Monatsber. Berlin Akad. 121. 1854. 
B. octopetala L'Herit. ssp. ovatiformis Irmsch. Bot. Jahrb. 76: 
15- 1953. 

Type: Dombey s n (Holotype, P), Peru. 

Ecuador: Bolfvar, Cafiar, Cotopaxi, Loja, Pastaza. Peru. 

30. B. FROEBELII A. DC., Gard. Chron. 2: 552. 1874. 

Type: Froebel Hortus s n (Holotype, G?), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Canar, Chimborazo. 

31. B. PASPOERNSIS A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: lel. 1959. 

Type: Triana 3031 (Holotype, K; photo, US), Colombia. 

Ecuador: Bolivar. Colombia. 


Section RUIZOPAVONIA A. Ic. 
32. B. CONSOBRINA Irmsch. in Diels, Biblioth. Bot. 29: Heft 
116: 111. 1937. 
Type: Diels 995 (Holotype, B; photo, US), Ecuador. 
Ecuador: Morona-Santiago, Napo, Pastaza, Santiago-Zamora, 
Tungurahua. 


Section BEGONIA 
(Section Begoniastrum A. DC.) 


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33. B. PARCIFOLIA C. DC., Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 69, no. 12: 
10. 1919. 5B. nervidens Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 74: 614. 1949. 

Type: Townsend 947 (Holotype, US), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Loja, Oro. 

34. B. COMPACTICAULIS Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 74: 612. 1949. B. 

riseocaulis sensu L. B. Snith & Schubert, Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 
8 (1): 38. 1952, ex parte, non Irmsch. 19h9. Pe Se 

Type: Hitchcock 20315 (Holotype, US), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Chimborazo. 

35. B. ERYTHROCARPA A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 121. 1659. 
B. griseocaulis Irmsch. in Diels, Biblioth. Bot. 29, Heft 116: 
lle. 1937. B. pennellii L. B. Smith & Schubert, Field Mus. 
Publ. Bot. 13 (4): 196. 1941. B. lobato-peltata Irmsch. Bot. 
Jahrb. 76: 86. 1953. 

Type: Weddell 4729 (Holotype, G), Bolivia. 

Ecuador: Azuay, Chimborazo. Peru, Bolivia. 

36. B. ASYMPELTATA L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. 
Inter species ecuadorenses quoad habitum acaulem haud tuberifer- 
um et foliorum laminis peltatis B. serotinam accedit sed foliorum 
laminis valde asymmetricis, grosse duplicato-serratis, base emar- 
ginatis plicatisque differt. 

Plant herbaceous, perennial. Stem erect, stout, 6 cm high, 
covered with the remains of old stipules. Leaves few, fascicu- 
late at apex of stem. Stipules imbricate, persistent, broadly 
ovate, acute, ca. 1 cm long, entire, thick, glabrous, brown and 
rugose when dry, evidently fleshy when live, lateral nerves ob- 
secure. Petioles 4-6 cm long, laxly puberulent. Blades peltate, 
oblique and strongly asymmetric, 9-11 cm long, 5-7.5 cm wide, 
emarginate and plicate at base, pale beneath, sparsely puberulent 
on both sides. Peduncle terminal, erect, 15 cm long, much ex- 
ceeding the leaves, glabrous in age. Inflorescence laxly 3- 
dichotomous, 12 em wide, glabrous in age; bracts unknown. Stam- 
inate flowers unknown. Pistillate pedicels 15 mm long; bracte- 
oles unknown; tepals 5, subequal, oblanceolate, subacute, ca. / 
mm long, entire. Ovary broadly ellipsoid, 9 mm long in fruit; 
wings subequal, broadly ovate, obtuse; placentae bilamellate; 
styles 3, subfree, bifid; stigmatic tissue linear, continuous, 
twice spiraled on each branch. Pl. 6. 

Type: Ecuador: Los Rios: Hacienda Clementina, river side in 
virgin forest, epiphyte, alt. 150 m, Gunnar Harling 201 (Holo- 
type, 8; photo, US). 

37. B. SEROTINA A. IC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: lel. 1859.-Bs 
parmata Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 76: 190. 1953. 

Type: Jameson 594 (Holotype, K), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, Guayas, Manabi. 

38. B. LUDWIGII Irmsch. in Diels, Bibloth. Bot. 116: 113. 
1937. 

Type: Diels 1204 (Holotype, B), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Chimborazo, Oro. 

39. B. TRIRAMOSA Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 74: 613. 1949. 

Type: Rose 22493b ("224936") (Holotype, US). 


Ecuador: Chimborazo. 


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40. B. XEROPHYTA L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. A 
B. parcifolia C. DC., cui verisimiliter affinis, foliorum 
laminis cum sinu basali aperto, floribus masculinis 6-plo 
majoribus differt. 

Plant herbaceous, perennial. Stem erect, stout, known only 
from 4 cm. Leaves few, fasciculate at apex of stem. Stipules 
imbricate, persistent, broadly ovate to reniform, brown and ru- 
gose when dry, evidently fleshy when live, puberulent, ciliate. 
Petioles to 10 cm long, fleshy (7), red, puberulent. Blades 
basifixed, oblique and strongly asymmetric, broadly ovate to sub- 
reniform, deeply cordate at base, 15-23 cm wide and 13-16 cm 
high, shallowly lobate and duplicate-serrate, laxly puberulent 
above, white-tomentulose beneath. Peduncles terminal, erect, to 
30 cm long, much exceeding the leaves, fleshy (2), red, puberu- 
lent. Inflorescence subracemosely 3-flowered; bracts deciduous, 
suborbicular, 2 cm long, fimbriate, thin, red. Staminate pedi- 
cels 4-5 cm long; tepals 4, the outer elliptic, obtuse, 18-30 m 
long, 15 mm wide, entire, red outside, white inside; the inner 
broadly obovate, truncate or slightly retuse, 25 mm long, white 
to very pale pink (! Asplund). Stamens over 100 on a low torus; 
filaments 7 mm long; anthers elliptic, 2 mm long. Pistillate 
flowers (young) subsessile; bracteoles like the bracts; tepals 5, 
the 2 outer elliptic, much larger than the inner, red. Ovary 
ellipsoid; wings subequal, evenly rounded; styles 3, bifid; 
stigmatic tissue linear, spiral. Pl. 7. 

Type: Ecuador: Loja: Between Loja and San Lucas, very steep 
and dry slope, alt. ca. 2100 m, Erik Asplund 18036 (Holotype, §; 
photo, US). 

41. B. SPARREANA L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. A 
B. parcifolia C. DC., cui parum affinis, foliorum laminis haud 
lobatis, cum sinu basali aperto, inflorescentiis folia subaequan- 
tibus, tepalis femineis 4, exterioribus subaequalibus differt. 

Plant herbaceous, perennial. Stem erect, known only from 4+ 
em. Leaves few, fasciculate at apex of stem. Stipules imbri- 
cate, deciduous, ovate, filiform-attenuate, 10 mm long, entire, 
thin, nerved, brown, pubescent. Petioles 3-7 cm long, slender, 
laxly pubescent. Blades basifixed, oblique, deeply cordate at 
base, to 15 cm long, 10 cm wide, evenly rounded except at apex, 
finely setose-serrate, sparsely pubescent above and very sparsely 
beneath. Peduncles 5-7 cm long, about equaling the leaves, laxly 
pubescent. Inflorescences simply racemose or unequally dichoto- 
mous with one branch simple and one racemose, laxly pubescent; 
bracts persistent, like the stipules but elliptic and rounded. 
Staminate pedicels 5-7 mm long; tepals 4, entire, the outer sub- 
orbicular, 9 mm long, slightly colored, the inner lance-ovate, 8 
mm long, white. Stamens ca. 25, free; filaments 2 mm long; an- 
thers elliptic, 1 mm long, the connective apex slightly produced, 
broadly rounded. Pistillate pedicels 8 mm long; bracteoles like 
the bracts; tepals 5, the 4 outer broadly elliptic, rounded and 
apiculate, 7 mm long, the inner one elliptic, acute, smaller. 
Ovary ellipsoid; wings slightly unequal, triangular with a hori- 
zontal upper margin; placentae bilamellate; styles 3, free, 


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slender, bifid; stigmatic tissue linear, continuous, twice 
spiraled on the arms. Pl. 8. 

Type: Ecuador: Morona-Santiago: Gualquiza, Mision Bomboiza, 
Mision Salesiana, primary and secondary tropical rainforest, 
alt. ca. 700-800 m, Benkt Sparre 19025 (Holotype, S; photo, US). 

40, B. TILIIFOLIA C. DC., Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 324. 1908, 
as "tiliaefolia”. 

Type: Sodiro 584 bis (Holotype, G); 554e (G, paratype; F, 
photo), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Carchi, Cotopaxi, Pichincha. Panama, Colombia. 

43. B. ALBOMACULATA C. DC. ex Huber, Bol. Mus. Para 4: 593. 
1906, description legal but useless. 

Type: Hortus Museu Goeldi s n (Holotype, MG), Peru. Det. C. 
DC.: Sodiro 590a (G; F, photo). Type not seen, identification 
by photo of Sodiro 590a. 

Ecuador: Oro, Pichincha. Peru. 

4), B, ACERIFOLIA H.B.K., Nov. Gen. & Sp. 7: 186, pl. O44. 
1825. B. dolabrifera C. DC., Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 8: 324. 
1908. 

Type: Humboldt & Bonpland s n (Holotype, P; photo, US), 
Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Azuay, Bolivar, Chimborazo (7), Loja. 

45. B. FISCHERI Schrank, Pl. Rar. Hort. Acad. Monac. 2: pl. 
59. 1820. 

Var. FISCHERI. B. patula sensu Kl., Begon. 30. 1855, non 
Haworth 1819. B. tovarensis Kl., Begon. 31. 1855. 

Type: Munich Hortus s n (Holotype, M), Brazil. 

Blades all reniform and oblique. 

Ecuador: Not yet found. 

Var. KLUGII Irmsch., Bot. Jahrb. 76: 99. 1953. 

Type: Klug 3389 (Holotype, US), Peru. 

Blades or some of them ovate and straight. 

Ecuador: Loja, Morona-Santiago, Pastaza, Zamora-Chinchipe. 
Peru. 

46. B. MAYNENSIS A. DC., Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 11: 126. 1859. 

Type: Spruce 4859 (Holotype, G; photo, F), Peru. 

Ecuador: Napo, Pastaza, Santiago-Zamora, Zamora-Chinchipe. 
Peru. 

47. B. HARLINGII L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, sp. nov. Ab 
omnibus speciebus ecuadorensibus foliorum laminis lateraliter 
unicuspidatis, pedunculis brevibus, inflorescentia pauciflora, 
tepalis femineis 4 differt. 

Plant ascending, perennial, 20-26 cm high; stem nearly 
straight, red, pubescent; internodes to 5 cm long. Stipules 
deciduous, oblong, acute, 12 mm long, 1l-nerved, entire, thin, 
green. Petioles to 33 mm long, pubescent. Blades straight, 
strongly asymmetric with one side lanceolate and evenly curved, 
the other elliptic with a single lateral cusp, cordate, acumi- 
nate, to 13 cm long, 6 cm wide, coarsely serrate, thin, pubescent 
on the nerves beneath. Peduncles axillary, to 18 mm long. In- 
florescence few-flowered, glabrous, bracts deciduous, elliptic, 
10 mm long. Staminate pedicel 9 mm long; tepals 4, entire, 


279 Smith & Wasshausen, Begonia of Ecuador 247 


white, the outer broadly ovate, 9 mm long, the inner oblong, ob- 
tuse, 6 mm long. Stamens about 20, free; filaments short; an- 
thers oblong, ca. 2 mm long; connective produced, obtuse. Pis- 
tillate pedicels 6 mm long in fruit; bracteoles deciduous, like 
the bracts; tepals 4, punctulate, the (young) outer broadly 
ovate, 5 mm long, the inner oblong. Ovary ellipsoid, punctulate; 
wings subequally alate, the wings triangular with the upper mar- 
gin horizontal; placentae bilamellate; styles 4, highly connate, 
bifid, the stigmatic tissue continuous, once spiral. Pl. 9. 

Type: Ecuador: Los Rios: Hacienda Clementina, virgin forest, 
Samana, alt. 750 m, G. Harling 487 (Holotype, S; photo, US); 521 
(Paratype, S; photo, US; flowers malformed and bisexual as if 
diseased). 

48. B. GUADUENSIS H.B.K., Nov. Gen. & Sp. 7: 178. 1825. B. 
ottonis Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 212. 1843. B. serrati- 
folia C. DC., Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 69, no. 12: 7. 1919. 

Type: Humboldt s n (Holotype, P; photo, US), Colombia. 

Ecuador: Santiago-Zamora, Zamora-Chinchipe. Colombia, 
Venezuela, Peru. 

hQO. B. PIURENSIS L. B. Smith & Schubert, Field Mus. Pub. Bot. 
13, pt. 4: 197. 1941. 

Type: Stork 11393 (Holotype, UC; isotype, GH), Peru. 

Ecuador: Chimborazo. Peru. 

50. B. MICROCARPA A. DC. in DC. Prod. 15, pt. 1: 311. 1864. 

Type: Spruce 5070 (Holotype, G; photo, F), Ecuador. 

Ecuador: Province unknown. Colombia. 


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STUDIES IN THE HELIANTHEAE (ASTERACEAE). XVIII. 


A NEW GENUS HELIANTHOPSIS. 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


Though the genus Helianthus L. was the first one proposed of 
those now placed in the subtribe Helianthinae, the genus was 
never broadly interpreted, and the concept was soon mostly 
restricted to a natural group of herbaceous species native to 
North America. Most of the closely related elements in the 
Neotropics have been placed in such genera as Simsia Pers. or in 
the broadly circumscribed Viguiera H.B.K. Nevertheless, a 
distinctive group of shrubby species from the Andes of Ecuador 
and Peru, having a deciduous pappus like that of typical 
Helianthus, has continued to be included in the genus. 
Continuing studies of the Andean Heliantheae have shown the need 
to treat the disjunct group as a separate genus which is named 
here as Helianthopsis. 

The present action rests on two basic conclusions, first, 
that the Andean group is not directly related to typical 
Helianthus of North America, and second, that it should not be 
included in a further broadened concept of the genus Viguiera. 
Actually, the problem of a polyphyletic Helianthus has been 
clearly stated for many years. Heiser (1957), in his study of 
South American Helianthus, concluded that Viguiera was the likely 
ancestral genus in the complex and that the two elements of 
Helianthus were separately derived. The deciduous pappus with 
obsolete squamellae in Helianthus versus a persistent pappus 
with prominent squamellae in Viguiera was the only difference 
then recognized for separating the genera, but Heiser argued 
against reducing Viguiera into synonymy in order to restore a 
phyletic concept. Nevertheless, Heiser did nothing more with 
the South American Helianthus than to rather informally propose 
a new subgenus, Viguieropsis, distinguished from the North 
American species by the shrubby habit. 

An important character is now known which confirms the 
polyphyletic nature of Helianthus. The styles of the South 
American species have short tips without an appendage. The 
North American species have a long slender appendage present on 
the point of the style, a feature evident in even those species 
that have become cultivated or established in South America. In 
reality, typical Helianthus seems to find its closest relative 
in the genus Simsia, which also has a slender style appendage 
(Robinson & Brettell, 1972), but which has generally slender 
style branches which often coil when dried. It is significant 

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that typical Viguiera also possesses a short but distinct append- 
age on its style (Robinson, 1977), and future trends will almost 
certainly require a narrowing rather than a broadening of that 
genus. 

The present generic delimitation of Helianthopsis follows 
what has been called Helianthus in the Andes, and though the 
traditional separation from Viguiera is thus maintained, some 
clarification is necessary. In spite of the evident close 
relation of Helianthopsis with Andean elements presently placed 
in Viguiera, the division does seem to be a natural one. In 
Helianthopsis, the species that show superficial resemblance to 
Viguiera are all members of the specialized pale-anthered group. 
The less shrubby scarcely tomentose H. matthewsii would not 
immediately be recognized as a member of the genus, but it has 
the typical pappus form. Helianthopsis hutchisonii actually has 
a Viguiera-type pappus but has leaf pubescence, head structure 
and anther color which indicate its place in the pale-anthered 
series remote from anything in Viguiera. In Viguiera, only V. 
sodiroi (Hieron.) Blake and some specimens of V. incana (Pers.) 
Blake are likely to be mistaken for Helianthopsis because of the 
presence of tomentum, but they are perennial herbs, they have an 
obvious Viguiera-type pappus, and they are much like other 
species of Andean Viguiera in the way the lower lateral veins run 
subparallel to the leaf margin. The leaves and stems of both 
species tend to have at least some coarser pubescence unlike that 
of Helianthopsis. 

Other generic names that have been used for Andean 
Helianthinae with exappendiculate styles are Leighia Cass. and 
Syncretocarpus Blake. Leighia originally included Helianthopsis 
microphylla, but the type was the herbaceous Mexican species, 

L. elegans Cass. (= Viguiera linearis (Cav.) Sch.Bip., Blake 
1918). Syncretocarpus was established for a group of Peruvian 
species. The characteristic margin on the achene of Syncreto- 
carpus was simply a differentiated zone rather than a Verbesina- 
type wing as suggested by Blake (1916), and the relationship of 
the genus is entirely within the Viguiera complex. Still, the 
suffrutescent habit and well-developed Viguiera-type pappus 
indicate a position apart from Helianthopsis. 

In establishing the new genus, the informally proposed sub- 
genus Viguieropsis has seemed an unlikely candidate for eleva- 
tion. In any case, the name Helianthopsis seems best as a 
reflection of the historical placement of the species. 


Helianthopsis H.Robinson, genus nov. Asteracearum (Heliantheae). 
Plantae frutescentes mediocriter ramosae. Folia opposita 

vel alterna; laminae ovatae vel anguste oblongae plerumque 

distincte pubescentes supra dense vel perdense pilosae subtus 

tomentosae vel lanatae inferne trinervatae, nervis marginem non 

parallelis. Inflorescentiae terminales pauce capitatae. 

Squamae involucri plerumque triseriatae in part herbaceae; 


1979 Robinson, Genus Helianthopsis 259 


paleae subconduplicatae obtusae vel breviter acutae. Flores 
radii numerosi asexuales; corollae flavae 2-3-lobatae supra 
papillosae. Flores disci numerosi hermaphroditi; corollae flavae 
vel superne nigrescentes 5-lobatae, faucis anguste campanulatis 
inferne plerumque scabridis; filamenta glabra; thecae antherarum 
plerumque nigrescentes; appendices antherarum abaxialiter glandu- 
liferae et interdum setiferae; rami stylorum obtusi exappendicu- 
lati, linis stigmataceis solitariis. Achaenia disci distincte 
compressa striata; aristae pappi base articulatae facile decid- 
uae; squamellae paucae vel nullae. 

Type species: Helianthus microphyllus H.B.K. 

Twenty species are presently recognized in the genus. Also, 
as described, Helianthus argenteus H.B.K., from Azuay in Ecuador, 
has the characters of Helianthopsis. A photograph of the type 
shows solitary heads that are sometimes on rather long erect 
peduncles, a character that is rather unusual for the genus. No 
material matching the latter species has been seen in the present 
study, and it is omitted from the listing and key. 

The genus is distributed from northern Ecuador southward to 
central Peru with a major concentration of species in Cajamarca 
and adjacent areas of northern Peru. In addition, Heiser (1957) 
cites a specimen of H. imbaburensis from Narino in southwestern 
Colombia. 

The phytogeographic approach has proven useful in the study 
of the species concepts, though not as clearly as in the case 
of Monactis (Robinson, 1976). The break betweem Ecuadorian and 
Peruvian elements of Helianthopsis is particularly marked, and no 
species is presently known from both countries. Furthermore, 
the black-anthered species of Ecuador and Peru seem to form two 
thoroughly distinct natural groups, and the pale-anthered species 
of Ecuador are obviously more closely related to each other than 
to those of Peru. The center of diversity is evidently in Peru 
with only the H. lehmannii group being restricted to Ecuador. 

No species with reflexed palea tips are known from Ecuador, 
though the character is seen in both black-anthered and pale- 
anthered species from Peru. Opposite leaves are found in many 
Peruvian species including some that are primarily alternate 
such as H. stuebelii and H. sagasteguii, the latter being one of 
the pale-anthered species. No opposite leaves have been seen in 
any specimens from Ecuador. In both H. lehmennii and H. grandi- 
ceps of Ecuador the anther appendages apparently vary in color 
from yellow to black. In Peruvian species, with the possible 
exception of H. discolor, the color of the anther appendages 
seems to be a reliable species character. 

The following key attempts to de-emphasize use of opposite 
versus alternate leaves since the character is evidently varia- 
ble and is poorly represented in many specimens. 


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Key to the species of Helianthopsis 


1. Anther thecae at maturity not black. Most involucral bracts 
with prominent pale costae below and herbaceous distally. 
Disk corolla never black distally. Heads not solitary. 


2. Ecuadorian species. Tips of paleae never recurved. Heads 
often densely clustered. 


3. Leaves lanceolate, entire or slightly serrulate above 
H. pseudoverbesinoides 


3. Leaves mostly ovate, serrulate or serrate mostly at widest 
part of blade. 


4, Outer involucral bracts with distinctly reflexed tips 
H. hypargyrea 


4, Outer involucral bracts without reflexed tips 
H. imbaburensis 


2. Peruvian species. Tips of paleae often recurved. Heads 
usually laxly disposed. 


5. Heads with disk mostly 5-7 mm wide. Corolla lobes scarcely 
emergent beyond paleae. 


6. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, not much reduced in inflorescence, 
not more densely pubescent below H. matthewsii 


6. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, reduced in inflorescence, 
obviously tomentose below H. verbesinoides 


5. Heads with disk mostly 10-15 mm wide. Mature corollas 
with upper throat emergent beyond paleae. 


7. Leaves lanceolate, entire, reduced in inflorescence. 
Stems puberulous H. hutchisonii 


7. Leaves broadly ovate, serrate, moderately reduced in 
inflorescence. Stems hirsute H. sagasteguii 


1. Anther thecae black at maturity. Outer involucral bracts 
without distinct pale costae basally. Disk corolla 
yellow or distally blackened. 


8. Ecuadorian species. Leaves alternate; with blades large, 
often to 9-10 cm long and 5-7 cm wide, margins never 
reflexed; paleae glabrous on outer surface. 


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9. Peduncles and involucres densely lanate. Corolla lobes 
longer than wide, nearly glabrous on outer surface 
H. lehmannii 


9. Peduncles hirsute with interspersed shorter hairs visible. 
corolla lobes equilaterallly triangular, densely 
pubescent on outer surface. 


10. Numerous outer involucral bracts with reflexed narrow 
tips, mostly greenish H. grandiceps 


10. Few or no differentiated outer involucral bracts, tips 
obtuse to short-acute, involucre blackish with outer 
surfaces sometimes partly subglabrous H. nigrescens 


8. Peruvian species. Leaves alternate or opposite; blades 
often small, never more than 7 cm long or 4.5 cm wide. 
margins often reflexed; paleae usually pubescent on outer 
surface. 


11. Anther appendages completely black. Leaf blades ovate or 
broadly oblong. 


12. Stems and undersurfaces of leaves white-lanate. Paleae 
narrowly pointed and strongly recurved at tip 
H. lanata 


12. Stems and undersurfaces of leaves mostly tomentose, 
usually yellowish or dingy white. Paleae sharply acute 
and erect to slightly recurved at tip H. stuebelii 


11. Anther appendages partly to completely yellow. 


13. Paleae all with sharply reflexed tips. Leaves ovate to 
broadly ovate H. senex 


13. Paleae with tips erect or incurved, rarely reflexed. 


14. Leaves densely puberulous or short-pilose below, 
pubescence not covering surface H. viridior 


14. Leaves distinctly tomentose or lanate below. 
15. Leaf blades ovate. 
16. Leaf tips distinctly acuminate or narrowly acute. 
Heads raised on distinct peduncles. Rays with 


styles present H. acuminata 


16. Leaf tips short-acute to obtuse. Heads short-pedun- 
culate or subsessile. Rays without styles. 


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17. Leaves opposite, petiole 10-20 mm long H. jelskii 


17. Leaves mostly alternate, petiole 3-5 mm long 
H. lodicata 


15. Leaf blades narrowly oblong to linear or linear-lanceolate,. 


18. Stems mostly puberulous. Heads solitary on tips of 
slender branches; anther appendages often partially 
blackened; tips of a few paleae reflexed 

H. discolor 


18. Stems densely lanate. Heads usually more than 1 on tips 
of branches; anther appendages yellow; tips of paleae 
all erect or incurved. 


19. Upper leaf surface subglaucous with very dense very 
minute puberulence, surface not rugulose. Heads 
distinctly pedunculate on branches with some reduced 


leaves H. microphylla 


19. Upper leaf surface coarsely puberulous, somewhat rugulose. 
Heads short-pedunculate or subsessile, clustered at 
tips of normally leaved branches H. subnivea 
The twenty recognized species of Helianthopsis are as 
follows. 


Helianthopsis acuminata (Blake) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus acuminatus Blake, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 16: 219. 
1926. Peru (Huanuco, Junin). The type and one other speci- 
men (Hutchison 4153) have been seen, the latter differing by 
the lack of opposite leaves. Both specimens have distinct 
though probably non-functional styles in the ray flowers, 

a feature that seems unique in the subtribe. 


Helianthopsis discolor (Blake) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus discolor Blake, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 16: 220. 
1926. Peru (Cajamarca, Huanuco, La Libertad). The specimen 
seen from Cajamarca (Soukup 4548) has sericous pubescence on 
the leaves and often multiple aristae on the achenes. Also, 
some of the heads have pale anthers, but the latter heads are 
apparently defective. 


Helianthopsis grandiceps (Blake) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus grandiceps Blake, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 621. 
1924, Ecuador (Azuay, Chimborazo, Loja). 


Helianthopsis hutchisonii H.Robinson, sp. nov. 
Plantae frutescentes ad 2 m altae inferne pauce vel non 


1979 Robinson, Genus Helianthopsis 263 


ramosae. Caules purpurascentes inferne dense cinereo-puberuli 
superne sparse puberuli. Folia alterna, petiolis 3-10 mm longis; 
laminae ovato-lanceolatae plerumque 4-7 cm longae et 0./7-2.3 cm 
latae base anguste rotundatae et sensim breviter acuminatae 
margine integrae apice anguste acutae supra velutinae subtus 
tenuiter albo-tomentosae fere ad basem trinervatae. Inflores- 
centiae terminales perlaxe ramosae, ramis elongatis superne 
tenuibus, bracteis anguste ellipticis vel linearibus 8-20 mm 
longis et 1-3 mm latis. Capitula hemisphaerica 12-14 m alta et 
sine radiis ca. 15 mm lata. Squamae involucri ca. triseriatae 
ca. 20 anguste oblongae vel lineares 4-9 mm longae et 1.5-3.0 mm 
latae inferne pallide 2-4-costatae supra medium herbaceae apice 
acutae extus dense hirtellae intus in partibus herbaceis dense 
puberulae; paleae oblongo-ovatae ca. 9 mm longae pallide 4-6- 
costatae margine late scariosae apice acutae distincte reflexae 
extus minute puberulae. Flores radii ca. 12; corollae flavae 
12-13 mm longae et 4 mm latae extus dense minute hispidulae, 
limbis glanduliferis, tubis 1-2 mm longis. Flores disci ca. 

50; corollae flavae ca. 8 mm longae, tubis ca. 1 mm longis sub- 
glabris, faucis cylindraceis ca. 6 mm longis extus dense 
scabridulis et pauce tenuiter glandulo-piliferis, lobis triang- 
ularibus ca. 1.0 mm longis et 0.9 mm latis intus valde papillosis 
extus dense scabridulis; filamenta in parte superiore ca. 0.3 m 
longa; thecae antherarum ca. 3 mm longae non nigrescentes; 
appendices antherarum ovatae ca. 0.45 mm longae et 0.4 mm latae. 
Achaenia radii sterilia ca. 3 mm longa glabra, squamellae pappi 
numerosae. Achaenia disci ca. 4.3 mm longa et 1.6 mm lata dense 
sericeo-setifera; aristae pappi 2 ca. 3.5 mm longae mediocriter 
deciduae; squamellae pappi 10-12 late lineares ca. 1.5 mm longae 
subpersistentes. Grana pollinis 35-37 pm in diametro longe 
spinosa. 

TYPE: PERU: Cajamarca: Celendin: Opposite Balsas & upstream 
1 km. Common border of Dept. Amazonas, on Rio Maranon. Alt. 
ca. 800 m. To 2m. 29 May 1964. P.C.Hutchison & J.K.Wright 
5436 (Holotype US, Isotypes F, UC, USM). 

Helianthopsis hutchisonii is notable in the genus for the 
Viguiera-type pappus, a feature that does not seem to reflect 
any close relationship to species presently placed in Viguiera. 
Both the leaf-venation and the pubescence is strictly of the 
Helianthopsis type. Im fact, H. hutchisonii is evidently a 
specialized member of the pale-anthered series of Helianthopsis, 
and it seems quite close to H. sagasteguii n. sp., having the 
same type of reflexed tips on the paleae. Differences of the 
new species include the shorter pubescence on the stems and 
leaves, the narrower entire leaves and the more open inflores- 
cence with narrow reduced bracts. The new species also seems to 
occur at lower elevations than other members of the genus. 


Helianthopsis hypargyrea (Blake) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus hypargyreus Blake, Bot. Gaz. 74: 421. 1922. 


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Ecuador (Azuay, Chimborazo, Tungurahua). 


Helianthopsis imbaburensis (Hieron.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 


Helianthus imbaburensis Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. 21: 348. 1895. 
Ecuador (Imbabura), Colombia (Narifio). 


Helianthopsis jelskii (Hieron.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus jelskii Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. 36: 490. 1905. Peru 
(Cajamarca). 


Helianthopsis lanata (Heiser) H.Robinson, comb. nov. Helianthus 
lanatus Heiser, Brittonia 8: 291. 1957. Peru (Ancash, Lima). 


Helianthopsis lehmannii (Hieron.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus lehmannii Hieron. in Sod., Bot. Jahrb. 29: 39. 
1900. Ecuador (Canar, Chimborazo, Pichincha). 


Helianthopsis lodicata (Cuatr.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus lodicatus Cuatr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 77: 144. 
1964, Peru (Cajamarca). 


Helianthopsis matthewsii (Hochr.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus matthewsii Hochr., Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 6: 296. 
1910. Peru (Amazonas, Cajamarca). 


Helianthopsis microphylla (H.B.K.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus microphyllus H.B.K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. ed. fol. 
4: 173, pl. 375. 1818. Leighia microphylla Cass., Dict. Sci. 


Nat. 25: 436. 1822. Viguiera microphylla Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. 
36: 490. 1904. Peru (Cajamarca). 


Helianthopsis nigrescens (Heiser) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus nigrescens Heiser, Brittonia 8: 287. 1957. 
Ecuador (Azuay). 


Helianthopsis pseudoverbesinoides (Hieron.) H.Robinson, comb. 
nov. Helianthus pseudoverbesinoides Hieron. in Sod., Bot. 
Jahrb. 29: 40. 1900. Ecuador (Bolivar, Chimborazo, 
Tungurahua). 


Helianthopsis sagasteguii H.Robinson sp. nov. 

Plantae frutescentes as 2 m altae inferne pauce ramosae in 
caulibus inflorescentiis petiolis et superficiis superioribus 
foliorum dense hirtellae vel hirsutae. Caules inferne fusces- 
centes vel atro-purpurascentes. Folia alterna inferne interdum 
opposita, petiolis 1-3 cm longis; laminae late ovatae plerumque 
5-12 cm longae et 3-9 cm latae base late rotundatae vel sub- 
truncatae ad medium breviter acuminatae margine distincte 
serratae vel dentatae apice anguste acuminatae supra velutino- 
hirtellae subtus dense areolate tomentosae fere ad basem valde 


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trinervatae. Inflorescentiae terminales divaricate ramosae pauce 
capitatae, ramis ultimis plerumque 2-3 cm longis, bracteis ovatis 
1.5-4.5 cm longis et 1.0-3.5 cm latis. Capitula hemisphaerica 
ca. 12 mm alta et sine radiis ca. 15 mm lata. Squamae involucri 
ca. triseriatae ca. 20-25 anguste oblongae vel lineares 6-11 mm 
longae et 2-3 mm latae inferne pallide 2-4-costatae supra medium 
herbaceae apice argute acutae extus hirtellae intus in partibus 
herbaceis dense puberulae; paleae oblongo-ovatae 6-7 mm longae 
pallide 4-6-costatae margine late scariosae apice acutae 
distincte reflexae extus minute puberulae. Flores radii 12-14; 
corollae flavae 12-14 mm longae et 4.5 mm latae extus dense 
hispidulae, limbis glanduliferis, tubis ca. 2 mm longis. Flores 
disci 65-80; corollae flavae 3.5-6.0 mm longae, tubis 0./-2.0 mm 
longis subglabris vel sparse hispidulis, faucis cylindraceis ca. 
2-3 mm longis extus dense scabridulis et pauce tenuiter glandulo- 
piliferis, lobis triangularibus 0.7-1.2 mm longis et 0.6-1.0 m 
latis intus superne papillosis extus dense scabridulis; 
filamenta in parte superiore ca. 0.3 mm longa; thecae antherarum 
ad 2.3 mm longae non nigrescentes; appendices antherarum ovate 
ad 0.5 mm longae et 0.4 mm latae. Achaenia radii sterilia ad 

2.8 mm longa apice pauce squamulifera. Achaenia disci ad 3./7 

mm longa et 1.4 mm lata dense sericeo-setifera vel glabra; 
aristae pappi 2 plerumque 2.0-2.5 mm longae facile vel medio- 
criter deciduae; squamellae pappi pauce vel nullas ad 0.8 mm 
longae. Grana pollinis ca. 30 um in diametro longe spinosa. 

TYPE: PERU: Cajamarca: Celendin: Canyon Rio Maranon above 
Balsas 11 1/2 km below summit of road to Celendin. Shrub to 
2m. Stems, leaves densely puberulent. Rays bright golden. 
Disks yellow (dull). Aspect of plant silvery. Abundant. Alt. 
2630 m. 27 May 1964. P.C.Hutchison & J.K.Wright 5397 
(Holotype US, Isotypes F, UC, USM). PARATYPE: PERU: Cajamarca: 
Celendin: Hda. El Limén (Celendin-Balsas). Alt. 2150 m. ladera 
de arbustos. Aubarbusto piloso de flores amarillas. 5 May 1970. 
Sagastegui 7415 (US, HUT). 

Helianthopsis sagasteguii is similar to H. hypargyrea in 
general aspect, and is in the same group having pale anther 
thecae. However, the two species do not seem to be immediate 
relatives. The paleae of H. sagasteguii have strongly reflexed 
tips and the inflorescence is rather lax, two characters of the 
Peruvian members of the pale-anthered group not found in the 
species from Ecuador. The new species is the only member of the 
series presently known to have some opposite leaves, but the 
specimen is more complete than most. The heads examined show 
great variation in achene pubescence and pappus structure, but 
the typical Helianthus-type pappus predominates, and the 
squamellae, when present, never seem to fill the entire lateral 
margin. 


Helianthopsis senex (Blake) H.Robinson, comb. nov. Helianthus 
senex Blake, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 16: 220. 1926. Peru 


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Helianthopsis stuebelii (Hieron.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus stuebelii Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. 21: 249. 1895. 
Peru (Cajamarca). 


Helianthopsis subnivea (Blake) H.Robinson, comb. nov. Helianthus 
subniveus Blake, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 621. 1924. 
Helianthus niveus Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. 21: 350. 1895. not 
H. niveus Brandegee 1889, Peru (Cajamarca). 


Helianthopsis verbesinoides (H.B.K.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. 
Helianthus verbesinoides H.B.K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. ed. fol. 
Ay £73; 1816. Peru (Piura). 


Helianthopsis viridior (Blake) H.Robinson, comb. nov. Helianthus 
viridior Blake, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. 16: 221. 1926. Peru 
(Junin). 


Literature Cited 


Blake, S. F. 1916. Compositae novae imprimis andinae Weber- 
bauerianae. Beibl. Bot. Jahrbllch. 119: 47-51. 


- 1918. A revision of the genus Viguiera. Contr. Gray 
Herp, Dee 543° 1=205, “pls 1=3. 


Heiser, C. B. 1957. A revision of the South American species 
of Helianthus. Brittonia 8 (4): 283-295. 


Robinson, H. 1976. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). 
VII. Notes on the genus, Monactis. Phytologia 34 (1): 
33-45. 


. 1977. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). VIII. 
Notes on genus and species limits in the genus Viguiera. 
Phytologia 36 (3): 201-215. 


Robinson, H. and R. D. Brettell 1972. Studies in the 
Heliantheae (Asteraceae). II. A survey of the Mexican and 


Central American species of Simsia. Phytologia 24 (5): 
361-377. 


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Bottom. H. sagasteguii. 


STUDIES IN THE HELIANTHEAE (ASTERACEAE). XIX. 


FOUR NEW SPECIES OF CALEA FROM BRASIL. 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


Recent efforts to identify specimens of Calea from Bahia 
have resulted in the recognition of the following four previously 
undescribed species from Brasil. All four species share the 
characters of the broad but natural concept of Calea that excludes 
Alloispermum Willd. (Robinson, 1978). The achenes are prismatic 
without striations, the pappus is radially symmetrical with 
numerous squamae, the disk corolla lobes are smooth with reddish 
ducts along the margins which join at the sinuses, and the anthers 
are yellowish. Disk corolla lobes of the genus are often elongate, 
but some Brasilian species have lobes scarcely longer than wide. 
Two of the new species lack paleae and are technically members of 
Geissopappus which has been placed in the synonymy of Calea by 
Robinson (1975). It should be noted that some of the traditional 
species of Calea in Brasil such as C. pilosa Baker of Bahia, lack 
paleae and should have been placed in Geissopappus. While the 
epaleaceous species seem to form a somewhat unnatural group, it 
is notable that they are all from the Guiana area or from eastern 
Brasil, and they all have short pappus squamae, none having the 
long aristae that are most common elsewhere in the genus. 


Calea eitenii H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae herbaceae perennes ascendentiter ramosae ca. 30 cm 
altae. Caules teretes subcarnosi in sicco rugulosi. Folia 
opposita, sessilia vel subsessilia; laminae inferne 2-5-lobatae 
in marginis lobarum integrae apice obtusae vel breviter acutae 
supra superne et fere ad marginem scabridulae subtus subcarnosae 
et distincte glandulo-punctatae. Inflorescentiae unicapitatae 
longe pedunculatae, pedunculis 10-15 cm longis superne antrorse 
scabridis. Capitula late campanulata 10-12 mm alta sine radiis 
ca. 12-15 mm lata. Squamae involucri biformes, exteriores herb- 
aceae ca. 4 late oblongae vel suborbiculares 3-6 mm longae apice 
rotundatae margine superne reflexae base raro lobatae intus fere 
ad marginem scabridulae extus subcarnosae glandulo-punctatae, 
squamae interiores fusco-virides interdum marginaliter rubres- 
centes papyraceae subimbricatae late oblongae 7-12 mm longae et 
4-5 mm latae apice late rotundatae margine anguste distincte 
scariosae extus glabrae, canalis resiniferis 7-11; paleae scari- 
osae anguste lanceolatae vel lineares 6-7 mm longae apice anguste 
acutae. Flores radii ca. 123; corollae flavae, tubis ca. 3 mm 

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1979 Robinson, New species of Calea 27h 


longis glabris, limbis anguste oblongis ca. 13 mm longis et 3 mm 
latis extus distincte glandulo-punctatis apice distincte trilobat- 
is, lobis plerumque retusis. Flores disci 20-25; corollae flavae 
5.5-6.5 mm longae extus glabrae, tubis subdistinctis 1.0-1.5 mm 
longis, faucis anguste campanulatis 2.5-3.0 mm longis, lobis ca. 
1.0 mm longis et 0.7 mm latis; thecae antherarum ca. 2.5 mm longae; 
appendices antherarum ovatae ca. 0.4 mm longae et 0.33 mm latae 
extus glanduliferae. Achaenia 2.5-3.0 mm longa plerumque in 
costis breviter setifera inferne leniter angustiora; squamae 

pappi ca. 14-16 anguste lanceolatae vel lineares aristatae plerum- 
que 4-5 mm longae margine serrulatae vel erosae extus laeves. 
Grana pollinis ca. 35 pm in diam. spinulosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Minas Gerais: Municipio de Jaboticatubas: Serra 
do Cip6. Along road at km 121. 19°18-19'S, 43°35'W. Alt. ca. 
1200 m. Flat grassy meadow on thin soil derived from quartzite 
("itacolomite"). Rays golden-yellow. Disk flowers with yellow 
petals and orange to broan anthers. 25 Nov. 1965. G. & L.T. 
Eiten 6891 (Holotype US). 

Both Calea eitenii and the following C. kirkbridei initially 
seem close to C. multiplinervia Less. because of the solitary 
long-pedunculate heads and the narrow leaves or leaf-segments. 

The latter species differs, however, by the prominent longitudinal 
veins of the leaf which extend fully into the petioliform base, 
and by the long pilosity of the stems and leaf veins. The two new 
species actually seem closest to each other, but C. eitenii is 
notably distinct in the dissection that is evident in the leaves, 
the tips of the rays, and sometimes in the basal lobes of the 
outer involucral bracts. Also, C. kirkbridei lacks the herbaceous 
outer bracts of the involucre and lacks glands on the rays or 
anther appendages. 


Calea kirkbridei H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae herbaceae perennes erectae non vel pauce ramosae ca. 
0.5 m altae. Caules brunnescentes vel rubrescentes subhexagonales 
glabri. Folia opposita sessilia; laminae anguste oblongae vel 
lineares 1.0-5.5 cm longae et 2.0-4.5 mm latae base anguste 
cuneatae margine integrae apice breviter acutae utrinque glabrae 
subtus subcarnosae fere ad basem obscure ascendentiter trinervat- 
ae. Inflorescentiae unicapitatae longe pedunculatae, pedunculis 
ca. 20 cm longis superne antrorse scabridis. Capitula late 
campanulata ca. 1 cm alta sine radiis ca. 1.0-1.2 cm lata. 
Squamae involucri ca. 15 brunnescentes subcoriaceae exteriores 
subherbaceae subaequales oblongae vel anguste oblongae 6-9 mm 
longae et 2-4 mm latae apice rotundatae vel obtusae margine 
anguste scariosae minute sparse puberulae extus base puberulae 
superne glabrae, canalis resiniferis 5-7; paleae scariosae 
lanceolatae ca. 8 mm longae apice breviter acutae. Flores radii 
ca. 83; corollae flavae glabrae, tubis 2.5-3.0 mm longis, limbis 
oblongis 11-12 mm longis et 4.0-4.5 mm latis. Flores disci ca. 
20; corollae flavae 5.0-5.5 mm longae extus glabrae, tubis sub- 


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distinctis ca. 1.5 mm longis, faucis anguste campanulatis ca. 2.5 
mm longis, lobis 1.0-1.5 mm longis et ca. 1.0 mm latis; thecae 
antherarum 1.8-2.0 mm longae; appendices antherarum ovatae ca. 
0.4 mm longae et 0.3 mm latae extus non glanduliferae. Achaenia 
4,.0-4.5 mm longa plerumque in costis breviter setifera inferne 
angustiora; squamae pappi ca. 12 anguste lanceolatae aristatae 
3-4 mm longae margine serrulatae vel erose denticulatae extus 
persparse papillosae. Grana pollinis 30-32 in diam. spinulosa. 
TYPE: BRASIL: Minas Gerais: Serra do Espinhago. Eastern 
slopes of Pico do Itambé, first large sandstone outcrops below the 
summit; elev. ca. 1700 m; sandstone and adjacent meadows, with 
both sandy soil and overlying humus. 11 Feb. 1972. W.R.Anderson, 
M.Stieber & J.H.Kirkbride Jr. 35792 (Holotype US). 
For the distinctions of the sp species see the discussion under 
Cc. eitenii. 


Calea harleyi H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae suffrutescentes ascendentiter ramosae ca. 50 cm altae,. 
Caules rubrescentes hexagonales inferne sensim teretes sparse 
minute scabriduli glabrescentes. Folia opposita, petiolis 2-5 mm 
longis indistinctis; laminae anguste ellipticae plerumque 3.0-4.5 
cm longae et 0.4-1.0 cm latae base anguste cuneatae margine utrin- 
que 2-3 (4) -serratae apice anguste acutae supra minute scabridul- 
ae in nervo primario prominentes subtus subcarnosae glandulo- 
punctatae plerumque in nervis sparse scabridulae fere ad basem 
ascendentiter trinervatae. Inflorescentiae in ramis terminales 
tricapitatae vel subumbellatae, ramis plerumque 5-17 mm longis 
scabridulis. Capitula campanulata 8-10 m alta et 4.5 mm lata; 
Squamae involucri ca. 18 flavescentes vel brunnescentes subcori- 
aceae exteriores non herbaceae subimbricatae minute ovatae vel 
late oblongae 1.5-7.0 mm longae et 1.5-3.5 mm latae apice rotund- 
atae margine distincte anguste scariosae extus glabrae, canalis 
resiniferis plerumque 9-11; paleae nullae. Flores radii nulli. 
Flores disci ca. 10; corollae flavae ca. 4 mm longae extus glabr- 
ae, tubis distinctis ca. 1.5 mm longis, faucis campanulatis ca. 

1 mm longis, lobis ca. 1.5 mm longis et 0.8 mm latis; thecae 
antherarum ca. 1.5 mm longae; appendices antherarum ovatae ca. 
0.4 mm longae et 0.25 mm latae extus glanduliferae. Achaenia 
3.0-3.5 mm longa sparse scabrida; squamellae pappi ca. 12 ca. 0.5 
mm longae et 0.4 mm latae margine et apice erose denticulatae 
extus papillosae. Grana pollinis ca. 27 pm in diam. spinulosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Serra do Sincora. ca. 6 km N. of Barra 
da Estiva on Ibicoara road. Grassland with low shrubs and 
scattered woodland. Alt. ca. 1100 m. Approx. 41°18'W, 13°35'S. 
Decumbent subshrub. Flowers yellow, ray florets absent. 29 Jan. 
1974, R.M.Harley, S.A.Renvoize, C.M.Erskine, C.A.Brighton & 
R.Pinheiro 15586 (Holotype US). PARATYPES: BRASIL: Bahia: Serra 
do Sincora. ca. 14 km N. of Barra da Estiva, near the Ibicoara 
road. Mixed vegetation with low scrub and dry grassland, and 
scattered woodland, occasionally disturbed or burnt-over. Alt. 


1979 Robinson, New species of Calea 273 


1100 m. Approx. 41°918'W. 13935'S. Low subshrub with ascending 
stems. Capitula yellow, flowers yellow. 2 Feb. 1974. Harley et 
al. 15842 (US); Serra do Rio de Contas. 10 km N. of town of Rio 
de Contas on road to Mato Grosso. Woodland along small stream, 
normally damp grassland, now dry, and dry cerrado/carrasco wood- 
land on slopes of surrounding quartzitic hills. Alt. ca. 1000 nm. 
Approx. 41950'W. 13°28'S. Subshrub with swollen woody root to ca. 
50 cm. Phyllaries yellow, florets yellow. 19 Jan. 1974. Harley 
et al. 15266 (US); Serra da Agua de Rega. Cerrado, ca. 24 km N. 
of Seabra, road to Agua de Rega, ca. 1000 m elev. Ascending herb, 
the stems to ca. 50 cm long. 25 Feb. 1971. H.S.Irwin, R.M.Harley 
& G.L.Smith 31073 (US). 

Calea harleyi has a resemblance to C. hypericifolia Baker of 
Goyas, but the latter differs in numerous details and does not 
seem closely related. The leaves of the Goyas species are not as 
pointed and are not toothed, the midvein of the leaf is not 
prominent above, the hairs of the stems and leaves are longer and 
more slender, the glands on the leaf-undersurface are smaller and 
more superficial, the head has larger herbaceous bracts at the 
base, rays are present, and the pappus squamae are smaller. 
Actually, there is closer relationship to C. pinheiroi described 
below, but that has broader leaves with a less carnose under- 
surface and less prominent veins on the upper surface, the hairs 
of the stems and leaves are denser and longer, and the individual 
parts of the inflorescence show two orders of branching with the 
ultimate branches short. 


Calea pinheiroi H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae suffrutescentes multo ramosae ad 25 cm altae. Caules 
brunnescentes inferne teretes et obscure striati superne hexagon- 
ales hispiduli. Folia opposita, petiolis 3-5 mm longis; laminae 
ovatae plerumque 1.5-2.5 cm longae et 1-2 cm latae base obtuse 
cuneatae vix vel non acuminatae margine utrinque grosse obtuse 
4-6-crenato-serratae apice obtusae supra sparse scabrae et dense 
scabridulae subtus pallidiores glandulo-punctatae in nervis et 
nervulis valde scabro-pilosae fere ad basem patentiter trinervat- 
ae. Inflorescentiae in ramis terminales corymbosae, ramis 
hispidulis, ramis ultimis ca. 3 mm longis. Capitula campanulata 
7-8 mm alta et 4-5 mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 18 brunnescent- 
es subcoriaceae exteriores non herbaceae subimbricatae minute 
ovatae vel laté oblongae 1.5-7.0 mm longae et 1.5-3.0 mm latae 
apice rotundatae margine distinct anguste scariosae extus glabrae, 
canales resiniferis plerumque 7-9; paleae nullae. Flores radii 
nulli. Flores disci ca. 8; corollae flavae ca. 3.5 mm longae 
extus glabrae, tubis distinctis ca. 1.3 mm longis, faucis late 
campanulatis ca. 1 mm longis, lobis 1.3-1.5 mm longis ca. 0.7 m 
latis; thecae antherarum ca. 1.5 mm longae; appendices antherarum 
ovatae 0.3 mm longae et 0.23 mm latae extus glanduliferae. 
Achaenia 2,5-3.0 mm longa sparse scabridula; squamellae pappi 
16-18 ca. 0.4 mm longae et 0.3 mm latae margine et apice erose 


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denticulatae. Grana pollinis ca. 27 um in diam. spinulosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Serra do Curral Feio. 16 km NW. of 
Lagoinha (which is 5.5 km SW of Delfino) on side road to Minas do 
Mimoso. Small stream with marsh on white sand, and surrounding 
cerrado on sandstone rock exposures. Alt. 950-1000 m. Approx. 
41°920'W. 10022'S. Subshrub to 25 cm. Capitula yellow. 8 March 
1974. R.M.Harley, S.A.Renvoize, C.M.Erskine, C.A.Brighton & 
R.Pinheiro 17020 (Holotype US). 

For the distinctions of the species see the discussion under 


Cc. harleyi. 


Calea barrosoana H.Robinson, nom. nov. Meyeria longifolia DC. 
Prodr. 5: 671. 1936. Calea longifolia (DC.) Baker in Mart., 

Fl. Bras. 6 (3_: 260. 1884, not C. longifolia Gardn., Lond. Jour. 

Bot. 7: 418. 1848. Blake (1930) provided a new name, C. angusta, 

in a similar situation involving the various species called 

C. angustifolia, but apparently no name has been provided for 

Meyeria longifolia whose combination in Calea is preoccuppied. 


Literature Cited 


Blake, S. F. 1930. Notes on certain type specimens of American 
Asteraceae in European Herbaria. Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
26: 227-263, i-ix. 


Robinson, H. 1975. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). VI. 
Additions to the genus, Calea. Phytologia 32 (5): 426-431. 


. 1978. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). IX. 
Restoration of the genus Alloispermum. Phytologia 38 (5): 
411-412. 


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Herbarium, Photos by Victor E. Krantz, Staff Photographer, 
National Museum of Natural History. 


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right. C. kirkbridei. Bottom left. C. harleyi. Bottom right. 


C. pinheiroi. 


STUDIES IN THE HELIANTHEAE (ASTERACEAE). XX. 


NOTES AND NEW SPECIES IN CLIBADIUM. 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


Clibadium is a genus of about forty species, including some 
which are common and widely distributed in the Neotropical Region. 
In spite of the absence of most of the US collections, which are 
on loan, it has been necessary to make preliminary studies toward 
the eventual treatments of the Heliantheae for the Floras of 
Ecuador and Peruse. Recent Harling collections from Ecuador prove 
to include two previously undescribed species which are treated 
below. Comments are also provided on the following three species. 


Clibadium caudatum Blake, is one of two species described 
from Panama which was inexplicably omitted from the recent 
treatment of that genus in Panama (Stuessy, 1975). Material of 
the species might key to C. asperum (Aubl.) DC. in that treatment, 
but could not be that species. The type of Blake's species was 
from an alluvial bottom near Bohio in the Canal Zone, and a recent 
collection (Nee 6963) from near Salamanca in the Province of Colon 
shows the characteristic broad leaf blades with caudate tips and 
appressed pubescence. The specimens apparently represent a 
distinctive element from low elevations in central Panama. 


Clibadium eggersii Hieron., described from western Ecuador, 
seems to be the oldest name for at least the elements with 
appressed pubescence that have been treated under the names, 

C. pittieri Greenm., C. polygynum Blake and C. propinquum Blake 
(Wulffia sodiroi Hieron.). The species seems to range geographic- 
ally from Costa Rica in Central America to areas of lower eleva- 
tion on both sides of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador. The 
species is particularly distinctive in the rather globose mature 
heads with a large number of ray florets (up to 40) in the axils 
of comparatively narrow bracts. 


Clibadium sessile Blake was the second species described 
from Panama that was omitted from the recent treatment of the 
genus in that country (Stuessy, 1975). Descriptions and the 
locality in Chiriqui indicate that C. subauriculatum Stuessy 
is a synonym. 


Clibadium manabiense H.Robinson, sp. nov. Plantae frutes- 
centes 2,.0-2.5 m altae mediocriter ramosae. Caules fulvescentes 
teretes leniter striati appresse scabriduli. Folia opposita, 

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1979 Robinson, Notes on Clibadium 281 


petiolis 7-25 mm longis; laminae ovatae vel anguste ovatae plerunm- 
que 8-16 cm longae et 2.0-8.5 cm latae base cuneatae sensim 
breviter anguste acuminatae margine multo crenato-serrulatae 

apice late breviter acuminatae supra sparse appresse strigosae 
subtus dense scabro-pilosae inferne ascendentiter trinervatae. 
Inflorescentiae in ramis terminales corymboso-cymosae, ramis 

dense appresse strigosis, ramis ultimis 0-2 mm longis. Capitula 
4-6 mm alta et 4-5 mm lata; squamae involucri steriles basilares 

2 et squamae femineae exteriores ovatae apice distincte acuminatae 
ca. 4 mm longae et 2 mm latae margine breviter ciliatae extus 
breviter strigosae; paleae masculinae anguste oblongae vel anguste 
ellipticae ca. 3.5 mm longae et 0.7-1.0 mm latae margine et apice 
breviter ciliatae. Flores radii 9-13; corollae tubiformes 1.8- 
2.0 mm longae base leniter angustiores superne sparse puberulae 
et persparse setiferae, lobis 4 ca. 0.3-0.5 mm longis. Flores 
disci ca. 153 corollae 3.0-3.5 mm longae, tubis angustis ca. l 

mm longis extus glabris, faucis abrupte late campanulatis ca. 1.5 
mn longis plerumque glabris, lobis 5 aequilateraliter triangular- 
ibus ca. 0.6 mm longis et latis intus ubique valde papillosis 
extus breviter laxe setiferis et sparse puberulis; thecae anther- 
arum ca. 1.2 mm longae; appendices antherarum extus minute puber- 
ulae vel subglanduliferae. Achaenia radii biconvexa ca. 2mm 
longa et 1.5 mm lata superne laxe setifera, articulis apicalibus 
angustis ca. 0.5 mm longis valde contortis. Achaenia disci 
sterilia 2 mm longa inferne glabra apice dense pilifera. Grana 
pollinis 23-25 pm in diam. spinosa. 

TYPE: ECUADOR: Manabi: Road Sto Domingo - Chone, Flavio 
Alfaro, alt.'ca 100 m.s.m. On. the roadside. Shrub, ca. 2.— 2.5 
m high. Flower-heads dirty white. Anthers dark brown-violet. 

11 V 1968. G.Harling, G.Storm & B.Str¥m 9410 (Holotype GB: 
Isotype US). 

Clibadium manabiense seems most distinct in the markedly 
acuminate tips of the bracts in the head. The heads having 9-13 
female flowers and 15 male flowers, and the presence of paleae in 
the disk are also notable. The number of flowers in the head 
are reminiscent of the species group containing C. grandifolium 
Blake and C. pacificum Cuatr. occurring at lower elevations from 
Costa Rica to western Colombia, but the latter two have much 
larger leaf blades with broadly rounded to subtruncate bases, 
more appressed hairs on the leaf undersurface, and mostly non- 
paleaceous male flowers. The setae of the disk corolla lobes 
and the upper surfaces of the ray achenes seem less rigid and 
less strict in C. manabiense than in such species as C. surinanm— 
ense L. 

As delimited by reddish resin, there are five resin ducts in 
the throats of both the ray and disk corollas. The ducts of the 
disk corollas are particularly prominent and extend into the 
basal halves of the lobes. 


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Clibadium harlingii H.Robinson, sp. nov. 
Plantae frutescentes ad 3 m altae mediocriter ramosae,. 


Caules pallide fulvescentes teretes striati dense scabriduli. 
Folia opposita, petiolis 6-10 mm longis; laminae oblongae vel 
oblongo-ovatae plerumque 7-13 cm longae et 2.5-5.0 cm latae base 
breviter acutae vel obtusae non decurrentes margine multo serrul- 
atae apice breviter acuminatae supra dense appresse scabridae 
subtus erecto-patentiter scabro-pilosae, nervis secundariis 
pinnatis utrinque ca. 6 valde ascendentibus. Inflorescentiae 
terminales in ramis tripartitis dense glomeratae, ramis dense 
antrorse longe strigosis, glomerulis ca. 10-12-capitatis. 
Capitula ca. 4 mm alta et 3-4 mm lata; squamae involucri steriles 
basilares 3 latae ovatae 4-5 mm longae et ca. 2.5-3.0 mm latae 
apice acutae extus breviter strigosae; squamae femineae ovatae 
vel oblongae apice acutae vel breviter acuminatae 3-4 mm longae 
margine breviter ciliatae extus superne breviter strigosae; paleae 
masculinae subscariosae ovatae vel rhomboideae ca. 3 mm longae et 
1.5 mm latae acutae margine breviter ciliatae. Flores radii 5-8; 
corollae tubiformes 1.5-1.8 mm longae base leniter angustiores 
plerumque glabrae superne persparse puberulae, lobis plerumque 2 
ca. 0.5 mm longis. Flores disci 5-9; corollae ca. 3 mm longae 
cylindraceae extus superne sparse puberulae et in lobis dense 
breviter strigosae, tubis ca. 0.7 mm longis, faucis ca. 1.5 mm 
longis, lobis 5 oblongo-ovatae plerumque 0.6 mm longis et 0.4 mm 
latis intus superne et fere ad marginem papillosis; thecae anth- 
erarum ca. 1.2 mm longae; appendices antherarum glabrae. Achaen- 
ia radii subtrigona 2.0-2.5 mm longa et ca. 1.5 mm lata glabra, 
callis apicalibus prominentibus ad 0.5 mm altis et 0.7 m latis. 
Achaenia disci sterilia ad 2.2 mm longa ubique pilifera, pilis 
superioribus densioribus. Grana pollinis 25-27 um in diam. 
spinosa. 

TYPE: ECUADOR: Carchi: Road Tulcan - Maldonado, ca. 13 km 
south east of Maldonado, mountain rain forest, alt. ca 2600 m.s.m. 
Shrub, ca 3 mhigh. 1 III 1974. G.Harling & L.Andersson 12363 
(Holotype GB: Isotype US). 

Clibadium harlingii is thoroughly distinct in the glomerate 
form of the inflorescence, the pinnate venation of the leaves, 
and the glabrous ray achenes, but the species has a number of 
other peculiarities as well. The ray achenes of Clibadium seem 
to always have an apical projection of some type, though it is 
often small and contorted or easily deciduous. In C. pediculatum 
Aristeg. of Venezuela it is long and narrow and is persistent at 
Maturity. The new species seems unique in the thickened broad 
form of the apical projection or callus, and a smaller but 
distinet callus is present on the sterile disk achenes. The disk 
corolla lobes of the new species have small but distinct papillae 
on the inner surface toward the tips and margins, a notable 
contrast with some species such as C. manabiense where the lobes 
are evenly papillose on the whole inner surface. 

The resin ducts of C. harlingii, as indicated by reddish 


1979 Robinson, Notes on Clibadium 283 


resin, are restricted to the fiye veins in the throat of the disk 
corolla. 


The above new species were obtained in a collection of 
Ecuadorian Heliantheae recently obtained from Dr. G. Harling at 
GUteborg. The genus Clibadium was particularly well-represented, 
as indicated by the following records. The numbers cited under 
5000 are by Holguer Lugo S., those above 5000 are from the Harling 
series: Clibadium eggersii Hieron., Pastaza 2481, Napo 3094; 

C,. laxum Blake, from the lowlands of Fe ee El ure and Pichincha 


Blake, from Pastaza and fone urabnn on the a 5 side of the 
Andes, 4605, 10153; C. microcephalum Blake, from Pastaza, 4554, 
10114; C. sprucei Blake, from Chimborazo in central Ecuador, ir, 763: 
C, surinamense L., material with shorter leaves tips from Bolivar 
and El Oro on the western side of the Andes, 9670, 14194, 14335, 
material with narrowly acuminate leaf tips from Morona-Santiago, 
Napo and Pastaza on the eastern side of the Andes, 152, 224, 228, 
1027, 1338, 1343, 1360, 1371, 1385, 1396, %1414,- 2426, 1703, 2315, 


ae) eee! SS SS See CS SS ESS 


12679, 13823; Cc. " sylvestre (Aub1. ) “Wait. eran Napo, 2052, 2129, 
7031. 


Four specimens of Ecuadorian Clibadium have also been 
obtained from the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens which I had 
previously failed to identify correctly: Clibadium cordatum Cuatr., 
from Carchi near the Colombian border, Madison et al. 4940; C. 
laxum Blake, from Pichincha, Dodson et al. 7589, 7691; C. surinam- 
ense L., from Los Rios, Dodson et al. 7037. Some earlier Ecuador- 
ian collections of C. laxum have been seen in herbaria under the 
name C. terebinthaceum (Sw.) DC. 


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Stuessy, T. F. 1975. Melampodiinae. in R. E. Woodson, R. W. 
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National Museum of Natural History. 


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FLORA OF ECUADOR 


Clibadium harlingii H.Robinson, Holotype, University of 
G8teborg. 


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NEW SPECIES OF VERNONIEAE (ASTERACEAE). II. 


FIVE NEW SPECIES OF VERNONIA FROM BAHIA 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


Brazil is probably the primary center of diversity for the 
tribe Vernonieae. The genus Vernonia is particularly well- 
represented with over 150 described species. The numerous species 
make identification of specimens difficult, even without the 
complication of the inevitable undescribed species. Repeated 
efforts have failed to obtain names for many species, and five of 
these, all from Bahia, are treated here. These species all share 
inflorescence types with elongate cymes and anther appendages 
lacking glands, but they fall into two subgroups on the basis of 
inflorescence-shape and pollen surface-structure. 

Vernonia harleyi and V. mattos-silvae have the heads 
congested on distinctly scorpioid branches and the pollen is 
spinulose and weakly lophorate. In V. morii, V. nobilis and 
V. persericea the branches of the inflorescence are nearly 
straight or fractiflexed with heads 1-2 at each isolated node, 
and the pollen is strongly lophorate with the crests rather 
evenly fringed with numerous minute spines. 


Vernonia harleyi H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae suffruticosae vel fruticosae mediocriter ramosae ad 
1.5 m altae. Caules dense breviter albo-tomentosi distincte 
5-angulati. Folia alterna, petiolis distinctis 5-25 mm longis; 
laminae ovatae vel oblongo-ovatae plerumque 5-10 cm longae et 
2.5-6.0 cm latae base rotundatae vel subtruncatae margine dis- 
tincte crenatae vel duplo-crenatae apice obtusae supra in sicco 
atro-virides subtiliter rugulosae albo-pilosulae subtus dense 
breviter albo-tomentosae et dense glandulo-punctatae, nervis 
secundariis utrinque ca. 6 plerumque 45° ascendentibus. Inflore- 
scentiae multo ramosae, ramis valde scorpioideo-cymosae dense 
albo-tomentosis. Capitula congesta 2-3-seriata sessilia 4-5 mm 
alta et ca. 3 mm lata, bracteis subinvolucralibus minutis indis- 
tinctis ca. 1 mm longis subulatis; squamae involucri ca. 20 bi- 
tri-seriatae non patentes oblongae 1.5-3.0 mm longae plerumque 
1 mm latae apice breviter acutae extus dense albo-tomentosae. 
Flores ca. 20 in capitulo. Corollae lavandulae ca. 4 mm longae 
extus parce glanduliferae, tubis ca. 2 mm longis superne infund- 
ibularibus, faucis 0.5-0.7 mm longis, lobis 1.3-1.5 mm longis ca. 
0.4 mm latis superne dense pilosulis, pilis uniseriatis in 
cellulis apicalibus elongatis basilaribus brevibus; thecae 
antherarum ca. 1.3 mm longae inferne breviter acutae; appendices 

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antherarum ovatae ca. 0.3 mm longae et 0.15 mm latae non glandul- 
iferae. Achaenia ca. 1.2 mm longa dense breviter setifera; setae 
pappi ca. 30-32 plerumque 2.5 mm longae, setae in seriebus exter- 
ioribus numerosae anguste lineares 0.3-0.5 mm longae. Grana 
pollinis ca. 30-35 pm in diam. indistincte lophorata spinulosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: 19.5 km SE of the town of Morro do 
Chapeu on the BAO52 road to Mundo Novo, by the Rio Ferro Doido, 
with water worn horizontally-bedded sandstone at soil surface, 
with damp sand, sedge marsh, exposed rock & waterfall. Vegetation 
open scrub to closed low woodland in the drier areas. Alt. ca. 
900 m. 2.3.77. Harley no. 19296 (Holotype US). PARATYPES: 
BRASIL: Bahia: Rio do Ferro Doido, 19.5 km SE of Morro do Chapeu 
on the BA 052 highway to Mundo Novo. Other data as in 19296. 
Shrub to ca. 1m with slightly resinous-scented leaves. Leaves 
rugose, dark green above, white-tomentose beneath. Phyllaries 
grey-green. Corollas bluish-purple. 1 March 1977. Harley 
19184 (GA, US); Municipio de Maracas. Rod. BA 026, a 6 km a SW. 
de Maracas. Afloramento de rocha granitica. 900 m de altitude. 
Folha SD-24 (14-40a). Subarbusto, 1.5 m de altura. Flores 
1ilafs. 26 Abril 1978. Mori et al. 9933 (US). 

In the distinctly scorpioid-cymose branches of the inflores- 
cence the new species resembles Vernonia scorpioides Pers. but 
the distinctly crenulate leaf margins, the dense white tomentun, 
the obtuse leaves, and the short-acute involucral bracts are all 
different. 


Vernonia mattos-silvae H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae mediocriter ramosae 1 m altae. Caules 
fulvescentes teretes striati vix angulati dense cinereo-puberuli 
vel pilosuli. Folia alterna, petiolis 1.0-2.5 cm longis; laminae 
ovatae vel anguste ovatae plerumque 5-8 cm longae et 1.5-3.0 cm 
latae base anguste cuneatae vel longe acuminatae margine multo 
serrulatae apice anguste acuminatae supra in sicco atro-virides 
parce puberulae subtus cinereo-subtomentosae subdense glandulo- 
punctatae, nervis secundariis utrinque ca. 5 plerumque 50-60° 
ascendentibus. Inflorescentiae multo ramosae, ramis valde 
scorpioideo-cymosae sordide subtomentosis. Capitula congesta 
2-3-seriata sessilia 6-7 mm alta et 3-4 mm lata, bracteis 
subinvolucralibus linearibus attenuatis 4-5 mm longis; squamae 
involucri ca. 20 ca. triseriatae vix patentes lanceolatae 2-5 
mm longae base 1.0-1.5 mm latae apice longe attenuatae margine et 
extus sericeae apice subglabrae. Flores ca. 15 in capitulo. 
Corollae lavandulae 5-6 mm longae extus inferne glabrae, tubis 
2.5-3.0 mm longis superne infundibularibus, faucis ca. 1 mm longis 
extus parce glanduliferis, lobis ca. 2 mm longis et 0.4 m latis 
extus superne parce setiferis et glanduliferis, pilis uniseriatis 
in cellulis apicalibus elongatis; thecae antherarum ca. 1.5 mm 
longae inferne breviter acutae; appendices antherarum oblongo- 
lanceolatae breviter acutae ca. 0.5 mm longae et 0.18 mm latae 
non glanduliferae. Achaenia ca. 1.3-1.- mm longa parce breviter 


1979 Robinson, New species of Vernonia 289 


setifera; setae pappi ca. 25-30 plerumque 4 mm longae, squamae 
exteriores in fimbriis brevibus 0.10-0.15 mm longae. Grana 
pollinis ca. 35 pm in diam. indistincte lophorata spinulosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municipio de Macarani km 18 da Rod. Mai 
quinque / Itapetinga. Faz. Lagoa. Regiao de mata Mesdfila. 
Pastaria. N.V.: Caminho-de-rocga préto. Arbusto, 1 m de altura. 
Inflorescéncia 1ilas. 2 agésto 1978. L.A.Matto Silva, T.S. dos 
Santos & J.L.Hage 182 (Holotype US). 

Vernonia mattos-silvae is evidently close to V. scorpioides 
Pers., showing the distinctly scorpioid branches of the inflores- 
cence. The new species is most distinct by the long-attenuate 
tips of the subinvolucral and involucral bracts, the sparse 
pubescence of the achenes and corolla lobes, and the greatly 
reduced outer series of the pappus. The bases and tips of the 
leaf blades are also more narrowly acuminate. The pubescence and 
leaf margins place the new species closer to V. scorpioides than 


to V. harleyi n. sp. 


Vernonia morii H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae mediocriter ramosae ad 2 m altae. Caules 
brunnescentes teretes vel subteretes striati inferne tenuiter 
arachnoideo-tomentosi superne sparse vel dense obtuse hirtelli. 
Folia alterna, petiolis brevibus vel nullis inferioribus interdum 
ad 1 cm longis; laminae ellipticae vel elliptico-ovatae plerumque 
6-11 cm longae et 2.5-4.5 cm latae base cuneatae vel breviter 
acuminatae margine irregulariter subundulatae vel minute serrulat- 
ae apice breviter argute acuminatae supra saepe rugulosae sparse 
pilosae et scabridae subtus sparse vel dense puberulae in nervis 
et nervulis priminulae, nervis secundariis utrinque ca. 8 plerum- 
que 60-70° patentibus leniter arcuatis. Inflorescentiae pauce 
vel mediocriter ramosae, ramis vix arcuatis sparse vel dense 
obtuse hirtellis, bracteis foliiformibus ad 8 cm longis et 4 cm 
latis supra scabris vel dense pilosis subtus plerumque dense 
puberulis. Capitula remota uniseriata sessilia vel subsessilia 
axillaria vel extra-axillaria; involucra late campanulata plerun- 
que 7-10 mm lata et 7-12 mm longa superne non post anthesin 
constricta; squamae involucri brunnescentes ca. 65=75 ca. 7-seri- 
atae plerumque appressae 1.5-10.0 mm longae et base 1-3 mm latae 
Margine dense tenuiter fimbriatae extus sparse sericeae vel 
puberulae et sparse glanduliferae saepe glabrescentes, bracteae 
exteriores ovato-lanceolatae argute acutae interiores sensim 
oblongo-lanceolatae obtusae vel retusae et mucronatae, bracteae 
interiores superne utrinque densius scabridulae. Flores 20-30 in 
capitulo. Corollae plerumque eburnae vel albae interdum lavand- 
ulae plerumque 11-12 mm longae extus glabrae, tubis 6-7 mm longis 
superne anguste infundibularibus, faucis ca. 1 mm longis, lobis 
ca. 3.5 mm longis et 0.6 mm latis margine superne sparse pilifer- 
is, pilis uniseriatis in cellulis apicalibus elongatis tenuibus; 
thecae antherarum ca. 3.5 mm longae inferne obtusae; appendices 
antherarum ovato-lanceolatae subacutae ca. 0.5 mm longae et 0.2 


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mm latae non glanduliferae. Achaenia 3.5-4.0 mm longa 10-costata 
in costis glabra inter costis glandulifera et sparse appresse 
setifera; setae pappi facile deciduae ca. 50-55 et 7-10 mm longae 
inferne tenues vix contiquae superne mediocriter incrassatae et 
angulatae, squamae exteriores numerosae distinctae lineares plerum- 
que 2.0-3.5 mm longae. Grana pollinis ca. 45 pm in diam valde 
lophorata, cristis minute multo spiniferis, spinis majoribus 
nullis. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municipio de Maracas. Rod. BA 026, a 6 
km a SW de Maracas. Afloramento de rocha granitica. 900 m de 
altitude. Folha SD - 24 (14-40a). Arbusto 1.5 m de altura. 
Flores brancas. Vegetagao secundaria. 26 Abril 1978. Mori et 
al. 9959 (Holotype US). PARATYPES: BRASIL: Bahia: Saida de 
Itirugu / Maracas. Arb. de 2 m alt., fl. em capitulo verde, 
estames brancos. 20/05/969. J.A. de Jesus & T.S.Santos 440 (US); 
Encruzilhada, margem do Rio Parod, Mata Cipd. Planta de 1m 
altura; flores cremes; invdlucro verde. 23.5.1968. R.P.Belem 
3610 (US); 19.5 km SE of the town of Morro do Chapeu on the BA 
052 road to Mundo Novo, by the Rio Ferro Doido, with water worn 
horizontally-bedded sandstone at soil surface, with damp sand, 
sedge marsh, exposed rock & waterfall. Vegetation: open scrub to 
closed low woodland in the drier areas. Alt. ca. 900 m. Subshrub 
to 60 cm. Leaves scabrid, rugose, yellow-green above, pale 
beneath. Phyllaries pale green. Florets pale lilac. 2.3.77. 
Harley 19242 (US); Ca. 1 km N of Agua de Rega, road to Cafarnaim, 
elev. ca. 1000 m, Acacia caatinga on slopes. Subshrub ca. 1m 
tall. Heads cream. 28 February 1971. H.S.Irwin, R.M.Harley & 
G.L.Smith 31251 (US); same data, Shrub ca. 2 m tall. Irwin et 
al. 31260 (US). 

Vernonia morii seems rather common in the eastern half of 
Bahia in spite of the previous lack of a name. The closest 
relative may be V. ammophila Gardn. of central Minas Gerais 
westward into Goyas. The latter species differs by the usually 
obtuse to rounded leaf-tips, the usually magenta-colored corollas, 
the more densely tomentose stems, the more glabrous somewhat 
exsculpate upper leaf surfaces, and the coarser more crowded and 
sharply edged pappus setae. The squamae of the outer pappus are 
usually broader and seem somewhat more persistent. Also, the 
inner involucral bracts lack the tendency for retuse and mucronate 
tips. One specimen of V. ammophila (Classen, Minas Gerais) has 
been seen showing more acute leaf-tips and slender marginal 
hairs on the corolla lobes reminiscent of the new species, and 
some integradation may occur between the species in that area. 

Another close relative is V. rugulosa Sch.Bip. ex Baker of 
Minas Gerais. No material has been seen but an excellent photo- 
graph of the Berlin type distributed by the Field Museum shows 
the undulate membraneous tips of the larger involuvral bracts 
after which the species was named. There is no tendency toward 
such differentiated tips of the bracts in any material seen of 
the new species. The photograph and description indicate that 


1979 Robinson, New species of Vernonia 291 


V. rugulosa has generally more petiolate leaves and glabrous 
achenes, but these features need to be checked when more material 
is available. 


Vernonia nobilis H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae divaricate ramosae ad 3 m altae. Caules 
brunnescentes teretes pauce striati sparse albo-puberuli in nodis 
inferioribus non deflecti. Folia alterna, petiolis 3-5 mm longis; 
laminae ovatae 2-5 cm longae et 1.4-2.4 cm latae base rotundatae 
Margine subintegrae vel irregulariter undulatae apice acutae vel 
perbreviter acuminatae supra virides rugulosae parce puberulae 
subtus sordide tomentosae vel lanatae et glandulo-punctatae, 
nervis secundariis utrinque 6-7 mediocriter ascendentibus. 
Inflorescentiae diffusae foliosae inferne saepe triramosae, ramis 
fractiflexis. Capitula in axillis solitaria sessilia 1.5-1.8 cm 
alta et ca. 0.8-2.0 cm lata base leniter tomentosa; squamae 
involucri ca. 75-80 multiseriatae lanceolatae 2-13 mm longae base 
0.7-1.8 mm latae superne subulatae et patentes vel reflexae apice 
argute acutae extus rubrotinctae dense appresse pilosulae. Flores 
35-40 in capitulo. Corollae violaceae 11-16 mm longae praeter 
apicem glabrae, tubis 6-8 mm longis angustis superne infundibular- 
ibus, faucis ca. 1 mm longis, lobis saepe inaequalibus plerumque 
4-5 mm longis et 0.5 mm latis superne dense antrorse spiculiferis 
et parce micro-piliferis, spiculis unicellularibus; thecae 
antherarum 3.5-4.5 mm longae inferne acutae; appendices antherarum 
lanceolatae ca. 0.8 mm longae et 0.25 mm latae non glanduliferae 
margine plerumque anguste inflexae. Achaenia ca. 3 mm longa dense 
longe setifera; setae pappi ca. 30-35 et 10-12 mm longae, setae 
in seriebus exterioribus numerosae anguste lineares plerumque 
2 mm longae. Grana pollinis ca. 45 pm in diam. valde lophorata, 
cristis minute multo spinuliferis, spinis majoribus nullis. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Vicinity of Machado Portello. June 
19-23, 1915. J.N.Rose & P.G.Russell 19966 (Holotype US). 
PARATYPES: BRASIL: Bahia: Same data as holotype. Rose & Russell 
19906 (US); Piauhy - Ceara: Picos to Campo Salles. Shrub about 
3' high. Brushy borders. April 8-11, 1933. J.R.Swallen 4278 
(US). 

Vernonia nobilis has been found in two widely separated 
localities, one in the interior of Piauhy or adjacent Ceara, and 
the other in eastern Bahia near Salvador. Such a potential range 
would suggest other collections exist, but none have been seen 
and no described species of Vernonia seems particularly close. 
The specialized interests of the collectors in cacti and grasses 
might indicate that specialized habitats are involved. 

It is possible that V. nobilis is closely related to the 
recently described Mattfeldanthus mutisioides H.Robins. & King 
of Bahia. The corollas of the former seem more reddish than most 
Vernoniae though not as reddish as indicated for Mattfeldanthus. 
The corolla lobes are somewhat unequal, but no pattern is evident 
as in Mattfeldanthus where the outer four lobes of the peripheral 


292 PEeST PLO ee A Vol. 44, No. 4 


flowers are always shorter. The most obvious resemblance between 
the two is in the branching of the inflorescence. Multiple 
innovations are present in both, a character not seen in other 
members of Vernonia. In Mattfeldanthus the single extra branch is 
present under all fully developed heads observed. In V. nobilis 
the one or two basal nodes of the inflorescence seem to have 
characteristically three or even four branches. The vegetative 
stems of V. nobilis are straight while the branches of the 
inflorescence are deflected at the nodes. The achene pubescence 
is longer in the new species than in Mattfeldanthus, and the 
corolla lobes are much less rigid and less sharp~pointed,. 


Vernonia persericea H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae suffrutescentes inferne non vel pauce ramosae ad 2 m 
altae. Caules brunnescentes teretes anguste striati subdense 
sericei vel subhirtelli. Folia alterna subsessilia, petiolis ca. 
1 mm longis; laminae oblongo-ovatae plerumque 2.5-5.0 cm longae 
et 1.2-3.0 cm latae base rotundatae margine integrae anguste 
reflexae apice abrupte breviter acuminatae supra atro-virides 
evanescentiter pilosae inferne in nervis persistentiter sericeae 
subtus perdense sordide sericeae, nervis secundariis utrinque ca. 
6 distaliter ascendentibus. Inflorescentiae multo ramosae, ramis 
serialiter cymosis subtiliter deflectis dense sordide sericeis 
vel subhirtellis. Capitula in seriebus solitaria vel geminata 
sessilia 7-8 mm alta et ca. 5-7 mm lata, bracteis subinvolucral- 
ibus anguste ovatis 5-10 mm longis minute apiculatis in vestimento 
foliiformibus; squamae involucri exteriores 25-30 multiseriatae 
leniter patentes anguste lineares vel filiformes 2-5 mm longae 
apice anguste acutae non reflexae extus dense sericeae, squamae 
interiores ca. 10 lineari-lanceolatae 6-7 mm longae inferne ca. 

1 mm latae apice acutae extus sericeae. Flores ca. 10 in capitulo. 
Corollae violaceae 5-6 mm longae praeter apicem glabrae, tubis 

2-3 mm longis anguste infundibularibus, faucis subnullis, lobis 
ca. 3 mm longis et 0.5 mm latis superne dense breviter spiculi- 
feris, spiculis uni- et bi-seriatis; thecae antherarum 1.8-2.0 mm 
longae inferne obtusae; appendices antherarum ca. 0.3 mm longae 
et 0.2 mm latae non glanduliferae. Achaenia immatura ca. 1.5 m 
longa dense longe setifera; setae pappi ca. 40 et ca. 4 mm longae, 
setae in seriebus exterioribus distinctae anguste squamiformes 

cae 0.5 mm longae. Grana pollinis 45-50 pm in diam. valde 
lophorata, cristis minute multo spinuliferis, spinis majoribus 
nullis. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Coastal Zone. Parque Nacional de Monte 
Pascoal. On NW slopes of Monte Pascoal. Rain forest, changing 
to disturbed areas with scattered trees and woodland, dominated 
by Pteridium at higher altitudes. Alt. 200-586 m. This plant 
growing at summit of mountain among shrubs and trees. Herb to 
2m. Leaves slightly coriaceous, mid-green above, pale below 
with pale buff hairs. Corolla pale magenta. 12 Jan. 1977. 
Harley et al. 17865 (Holotype US). 


1979 Robinson, New species of Vernonia 293 
Vernonia persericea is one of a group including V. geminata 
Less., V. coulsonii Sch.Bip. ex Baker, V. edmundii Barroso, and 
many others. The distinctive features are the narrow outer rows 
of involucral bracts without reflexed tips and the subsessile 
oblong-ovate leaf blades with an abrupt acumination. The marked- 
ly sericeous vestiture is also notable. Additional features 
include the leaf undersurface with no glandular punctations, and 
the filaments of the anthers being inserted just below the sinues 
of the disk corolla lobes. The bracts of the inflorescence are 
reduced, but are larger than the scarcely evident bracts of 
V. geminata and its closest allies. 


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NATIONAL HERGARIUM 


Vernonia harleyi H.Robinson, Holotype, United States National 
Herbarium. Photos by Vistor E. Krantz, Staff Photographer, 
National Museum of Natural History. 


1979 Robinson, New species of Vernonia 295 


UNITED STATES 


2850013 


NATIONAL HERBARIUM 


Vernonia mattos-silvae H.Robinson, Holotype, United States 
National Herbarium. 


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NEW SPECIES OF VERNONIEAE (ASTERACEAE). III. 


ADDITIONS TO PIPTOCARPHA 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


Piptocarpha is a wide-spread genus in the Neotropical 
Region with most of the approximately 50 species (Jones, 1977) in 
South America. Numerous Andean species have been described in 
recent years, including the unique P. cuatrecasasiana (Aristeg.) 
Badillo (Aristeguieta, 1963, 1964; Badillo, 1974) having hairs 
inside the corolla. Recent studies involving Brazilian species 
include those of Cabrera (1957) and Barroso (1959), the latter 
with a key to the species in the Rio de Janiero area. Three 
further additions to the Brazilian flora given below include two 
new species and one transfer from the genus Stifftia. 


Piptocarpha matogrossensis H.Robinson, sp. nov. 


Plantae subarborescentes vel arborescentes multo ramosae ca. 
4 m altae et 10 cm latae. Caules teretes subtiliter striati 
dense minute sordide lepidoti. Folia alterna, petiolis 7-17 m 
longis saepe leniter arcuatis; laminae coriaceae oblongo-ellipt- 
icae plerumque 4.5-7.5 cm longae et 1.4-3.3 cm latae base anguste 
rotundatae vel breviter cuneatae plerumque inaequales margine 
integrae apice obtusae vel anguste rotundatae supra in sicco 
flavo-virides glabra in nervis primariis anguste lepidotae in 
nervulis prominulae subtus dense sordide lepidotae, nervis 
secundariis utrinque ca. 7 plerumque 20-30° ascendentibus. 
Inflorescentiae axillares subglomeratae breviter corymbosae sub- 
umbellatae, ramis 1-4 mm longis dense sordide lepidotis. Capit- 
ula ca. 6-9 in axillo 10-12 mm alta; involucra anguste campanulata 
ca. 7 mm alta et 3 m lata in partibus interioribus decidua; 
Squamae involucri ca. 25 et ca. 5-6-seriatae confertae ellipticae 
1-6 mm longae et ad 2 mm latae apice breviter acutae in squamis 
mediis margine scariosae, squamae exteriores et apices squamarum 
interioris extus appresse lepidotae margine pauce fimbriatae. 
Flores 5-8. Corollae albae? ca. 6 mm longae plerumque glabrae, 
tubis 1.5-2.0 mm longis, faucis ca. 1.5 mm longis leniter 
infundibularibus, lobis ca. 2.5 mm longis et 0.5 mm latis superne 
pauce glanduliferis et dense substellato-piliferis; thecae 
antherarum ca. 3.5 mm longae base caudatae argute acutae, caudis 
ca. 1 mm longis; appendices antherarum oblongo-lanceolatae ca. 
0.6 mm longae et 0.2 mm latae non glanduliferae. Achaenia ca. 4 
mm longa glabra sublaevia in superficiis interioribus leniter 
costata; carpopodia minuta; setae pappi tenues cinereae (appear- 

300 


1979 Robinson, Additions to Piptocarpha 301 


ing white on specimen) 90-100 plerumque 6 mm longae, setae exter- 
iores paucae lineares 0.5-1.0 mm longae. Grana pollinis ca. 35 


m? 
P TYPE: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso: Vicinity of Barro do Gargas, ca. 
45 km N. on road to Xavantina. Cerrado. Small tree to ca. 4mx 
10 cm. Pappus gray-brown. Occasional. Elev. 300-300 m. Oct. 
15, 1964. Irwin & Soderstrom 6926 (Holotype US). 

Both geography and the general description place the new 
species close to P. senescens Baker, but the leaves of the latter 
are noted as 5-6 inches long by 2 1/2 - 3 wide, as being distinct- 
ly denticulate, and being subcoriaceous or comparatively flexuose 
for a member of the genus. Other suggested differences are the 
more brownish and more lepidote pubescence on the leaf under- 
surface. The carpopodium seems small compared to those of many 
other species, and the secondary veins are less prominent on the 
underside. 


Piptocarpha santosii H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae (subscandentes?) mediocriter ramosae. 
Caules subteretes vix angulati dense ferruginose stellate toment-— 
osi. Folia alterna, petiolis 2-3 cm longis crassis dense stellate 
tomentosis; laminae subcoriaceae suborbiculatae 8-12 cm longae et 
ca. 6-9 cm latae base plerumque aliquantum inaequales late rotund- 
atae vel vix cordatae margine integrae vel remote minute denticu- 
latae apice breviter apiculatae supra subtiliter rugulosae scab- 
ride pilosulae in nervis dense stellato-tomentosae subtus sordide 
subdense stellato-tomentosae, nervis secundariis utrinque ca. 8 
plerumque recte patentibus. Inflorescentiae axillares subglomer- 
atae breviter corymbosae, ramis ultimis 1-4 mm longis ferrugineo- 
tomentosis. Capitula ca. 8 in axillo 12-14 m alta ca. 5 m 
lata; involucra turbinata 8-9 mm alta superne constricta 
aliquantum persistentia; squamae involucri ca. 30 et ca. 6-seri- 
atae dense confertae ellipticae vel late ellipticae 1.5-7.0 mm 
longae et 1.5-2.0 mm latae in squamis mediis suborbiculatae ad 
4 mm latae margine late scariosae, squamae exteriores extus 
tomentosae, interiores extus plerumque subglabrae-subapice 
appresse substellate pubescentes margine fimbriatae. Flores ca. 
9. Corolla albae firmae ca. 8-9 mm longae plerumque glabrae, 
tubis ca. 3.5 mm longis, faucis ca. 1.5 mm longis leniter infund- 
ibularibus, lobis 3.0-3.5 mm longis et ca. 0.5 mm latis superne 
glanduliferis et pauce substellato-piliferis; thecae antherarum 
ca. 3.5 mm longae base caudatae argute acutae, caudis ca. 0.5 mm 
longis; appendices antherarum lanceolatae 0.9 mm longae et base 
0.25 mm latae non glanduliferae. Achaenia 3.5-4.0 mm longa 
distincte 10-costata glabra; carpopodia prominentia; setae pappi 
tenues albae 75-80 plerumque 6-7 mm longae, squamae exteriores 
numerosae lineares ad 1 mm longae. Grana pollinis ca. 35-37 pm 
in diam. indistincte lophorata spinulosa. 

TYPE: BRAZIL: Bahia: Eunapolis Colonia estrada do rio do 
peixe do W. Arbusto raminoso fl. branca involoco verde. 


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Mata. 18.5.71. T.S.Santos 1670 (Holotype US). 

The new species is unusual in the suborbicular leaves with 
nearly perpendicular spreading secondary veins. The stellate 
pubescence seems to be more highly developed than in any other 
species of the genus. The hairs are less branched on the sten, 
are densely branched on the petioles, and are more laxly but more 
stellately branched on the undersurface of the leaf. 


Piptocarpha stifftioides H.Robinson, nom. nov. 

Stifftia axillaris Barroso & G.da Vinha, Loefgrenia 44: l. 
1970. Not Piptocarpha axillaris (Less.) Baker. The species 
first aroused suspicion because of the axillary inflorescences 
such as are common in most Brazilian species of Piptocarpha. 
Nevertheless, careful examination has been necessary to confirm 
the relationship. The glabrous leaves and the stout rather 
reddish pappus setae are similar to Stifftia which is also 
native in eastern Brazil, however, a position in the Vernonieae 
rather than the Mutisieae is indicated by the small thin anther 
appendages, the slightly lophorate and spinulose pollen grains, 
the thinly and irregularly thickened endothecial cells, and the 
long style branches with pubescence along their entire external 
surface. The position in Piptocarpha is evident in the distinct- 
ive form of the achenes, the few somewhat stellate appressed 
hairs on the tips of the corolla lobes, and in the often slightly 
unequal bases of the leaf blades. The species has blunt-tipped 
anther bases, but the basal portion is evidently sterile tissue 
and thus represents a tail. Most species of Piptocarpha have a 
very sharp tail, but blunt tails have been seen on specimens 
from Bahia determined as P. pyrifolia Baker. The species is 
unusual in the genus by having only 1-3 heads in the axils of 
each leaf. 


Literature Cited 
Aristeguieta, L. 1963. Tres especies de Compositae de Venezuela 
nuevas para la ciencia. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 3 (24): 
363-369. 
- 1964. Compositae. Flora de Venezuela 10: 1-939. 
Badillo, V. M. 1974. Blumea viscosa y Piptocarpha cuatrecasas— 


iana dos nuevas combinaciones en Compositae. Rev. Fac. 
Agron. (Maracay). 7 (3): 9-16. 


Barroso, G. M. 1959, Flora da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, 
Compositae. Rodriguésia 21-22 (33-34): 69-155. 


Barroso, G. M. & S. G. da Vinha 1970. Stifftia axillaris, uma 
espécie nova de Compositae. Loefgrenia 44: 1-2. 


1979 Robinson, Additions to Piptocarpha 303 


Cabrera, A. L. 1957. Compositae brasilienses novae. Arquivos 
do Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. 15: 69-85. 


Jones, S. B. 1977. Chapter 17. Vernonieae - Systematic review. 
in Heywood, V. H., J. B. Harborne & B. L. Turner. The 
Biology and Chemistry of the Compositae. 503-521. 


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Photographer, National Museum of Natural History. 


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P. matogrossensis. 


THE CORRECT GENERIC PLACEMENT OF 
ALBIZIA CARBONARIA BRITTON 


Christine J. Niezgoda & Lorin I. Nevling, Jr. 


Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605 


A survey of the pollen of tribe Ingeae (Mimosoideae) by 
Scanning Electron Microscopy and light microscopy was initiated 
to determine the usefullness of this character in the taxonomy of 
the tribe. The tribe is characterized by pollen that regularly 
occurs in 16-20-24-28-32-grained polyads. Almost all the high 
number polyads occur in New World taxa; the majority of the Old 
World genera have 16-grained polyads only. During the course of 
this study an interesting polyad was found in the genus Albizia 
The characteristic polyad of Albizia is composed of 16 pollen 
grains which agrees with the results of other recent pollen 
studies. Guinet (1969) in his treatment of the Mimosoideae 
reported the pollen of all the species of Albizia that he ex- 
amined as polyads with 16 grains. Sorsa (1969), in a similar 
study, listed only one species from Africa (Albizia amara ssp. 
sertocephala) as having an occa@ional 32-grained polyad. A 
sample of this species' pollen contained 16 grains per polyad 
consistently with only one 32-grained polyad observed. It would 
seem that this chance occurrence may be the result of an aberrant 
division. Such irregularities commonly are found in other genera 
of the Ingeae. 


As an extension of the pollen study, the stigmatic surfaces 
also were examined. It was noted that stigma size usually cor- 
responds to the diameter of the polyad, and the stigmatic area 
can accomodate only one polyad. Such a system of pollination 
coupled with the fertilization of all the ovules by a single 
polyad would ensure maximum seed production with the least amount 
of energy expended. There should be many ovules/ovary in Albizia 
flowers as there is a significant correlation between morpholo- 
gically permanent tetrads, polyads, and pollinia and high ovule 
number (Walker, 1971b). Under these circumstances it would be 
expected that a polyad of 16 grains should produce a maximum of 
16 seeds per pod with correspondingly higher numbers for larger 
polyads. All available fruits on Albtzta herbarium specimens at 
Field Museum were examined to see if a correlation could be esta- 
blished between. seeds/pod and grains/polyad. The results of the 
examination agreed with predictions: the 16-grained polyad spe- 
cies of Albizia had fruits with 10-14 seeds. However, one speci- 
men, an Albizta from Central and South America, did not seem to 
fit the otherwise established pattern (less than 16 seeds per 
fruit). This species had 25 seeds/pod which would not correlate 
with a fertilization by a single 16-grained polyad. Subsequent 

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examination of the flowering material revealed that the polyads 
were consistently 32- rather than 16-grained. Either this is a 
unique species of Albizia or it has been incorrectly placed. 


In examining the material it was found that specimens of 
this species have been previously identified as three separate 
species of Albizta, A. carbonarta, A. filteina, and A. malaco- 
carpa. The oldest epithet is malacocarpa published in 1925 by 
Standley in the Flora of El Slavador but it lacks a species de- 
scription. Subsequently, the name was validly published by 
Standley in North American Flora in 1928. However, in 1926, 
Britton established A. carbonaria for a tree that was growing at 
the Rio Piedras Forest Station in Puerto Rico. At a later date, 
1936, Britton and Killip in the Mimosaceae and Caesalpinaceae 
of Colombia placed A. malacocarpa in synonomy with A. carbonarta. 
The third epithet, filicina, is handwritten on specimens in the 
herbarium at Field Museum as sp. nov. Standley. There has been 
no publication of this epithet. 


Native to Colombia, Albizia carbonaria, has been introduced 
in El Slavador and Puerto Rico (type specimen). It is also found 
in Venezuela, Panama, and Costa Rica. Traditionally the genus 
Albtzta had been classified as entirely Old World, being native 
to Asia and possibly Africa. But this distinction has been ob- 
scured as it has become very widespread in the New World due to 
the cultivation of many species as ornamentals (for example, A. 
jultbrissin). Morphologically the genus is most closely allied 
to Pithecellobtum (primarily New World) and is distinguished from 
it primarily on fruit characters. 


Albtata - Fruit broadly linear, straight, plano-compressed, 


thin, not dehiscent, or 2-valved, continuous 
inside, the valves neither elastic not twisted 
(Hutchinson, 1964). 


Legume oblong, flattened, straight, tapering at 
the base and apex, nonseptate, chartaceous to 
coriaceous, dry, indehiscent to tardily dehis- 
cent, the valves thin, slightly thickened at the 
margins (Elias, 1974). 


Pithecellobiwn - Fruit compressed, circinate, variously twisted, 
falcate, or rarely nearly straight, 2-valved or 
rarely not opening or splitting into joints, 
valves often twisted but not elastically re- 
volute (Hutchinson, 1964). 


Legume straight or curved, flattened to terete, 
2-valved, dehiscent (or indehiscent), the valves 
continuous or interrupted within, dehiscence 
occurring along both sutures at the same time or 
proceeding from on the adaxial suture to the ab- 
axial suture (usually incomplete), the valves 
being contorted after dehiscence (Elias, 1974). 


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1979 Niezgoda & Nevling, Albizia carbonaria 309 


A. carbonaria - Legume 8-11 cm. long, about 2 cm. wide, densely 
puberulent, stipitate, narrowed at the base, at 
length dehiscent (Standley, 1928 - as A. malaco- 
carpa). 

Pod flat, linear-oblong, 7-10 cm. long, 14-18 cm. 
wide, pubescent, short-pointed, narrowed at the 
base, the valves with thickened margins, its 
stalk about 1 cm. long (Britton, 1926). 


Examination of fruiting specimens of A. carbonaria further re- 
veals that the fruit is septate (note written on specimen - author 
unknown). In the Flora of Panama (Schery, 1950) a question is 
raised as to its placement: "On the basis of certain characters 
A. carbonarta might well be considered Pithecellobium (or Samanea, 
if this be recognized as distinct from Pithecellobtum) instead of 
Albtzzia. Yet the legume better fits Albtzzia." The separation 
of Albtzta from Pithecellobium based solely on fruit morphology 
is considered questionable by Elias (1974). 


It has been traditional for workers in the Mimosoideae to use 
fruit characteristics as a major indicator of generic relation- 
ships or as determiners of generic boundaries, The widespread use 
of the fruit character has not resulted in a stabilized taxonomy 
that reflects, at least to some extent, natural relationships. 

We believe that fruit was chosen as a "key character" simply be- 
cause they are generally large, easily observable, and forestall 
the need to make extensive dissections of small (usually) flowers. 
In our opinion floral morphology affords better opportunities for 
determining relationships as they appear to be intimately asso- 
ciated with particular pollination strategies. The fruit appears 
to be a secondary evolutionary character more closely attuned to 
habitat than to a set generic ground plan. What is needed to de- 
monstrate this, is a broad survey that attempts to correlate fruit 
type with habitat and seed dissemination type. The latter would 
be difficult to perform because of our very limited knowledge of 
this subject within the Mimosoideae. Until such time as the pro- 
posed correlation can be demonstrated or disproven, we believe 
that prudence would tend to dictate that we "forget the fruit". 


The individual pollen grains of tribe Ingeae are not differ- 
entiated to a great extent. However, with the exception of the 
larger genera (Inga and Pithecellobtum), the pollen is consistent 
in the number of grains per polyad having either 16- or 32-grained 
polyads (Table 1). Of the genera having 32-grained polyads, 
Affonsea, Enterolobiun, Inga, Pithecellobiun, Pseudosamanea, and 
Samanea, only Pithecellobiun possesses the morphological features 
that would allow the placement of A. carbonaria within the genus. 
Figures 1-4 are Scanning Electron micrographs of the 32-grained 
polyad of A. carbonaria, the characteristic 16-grained polyad of 
Albizta, and the 32-grained polyad of Pithecellobtum for compari- 
son. 


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In summary, the genus Albizia is not well defined nor separ- 
ated easily from some members of the Ingeae. The characters of 
the fruit are limited intheir value in segregation of genera and 
useless when only flowering specimens are available. All Old 
World Albtzta species have pollen that is consistently in 16- 
grained polyads. To date, with the exception of A. carbonaria, 
all the New World species that have been examined conform in this 
character. Therefore, we are transferring A. carbonaria to Ptth- 
ecellobtum, the genus most closely allied to Albizia in morpho- 
logical and palynological characters. We are limiting the genus 
Albtzta to those species which only have 16 pollen grains per 
polyad. 


Pithecellobtum carbonaria (Britton) Niez. §& Nevl. 


Albtzta carbonarta Britton, Sci. Surv. Porto Rico §& Virgin 
Islands 6: 348, 1926. (TYPE: C. ZL. Batee ein, 


Albtzta malacocarpa Standley, Fl. Salvador 96, 1925; nomen 
nudum. N. Am. Flora 23: 44, 1928. (TYPE: Calderon 
2042). 


LITERATURE CITED 


Elias, T. S. 1974. The Genera of Mimosoideae (Leguminosae) in 
the Southeastern United States. Jour. Arnold Arb. 
55(1): 67-118. 


Guinet, P. 1969. Les Mimosacees etude de Palynologie Funda- 
mentale, Correlations. Evolution. Inst. Franc. 
Pondichery Trav. Sci. Tech. 9: 1-293. 


Hutchinson, J. 1964. The Genera of Flowering Plants. Vol 1. 
516 pp. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 


Schery, R. W. 1950. Leguminosae subfamily Mimosoideae. Jn: 
R. E. Woodson, R. W. Schery, et al., Flora of Panama. 
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37: 184-314. 


Sorsa, P. 1969. Pollen Morphological Studies on the Mimosaceae. 
Ann. Bot. Fenn. 6: 1-34. 


Walker, J. W. 1971b. Pollen Morphology, Phytogeography, and 
Phylogeny of the Annonaceae. Contrib. Gray Herb. 
Harvard 202: 1-132. 


1979 Niezgoda & Nevling, Albizia carbonaria 311 


TABLE 1: 

GENUS POLLEN GRAINS/POLYAD DISTRIBUTION 
Af fonsea 32 New World 
Albtzta 16 Old §& New World 
Archidendron 16 Old World 
Calltandra 8 or 16* Old §& New World 
Cedrelinga 16 New World 
Enterolobtum 32 New World 
Inga 16 to 32 New World 
Lyst Loma 16 New World 
Pithecellobtum 16 to 32 Old & New World 
Pseudosamanea 32 New World 
Samanea 32 New World 
Sertanthes 16 Old World 
Wallaceodendron 16 Old World 


ee we ee ee eee eR eK eK eK RM eM Be em eM em em em em em ee Re em eee emer rr err eee emer reer err rr errr eee 


*Calltandra as presently circumscribed consists of at least two 
genera. Those with an 8-grained polyad may not belong in the 
Ingeae. 


The pollen data comes from a compilation of our studies, Sorsa, 
and Guinet; the distribution data is from Hutchinson. 


312 PHY. FO. :0, CG. tA Vol. 44, No. 4 


FIGURES 1-4. - Scanning Electron Micrographs (line = 10 u): 
1 & 2, Ptthecellobium carbonarta; 3, Ptthecellobium daulense; 


4, Albtzta retusa. 


PSEUDOSTELLARIA JAMESIANA- COMB. NOV., 
A NORTH AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE OF A EURASIAN GENUS 


William A. Boban and Ronald pach” 


Stellaria jamesiana Torrey is a common and conspicuous element 
in the forest flora of the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and 
across the western United States in the mountains of Wyoming, New 
Mexico, western Texas, Utah, Nevada, northern Arizona and in the 
@ascade-Sierra ranges of Washington, Oregon and California. It has 
always held an anomalous position in that genus because of its 
shallowly notched petal with a U-shaped sinus. For this reason 
Shinners (1962) transferred the taxon to Arenaria. His preoccupa- 
tion with the petal character unfortunately may have caused him to 
ignore equally obvious characters which ally S. jamesiana not so 
much to Arenaria as to Pseudostellaria Pax (1934), a Eurasian genus 
likewise characterized by having shallowly notched petals. Further- 
more, Pseudostellaria displays perennial rhizomes with napiform tu- 
bers scattered along them as swellings or in fascicles at the bases 
of the aerial stems. Because of the fragility of the attenuate stem 
bases most specimens of Stellaria jamesiana are collected without 
underground parts. In most species of Pseudostellaria the showy 
flowers are usually barren, the few fruits being borne on cleisto- 
gamous flowers from the lower leaf-axils. In Stellaria jamesiana 
most of the flowers are barren but a few are fertile and evidently 
not cleistogamous. 


The chromosome numbers reported for Pseudostellaria are 2n=32 
for P. europaea (Favarger 1961) and 2n=12, 14 for P. palibiniana 
(Lee 1969) suggesting base or secondary base numbers for the genus 
to be x=6, 7 and 8. Many more counts are needed. Léve, Love & 
Kapoor (1971) reported 2n=26 for S. jamesiana. We consider this 
count unreliable because no voucher specimen was deposited in COLO 
and several others by the same student collector were misidentified. 
Hartman has determined the chromosome number of S. jamesiana recent-— 
ly inmaterial from Wyoming: Carbon County, ca. 3.2 mi W of Sandstone 
Ranger Station, T13N R88W S12, 2500 m.s.m., July 1979, Hartman & 
Coffey 8957 (RM) to be 2n=ca.96, which would suggest a base number 
of x=8 or 16. This harmonizes with the reports for Pseudostellaria. 


In S. jamesiana the rhizomes sometimes have only swellings 
along their length, but well-developed individuals have massive 
clusters of napiform tubers a centimeter or more wide and up to 


Ani. of Colorado Museum, Campus Box 218, Boulder CO 80309 
Rocky Mountain Herbarium, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82070 
313 


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ten cm long. The few fruit-bearing flowers are almost always the 
first blossoming members of simple dichasia. The mature ovary con- 
tains two seeds plus one or two aborted ovules. Seed ornamentation 
consists of low, smooth, elongated ridges from which several short, 
narrow ones ''flow'' pectinately from their slopes to meet those of 
adjacent ridges. 


The capsule is extraordinary because of its mode of dehiacence. 
The pedicel becomes deflexed from its base, turning the apex of the 
capsule toward the ground. Upon dehiscence the seeds fall away and 
the capsule valves spread out flat and their tips roll back and un- 
der several turns, creating the aspect of a round saucer lacking 
any points, the shiny insides of the valves being fully exposed. 
Whether this is unique to the species or may be matched in other 
species of Pseudostellaria remains to be seen. 


Accordingly, we propose the following transfer: 


PSEUDOSTELLARIA JAMESIANA Torrey (Weber & Hartman, comb. nov., based 
on Stellaria jamesiana Torr., Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2:269. 1827. 


In proposing Pseudostellaria, Pax described its phytogeography 
as follows: "Die etwa 10 Arten umfassende Gattung stellt ein Ter- 
tiarrelikt Ostasiens dar'' and listed the species as occurring in 
China, adjacent Japan, Korea, eastern Tibet, Transbaicalia, Himalaya, 
Afghanistan and Altai. The distribution of the more recently segre- 
gated European species, P. europaea Schaeftlein, from SE Austria, 

N Jugoslavia and NW Italy, is that of an outlier of an essentially 
Asiatic genus. A few additional species have been added from the 
areas mentioned by Pax. This realignment of Stellaria jamesiana 
with Pseudostellaria reinforces the emerging pattern of the Southern 
Rocky Mountain Flora as one having a strong Asiatic element probably 
dating back to the Tertiary, a feature which greatly impressed Sir 
Joseph Hooker a century ago when he visited Colorado with Asa Gray 
(Huxley 1918, p. 220). 


Literature Cited 


FAVARGER, C. 1961. Le nombre chromosomique du Pseudostellaria 
europaea Schaeftlein. Phyton (Horn) 9:252-256. 

HUXLEY, LEONARD. 1918. Life and letters of Sir Joseph Dalton 
Hooker. Vol. 2. 569 pp. Appleton, N. Y. 

LEE, Y. N. 1969. Chromosome number of flowering plants in Korea 
(2). J. Korean Res. Inst. Better Living 2:141-145. 

LOVE, ASKELL, DORIS LOVE and BRIJ M. KAPOOR. 1971. A century of 
Rocky Mountain orophytes. Arctic Alpine Res. 3:139-165. 

PAX, F. 1934. Caryophyllaceae, in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pfl.—Fam. 
60.) 2,016C? 275-367 


SHINNERS, LLOYD H. 1962. New names in Arenaria (Caryophyllaceae). 
Sida 1:49-52. 


BOOK REVIEWS 


Alma L. Moldenke 


"COASTAL VEGETATION" 2nd Edition by V. J. Chapman, viii & 292 pp., 
115 b/w fig., 31 tab. Pergamon Press, Oxford, Toronto, & Elms- 
ford, New York 10523. 1976. $9.50 flexicover & $17.50 cloth- 
bound, 


This new edition has been increased in scope from just British coast- 
al vegetation to that of both sides of the North Atlantic, even in- 
cluding the tropical mangroves of southern Florida. This book from 
the typewriter and (wet) field studies of a learned ecologist should 
be of use to university students in Great Britain, northern Europe and 
the eastern United States, The text considers basic ecological prin- 
ciples affecting coastal vegetation such as zonation, succession, 
community analysis and autecology in sand dunes and their slacks, the 
drift line, shingly beaches, coastal cliffs, salt marshes and the 
mangroves that replace them in the tropics. They are mainly treed, 
with Rhizophora mangle and Avicennia germinans dominant, This edition 
offers much valuable material to readers. 


"PLANTS CONSUMED BY MAN" by B. Brouk, x & 479 pp. & 391 b/w line 
draw. Academic Press, London, San Francisco, & New York, N. Y. 
20003 6° 197 5F>'$39. 25. 


So very much valuable and interesting information on this topic 
has been incorporated into the illustrated concise outline form of 
this book on over 300 plants used the world over as Cereals and pseudo- 
cereals, Vegetables including macrofructifications of fungi, Fruits, 
Nuts, Plant extracts of starch, oil, protein, sugar, gums, vegetable 
food dyes, wood, smoke, Flavourings, Beverages, Fumitories and mas- 
ticatories, Fermentative microorganisms in cheeses, vinegars. At the 
close of each chapter there is a morphological survey of the specif- 
ic plant structures involved. This is virtually an encyclopedia with 
readily available accurate information often enhanced by derivation 
of terms and early history of use. 


"BEHAVIOUR ASPECTS OF PARASITE TRANSMISSION" edited by Elizabeth U. 
Canning & C. A. Wright, xi & 219 pp., 6 b/w tab., 44 fig. & 42 
photo. Academic Press, London & New York, N. Y. 10003. 1973. 
$20.00. 


This book, an interesting first in this interdisciplinary field, 
is published as Supplement I of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean 
315 


316 P Hed -TsO4byOnG oA Vol. 44, No.4 


Society of London Volume 51, 1972, so making available the 13 papers, 
their useful bibliographies and their questions-answers to a much 
larger and later audience than was privileged to attend this sympos- 
ium. The first editor represents the British Section of the Society 
of Protozoologists and the second the British Society of Parasitolo- 
gists and also the Linnean Society, The papers cover such topics as 
behavior of digenetic trematodes, monogeneans and larval nematodes; 
circadian and seasonal rhythms in blood parasites (microfilariae, 
plasmodia, trypanosomae, diurnal carriers of loa to man and crepus- 
cular or nocturnal carriers to monkeys); host-finding and media of 
tsetse flies in their "following swarms"; human behavior in the trans- 
mission of parasitic mainly tropical diseases and their radiations 

as graphically described by a medical naturalist, sense organs in 
trematode micromedia and hematophagous insects; etc. Students and 
researchers in parasitology, entomology, ethology, human and animal 
medical problems will find valuable material here. The print is par- 


ticularly easy to read. 


"GUIDE TO THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES" by Laura & William Riley, 
xv & 653 pp., 181 b/w line-dot maps & 27 color photos. Anchor 
Press of Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y. 11530 & New York, N. Y. 
LOOL? ..°'2979.; : $LA.95. 


"The [more than 380] national wildlife refuges of the United 
States are unmatched by those of any other country in the geographic 
span they cover, the diversity of habitat they provide, and the variety 
and numbers of wild creatures they harbor...... The book tells where 
these refuges are, how to get there, what there is to see and do, 
where a visitor can stay or camp nearby, best times to visit, any 
special equipment needed, and how to get more information." This 
collection of carefully compiled information should prove helpful for 
travel planning and for folks who respect Nature as do the authors. 


"TREES OF THE NORTHEAST COLORING BOOK" by Stefen Bernath with captions 
by Mildred E. Faust, ii & 46 pp., 45 b/w & 2 color end plates of 
drawings. Dover Publications, New York, N. Y. 10014. 1979. 
$1.50 paperbound. 


There seems to be a market especially among hobbyists who like to 
visualize things and have their distinctive characteristics pointed 
out correctly by outline drawings such as these, For 45 conifer and 
broadleaf trees, their general outline, their leaf shape and arrange- 
ment, their flowers, seeds and fruits, and their barks show in the 
outlines as distinctive characters. The captions give common and 
scientific names and items of interest. 


1979 Moldenke, Book reviews 317 


"CENTRAL PARK -— A Photographic Guide" by Victor Laredo (photographs). 
& Henry Hope Read (text), xiii & 80 pp., 121 b/w photos & 1 map. 
Dover Publications, New York, N. Y. 10014, 1979. $4.50 paper- 
b ound e 


That "Central Park is one of the world's great urban parks" is 
proven in the text, legends and well printed nostalgic (back to a few 
years, to a few or more decades, or to a century or more) photographs, 
There are the bird watchers peering through their binoculars, the now 
vanished conservatory and greenhouses, statuary of many kinds and times 
including the Egyptian obelisk, "Cleopatra's Needle", with its hiero- 
glyphs continually being eroded away as prophesized by its translator, 
Dr. Charles E. Moldenke, the zoo with the people often as interesting 
as the animals, and the silent background foliage and branches of 
trees and shrubs in all seasons. 


"THE STARS BELONG TO EVERYONE -— How To Enjoy Astronomy" by Helen Saw- 
yer Hogg, xii & 274 pp., 36 b/w fig., 24 pl. & 8 tab. Doubleday 
& Company, New York, N. Y. 1976. $12.50. 


This author surely knows how to share her childhood enthusiasms for 
the stars above. They ripened into a longtime professional career at 
the University of Toronto and a weekly newspaper column on "The Stars" 
for the "Toronto Star". 

"This book attempts to give explanations for celestial happenings. 
The magnificence of nature is all around and above us. I hope this 
book will add to your enjoyment of it."'’ The book unfolds interesting 
surveys of the heavenly bodies and special items culled from litera- 
ture accessible to the researcher. In the chapter on "Natural Events 
in the Earth's Atmosphere" there is an illustration of the Leonid 
shower of 1833 as seen over Niagara Falls, but a larger, better printed 
one would have been much more effective. 


"GROUNDWATER POLLUTION IN EUROPE" edited by John A. Cole, xi & 547 
pp., 138 b/w fig. & 46 tab. Water Information Center, Hunting- 
ton, NO’ Y. 117436! 11974.) °$26200. 


Here are the proceedings of a conference organized by The Water 
Research Association in Reading, England, in September 1972. that 
should be available to many more advanced students, technicians, hy- 
drologists and those government officials responsible for water avail- 
ability and safety in their areas. There are 54 papers grouped topic- 
ally with 14 well presented discussions with such papers as "Safeguarding 
the Water Supplies in Uppsala, Sweden", "Colliery Spoil Heaps", re 
nitrates "Travel Time from Surface to Well", "Studies for the Preven- 
tion of Oil Pollution near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia" and "Flow 
Tracing Using Isotopes". As human population, desires and technology 
increase the application of such studies becomes increasingly important. 


318 PHYTOLOGIA Vol. 44, No. 4 


"TLLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDOOR PLANTS" by Kenneth & Gillian 
Beckett, 224 pp., 128 color & 278 b/w draw. Doubleday & Company, 
Ince; Garden Citys: N. Ye. 11530. 19766, ,$12.95% 


"There must be some basic urge in all of us to have some living 
greenery around us. Walk around any city area from shopping mall to 
office blocks and plants are there, living happily in central heating 
and with artificial light.....This desire for a little bit of garden 
indoors seems to have begun last century when people moved from the 
countryside into the towns and became nostalgic for what they had 
lost. N 

The introduction gives general instructions for plant selection 
and care. It is followed by a helpful glossary and the very distinct- 
ive color plates. The text covers over 800 genera and 2000 species ar- 
ranged alphabetically by scientific name, common name, plant family 
and brief descriptive and growing notes. The line drawings are partic- 
ularly well done. The index at the back lists alphabetically the com- 
mon names and their scientific equivalents, The genus Clerodendrum 
is still represented by the incorrect spelling, Clerodendron, through- 
out; the specific epithet of C, thomsonae is correctly spelled in the 
index but not in the text. This publication will prove handy to have 
in the house along with the potted plants., even if you should not 
believe plate labels 22 and 23 (which are reversed) and 32 (which ac- 
tually depicts Clerodendrum speciosissimum rather than C. splendens. 


"TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION OF CALIFORNIA" edited by Michael G,. Barbour & 
Jack Major, xi & 1001 pp., 60 b/w fig., 90 photo, 39 maps & 131 
tab. A Wiley-Interscience Publication of John Wiley & Sons, 
London, Sydney, Toronto & New York, N. Y. 10016. 1977. $47.50. 


"Statewide review chapters on climate, flora, and the geological 
history of major vegetation types preface the main portion......and 
are first subdivided into six floristic provinces: Californian (9), 
Sierran (3), Pacific Northwest (3), Great Basin (2), Hot Desert (2), 
and Channel Islands" (1), with the numbers after each indicating the 
number of papers about subdivisions or distinctive features. '"Photo- 
graphs have been limited to cases where a real sense of the vegetation 
can be thereby conveyed" helping one to recall plants from lists. Each 
vegetation chapter begins with a diagrammatic state map highlighting 
the major locations of the vegetation types discussed and in the back- 
pocket there is a 1 : 1 million detailed map by Kiichler which should 
excellent. My review copy of this excellent, valuable book came with- 
out the back-pocket and map, leaving me feeling cheated. Neverthe- 
less, I would so much appreciate a few hundred free hours to mull over 
this study while recalling our previous trips to California and espec- 
ially those "in the field" all over the state under the guidance of 
our son Andy mentioned in the preface for his "innovative review of 
pollination ecology and vegetation” that had to be omitted along with 
other chapters when this tentative work swelled beyond a feasible 
size. This book will prove to be of inestimable value to teachers 


1979 Moldenke, Book reviews 319 
and/or students in all schools in California and to researchers 
elsewhere of comparable vegetation areas. 


"TAXONOMY, PHYTOGEOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION" edited by D. H. Valentine, 
xi & 431 pp., 43 b/w fig., 39 tab., 1 photo & 59 maps. Academic 
Press, London NW1l & New York, N. Y. 10003. 1972. $25.75. 


Under the aegis of the Linnean Society of London, the Botanical 
Society of the British Isles and the International Organization of 
Plant Biosystematists, this symposium was held at the University of 
Manchester for the presentation of 26 papers to 200 members and guests 
from 18 nations and since then for the students and researchers who 
have had or will have access to these important presentations. The 
introductory section of the book contains an important paper by Steb- 
bins on "Ecological Distribution of Centers of Major Adaptive Radiation 
of Angiosperms" setting forth the principle of genetic unitormitarian- 
ism with the processes of evolution operating in the past essentially 
as they do now but on different phenotypes. The next section is on 
major geographical disjunctions in relation to evolution and migra- 
tions with particularly important papers by KornaS, by Hara, and by 
Solbrig among others. The next section is on endemism and treats the 
flora of the Canary Islands, the relicts of Crete, the origin of en- 
demics in the California flora, and the role of hybridization in the 
Hawaiian Islands. Another section deals with geographical evolution 
in certain genera [Raven on Epilobium, van Steenis on Nothofagus, 
etc.] and families. The last section has Baker's interesting 
"Migration of Weeds". This is truly a worthwhile publication. 


"THE HOG BOOK" by William Hedgepeth, v & 273 pp., 19 b/w photo & 26 
fie. Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, N. ¥, 11530. 1976. 
$10.00 clothbound & $6.96 paperbound. 


This "hogology" might appeal to some readers who like their infor- 
mation on porcine husbandry, history and art slurped with some sup- 
posed mystique and odd conversation. 


"Okosystemforschung" edited by Heinz Eilenberg. xiv & 280 pp., 101 
b/w fig., 25 tab. & 3 photo. Springer Verlag, New York, N. Y., 
Heideiberg & i Berlin 33. 1973. $12.40 or DM.39 paperbound. 


The 17 papers herein comprise the report of the symposium under the 
auspices of the German Botanical Association and the Association for 
Applied Botany at Innsbruck. They deal with various phases of biomass 
production in benthic plants, bacteria, zooplankton, the end products, 
Phragmites communis, Utricularia vulgaris and some land plants. The 
last paper, by the editor, is a very carefully organized "Klassifica- 
tion der Okosysteme nach funktionalen Gesichtspunkten" on several 


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leveis: mega-, makro-, neso-, mikro- and nano-. I am most impressed 
with the detailed, carefully constructed figures, such as fig. 1 which 
is a model of an integral ecosystem. This is an important work for 
ecologists and their students to be aware of. 


"GRASSLAND SIMULATION MODEL" edited by George S. Innes, xxvi & 298 
pp-, 87 b/w fig., 1 map, 45 tab. & 3 photo. Springer-Verlag, 
Heidelberg, 1 Berlin 33 & New York, N. Y. 10010. 1978. $22.80. 


Appearing as Volume 26 in the Ecological Series, this study planned 
before 1968 is the major open-literature description of a comprehen- 
sive, pioneering ecological modeling effort, "one of the major outputs 
of the United States Grassland Biome Study, a contribution to the In- 
ternational Biological Program....The extensive development of grazing- 
land system models awaited the advent of iarge, fast electronic compu- 
ters.....because of the complexity of the systems being analyzed and 
the nature of the models used to simulate systems. The objectives of 
the model were to simulate biomass dynamics in a variety of grassland 
types and the response of the system to irrigation, fertilization, and 
cattle grazing. Some of the papers are: on SIMCOMP as the computer 
language used, on abiotic, mammalian and grasshopper consumers, decompo- 
sition and nitrogen-flow submodels, on sensitivity analyses and crit- 
iques. 

Such IBP reports as this are important. 


"AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO POLLEN ANALYSIS" by P. D. Moore & J. A. Webb, 
iv & 133 pp., 33 b/w fig., 8 tab., 1 map & 48 photo. pl. Halsted 
Press of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y. 1978. $19.95. 


This text will prove to be of increasing importance for coilege and. 
university courses and for palynoiogical research in "the field", 
laboratories and herbaria because of the descriptions, keys, glossary 
and wide range of excellent illustrations making it an excellent lab 
manual. Applications of pollen analysis are varied and important as, 
for instance, in tracing the history of plant species, groups and com- 
munities and therefore habitats, climatic history and man's influence 
upon the environment. Other already successful applications have been 
in dating deposits. studying pollen and spore air contents and their 
effect upon man's own health and that of his cattle and crops, melisso- 
palynology and criminology. Directions are given for pollen 
countings and pollen diagram constructions as well as for the inter- 
pretations of these diagrams or collations of spectra as dynamic 
records of vegetational history. 


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MOLDENKE, H.N., Notes on new and noteworthy plants. CXXX ..... 328 
MOLDENKE, H.N., Additional notes on the genus Vitex. XIII ....... 329 
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FROM VENEZUELA 


Julian A, Steyermark 
Instituto Botdénico, Caracas 
Venezuela 


ROUPALA GRIOTII Steyermark, sn. nov, 


Arbor 3-metralis, ramis bubalino-tomentosis; foliis petiolatis, 
petiolis 1,2-6 cm longis tomentosis; laminis rigide coriaceis in- 
tegerrimis subtus vallido-viridibus late ovatis vel late ellipti- 
cis apice longiaciminatis basi acutis 8-15 cm longis 3-8.5 cm lat- 
is supra glabris subtus pallido-strigillosis vel glabrescentibus; 
nervis lateralibus utroque latere 5-6 apicem versus curvatis ante 
marginem desinentibus ubique tenuibus subtus leviter impressis; 
inflorescentiis axillaribus 15-20 cm longis 2=-2.5 cm latis multi- 
floris, rhachidi pallido-brunneo-tomentosis, pedunculis 1.5-2.5 
cm longis; perianthio 10-13 mm longo, tubo 7-8 mm longo supra med= 
ium 2 mm lato basin versis 1.5 mm lato extus dense pallido-brunneo 
villosulo intus glabro, lobis ligulatis 6-7 mm longis 1.1 mm latis 
extus dense pallido-brunneo-villosulis intus glabris; antheris 
lineari-oblongis 3-4 mm longis ©.5 mm latis; pistillo 9.5 mm longo, 
stylo 8 mm longo glabro; ovario ovoideo 1.5 mm longo 1.2 mm lato 
minute strigilloso; disco 4-lobato 0,8=-C.9 mm alto, lobis del- 
toideo-orbicularibus subobtusis 0.7 mm longis 0,8 mm latis; ped- 
icellis frugiferis 2 mm longis tomentellis; fructu oblique obovoid- 
eo zpice rotundato abrupte aniculatoque basi abrupte angustato sub- 
stipitato 1,5-2 cm longo 1-1.3 cm lato extus minute pallido-tomen- 
telloso; seminibus suborbiculari-ovatis extremitatibus rotundatis 
alatis 13 mm longis 10.5 mm latis, corpore brunneo triangulari- 
obconico 7 mm longo 8 mm lato, ala 2-4 mm lata, 


Type. VENEZUELA: TERKRITGRIG FEDERAL AMAZONAS: gallery forest bor- 
dering tree savanna with Platycsrpum orinocense, vecindades del rfo 
Coro-Coro y del aeronuerto de Yutaje, lat. 5°35'N, long. 66°10° W, 
alt. 250 m, 22 Feb 1979, “tree 3 m tall; leaves coriaceous, stiff, 
deep green above, pale green below; flowers with green style and 
yale brown, reflexed perianth", Julian A, Steyermark, Marcel Griot 
Casanova, and Parker Redmond 117920 (Holotype: VEN). 


This snecies is related to R. montana Aubl., from which it may 
be distinguished by the densely brown tomentose rachis, flowers 
With spreading hairs, shorter peduncle and pedicels, and smaller, 
differently shaped frmit. From &. dissimilis Pittier, placed un- 
der synonymy of R. montana by Sleumer (Bot. Jahrb. 76 (2): 170= 
171. 1954, Proteaceae americanae), RK, griotii differs in the short- 
er pedicels, pubescent teal Us leaf-blades, and more densely 


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tomentose pubescence of spreading hairs on rachis, pedicels, and 
verianth. It also resembles Panopsis suaveolens (Kl. & Karst.) 
Pittier, but that species has strongly revolute leaves which are 
rounded to subcordate at the base, 


Roupala griotii is named in honor of Marcel Griot Casanova, an 
enthusiastic plant collector, and highly competent, versatile air 
pilot, who has successfully guided the author several times to 
interesting collecting grounds in the Territorio Federal Amazonas 
of Venezuela, : 


RESURRECTION OF VIOLA LANAIENSIS BECKER 
HAWAIIAN PLANT STUDIES 90 


Harold St. John 
Bishop Museum, Box 19000A, Honolulu 96819, Hawaii, USA. 


The recent collection of the Lanai violet in flower 
by S. L. Montgomery had caused the writer to reexamine 
it and compare it with Viola Helena Forbes & Lydgate, 
the similar plant on Kauai. Rock (1911: 6) described the 
Lanai plant as V. Helena, var. lanaiensis, and Skottsberg 
accepted this classification. Independently, and using a 
different type specimen, Becker(1916: 214) classed the 
latter as V. lanaiensis Becker. Skottsberg studied two 
collections of V. Helena and ten of var. lanaiensis, 
many of these specimens being meager. 

The writer has now investigated these to plants, and 
notes the differences between them, which he considers 
sufficient to recognize each as a species. 


Viola Helena Forbes & Lydgage, Bishop Mus., Occas. Papers 
4(3): 218, and figure, 1909; Skottsb., Gdteborg Bot. 
Trddg., Meddel. 13: 506-510, 1940; St. John, Pacif. 
frp, ‘Bot. Gard. 2: 238; i973. 

This has the stipules 11-13 mm long, the base narrowly 
lanceolate, the tip acuminate, and it is remotely short 
glandular ciliate; well formed blades linear lanceolate, 
the secondary veins almost straight, running directly to 
the teeth; upper petal 9 mm long; lateral and lower 
petals bearded; capsule valves 9-10 mm long. 

Holotype: Hawaiian Islands, Kauai Island, Wahiawa 
Mountains, May 1908, J. M. Lydgate (BISH). 

Specimens Examined, all from Kauai: Wahiawa Mts., along 
bank of stream, Aug. 1909, C. N. Forbes 214.K. 


Viola lanaiensis Becker, Bot. Centralbl., Beih. 34: 

214, 1916. 

V. Helena Forbes & Lydgate, var. lanaiensis Rock, 
Coltege of Hawaii, Publi., Bull. Ls: 6-7, 282%; 
Skottsb., Gdteb. Bot. Trddg., Meddel. 13: 508- 
Si, tige. 36-39, 2940; St. John, Pacit. “ece. 
BOL, Gara. , Mem,...i2°238, 1973. 

This is distinguished by having the stipules 8-10 
mm long, the base boradly deltoid, the tip long acum- 
inate and long fimbriate; well formed blades narrowly 
elliptic and acute at each end; secondary veins of blades 
arcuate, the outer half diffusing, and only indirectly 
connected to the teeth; upper petal 14 mm long; petals 
glabrous; capsule valves10.5-13.5 mm long. 

Holotype: Hawaiian Islands, Lanai Island, 1851-55, 
J. Remy 532 (L.). 

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Specimens Examined, all from Lanai: Kaiholena Valley, 
June 1913,-C. N. Forbes 24.1.5 dune 1913, 197.1. 5 
Mts., e. end, June 1912, 282.L.; upper part of 
mountain, Sept. 21, 1916, A. S. Hitchcock 14,651; 
Hauola Gulch, 2,000.8t,;alts;,;:30.Aug. 1979, 5. i. 
Montgomery; Kaiholena, 3/17/14, G. C. Munro 111; 
Lanaihale, Munro; Lanai Hale and Haalelepakai, 
bogay ground, 3,200 ft alt.,: July 25, ;Y910, J.2F, 
Rock 8,046 (holotype of V. Helena, var. lanaiensis 
Rock. 


The Lanai plant still has the Kauai one as its 
closest relative, but it is concluded that they are 
distinct species. Both are shrubs with woody stems. 


Literature Cited 

Becker, W., 1916. Violae Asiaticae et Australienses 
I, .Bot; .centralbl.,..Beih; . 34(2)+..208-215. 

Forbes, Charles N., 1909. Some New Hawaiian Plants. 
Bishop Mus., Occas. Papers 4(3): 213-223, illus- 
trated. 

Rock, Joseph F. 1911. Notes Upon Hawaiian Plants 
With Descriptions Of New Species And Varieties. 
College -of Hawaii;.Pubi.; .Bull.:1: 1-20; iilwes 
trated. 

Skottsberg, C. 1940. Observations on Hawaiian 
Violets. Gdteb. Bot. Trddg., Meddel. 13: 451-528, 
figs. 1-46. 


CONSIDERATION OF BARKLYA AND THE SUBTRIBES OF THE 
CERCIDEAE (CAESALPINIOIDEAE: FABACEAE) 


Richard P. Wunderlin 
Department of Biology, University of South Florida 
Tampa, FL 33620 


The proper placement of Barklya syringtfolta F. Muell., 
Prince's Feather, a spectacular plant of northeast and eastern 
Queensland and the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, 
has been dubious until recently. Bentham (1864) referred the 
monotypic genus Barklya to the Sophoreae, although remarking 
that it approaches some Caesalpinioideae near Bauhinia in leaf 
and floral morphology, but has the petal aestivation descending 
and the embryo curved as in the Papilionoideae. Baillon (1870) 
found the petal aestivation to be irregular and intermediate be- 
tween the two types, but never with the uppermost overlapping 
both laterals and as a result referred it to the Caesalpinioideae. 
Hutchinson (1964) placed it in the Cadieae of the Fabaceae 
(=Papilionoideae of authors). Yakovlev (1972) referred it to the 
caesalpinioid tribe Bauhinieae along with Griffonta and Bauhtnta. 
Inclusion of Barklya with Grtffonta and Bauhtnta by Yakovlev was 
made on the basis of the crescentic hilum of the seed as in Bau- 
hinta and unknown elsewhere in the Fabaceae as well as in the 
similarities in leaf morphology. Corner (1976) also noted the 
unusual hilum of Barklya along with several anatomical features 
of the seed which suggests a relationship with Bauhinia from 
which he questions if it is distinct. Roger Polhill (pers. com.), 
in reviewing the placement of Barklya in the Sophoreae, also 
suggests it may be better placed in the Cercideae. Peter Gold- 
blatt (pers. comm.) reports a chromosome number of 2n=26 which 
is in line with the Cercideae (2n=24, 26, 28), but not the Cadieae 
(2n=18, 20, 22). After examining specimens of flowering and 
fruiting material of Barklya syringifolta, the author has found 
the species to be easily accommodated within Bauhinta on the 
basis of seed, floral, and leaf morphology and the transfer to 
that genus is propposed. 


Bauhtnia syringtfolita (F. Muell.) Wunderlin, comb. nov. 
Basionym: Barklya syringtfolta F. Muell., Journ. Linn. 
Sec.) Bet, 3° 156. 2559; 


The tribe Cercideae, or Bauhinieae of some authors, has 
always been considered as a natural alliance of genera since 
Bentham (1840, 1865) even though there has been considerable dis- 
agreement as to the number of genera (Wunderlin, 1976). However, 
recent studies by the author have shown that the tribe can be 


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divided into two discrete subtribes which are recognizable on 
the basis of fruit and seed morphology. The following classifi- 
cation is proposed. 


Tribe CERCIDEAE Bronn, De Formis Pl. Legum. 131. 1822. 

Type genus: Cerets L. 
Subtribe CERCIDINAE 

Trees or shrubs, unarmed and without tendrils, rarely 

with hooked branches below inflorescences; fruits with 
narrow dorsal wing or semilunate with gynophore and persist- 
ent style appearing confluent with dorsal margin or oblique 
and with laterally attached gynophore and persistent style; 
seeds with circular hilum, funicular aril-lobes absent. 


1. Cerets L. - 6 species in warm temperate northern 
hemisphere. 

2. Grtffonta Baill. - 4 species in tropical west 
Africa. 


3. Adenolobus (Harv. ex Benth.) Torre & Hillc. - 2 

species in southwestern Africa. 

Subtribe BAUHINIINAE (Benth.) Wunderlin, stat. nov. 
Basionym: Tribe Bauhtnteae Benth., Hook. Journ. Bot. 
2206. 1846; 

Type genus: Bauhtnta L. 

Trees or shrubs (sometimes semiscandent) with or with- 
out intrastipular spines (rarely shrubs with tendrils) or 
lianas (rarely vines) with or rarely without simple tendrils; 
fruits flat, woody to thin-valved, dehiscent or indehiscent, 
never with dorsal wing, nor semilunate with gynophore and 
persistent style appearing confluent with dorsal margin, 
nor oblique with laterally attached gynophore and persistent 
style; seeds with crescentic hilum, funicular aril-lobes 
present. 

4. Bauhtnta L. - Ca. 225 species, pantropical. 


It is evident that the large and diverse genus Bauhinta 
should be further subdivided into a number of infrageneric units 
and such a revision is in preparation in collaboration with 
Professor Kai and Supee Larsen of the Botanical Institute, 
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 


LITERATURE CITED 


BAILLON, H. 1870. Legumineuses tm Histore des Plantes. 2: 21- 
384. Paris. 


BENTHAM, G. 1840. IV.-Contributions toward a flora of South 
America.- Enumeration of plants collected by Mr. Schomburgk 
in British Guiana. Hook. Journ. Bot. 2: 38-99. 


. 1864. Leguminosae tm Flora Australiensis: a descript- 
ion of the plants of the Australian Territory. 2: 1-425. 


1979 Wunderlin, Barklya JaT 


London. 


1865. Leguminosae tm G. Bentham and J. D. Hooker. 
Genera Plantarum. 1: 434-600. London. 


CORNER, E. J. H. 1976. The Seeds of Dicotyledons. Cambridge 
University Press. New York. 31lpp. 


HUTCHINSON, J. 1964. lLeguminales tn The Genera of Flowering 
Plants. 1: 221-489. London. 


WUNDERLIN, R. P. 1976. Enumeration and typification of genera 
in the Cercideae. Rhodora 78: 750-760. 


YAKOVLEV, G. P. 1972. Contributions to the system of the order 
Fabales. Bot. Zhurn. 57: 585-595. 


NOTES ON NEW AND NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. CXXX 


Harold N. Moldenke 


In order to bring the nomenclature of the Verbena Family more in 
line with current taxonomic practice, the following transfers are in 
order: 

ACANTHOLIPPIA TRIFIDA var. REICHEI Mold., stat & nom. nov. 

Lippia gracilis R. A. Phil., Anal. Univ. Chile 90: 620. 1896 [not 

L.. gracilis Schau., 1847]. 


DURANTA REPENS £. CANESCENS (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Duranta repens var. canescens Mold., Phytologia 1: 436. 1940. 


DURANTA REPENS £,. GRANDIFLORA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Duranta repens var. grandiflora Mold., Phytologia 2: 17. 1941. 


DURANTA REPENS £, INTEGRIFOLIA (Tod.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Duranta integrifolia Tod., Nuov. Gen. Sp. 27. 1858. 


DURANTA REPENS £, MICROPHYLLA (Desf.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Duranta microphylla Desf., Cat. Hort. Paris, ed. 3, 392. 1829. 


DURANTA REPENS £. SERRATA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Duranta repens var. serrata Mold., Phytologia 7: 81. 1959. 


DURANTA REPENS f£. VARIEGATA (L. H. Bailey) Mold., stat. nov. 
Duranta repens var. variegata L, H. Bailey, Man. Cult. Pl., ed. 1, 
632. 1924. 


LIPPIA PALMERI f. SPICATA (Rose) Mold., stat. nov. 
Lippia palmeri var. spicata Rose in Vasey & Rose, Contrib. U. S. 
Nat. Herb. 1: 75. 1890. 


PETREA VOLUBILIS f. PUBESCENS (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Petrea volubilis var. pubescens Mold., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 
43: 45-—46. 1938. 


TETRACLEA COULTERI £. ANGUSTIFOLIA (Woot. & Standl.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Tetraclea angustifolia Woot. & Standl., Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 
1G? LIVS LTS. 


VERBENA LASIOSTACHYS £. SCABRIDA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena lasiostachys var. scabrida Mold., Am. Midl. Nat. 24: 753. 
1940. 


VERBENA LASIOSTACHYS £. SEPTENTRIONALIS (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena lasiostachys var. septentrionalis Mold., Am. Midl. Nat. 
eae F536 29450. 
328 


1979 Moldenke, New & noteworthy plants 329 


VERBENA LITORALIS f. ALBIFLORA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena litoralis var. albiflora Mold., Phytologia 1: 432. 1940. 


VERBENA LITORALIS £. CONGESTA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena litoralis var. congesta Mold., Phytologia 20: 80. 1970. 


VERBENA PERENNIS f£. JOHNSTONI (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena perennis var. johnstoni Mold., Phytologia 2: 150. 1946. 


VERBENA PLICATA £, DEGENERI (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena plicata var. degeneri Mold., Phytologia 2: 24--25. 1941, 


VITEX GLABRATA f. BOMBACIFOLIA (Wall.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Vitex bombacifolia Wall., Numer. List [48], no. 1749, hyponym. 
1629; Cs Bs Clarke’ -in Hook. ‘f), Fl. Brits India 4: 588. 1885. 


VITEX GLABRATA £, PALLIDA (Wall.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Vitex pallida Wall., Numer. List [48], no. 1751, hyponym. 1829; 
CG, Bb. Clarke in Hooks "£2, -Fid BEE. \Tadia 4; °588. 1883. 


VITEX HARVEYANA f£. GEMINATA (H, H. W. Pearson) Mold., stat. nov. 
Vitex geminata H, H. W. Pearson in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Cap. 5: 
213——214, 1901. 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS VITEX. XIII 


Harold N. Moldenke 


Vitex Tourn. 

Additional & emended bibliography: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl., 
imp. 1, 1: 511--512 (1810) and imp. 2, [Isis 1819:] 511--512. 1819; 
Jack, Malay. Misc., imp. 1, 47. 1820; Jack, Descrip. Malay. Pl., 
imp. 1, 47. 1822; Jack, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 4 (13): 40--41. 
1843: W. Griff.. Notul. Pl. Asiat. 4: 173, 178--179, 181, 740, & 
764. 1854; Koord. & Valet., Meded. Lands Plant. Bat. 42 [Bijdr. 
Booms. Java 7:] 164 & 198--211. 1900; Pobéguin, Pl. Méd. Guin. 340. 
1906; King & Gamble, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 74 (2 extra): 841--857. 
1908; Béjaud, Essenc. Forest. Camb. 348. 1928; Dop in Lecomte, Fl. 
Gén. Indo-chine 4: 776 & 811--848. 1935; Hansford, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
Lond, 153: 9. 1941; Hansford & Deight., Mycol. Paper IMI.23: 70. 
1948; R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl., imp. 3, 511--512. 1960; Rougeot, 
Inst. Franc. Afr. Noire IFAN. 14 (4). 1962; F. G. Browne, Bull. 
Ent. Res. 54: 229--266. 1963; Aubrév., Bois For. Trop. 93: 30. 1964; 
Schnell, Mém. Soc. Bot. France 113: 121--132, fig. 61. 1966; Jack, 
Descrip. Malay. Pl., imp. 2, 7: 47. 1977; Jack, Malay. Misc., imp. 
2, 47. 19773; Mold., Phytologia 44: 216--232. 1979. 

Bentham (1876) comments that "In Benth. Fl. Austral. v. 66 drupa 


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Viticis errore 4-pyrena dicitur; endocarpium undique continuum est 
v. rarissime vix separabile”". 

Pobéguin (1906) cites Kouroussa 230, 232, 682, 810, & 1255, Tel- 
iko 799, and Timbo 741 from the Republic of Guinea as unidentified 
species of Vitex known locally as "ba coudou né", "coudou", and 


"koukoui". 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS L. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 44: 218, 220, & 
225--232. 1979. 

Additional & emended illustrations: A. C. Martin, Am. Midl. Nat. 
36: 609, pl. 50. 1946; Parsa, Fl. Iran 4 (1): 539, fig. 254. 1949; 
Hottes, Book Shrubs, ed. 5, 404 (1950), [ed. 6, imp. 1], 404 (1952), 
and [ed. 6, imp. 2], 404. 1954; Humbert, Fl. Sahara Sept. Cent. 
[406], fig. 149. 1958; Hottes, Book Shrubs, [ed. 6, imp. 3], 404. 
1959; Viertel, Trees Shrubs Vines no. 407. 1959; Hatton, Handb. 

Pl. Floral Orn. 368, fig. 727. 1960; Fournier, Quat. Fl. France 
807, fig. 3353. 1961; Humbert, Fl. Sahara Sept. Cent., imp. 2, 
[406], fig. 149. 1962; Lonicer, Kreuterb., imp. 2, 77. 19623; Tur- 
rill, Curtis Bot. Mag. 174: pl. 400 (in color). 1962; Graf, Exotica 
3: 1481. 1963; R. L. Taylor, Pl. Colonial Days 22. 1964; Polunin & 
Huxley, Flow. Medit. 42, pl. 16, fig. 394. 1966; Capite, Vitex Agn, 
Oss. Isto-anat. 8, 9, 11, 13, & 15, fig. 1--9. 1967; W. Trelease, 
Wint. Bot., ed. 3, imp. 2, 335. 1967; Wilson & Bell, Fragrant Year 
186. 1967; A. & I. Nehrling, Easy Gard. Drought-Resist. Pl. 227. 
1968; Polunin, Field Guide Flow. Eur. pl. 106. 1969; Polunin, Flow. 
Europe pl. 106-1097 (in color). 1969; J. V. Watkins, Fla. Landsc. 
Pl., ed. 1, imp. 1, 306. 1969; Viertel, Trees Shrubs Vines no. 407. 
1970; Perrot & Paris, Pl. Médic. 1: fig. 1--7 (in color). 1971; 
Polunin, Pflanz., Europ. pls 106: Cin. toler).1971; Be. G. & Me in 
Br., Woody Pl. Md. 289. 1972; Polunin, Concise Flow. Eur. 106, pl. 
1087 (in color). 1972; Townsend, Kew Bull. 27: 148, fig. 1 (left). 
L972; J. Hutchins,, Fam. Flow. Pl., ed. 3, 487, fies 243.450 
Serbanescu-Jitariu & Mitroiu, Act. Bot. Hort. Bucurest. 1972-73: 
109, pis 1, fig.:5...1973s:J,. Vi: Watkins, Fiss:Landsc.:Pl.,eoee 
imp. 4, 306. 1973; Little, Woodbury, & Wadsworth, Trees P, R. Virg. 
Isls.2 [Agric. Handb. 449]: 865, fig. 684. 1974; J. V. Watkins, 
Fla. Landsc, Pl., ed. 1, imp. 5, 306. 1974; Gerarde, Herbal, impiya, 
3: 1387. 1975; Seabrook, Shrubs Your Gard. 130 (in color). 1975; 
Batson, Gen. East. Pl. 147. 1977; Speta, Candollea 32: 155, fig. 
2x. 1977; Heathcote in Heywood, Flow. Pl. World 237, fig. 3. 1978; 
D. E. Clark, Sunset New West. Gard. Book, ed. 4, 498. 1979. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a large, fast-growing, 
deciduous shrub, 1.5--7 m. tall, aromatic, spreading or dense, with 
several stems, the branches erect to ascending, the foliage pungent- 
spicy when crushed, with the aroma of lavender or garden sage, the 
flowers pleasantly lavender-scented when bruised. The corollas are 

said to be "lilac" in color by Blackburn (1952) and Graf (1963), 
"violet or blue" by Dean (1968), "light hyssop-violet" by Turrill 
(1962), "pale-violet" by Makins (1936) and Munz (1968), and "bright- 
violet" by Parker (1924). They are said to have been "violet-blue' 


——————— Or hr OC rl eee 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 331 


on Shinners 8582, “blue-violet" on Gillis 8449, "light-purple" on 
Bayliss BS.6236, "purple or lighter" on Witham 304, "mauve" on 
Bayliss BS.5095 & 7270 and Sykes 16/68, “bright-mauve" or "laven- 
der-mauve" on Bayliss BS.4542, and “purplish outside, dark-purple 
within on Abedin 7403. 

Recent collectors have found this plant growing in thickets, 
Pinus sylvestris forests, in partial shade on blackland clay, in 
sandy loam, on seashores, on mostly limestone soil, in dry river- 
beds, and on dry riverbanks, at altitudes of sealevel to 1300 
meters, flowering from June to August, in fruit in July, August, 
and October. 

Embarger (1960) reports the chromosome number of Vitex agnus- 
castus as 2n = 24 and the same number is reported by Paterman 
(1935), while Sugiura (1936), Paterman (1938), and Sharma & 
Mukhopadhyay (1963) report 32; Darlington & Wylie (1956) say"x = 
6, 8". Léve (1971) reports the number as 2n = 32, based on 
Murin & Sheikh s.n. from Iraq. Trelease (1967) illustrates the 
longitudinal and cross-section views of the twigs, as well as the 
appearance of the leaf-scars and buds. His reference, however, to 
C. K. Schneider's "ff, 191" seems to be an error since that figure 
in Schneider's work has nothing whatever to do with Vitex agnus- 
castus. Similarly, Imboden's statement that this is a "tree or 
shrub glabrous to tomentose or villous throughout -- from Baja 
California to Sonora [Mexico] and Chihuahua to Oaxaca" is quite 
erroneous -- probably meant to apply to V. mollis H.B.K. instead. 
Etchison adds that "This is an aromatic tree that grows to 30 
feet [and] is found in dry sunny situations. I doubt if Vitex 
agnus-castus ever attains a height of more than 15 feet. Theo- 
phrastus, however, according to Knobloch (1948), in his " &fini- 
tions of the various classes into which plants may be divided" as- 
serts that V. agnus-castus is one that "increases in stature under 
cultivation, so that they become trees and yet they belong to the 
class of shrubs". 

Speta (1977) says that "an der Ansatzstelle der Filamente be- 
finden sich mehrzellige, verzweigte Haare, deren Kerne dicht mit 
feinen Kristallamellen angefiillt sind". 

Serbanescu-Jitariu & Mitroiu (1973) describes the pollen, based 
on Herb. INCEF 3335, as follows: "subprolat; 3-colpat; vazut api- 
cal 26--46,8 mu in diam., din profil inalt 33,8--46,8 mu, lat 26-- 
33,8 mu. Polenul scuturat din antere si vazut cu ochiul liber, 
este galben, tn apa la microscop, portocaliu brun, iar in chloral- 
hidrat, galben-cenusiu. Sporoderma crassisexinata cu o grosime de 
2,6 mu; exina prezinta fn sect. opticd o structura4 tehilat-bacula- 
ta, iar suprafafa este aciperita cu veruculi neuniform distribuiti. 
Colpii 2/3 din raza microsporilor, sint ingusti si ascufiti spre 
capete,." 

Battandier & Trabut (1902) report that V. agnus-castus occurs 
in the littoral zone in Algeria and Tunisia; Maire asserts that it 
is both "cultivated and escaped" in Egypt; Fedtschenko (1913) 
lists it as cultivated in Turkestan (Russia). Bayliss records it 
as wild in Zululand and as cultivated in the "subtropic area of 


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South Africa" [Transvaal]; Knoche (1974) lists it as cultivated in 
the Balearic Islands. Marco & Mossa (1973) describe it as Euro- 
mediterranean and report it as "rare" on Sardinia. Innamorati 
(1973) found it in Morocco, while Roberty (1974) lists it as cul- 
tivated in what was French West Africa. Humbert (1958) encountered 
it in the northern and central Sahara: "Sud oranais, rare (Vallée 
de la Zousfana et probablement ailleurs; lits d'oueds, bord des 
mares", Speta (1977) records it from the island of Brac, Jugo- 
slavia. Bischoff (1831) asserts that it is sometimes cultivated 
in Germany; Priszter (1971) says that it is cultivated in Hungary 
and offers seed of it as his seed no. 1672 in trade. Molina (1976) 
lists it as cultivated in Honduras, while Adams (1972) reports it 
cultivated on Jamaica. Sherk & Buckley (1968) refer to it as 
"hardy" in Canada only in the province of British Columbia. Rad- 
ford & al. (1964) found it "rare in pastures" in Darlington County, 
South Carolina, where it flowers in June and July. McGregor & al. 
(1977) report it from Cleveland, Custer, Grady, and Payne Counties, 
Oklahoma. Hyland (1967) reports it cultivated in Maryland, grown 
from seed no, 263177 from Israel, 17720 from Baja California 
Norte, Mexico, 269411 from Afghanistan, 307618 from Turkey, and 
259959 collected by Gentry in Mexico. 

Sweet (1826), Bean (1956), and Fletcher (1972) tell us that V. 
agnus-castus is "said to have been cultivated in the British Isles 
since 1570", introduced from Sicily; Loudon (1832) give the date 
as "1590". Stalter (1972) found it in Georgetown County, South 
Carolina; Greuter (1976) reports it from Psaya island in the Aege- 
an Sea. Patzak & Rechinger (1967) give its natural distribution 
as "Regio Mediterranea, Asia austro-occidentalis et centralis us- 
que ad Turcomaniam et montes Pamir-Alaz", asserting that the type 
population "Habitat in Siciliae ad Napolis paludosis". 

Bicknell (1896) found the species "along roads and torrents" in 
western Liguria (northwestern Italy), while Sommier & Caruana Gat- 
to (1915) record it from Comino, Cozo, and Malta islands, noting 
that "A Malta a quasi distrutto. A Gozo forma ancora in alcuni 
luoghi dei piccoli boschetti. Varia a fiori bianchi." Huber says 
that it "is occasionally cultivated" in west tropical Africa; 
LeGrand (1887) lists it from France and southern Germany; Pampan- 
ini (1930) lists it doubtfully from Cyrenaica: "La presenza del V. 
Agnus-castus spontaneo a Tocra mi @ incerta perché il Dotti H. 
Scaetta lo segnal6d senza alcuna indicazione in Proposito, mentre 
in seguito....lo indicd come coltivato." Lakela & al. (1976) re- 
port it "planted, escaping locally" in the Tampa Bay area of Flori- 
da, blooming there in spring and summer; Bouloumoy (1930) lists 
it from streamsides in Lebanon and Syria. Parker (1924) writes 
that it is cultivated on the plains of the Punjab where "It is 
very hardy both as regards cold and drought", Horowitz (1969) 
calls it "a hydrophile among trees on the banks of the Jordan 
river" in Palestine. Munz (1968) notes that it is "Found in al- 
kali sink e. of Weedpatch, Kern Co.", California; Maheshwari 
(1963) reports it from "shrubberies of parks and gardens" in Delhi, 
India. Linnaeus (1753) and Raeuschel (1797) report it from Sicily. 


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According to Bayliss it flowers in the autumn in South Africa. 
Quézel & Pamukcuoglu (1973) report finding it growing with Phrag- 
mites communis, Holoschaemus vulgaris, Paliurus australis, and 
many Ephedra fragilis in maritima zone areas, Picci reports it 
from Molara island off the coast of Sardinia. The Browns (1972) 
found it becoming naturalized in Maryland. Dean (1968) avers 
that it "Grows in gardens, roadsides, waste places" on the coast- 
al plain from Florida to Texas and north to North Carolina [U.S.A.] 
Bailey (1972) reports that "Like Buddleia, this species may die 
back to the ground in severe winters" but actually is hardy in 
Zone 7 in the United States. 

Turrill (1962) says "a V. negundo L. foliolis lanceolatis vel 
anguste lanceolatis, corolla circiter 8 mm. longa, staminibus 
styloque exsertis, corollae lobis plusminusve aequilongis inter 
alia recedit". Jafri & Ghafoor, in a personal communication to 
me, add that "in V. agnus-castus the leaflets are 5--7 and the 
cymes sessile or subsessile, forming a subcylindrical narrow in- 
florescence, the flowers fragrant, while in V. negundo the leaf- 
lets are 3--5, the cymes are often somewhat lax and panicled, 
forming a pyramidal inflorescence, and the flowers are not frag- 
rants" 

Palmer & Pitman (1972) remind us that "“agnus-castus" is derived 
from the Greek hagnos and the Latin castus, both signifying 
"chastity". They also note that "The generic name Vitex is said 
to be derived from the Latin vieo, meaning ‘to plait', because of 
the flexibility of the shoots. Pliny used the name for a willow- 
like species which has ever since been known as the 'chaste tree", 
for the remarkable reason that it is believed to have the power 
of subduing the passions. ‘For that the dames of Athens', Pliny 
assures us, ‘during the feasts of the goddess Ceres....made their 
pallets and beds with the leaves thereof, to coole the heat of 
lust and to keep themselves chaste for the time'." 

Little, Woodbury, & Wadsworth (1974) give a rather detailed 
distribution for V. agnus-castus: "Native of the Mediterranean 
region from southern Europe and Morocco to western Asia including 
Turkey, Iraq, and Pakistan, but widely planted for ornament and 
escaping from cultivation and naturalized in tropical and subtrop- 
ical regions including West Indies. Also southeastern United 
States from Florida to Texas and California and north to New York 
and beyond, where the plants are killed to the ground in winter." 

Emberger (1938) says "Le Gattilier est répandu dans tout le 
bassin méditerranéen jusqu'en Asie Centrale. Le centre de dis- 
persion du genre est l1'Asie Sud-orientale. Notre espéce est la 
seule Verbénacée ligneuse d'Europe et de 1'Afrique septentrionale 
[this is untrue: other woody Verbenaceae in north Africa are found 
in the genera Chascanum, Svensonia, Clerodendrum, Lantana, Premna, 
and Vitex].....11 n'est pas douteux que cette espéce est chez nous 
un survivant tertiaire." He also says that "Ce petit arbre habite 
le bord des riviéres et le lit des Queds intermittents de la 
plaine et des basses montagnes de tout le Maroc jusque dans 1*‘Anti- 
Atlas, mais dépasse rarement l'altitude de 1.000 métres. I1 


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forme, avec le Laurier-rose et les Tamarix le fond décoratif de 
notre végétation ripicole." 

Van Melle (1943) reviews the characters of V. agnus-castus and 
V. negundo as cultivated shrubs, telling us that they are both 
"highly decorative, tender-wooded shrubs which, in mild climates, 
grow to a considerable height and width but are best treated in 
our zone by way of die-back shrubs; that is, pruned close to their 
base every spring and then permitted to put on their annual 
growth, to a height of 3 or 5 feet, on which they will bear their 
showy terminal panicles of small, fragrant flowers which, in the 
better forms, are a good lavender-blue. 

"In V. Agnus-castus these are arranged the more showily in 
panicled spikes, appearing in July to September; in V. Negundo 
they come in loose panicles, in July and August. 

"In both kinds the total effect of the foliage is grayish, the 
leaves having a gray-woolly hairiness on the lower surface....... 
They are effective, but rather exotic-looking and erect shrubs, 
not easily blended in the border and perhaps better used by way of 
garden accent plants or ‘cut-back' garden hedge-rows. They flower 
at a time when there is not much else in bloom among the shrubs 
and, in the better, lavender-blue forms, contribute a worth-while 
decorative note to the small landscape. 

"They thrive well in light, sandy soils, in full sun. Being 
coarse-rooted and difficult to dig with a ball of earth, they are 
best transplanted bare-rooted, in the spring. 

"When they are treated as die-backs, the tenderness of the top- 
growth need not worry one, The roots are hardy enough; and should 
an occasional plant be lost in severe winters, these shrubs are 
worth planting again." 

Spach (1840), speaking of it in France, says: "Cette espéce.... 
est commune dans 1'Europe méridionale, aux borde des ruisseaux et 
dans l'autres localités humides; elle fleurit en juillet et en 
aofit. On la cultive comme arbrisseau d'ornament, mais, dans le 
nord de la France, elle ne résiste pas aux hivers rigoureux, 4 
moins d'@tre plantée dans une situation abritée." 

Among the many vernacular names reported for V. agnus-castus 
are the following: "Abraham-balme", “Abraham's balm", "Abrahamsbaum} 
“agneau chaste", "agno casto", “agno-casto", “agnos", "agnus", 
“agnus castro", "agnus castus", “agnusperma", "agonos", “aignel 
chaste" ,.."alfadgi", “alfagit, ;"alfagradi", “alec”, .amerigecs 
"angarf", “aoubré dé pébré", “arbor Abrahae", "arbre au poivre", 
"arbre-au-poivre", “ariegna", "Arvore de vastidade", "athlak", 
"bangaleh", "bantafelon", “bardé", “barmagh aghaji", “"bish", "blue 
vitex", "bou mettin", "castém", "chaste-lamb-tree", "chaste tree", 
"chaste-tree", "chastetree", “chast-lamp-tree", "chast tree", 
"chast-tree", "chencherenche", "common chaste-tree", “common 
chastetree", "daribrahim", "elaeagnon Theophrasti", "elcaseiro", 
"el-kharom&a", “erba dé la chinchas", "European chaste tree", 
"felfel", "felfélé barri", "folfol es-saq@leba", "gang", 
"satillier", "gatillo casto", "gattilier", "gattilier commun", 
"gatt-saonzé", "gemeiner Miillen", "gonak", "gwanik", "hab-el-faked} 


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"habbolfaghd", "hemp tree", "hemp-tree", "hemptree", "herbe 
sainte", "hhabb el faged", "incienso japonés", "indian-—spice", 
"indianspice", "kafé Ebrahim", "kaff maryam", "kaf mariem", "kaf 
Miryam" [=the hand of Mary], "kef-mariem", "Keuschbaum", "Keusch- 
Lamm", "Keuschlamm", "Keuschlammstrauch", "Keuschstrauch", 
"kherouac", "lacanu", "lagomu", "lecristicum", "le gattilier", 
"lignu castu", "ligos", "ligus", "ligusperma", "lygea", "mala di 
suerta", "malagueta", "marmandai", "marwand", "marwandi", "Mexican 
lavender", "Ménchspfeffer", "Ménchspfefferbaum", "monk's pepper", 
"monks' pepper", "monks pepper tree", "monks peppertree", "monk's 
pepper tree", "monk's pepper-tree", "monk's-pepper tree", "Millen", 
"non's peppertree", "palo santo", "pandj-angosht", "panjangusht", 
"parkleuys", "pébré", "pébrié", “pébrié fé", "pébri® saoubadjé", 
"petit poivre", "phontafelyoune", "pichot pé@bré", "pichoun pé@bré", 
"pimenteira silvestre", "piper agreste", "piperella", “piper 
monachorum", "poivier", "poivre des moins", "poivre sauvage", 
"rénuka", "sage tree", '" sage-tree", "sagetree", "salix alexandrina’ 
"salix amerina", "salix graeca", "salix grossa", "salix marina", 
"salix maritima", "sambhalu-ke-bij", "sanguis ibis", "saulle de 
mer", "saulx de Gaule", "saulx gauloise", "sauz gatillo", 
"sauzgatillo", "Schaafmiillen", "Schafmiille", "shadjaraté Ebrahim", 
"shajerat Ebrahim", "the chaste tree", "totsane", "tree of 
chastity", "true chastetree", "vitex", "vitex agnus castus", "vitex 
arborea", "vitgé", "vitice", "wild-lavender", "wild pepper", 
"ycearea", "yerba Louisa", "zalitzunkia", "zoukhamcate-acabéé", 
"zuccatorium", "zuccozaria", "zucoraria", and "zu-khamsata aurak" 
[=the five-halved]. 

Many authors have listed medicinal and economic uses -- or pur- 
ported ones -- for Vitex agnus-castus. Hartwell (1971) says that a 
broth made from the herbage is used to treat "superfluities of 
uterus" and hardness of the liver or spleen, an elixir is used for 
tumors, a decoction and sitzbath for hardness of the uterus and 
induration of the spleen, an oil and ointment for various "hard- 
nesses or stiffnesses", and fomentations and cataplasms for indur- 
ation of the spleen, corns, and chronic indurated tumors. Parks 
(1937) tells us that "The leaves and blossoms are used by Latin 
people as a preventive against moths". Innamorati (1973) says that 
it is used "per le malattie delle vie urinarie e dei rene". Ac- 
cording to Grieve (1967) "The fresh ripe berries [drupes] are 
pounded to a pulp and dused in the form of a tincture for the re- 
lief of paralysis, pains in the limbs, weakness, etc.", while Polu- 
nin & Huxley (1966) report its use as an anti-aphrodisiac, but 
carefully point out that "fresh seeds have an aromatic pungency 
that some consider aphrodisiac". They also report the plant's use 
in the treatment of eye diseases and stomach-ache and as a source 
of yellow dye. Uphof (1968) asserts that the “herb has been used 
for centuries as an antiaphrodisiac" and as the source of a vola- 
tile oil; the young twigs are used in basketry; the fruits are em- 
ployed as a substitute for pepper and are also supposed to be anti- 
aphrodisiac; "the plant was regarded since antiquity as a symbol 
of chastity". 

Polunin (1969) asserts that V. agnus-castus is a plant of "Damp 


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places on the littoral, by streams" in Mediterranean Europe, 
flowering there from June to September -- "A shrub well known since 
classical times and associated with chastity; it is used medic- 
inally and is a source of a yellow dye. The fruits are used for 
seasoning and the twigs for basket-making". De Capite (1969) de- 
scribes the leaf, stem, and root anatomy in detail and reports 

that an alcohol extract from the leaves is active, the ether ex- 
tract even more active, and the aqueous extract inactive against 
Micrococcus pyogenes albus, but no activity is seen against 
Escherichia coli. ; 

Lewis & Elvin-Lewis (1977), along with Arevalo (1966), repeat 
the statement that the seeds have supposed antiaphrodisiac proper- 
ties in "decreasing libido", while Al-Rawi (1964) reports the 
bitter-tasting seeds are boiled in ghee and given to horses in 
the treatment of colic, while the entire plant is used in the 
treatment of eye and stomach disorders and "pains due to chills; 
one who has caught a cold takes a bath in water boiled with the 
leaves", Lust (1974) avers that the plant "exhibits hormone-like 
properties", Burkill (1966) states that V. agnus-castus is "a plant 
used by the Romans and Greeks, both internally and for poulticing", 
its oil containing "cineol and other substances". According to 
Tornabene (1891), speaking of this species: "De virtute antivenerea 
hujus speciei, quam veteres et praesertim Graeci extollebant, su- 
pervacaneum est loqui, cum inter res commentitias nunc habeatur. 
Medici laudarunt ut remedium ad hysteriam et gonorrhaeam; sed hoc 
quoque exoletum." Hartwell (1971) reports a poultice made from the 
leaves useful in treating inflammatory tumors, while the poultice 
made from the seeds is used to treat hard tumors, hardness of the 
liver and spleen, scirrhus of the liver, and induration of the liv- 
er. 

Trease & Evans (1972) also mention the antiaphrodisiac proper- 
ties of the fruits, "formerly official in Spanish pharmacopeia.... 
In 1657 the apothecary Richard Tomlinson wrote ‘it cohibits the 
motion of the sperm, and allayes venereous fancies in the night as 
well as Rue seed, for which cause the Athenian matrons in their 
Feasts to Ceres, the better to custodite their chastity strewer 
their beds with its leafs'. The constituents resemble those of the 
European vervain." The long-used drug made from this plant is 
known as "agnus castus" or "semen agni casti". Dymock & al. (1893) 
report that "The berries [really drupes!] are imported into India 
and are considered to be astringent, resolvent, and deobstruent, 
and useful for removing obstructions of the brain and liver; they 
are also given for enlargement of the spleen and dropsy...The seed.. 
has been found to contain a peculiar bitter principle called Cas- 
tine, a volatile acrid substance, a large quantity of free acid and 
fat oil. In Greece the fresh and rather unripe berries are said 
to be added to the must of the grape to render the wine more intox- 
icating, and prevent it from turning sour." 

Lonicer's herbal (1679) summarizes the uses of Vitex agnus- 
castus in his day as follows: "Die Natur der Schaaffmiille ist zu 
erwdrmen und zusammen zu ziehen....Der Same geniitzt / benimmt die 


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Wassersucht ; legt die Unkeuschheit. Ist gut wider gifftige Stich 
und Bisz der Thier. Wer dieser Blatter undersich in sein Bett- 
statt legt / dem vertreibt es alle Fleischliche Anfechtung. Ist 
vielleicht desz Strohes’/ darauf die Barfiisser Miinch ligen. Diser 
Beerlin eins Quintlins schwer mit Wein getruncken / zuvor gestossen 
/ treibet den Weibern ihre Krankheit / zertheilt die Winde im 

Leib / und léschet die Begierde der Ehelichen Wercke ausz. Fiir 
gifftiger Thier Bisz soll man diese Frucht gebrauchen/ Desz- 
gleichen die Weiber / so iibel sdugen / dann es mehret ihnen die 
Milch/ Es bekompt auch wol denen Miltz- und Leberslchtigen / so 
sich vor der Wassersucht besorgen. Zu viel gebraucht / schwachet 
es das Haupf und macht schlaffen. Das Laub zertnirscht / den 

Safft heraus getruckt / damit gesalbet / heilst die Spinnenstich. 
Das Laub in Wein gesotten / mit Honig vermischt / und den Mund da- 
mit gewaschen / heilet Mund- und Zahngeschwar. Mit Wasser gesot- 
ten / und damit gewaschen / heilet es alle Risz und Schrunden am 
Hindern / sonderlich den Weibern / so etwas an heimlichen Orten 
entziindet werden / denen soll man ein Fomentum oder Bahung ausz 
dem Laub machen / und sie dariiber setzen. Es schreibt Dioscorides / 
dasz / wer dieses Baums Zweige in der Hand habe / der sei sicher 
vor den W6lffen." Emberger (1938) notes only the one supposed use: 
"Les fruits remplacent le Poivre et ont la réputation d'étre 
antiaphrodisiaques. Pour cette raison le Gattilier était pour 

les Anciens le symbole de la pureté", Spach (1840) says: "Les 
feuilles ont une odeur désagréable. La fruit, auquel les anciens 
attribuaient, sans trop de raisons, des vertus anti-aphrodisiaques, 
a une saveur dcre et aromatique, analogue 4 celle du poivre: ce 
fruit s'emploie en guise d'épices, dans des contrées ot le 
Gattilier abonde." 

Burlage (1968) asserts, erroneously, that V. agnus-castus is 
a "Native of China and India". He asserts also that the seeds are 
"reported to be sedative and a perfume is made from the flowers", 
Perrot & Paris (1971) repeat that "La plante est trés anciennement 
réputée comme anaphrodisiaque, d'ot son nom, 1'infusé est sédatif 
et antispasmodique....La plante renferme une huile essentielle, un 
glucoside chromogénique, l'agnoside, et des pigments flavoniques". 
Lazaro (1921) repeats that "Los frutos se usaron como antiafrodis- 
iacos". Bouchhez (1843) says that the plant "s'en servent pour 
lier les mains de leurs morts". Parsa (1949) reports that "le 
bain de feuilles bouillies dans l'eau est employé pour guérir les 
enfants qui ont attrapé froid"; also "employé contre les maladies 
du 1'oeil et les coliques" and "les graines sont données aux 
chevaux contre la colique une noire. Un tissu bouillie avec ses 
feuilles prend une teinte noire." 

Bush-Brown (1963) points out that V. agnus-castus tolerates 
sandy soil, dry places, and city conditions. The Nehrlings (1968) 
affirm that it is fairly drought-resistant, more rugged than ap- 
pearances would indicate, surviving heat and poor or dry soils in 
the bright sun, and is actually better performing under such con- 
ditions than most cultivated shrubs. The stems winterkill, but 
the roots send up new shoots that flower in the same year -- it is 


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best to cut the plant back to stubs each year. 

Gomma & al. (1978) found in the leaves and fruits five flavonoids 
(casticin, isovitexin, isovitexin xyloside, orientin, and isoorien- 
tin) and two iridoids (aucubin and agnoside). In preliminary tests 
these compounds showed a marked inhibitory activity against 3 bac- 
terial pathogens. Fernandez (1947) found rubber in the roots. 
Schimmel (1908) found cineol, sabinene, and a quinone in the vol- 
atile oil from the leaves and this volatile oil was also analyzed 
by Hansel (1910). Gibbs (1974) reports leucocyanin absent from the 
leaves, the HCl/methanol test negative, and negative results with 
the juglone test in the leaves, bark, and wood, but "a blue fluor- 
escence" results. Kariyone (1965) found that the so-called 
"vitexin" from the seeds of Vitex agnus-castus differs from the 
"vitexin" obtained from V. lucens and so he proposes the former 
henceforth be known as "casticin", it being 5,3'dihydroxyl-3,6,7,4' 
tetramethoxylflavone. He also isolated agnuside from the leaves 
(1964) which he says is "probably the p-hydroxbenzoic ester of 
aucubin" (1962). Katyuzhanskaya (1977) describes the composition 
of the organic acids isolated from CO,-extracts of V. agnus-castus 
fruit. Belic Gal. "CP961L) “alsé rae ated casticin from Yugoslavian 
material of this species. Cole & al. (1968) sprayed plants of this 
species with Dow latex 12-R. a styrene-butadiene latex, in two con- 
centrations, the control plants sprayed with water, After one year 
the plants sprayed with the chemical in lower concentration had 
made significantly more growth than the controls; those sprayed 
with the higher concentration did not significantly increase growth, 
possibly owing to a slight phytotoxicity. 

Alexopoulos (1940) records the fungus, Phoma viticis Celotti, 
on the leaves of V. agnus-castus, Voronov (1922) records Lepto- 
sphaeria casta Voronov from the dry twigs, and Thornberry (1966) 
lists Cercospora viticis Ell. & Ev. (a leaf-spot) and Phymato- 
trichum omnivorum (Shear) Dug. (a root-rot) from Louisiana, Texas, 
and Oklahoma. Kobayashi (1970) found that Valsa ceratosperma 
(Tode) Maire makes black pustules on the bark of cankered or dead 
stems and branches of this host in Japan. Mound & Halsey (1978) 
assert that it is host to the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) 
Takahashi in Egypt; this based on a report by Azab & al. (1970). 

Guinet & Sauvage (1954) cite Becibissa 409 and Lejouad 497 
from Morocco; Maheshwari (1963) cites his no. 220 from Delhi, In- 
dia; Patzak & Rechinger (1967) cite Sintenis 645 from Iran; and 
Jafri & Ghafoor, in a personal communication to me, cite Abedin 
7403 from cultivation in Pakistan, 

It is perhaps worth noting that the Blackwell polynomial cited 
by Gmelin (1796) seems definitely to belong to the synonymy of 
V. agnus-castus var. diversifolia (Carr.) Schelle, but the illus- 
tration given by Blackwell (1751) shows leaflets that are plainly 
and completely entire and therefore illustrate the typical form 
of V. agnus-castus L. 

Material of V. agnus-castus has been misidentified and distrib- 
uted in some herbaria as V, macrophylla Hort., V. negundo L., 


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V. pseudonegundo Hand.-Mazz., and V. rehmannii Gitirke. On the 
other hand, the Fogg s.n. [July 18, 1969], distributed as typical 
V. agnus-castus, actually represents f. latifolia (Mill.) Rehd., 
Griffith 6059 and Zohary, Amdursky, & Grizi s.n. [14.11.1951] are 
var. pseudo-negundo Hausskn., Pratt s.n. [October 7, 1964] is Vv. 
negundo L., N. Chevalier 12 is V. negundo var. intermedia (P'ei) 
Mold., and Stefani s.n. [10 mai 1903] is not verbenaceous. Jerabek 
s.n. [June 1945], cited below, is a mixture with Petrea volubil- 
is £. pubescens (Mold.) Mold. and Herb. Missouri Bot. Gard. 
116201 is a mixture with something non-verbenaceous (probably 
Aleurites moluccanum). The illustration in Viertel (1970) is 
labeled as depicting V. agnus-castus, but shows all the leaflets 
plainly sessile. 

Additional citations: NORTH CAROLINA: Rockingham Co.: Leonard 
& Russ 2562 (Au--284927, B1--251048,, Ld, N, Tu--179458, Ws). 
ARKANSAS: Nevada Co.: D. M. Moore 420469 (Ws). LOUISIANA: East 
Baton Rouge Par.: Taylor s.n. [May 18, 1899] (Lv). Tangipahoa 
Par.: H. R. Wilson 232 (Lv). OKLAHOMA: Payne Co.: Harn 56 (Au-- 
122932). TEXAS: Bastrop Co.: Duval 134 (Au--291212). Brown Co.: 
McKnight 16 (Au--244321, Ld). Tarrant Co.: A. Ruth 993 (Ws). 
Travis Co.: Correll & Correll 34288 (Ld); Harpin, Waldorf. & 
Barkley 13081 (B1--53477). OREGON: Benton Co.: W. M. Smith s.n. 
[VIII/9/1959] (Se--197037). MEXICO: Nuevo Le6én: Etchison 55 
(Au--297432). FRANCE: Boulos s.n. [17.5.1961] (Gz); Lamaroux s.n. 
[Provence] (T). SPAIN: Sennen 36008 (Ws). AUSTRIA: Noé s.n. 
(Pd). GREECE: Kuntze s.n. [Cyclopi, 16/6/67] (W--2506585); Nit- 
zelius s.n, [Litochoron, 8/10/1963] (Go); Saint-Lager 3 (Ba); 
Zuccerini sen. (T). AEGEAN ISLANDS: Chios: Liidtke 595 (Mu), 596 
(Mu). Kos: Sauer & Sauer 13894 (Mu). ITALY: Robertson s.n,. 
[Scala di Salonse, 1829] (T); Tenore s.n. [1840] (Mu--614). CYP- 
RUS: Casey 1632 (Ba). CORSICA: Aellen 1856 (Ws). YUGOSLAVIA: 
Dalmatia: Servola s.n. (Mu--615). Fiume: Noé 329 [Reichenb, Fl. 
Germ. 2289] (N). Illyria: Tommasini s.n. [Monpalcone] (Ba). Is- 
tria: Untchj s.n. [Pola, 8-9-88] (Mi), s.n. [2.8.1899] (Gz). 
RUSSIA: Transcaspia: Michelson 87 (Mu). MOROCCO: D. Fairchild 74 
(W--1349467), 82 (W--1349471); Garnett 38/7 (Mu). EGYPT: G. 
Maire 141 (Gz); Romee s.n. [18.3.1968] (Gz). SOUTH AFRICA: Cape 
Province: Bayliss BS.5095 (W--2670629), BS.7270 (Mu). TURKEY: 
Manissadjian 290 (Mu), 326 (Mu); Stutz 453 (N). AFGHANISTAN: WwW. 
Griffith 6059 (Mu--1342). INDIA: State undetermined: Herb. 
Schreber s.n. [India orientalis] (Mu--603). CULTIVATED: Alabama: 
Justice 525 (Ba). Arizona: Simonian 361 (Tu--172595); Thornber 
s.n. [June 13, 1903] (Au). California: Jerabek s.n. [November 
1944] (Sd--34534), s.n.[June 1945] (Sd--36463); McClintock s.n. 
[July 14, 1943] (Ba); Moran 2458 (Ba); Witham 304 (Sd--71836). 
Egypt: Boulos & Tanadros s.n. [Dokki] (Gz); Hassib s.n. [22/12/ 
1927] (Gz); Mahdi 34 (Gz), 146 (Gz), s.n. [4.8.63] (Gz, Gz), s.n. 
[18.8.63] (Gz, Gz), s.n. [10/11/63] (Gz, Gz), s.n. [9/6/65] (Gz, 
Gz, Gz), s.n.[23.5.65] (Gz, Gz, Gz), s.n. [18/8/68] (Gz, Gz, Gz), 
sen. [3/6/70] (Gz, Gz, Gz), sen. [10/12/72] (Gz, Gz, Gz); Runke- 
witz sen. [18/11/1933] (Gz); Sisi s.n. [22/5/1973] (Gz, Gz); V. 


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Tackholm s.n. [28/10/1959] (Gz, Gz); T&ckholm & Elsayed 269 (Gz), 
337 (Gz), s.n. [8/1/1961] (Gz, Gz), sin. [28/11/1961] (Gz), sind 
[17/5/1962] (Gz, Gz, Gz), s.n. [24/5/1962] (Gz, Gz). Florida: 
Gillis 8449 (Ac, Ba, Ft, Ft); Meebold 27509(Mu); P. O. Schallert 
365 (B1--208625). Germany: Herb. Schreber s.n. (Mu--674). Ken- 
tucky: Denniston s.n. [June 24, 1929] (Ws). Louisiana: Boyd s.n. 
[June 3rd 1898] (Lv); Joor s.n. [Baton Rouge] (W--2607108); Pecoy 
s.n. [May 19, 1899] (Lv); Pratt s.n. [May 20, 1899] (Lv). Mexico: 
Imboden 74 (Au--297434). New Zealand: Sykes 16/68 [Herb. Bot. 
Div. DSIR 173231] (Ld), 630/65 [Herb. Bot. Div. DSIR 157634] (Ac). 
North Carolina: Biltmore Herb. 1786 [Sept. 27, 1897] (Ws); LeClair 
sen. [June 26, 1937] (N); D. Pratt s.n.[10/17/64]- (Lv); P. O. 
Schallert s.n. [7/10/31] (Ws). Pakistan: Abedin 7403 (Kh, Ld). 
Poland: Baenitz s.n. [Silesia, 15.9.1910] (Gz, Gz). South Africa: 
Bayliss BS.4542 (Ba, N, W--2616806), BS.6236 (Mu, N, W--2744925). 
South Carolina: Rodgers & Mullens 67086 (B1--215442, N, Se--234702). 
Texas: Hansen, Hansen, & Nee 1811 (Ws); Purvis 8 (Au--248392); R. 
Runyon 4258 (Au--269633, Au--269643, Au--269673), 5445 (Au--270204), 
124761 (Au--269536); Saichuk 73 (Lv); Shinners 8582 (Ba). Virgin- 
ia: Allard 11391 (Se--134451). LOCALITY OF COLLECTION UNDETERMIN- 
ED: Happe s.n. [in Europa australi] (Mu--607); Herb. Missouri Bot. 
Gard. 116201 (E). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS f. ALBA (West.) Rehd. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Agnus castus, flore albo Cup., 
Hort. Cath. 4. 1696. Vitex agnus castus albidus Desf., Tabl. Ecol. 
Bot., ed. 1, 53. 1804, Vitex agnus-castus albidus Desf., Tabl. 
Ecol. Bot., ed. 2, 64. 1815. Vitex agnus-castus b. flore albo 
Gussone, Fl. Sic. Prodr. 2: 147, in syn. 1828. Vitex agnus-castus 
var. alba Rehd. ex C. K. Schneid., Illustr. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 
594. 1911. Vitex agnus-castus cv. "Alba" Enari, Ornament. Shrubs 
Calif. 170. 1962. Vitex albiflora Hort. ex Turrill, Curtis Bot. 
Mag. 174: pl. 400, in syn. 1962. 

Additional bibliography: Cast., Hort. Mess. 24. 1640; Cup., 
Hort. Cath. 4. 1696; Cup., Hort. Cath: Suppl. Alt. 6. 1697; -Desty. 
Tabl. Ecol. Bot., ed. 1, 53 (1804) and ed. 2, 64. 1815; Gussone, 
Fl. Sic. Prodr. 2: 147--148. 1828; Voss in Vilm., Blumengart. 1: 
829. 1895; Baerecke, Anal. Key Ferns Flow. Pl. Atl. Sect. Middl. 
Fla. 115. 1906; C. K. Schneid., Illustr. Handb. Laubholzks 23° 594% 
1911; Sommier & Caruana Gatto, Fl. Melit. Nov. 234. 1915; Makins, 
Ident. Trees Shrubs 259. 1936; W. Trelease, Pl. Mat. Decorat. Gard. 
Woody Pl., ed. 5, imp. 1, 146. 1940; E. L. D. Seymour, New Gard. 
Encycl., ed. 3, 1292 (1944), °ed.°4, 1292. (1946), and.ed.°5, 1292; 
1951; Blackburn, Trees Shrubs East. N. Am. 302. 1952; Bean in Chit- 
tenden, Dict. Gard. 2249, 1956; Wyman, Shrubs Vines Am. Gard. 351 
& 352. 1956; Hatton, Hand, Pl. Flor. Orn. 368, fig. 727. 19608. 
nari, Ornament. Shrubs Calif. 170. 1962; Turrill, Curtis Bot. Mag. 
174: pl. 400. 1962; E. L. D. Seymour, New Gard. Encycl., ed. 6, 
1292 (1963) and ed. 7, 1292. 1964; Everett, Reader's Digest Compl. 
Book Gard. 447. 1966; Mold., Phytologia 16: 494. 1968; A. & I. 
Nehrling, Easy Gard. Drought-Resist. Pl., imp. 1, 226. 1968; W. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 341 


Trelease, Pl. Mat. Decorat. Gard. Woody Pl., ed. 5, imp. 2, 146. 
1968; Mold. in Correll & Johnston, Man. Vasc. Pl. Tex. [Contrib. 
Tex. Res. Found. 6:] 1340 & 1878. 1970; E. L. D. Seymour, New Gard. 
Encycl., ed. 8, 1292. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ 1: 31, 61, 205-—-207, 
266, 373, 385, .&' 386 .(1971) -and..23, 710-713, 7175. & 9224, 1974; 
Priszter, Delect. Sem. Spor. Pl. Hort. Bot. Univ. Hung. 59. 1971; 
Wyman, Gard. Encycl., imp. 1, 1171 (1971) and imp. 2, 1171. 1972; 
Fletcher in Hillier, Man. Trees Shrubs, ed. 2 & imp. ed 2, 416. 
1972; Mold., Phytologia 23: 419 & 427 (1972) and 25: 244, 1973; 
Williamson, Sunset Gard. Book, ed. 3, imp. 11, 440. 1973; A. & I. 
Nehrling, Easy Gard. Drought-Resist. Pl., imp. 2, 226. 1975; L. H. 
& E. Z. Bailey, Hortus Third 1162. 1976; D. E, Clark, Sunset New 
West. Gard. Book, ed. 4, imp. 2, 498. 1979; Jones & Luchsinger, 
Pl. Systemat. 302. 1979. 

Gussone (1828) reports this color form of the species from 
Sicily. Desfontaines (1804) calls it the "vitex agnus castus 4 
fleurs blanches" and "vitex agnus-castus blanc" (1815). Priszter 
(1971) lists it as cultivated in Hungary, offering seeds in ex- 
change as his seed no. 1673. Cornman's collection, cited below, 
cultivated in Massachusetts, was gown from seed secured in New 
Jersey. The form has been collected in anthesis in September. 

Additional citations: CULTIVATED: Massachusetts: Cornman A.A. 
976-34-B (Ba). New Jersey: A. L. Moldenke s.n. [Plainfield, Sept. 
7, 1968] (Ps--367), s.n. [Plainfield, Sept. 1, 1972] (Ps--1438). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS f£. CAERULEA (Rehd.) Mold., Phytologia 44:135. 
1979. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex agnus-castus var. caerulea Rehd. ex 
C. K. Schneid., Illustr. Handb. Laubholzk, 2: 594. 1911. Vitex 
agnus-castus caerulea Trelease, Pl. Mat. Decorat. Gard. Woody Pl., 
ed. 5, imp. 1, 146. 1940. Vitex agnus-castus caerulea [Rehd.] 
ex Correll & Johnston, Man. Vasc. Pl. Tex. 1878. 1970. Vitex 
agnus-castus caerulea Rehd. ex Mold., Fifth Summ, 2: 712, in syn. 
1971. 

Additional bibliography: Voss in Vilm., Blumengart. 1: 829. 
1895; Battan. & Trabut., .Fhl..An ak.«»Synop, Algw2/1. 19025. Baer-— 
ecke, Anal. Key Ferns Flow. Pl. Atl. Sect. Middl. Fla. 115. 1906; 
W. Trelease, Pl. Mat. Decorat. Gard. Woody Pl., ed. 5, imp. l, 
146. 1940; Hatton, Handb. Pl. Flor. Orn. 368, fig. 727. 1960; 
Burlage, Ind. Pl. Tex. 184. 1968; Mold., Phytologia 16: 492 & 494, 
1968; W. Trelease, Pl. Mat. Decorat. Gard. Woody Pl., ed. 5, imp. 
2, 146. 1968; G. W. Thomas, Tex. Pl. Ecolog. Summ. 78. 1969; Cor- 
rell & Johnston, Man. Vasc. Pl. Tex. [Contrib. Tex. Res. Found. 
6:] 1878. 1970; Mold. in Correll & Johnston, Man. Vasc. Pl. Tex. 
[Contrib. Tex. Res. Found. 6:] 1340. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ, 1: 
50, 2615190, 206 5+207 ¢.& 373 (2971) and 23. J09——712) 711 po 2226 
1971; Mold., Phytologia 34: 250 (1976) and 44: 134. 1979. 

The corollas are uniformly described as "blue" in this form, 
as opposed to the "purple", "purplish", or "lavender" of the typi- 
cal form. It has been collected in flower and fruit in July. 

The flowers are described as being "pleasantly scented". 


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Additional citations: LOUISIANA: Catahoula Par.: C. Allen 2167 
(Lv). CULTIVATED: Louisiana: DeWolf 915 (Ba). North Carolina: 
P, O. Schallert 351 (Se--112297, Se--113560), s.n. [7/25/40] (Ws). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS var. DIVERSIFOLIA (Carr.) Schelle 

Additional synonymy: Vitex foliis digitatis serratis spicis 
verticillatis Blackwell apud Gmel. in L., Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 2: 
963. 1796. Vitex agnus castus var. diversifolia Schelle ex C. K. 
Schneid,, Illustr. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 594, 1911. Vitex foliis 
digitatis serratis spicis verticillatis L. apud Zangheri, Fl. Veg. 
Pinet. Raven, 189, in syn. 1936. Vitex lat. serrat. folio 
Gerarde, Herbal, ed. 3, [45]. 1975. 

Additional bibliography: Blackwell, Cur. Herb. 1: pl. 139. 


1751; Gmel. in L., Syst. Nat., ed. 13, 2: 963. 1796; C. K. Schneid., 


Illustr. Handb. Laubholzk. 2: 594. 1911; Zangheri, Fl. Veg. Pinet. 
Raven. 189. 1936; Mold., Phytologia 16: 494. 1968; Mold., Fifth 
Summ.) 1¢°373,;'385,. & 386 (1971) and 2: 710) 712, 720,°6° 922. 

1971; Mold., Phytologia 28: 452. 1974; Gerarde, Herbal, ed. 3, 
[45] & 1387. 1975; Mold., Phytologia 34: 270. 1976, 

Illustrations: Gerarde, Herbal, ed. 3, 1387. 1975. 

Linnaeus (1796) plainly accredits the polynomial cited above to 
"Blackwell herb. t. 139". The reference is sometimes mis-cited as 
occurring on "p. 1122". The Blackwell illustration (1751), how- 
ever, is of the typical form of the species, the leaflets being 
plainly and completely entire-margined. 

The Woodbury collection, cited below, was probably taken from 
cultivated material, although the label accompanying it does not 
so indicate. 

Additional citations: CULTIVATED: Egypt: Hassib s.n. [22/12/ 
1927] (Gz, Gz). Florida: Woodbury s.n. [Coconut Grove, July 20, 
1948] (Ws). Missouri: Piehl s.n. [19 Oct. 1968] (Ws). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS f£. LACINIOSA (Ces.) Mold., stat. nov. 

Synonymy: Vitex agnus castus P laciniosa Ces. in Ces., Passer., 
& Gib., Comp. Fl. Ital. 327. 1874. Vitex laciniosa Arcang., Compl. 
Fl. Ital., ed. 1, 886. 1882 [not V. laciniosa Turcz., 1863]. 

Vitex agnus-castus var. laciniosa Ces. ex Mold., Phytologia 
25%, 4194 E972; 

Bibliography: Ces., Passer., & Gib., Comp. Fl. Ital. 327. 1874; 
Arcang., Compl. Fl. Ital., ed. 1, 561 & 886 (1882) and ed. 2, 444 
& 833. 1894; Mold., Phytologia 23: 419, 437, & 438. 1972. 

The original description of this variety is merely "Foglioline 
laciniata, Qua e 14 colla specie". I have not seen any original 
material, so it is entirely possible that his taxon may be identi- 
cal with var. diversifolia (Carr.) Schelle. 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS f. LATIFOLIA (Mill.) Rehd. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex agnus-castus PB latifolia Sweet, Hort. 
Brit., ed. 1, 323. 1826. Vitex agnus castus 2. latifolia G. Don 
in Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 246. 1830. Vitex agnus-castus f. 
macrophylla Hatton, Craftsm. Pl.-book 368, fig. 728. 1909. Vitex 
agnus-castus var. latifolia (Mill.) Loud. ex Turrill, Curtis Bot. 


Oe —_— 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 343 


Mag. 174: pl. 400. 1962. Vitex agnus-castus latifolia (Mill.) 
Loud. ex Enari, Ornament. Shrubs Calif. 170, in syn. 1962. 

Vitex agnus-castus cv, "Latifolia" Enari, Ornament, Shrubs Calif. 
170. 1962. Vitex agnus castus latifolia Nehrling, Easy Gard. 
Drought-—Resist,. Pl., 225, in syn, 1968. Vitex agnus-castus 
"Latifolia" McGourty, Plants Gard. 26 (2): 53. 1970. Vitex albida 
Lam., in herb. 

Additional bibliography: Pers., Sp. Pl. 3: 361. 1819; Sweet, 
Hort. Brit, , ed.,\4s 2: 323.,.1826;.G,. Don.in-Loud sz, Bett. Bests 
Qed, iL, 246 4.1830; ‘Sweet, Hort. Brits, ed. 2, 416, 16902 -Lamag 
Bort, Britayjved. 2,,)531., 16323 Loud.,; Arb... Fructis. Brits 3s. ee: 
1838; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3, 551. 1839; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. 
Candoll. 3: 502. 1858; Tornabene, Fl. Aetnea 3: 175 (1891) and 4: 
486. 1892; Hatton, Craftsm. Pl.-book 368, fig. 728. 1909; C. K. 
Schneid., Illustr. Handb. Laubholzk,. 2: 594, 1911; E. L. D. Sey- 
mour, New Gard. Encycl., ed. 3, 1292 (1944), ed. ¢ ,1292 (1946), 
and ed. 5, 1292. 1951; Blackburn, Trees Shrubs East. N. Am. 302 & 
356. 1952; Hatton, Handb. Pl. Flor. Orn. 368, fig. 728. 1960; 
Enari, Ornament. Shrubs Calif. 170. 1962; Turrill, Curtis Bot, 

Mag. 174: pl. 400. 1962; E. L. D. Seymour, New Gard. Encycl., ed. 
6, 1292 (1963) and ed. 7, 1292. 1964; Wayside Gardens, For Autumn 
Plant. 115 & 117. 1964; Everett, Reader's Digest Compl. Book Gard. 
447. 1966; E. Lawrence, South. Gard., ed. 2, 219. 1967; Mold., 
Phytologia 16: 494. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 17: 8. 1968; A. & I. 
Nehrling, Easy Gard, Drought-Resist. Pl., imp. 1, 226. 1968; Spring 
Hill Nurseries (Tipp City, Ohio), Fall Sale Cat. 23. 1968; McGourty, 
1200 Trees [Plants Gard. 26 (2):] 53. 1970; E. L. D. Seymour, New 
Gard. ;Encycl,,..ed.s 8, 1292. 1970; Mold., Fifth. Summy ‘1%, 23, 27, 

50, 205--208, 266, 267, 373, 376, 385, & 386 (1971) and 2: 710-- 
TLdghh 205. 42h 5 °:923,5 7245 731578494 922. 1971s Anon. Ue Seueee, 
Agr. Home Gard. Bull. 181: 3 & 20. 1972; Fletcher in Hillier, Man. 
Trees Shrubs, ed. 2, 416 (1972) and imp. ed., 416. 1972; Mold., Phy- 
tologia 23: 437. 1972; Skinner, Ornament. Pl, Coastal Northw. 76. 
1972; Williamson, Sunset Gard. Book, ed. 3, imp. 11, 440. 1973; 
Whitney in Foley, Herbs Use Delight [204]. 1974; Mold., Phytologia 
31: 392. 1975; A. & I. Nehrling, Easy Gard. Drought-Resist. Pl., 
imp. 2, 226. 1975; Wyman, Gard. Journ. 25: [45] & 46. 1975; L. H. 

& E. Z. Bailey, Hortus Third 1162. 1976; Molds, Phytologia 34: 270. 
1976; D. E. Clark, Sunset New West. Gard. Book, ed. 4, imp. 2, 498. 
1979. 

Additional illustrations: Hatton, Craftsm. Pl.-book 368, fig. 
728. 1909; Hatton, Pl. Flor. Ornam. 368, fig. 728. 1960; Spring 
Hill Nurseries (Tipp City, Ohio), Fall Sale Cat. 23 [in color]. 
1968; McGourty, 1200 Trees [Plants Gard. 26 (2):] 53. 1970; Wyman, 
Gard,, Journ, 23%. (45.1975. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a tomentose shrub, to 6 
feet tall, with a strong aromatic odor ,and numerous annual stems 
from a perennial base, flowering in June and August, fruiting in 
October. The corollas are said to have been "light-lavender" on 
DeWolf & Gruns 2152 and "lilac" on Fogg s.n., while Pancho says 
"corolla-lobes RHS [Royal Horticultural Society, London] Wisteria 


344 PHYTOLO CG TS Vol. 44, No. 5 


Blue 640". Lawrence (1967) reports that in the southern United 
States this form of the species starts blooming between June 6 
and 21 and ends its period of anthesis in July. Common names re- 
corded for it are "broadleaf chaste-tree" and "broad-leaved 
chaste-tree", The Spring Hill Nursery (1968) describes it as a 
"Distinctive hardy 4 ft. shrub with star-like foliage and magnif- 
icent large, deep, lavender spire-like blooms in July and August, 
Delightful change of pace for the foundation", They offer it at 
$2.50 for a 2-foot plant or $1.65 for a 1--1 1/2-foot plant. The 
Nehrlings (1975) assert that it is somewhat hardier than the 
typical form and is propagated chiefly by cuttings. They claim 
that V. agnus-castus var. macrophylla has still larger leaves and 
still deeper-colored corollas, but, lacking more definite evidence, 
I am regarding the latter as identical to the wild broad-leafleted 
form, Hatton (1960) claims that the form with broad leaflets, like 
the typical narrow-leafleted form, has had its seeds considered 
anti-aphrodisiac since ancient times. This is probably true, since, 
contrary to claims in horticultural literature that it is a culti- 
var ("cv."), it is wild and surely native throughout Mediterran- 
ean Europe and is even known in fossil form there, 
Vitex albida appears to be based on an unnumbered Schultes col- 
lection from cultivated material in Germany and deposited in the 
Munich herbarium. The specific epithet chosen implies that the 
corollas were whitish, but there is no evidence of this on the 
preserved specimen or its label. 
Material of f. latifolia has often been misidentified and dis- 
tributed as typical V. agnus-castus L. On the other hand, the 
Jerabek s.n. [November 1944], distributed as this form, actually 
does represent, instead, typical V. agnus-castus L. 
Additional citations: CULTIVATED: Germany: Schultes s.n. (Mu-- 
1343). Massachusetts: DeWolf & Bruns 2152 [Arnold Arb. 453-51-A] 
(Ba). Missouri: Piehl s.n. [19 Oct. 1968] (Ws). New Jersey: Mol- 
denke & Moldenke 29213 (Ld). New York: E. C. Baldwin s.n. [Aug. 
15, 1944] (Ba). New Zealand: Syles 16/66 [Herb. Bot. Div. DSIR 
173231] (ld). Oklahoma: L. C. Anderson 2390 (Ws). Pennsylvania: 
Fogg s.n. [July 18, 1969] (Ba); J. V. Pancho 200 (Ba). South Car- 
olina: Rodgers & Mullens 67086 (Au--259510, Ld, Ws). MOUNTED IL- 
LUSTRATIONS: Kelly Ornamentals fig. 45 [in color] (Z); Wayside 
Gardens fig. 184 [in color] (Z); Wayside Gardens, For Autumn 
Planting 117 [in color] (Z). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS var. PSEUDO-NEGUNDO Hausskn. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex agnus castus var. pseudo-negundo 
Hausskn. in Bornm., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 22 (2) [Pl. Strauss. 3]: 
117. 1907. Vitex agnus-castus ssp. haussknechtii var. pseudo- 
negundo (Hausskn.) Bornm., ex Parsa, Fl. Iran 4 (1): 540. 1949. 
Vitex pseudonegundo Hand.-Mazz. ex Parsa, Fl. Iran 4 (1): 540, in 
syn. 1949, Vitex agnus var. pseud. Hausskn. ex Parsa, Fl. Iran 4 
(1): 540, in syn. 1949. Vitex hybrida Mold., Résumé 384, in 
syn. 1959. Vitex? hybrida Mold. apud R. R. Stewart, 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 345 


Annot. Cat. in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakist. 608, in syn. 1972. 
Vitex angus-castus var. pseudo-negundo (Hausskn.) Hand.—-Mazz., in 
herb. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Hand.-Mazz., Ann. Hofmus. 
Wien 27: 408, pl. 19, fig. 1. 1913; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. 
Jahresber. 43: 159. 1922; Parsa, Fl. Iran 4 (1): 540. 1949; Al- 
Rawi, Iraq Min. Agr. Tech. Bull. 14: 149. 1964; Guest & Al-Rawi, 
Fl, Iraq 1: 84 & 106. 1966; Kandelaki, Vestn. Gruzinsk. Bot. Ob8€. 
3: 79--87. 1966; Patzak & Rech., Fl. Iran 43: 5--6 & 8. 1967; 
Brummitt & Ferguson, Reg. Veg. 61: 190. 1969; Mold., Phytologia 
16: 493 & 494 (1968) and 17: 16. 1968; Daoud & Skeikh, Bull. Coll. 
Sci, Univ. Baghdad 11 (2): 24--44. 1970; El-Gazzar & Wats., New 
Phytol. 69: 483 & 485. 19703. Anon., Biol.’ Abstr. 52 <{5)2 BlA,Set. 
C, $.238 & $.240. 1971; Love, Taxon 20: 353. 19713 Motd.,. FLeen 
Sumy. °° 208, 266, 267," & “269 C1971) <dnd 23 FIZ, 719, J2a5 7, = 
S22, Loris “N, BF. Ge’, Blots AbSete. “S22 2S? PTt= Bootes, 

Taxon Index Vols. 1-20 part 1: 382. 1972; R. R. Stewart, Annot. 
Cat. in Nasir & Ali, Fl. W. Pakist. 608. 1972; Townsend, Kew Bull. 
27: 148 & 149, fig. 1 (center). 1972; Anon., Biol. Abstr. 56 (4): 
BOASS ST 265 °95280 2 ‘19732 "Ag RS", Biel . Abatre S6r 18477 1973 
Mold., Phytologia 25: 244 & 245 (1973) and 28: 441,.443, & 452. 
1974; El-Gazzar, Egypt. Journ. Bot. 17: 75 & 78. 1974; [Farns- 
worth], Pharmacog. Titles 7, Cum. Gen. Ind. [118]. 1975; Koiiman, 
Act. Bot. Néerl, 24: 462. 1975; S. & D. Talalaj, Bull. Biol. Res. 
Cent. Baghdad 7: 32--42. 1976; S. & D. Talalaj, Biol. Abstr. 65: 
4710. 1978. 

Illustrations: Hand.-Mazz., Ann. Hofmus. Wien 27: pl. 19, fig. 
1. 1913; Townsend, Kew Bull. 27: 148, fig. 1 (center). 1972. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a bush or shrub, 1--4 
m, tall, and have found it growing along roadsides, on riverbanks 
and streamsides, in gravelly sandy-clay or rocky sandy-clay loam, 
in dry forests and desert washes, in dry depressions and low bushy 
woods, and in the gravel of wadi beds, at altitudes of 11--2300 
meters, flowering from May to November, fruiting in March, August, 
September, and November. Guest & Al-Rawi (1966) assert that it 
is very abundant (10--20 percent) in the Asphodeletum aestivi eco- 
logic association on gently sloping hillsides and also is common 
among arborescent species along the sides of mountain streams in 
the forest zone associated with Paliurus spina-christi and Nerium 
oleander. 

The chromosome number is reported by Léve (1971) as 2n = 32, 
Based on Murin & Sheikh s.n. from Iraq. The Talalajs (1978) re- 
port isolating a volatile oil of possible economic importance from 
the plant. The corollas are said to have been "blue" on Andersen 
& Petersen 443 and Qaiser & Ghafoor 1525, "violet" on Ali 1074 and 
Qaiser 209, “lavender" on Long 417, "purple" on Ali & al. 1957, 
and "purple with the throat white" on Koelz 13223. 

Stewart (1972) quotes Parker to the effect that this plant is 
cultivated in gardens on the plains of Pakistan and is best recog- 
nized by its “cylindric panicles of bright violet" flowers. The 
leaflets on Rechinger 10714 are extra large, greatly resembling 


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those of V. negundo L. 

Patzak & Rechinger (1967) distinguish this taxon from its close 
relatives in the area which it naturally occupies as follows: 
Flores plerumque in inflorescentias simplices vel paniculatas dis- 

positae; cymae sessiles vel subsessiles; folia plerumque 5-- 
7-na. 
Labium inferius corollae intus non barbatum....V. agnus-castus. 
Labium inferius..corollae,intus barbatumenis's «oi b'dcc ods 00k baneen 
V. agnus-castus var. pseudo-negundo,. 
Flores plerumque laxe paniculatae; cymae manifeste stipitatae; 
foliola plerumque 3-~5-04e dvict cviceccliceaceceucccenVe MEGRNOGS 

Jafri & Ghafoor, in a personal communication to me, separate 

them similarly: 
Leaflets 3--5; cymes often somewhat lax and panicled, forming a 
pyramidate inflorescence; flowers not fragrant....V. negundo. 
Leaflets 5--7; cymes sessile or subsessile, forming a subcylindri- 
cal narrow inflorescence; flowers fragrant. 
Lower corolla-lobes glabrous or slightly pubescent at the base 
POL Visit. id. ds a caklse cede dae 4600 caddenrstee daceaels Ree 
Lower corolla-lobes densely ciliate or pubescent.cccccccsececvccese 
V. agnus-castus var, pseudo-negundo, 
Townsend (1972) separates them thus: 
Lower lip of corolla glabrous, or with a few sparse hairs at the 
basal angles OGL wsidds cdieded ic oddids cédcgesee Ve AGRUS Rene 
Lower lip of corolla bearded with a semicircular line of hairs at 
the base 
Inflorescence with the lateral cymes more congested; inner sur- 
face of calyx with the intermediate veins more or less 
zigzag above or tending to merge into the reticulate secon- 
dary venation extending from the middle of the tube upwards; 
petiolule.of central leaflet ..to 1 cm. long. seasccsenanceuen 
V. agnus-castus var. pseudo-negundo. 
Inflorescence with the lateral cymes laxer; inner surface of the 
calyx with the intermediate veins straight and almost 
reaching the sinuses, the secondary venation at most 
looping-anastomosing and never reticulate in the tube; peti- 
olule of central leaflet to 2 cm. long....eeeeeeeVe negundo. 

Handel-Mazzetti (1913) cites Bornmiiller 1536, Handel-Mazzetti 
1970, and Sintenis 1305 from Mesopotamia and lists the variety al- 
so from Iran. Jafri & Ghafoor cite S. I. Ali 1074, Azher 32 & D-5, 
Hamid Ali 5 & C-7, Nath 2430, Qaiser 203 & G-2, Qaiser & Ghafoor 
1525, and Sultanul Abedin 6727 from Pakistan, where, they say, it 
is called "marwan" and flowers from May to July. They give its 
overall distribution as southwest Asia eastward to Afghanistan and 
Pakistan. Stewart (1972) cites, also from Pakistan, Aitchison 446, 
Harsukh 20615, Lace 3619, Patzak & Rechinger s.n., and Popov 308. 
Patzak & Rechinger (1967) cite the following: IRAQ:Bornmiiller 1536; 
Guest 800, 865, & 1953; Haley 58; Helbaek 1225 & 1786; Makki 557; 
Rechinger 9612, 10714, & 11246; Sutherland 16; Thesiger 1202. IRAN: 
Bent & Wr. 503-609; Bornmuller 5128; Grant 15895; Koelz 15444 & 
18447; Rechinger 1308, 3996, 5362, & 5778; Shar 1305E; Stapf S.Ne; 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 347 


Stutz 959. RUSSIA: Turkmanskaya: Litw. 2407. AFGHANISTAN: Gabriel 
37/3; Kerst. 265; Koeie 2090; Koelz 13223; Lindb. 1960/931; Rechin- 
ger 19268 & 32403; Volk 1320. PAKISTAN: Aitchison 446; Bhola s.n.; 
Harsukh 20615; Lace 3619; Popov 308; Stewart, Blatt, & Fz. 1435 & 
s.n. They give the overall distribution as "Asia austro-occiden- 
talis a Turcia et Syria et Kurdistan orientem versus usque ad Af- 
ghanistan et Pakistan." 

Material of this variety has been widely misidentified as typi- 
cal V. agnus-castus L, or as V. negundo L. 

Additional citations: EGYPT: Bot. Dept. Herb. s.n.[Kharga Oasis, 
Feb. 1931] (Gz, Gz). ISRAEL: Amdursky 280 (N)3; Zohary, Amdursky, 
& Grizi s.n. [14.11.1951] (Ba). JORDAN: V. Tackholm s.n. [6/8/ 
1962] (Gz), s.n. [July 1962] (Gz, Gz). IRAQ: Agnew & Barkley s.n,. 
[27-5-1962] (N, N); -F. A. Barkley 32Ir3356 (N); Barkley & Agnew 
3290 (N); Barkley, Wahab, & Oraha 6824 (N); Brahim M. 6119 (N); 
K. H. Rechinger 10714 (Mu). IRAN: Haltenorth s.n. [27.9.1960] 
(Mu); K. H. Rechinger 43617 (Mu); Rechinger & Rechinger 5778 (Ba). 
AFGHANISTAN: Andersen & Petersen 443 (N); Griffith 6059 (Pd); 
Koelz 13223(W--2193776); L. E. Long 417 (W--2189847); Podlech 
16145 (Mu), 16825 (Mu), 17162 (Mu), 18545 (Mu), 18581 (Mu), 19196 
(Mu), 19901 (Mu), 21692 (Mu); K. H. Rechinger 19268 (Mu), 32403 
(Mu), 37025 (Mu), 37547 (Mu). PAKISTAN: Baluchistan: Abedin & 
Hussain 6727 (Kh); Qaiser 209 (Kh); Qaiser & Ghafoor 1525 (Kh); 
K. H. Rechinger 29984 (Mu), 30985 (W--2637734); Rechinger, Rech- 
inger, Aellen, & Esfandiari 3996 (Ba, Mu). Northwest Provinces: 
Ali 5 (Kh), 1074 (Kh); K. H. Rechinger 19617 (Mu). Sind: Ali, Far- 
rofi, & Abedin 1957 (N). West Punjab: Iman 32 (Kh). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS var. PSEUDO-NEGUNDO f£. ALBIFLORA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 87. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ, 1: 266 (1971) and 2: 922. 1971. 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS £,. ROSEA Rehd. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex agnus-castus var. rosea Rehd. apud 
Turrill, Curtis Bot. Mag. 174: pl. 400. 1962. 

Additional bibliography: Voss in Vilm., Blumengartn, 1: 829, 
1895; Blackburn, Trees Shrubs East. N. Am. 302. 1952; Wyman, Shrubs 
Vines Am, Gard. 351 & 352. 1956; Mold., Phytologia 8: 26--27. 1961; 
Turrill, Curtis Bot. Mag. 174: pl. 400. 1962; Everett, Reader's 
Digest Compl. Book Gard. 447. 1966; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 207 & 
373 (1971)and 2: 712, 721, & 922. 1971; Wyman, Gard. Encycl., 
ings. 1, Livi €197k) and dmp. 2; 1L7L. 19725) Mold... Phytelogia 23: 
437 (1972) and 34: 250. 1976; D. E. Clark, Sunset New West. Gard. 
Book, ed. 4, imp. 2, 498. 1979. 

The corollas on the Brown collection, cited below, are said to 
have been "pink" when fresh. 

Additional citations: LOUISIANA: Winn Par.: C. A. Brown 7920 
CL). 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS f£. VARIEGATA Mold. 
Additional synonymy: Vitex agnus-castus cv. "Variegata" L. H. & 


348 PH Y,#: 0:10 6,6,48 Vol. 44, No. 5 


E. Z. Bailey, Hortus Third 1162. 1976. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 16: 495. 1968; Brum- 
mitt & Ferguson, Reg. Veg. 61: 190. 1969; Mold., Fifth Summ, 2: 
710, 711, 922, & 970. 1971; L. H. & E. Z. Bailey, Hortus Third 
1162. 1976. 


VITEX AJUGAEFLORA Dop 

Additional bibliography: Wangerin, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (1): 
668. 1936; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (2): 286. 
1937; Mold., Phytologia 16: 495. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ, 1: 303 
& 373 (1971) and 2: 712 & 922. 1971. 

Additional citations: INDOCHINA: Annam: Poilane 6844 (W-- 
2602629--cotype). 


VITEX ALTISSIMA L. f., Suppl. Pl., imp. 1, 294. 1791. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Mail-elou Rheede, Hort. Malab. 

5: 1--2. 1685. Mail-eloii Rheede, Hort. Malab. 5: pl. 1. 1685. 
Vitex trifolia major indica, fructu carnoso, floribus minoribus & 
rarioribus Breyn, Prod. Fasc. Rar. Pl., ed. 1, 2: 106. 1688. 
Mailelou Rheede apud Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 12 & 200. 1763. Vitex 
appendiculata Willd., Gesell. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, ser. 2, 
4: 203. 1803 [not V. appendiculata Rottb., 1885]. Vitex altissima 
Roxb. ex Wall., Numer. List [48], no. 1755, hyponym. 1829. Vitex 
appendiculata Wight ex Wall., Numer. List 86, no. 1755C. 1831. 
Vitex latifolia Wight ex Wall., Numer. List 86, no. 1755C. 1831; 
Steud., Nom. Bot., ed. 2, 2: 777. 1840 [not V. latifolia Blume, 
1837, nor Lam., 1788, nor Mill., 1768]. Vitex pubescens ® appen- 
diculata Wight ex D, Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 611, in syn. 1843. Vitex 
altissima Heyne ex Mold., Phytologia 5: 197, in syn. 1955. Vetex 
altissina Kurup, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 75: 325, sphalm. 
1978. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Rheede, Hort. Malab. 5: 1--2, 
pl. 1. 1685; Breyn, Prod. Fasc. Rar. Pl.; ed. 1, 2: 106 (1688) 
anded, 252: 106.: 17393; Adans., Fam. Pl. 2:3. 12>&.200.: 17635) 55 
£., Suppl. Pl. 5 imp. 1, 294.. 17813) Lam. ,)Eneycl.\Meth.- Bots, 227 5n8 
1788; Raeusch., Nom. Bot., ed. 3, 182. 1797; Willd., Gesell. Na- 
turforsch. Freunde Berlin, ser. 2, 4: 203. 1803; Roxb., Hort. Beng. 
46. 1814; Moon, Cat. Indig. Exot» Pl. Ceyl. 1: 46. 1824; Sweet, 
Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 1: 323 (1826). and ed. 2,5:4164,1830;)Cs Don ae 
Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 246. 1830; Wall., Numer. List 86. 1831; 
G. Don in Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 246. 1832; Loud., Hort. Brit., 
ed. 2, 551. 18323; G. Don in-Loud,,: Hort... Brits, ed. 3, 246208389 
J. Grah., Pl. Bomb. 155--156. 1839; Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 3, 551. 
1839; Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 2: 244. 1839; D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 
3: 611. 1843; Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calc. 469. 1845; Buek, Gen. 
Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501 & 502. 1858; Thwaites & Hook. f., Enum, 
Pl. Zeyl., imp. 1, 244. 1861; Gamble, List Trees Darj. Dist. 61. 
1878; Gamble, Man. Indian Trees, ed. 1, 297, 298, & 522. 1881; Tri- 
men, Journ. Ceyl. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. 9: [Syst. Cat. Flow. Pl. 
Ceyl.] 69. 1885; Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceyl. 3: 356--358. 1895; Nairne, 
Flow. Pl. West. India 247. 1894; Cooke, Fl. Presid. Bombay. ed. 1, 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 349 


3: 428 & 429. 1905; Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 1, 503 & 504, fig. 
1755) 29065: J.,°C.. & M. Willis, Rev...Cat. Flow. Pl..Ceyl. .[ Parad. 
Man. Bot. 2:] 69. 1911; H. J. Lam, Verbenac. Malay. Arch. 369 & 
[371}].,.4919;.Lam.,&. Bakh, ,.. Bull. Jard,. Bot... Buitenz., ser. 3, 3: 
48. 1921; Troup, Silvicult. Indian Trees 2: 776. 1921; Alston in 
Teimen, Handb...F1.:Ceyl. 6:, Suppl.) 232... 19315. kL. £.4. Suppl. Pia 
imp. 2, 294. 1936; Alston, Kandy Fl. 64 & [65]. 1938; Kanjilal, 
Das, Kanjilal, & De, Fl. Assam 3: 479, 483, & 561. 1939; P. A. 
Russell, U. S. Dept. Agr. Pl. Invent. 159: 26 & 221. 1957; Cooke, 
Fl. Presid. Bombay, ed. 2, imp. 1, 2: 508--510. 1958; Abeywickra- 
ma, Ceyl. Journ. Sci. Biol. 2: 217. 1959; Worthington, Ceyl. 

Trees, 346, ».1959;..Puri,.Indian. Forest. Ecol, 1:2. 3b, 148,149, 153; 

& 176. 1960; Gaussen, Legris, & Viart, Ind. Counc. Agr. Res. Veg. 
Map Ser. 1: 24, 40, & 41. 1962; Thwaites & Hook. f., Enum. Pl. 
Zeyl., imp. 2, 244. 1964; Qureshi, Sympos. Ecol. Res. Humid Trop. 
Veg. 127 & 128. 1965; Burkill, Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. 2: 
2277. 1966; Cooke, Fl. Presid. Bombay, ed. 2, 2: 508--510. 1967; 
Ellis, Swaminathan, & Chandrabose, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 9: 12. 
1967; Gaussen, Legris, & Viart, Ind. Counc. Agr. Res. Veg. Map 
Ser. 4: 26. 1967; Kammathy, Rao, & Rao, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 9: 
208 & 224. 1967; Ramaswamy, Bull. Boc. Soc. Beng. 21: 96. 1967; 
Sebastine & Vivekanathan, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 9: 166, 167, & 
178. 1967; Vajravelu & Rathakrishnan, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 9: 43 
& 44. 1967; _J. L. Ellis, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10: 1-7. 1968; 
Gunawardena, Gen. Sp. Pl. Zeyl. 147. 1968; Mold., Phytologia 16: 
495--496 (1968) and 17: 11--13, 23, 45, 47, 50, 54, & 56. 1968; 
Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 10. 1968; Vajravelu, Joseph, & Chandra- 
sekaran, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10: 78. 1968; Legris & Blasco, 
Inst. Frang. Pond. Trav. Sec. Scient. Techn. 8 (1): 67. 1969; Ag- 
arwal, Wood-yield, Pl. India 6/7--68. 1970; Blasco, Inst. Franc. 
Pond. Trav. Sec. Scient. Techn. 10: 149, 173, & 426. 1971; Bran- 
dis, Indian Trees, imp. 2, 503 & 504, fig. 175. 1971; Mold., Fifth 
Sums Le 269,.:279;,...281,) 303,328, ° 337, & 373, 42971) and:22. 570; 
7326343557205 726; °728,. 7294::922; 969. & S70, 2971+ Anon... Biot, 
Abeer. .253; (10). B.A.S.1.C...5+266., 19725) Mold, Biol, AbsEr., 535 
52524.«1972; Mold.,. Phytologia .23:. 423 & 438. 19725. Hegnauer, 
Chemotax. Pfl. 6 [Chem. Reihe 21]: 663. 1973; R. R. Rao, Stud. 
Flow. Pl. Mysore Dist. [thesis] 2: 755. 1973; Rao & Razi, Journ, 
Mysore Univ. B.26: 103. 1973; Serbanescu-Jitariu & Mitroiu, Act. 
Bot. Hort. Bucurest,. 1972-73: 116. 1973; Vartak, Bull. Indian 
Nat. Sci. Acad. 45: 253. 1973; Mani, Ecol. Biogeogr. India [Illies, 
Monog. Biol. 23:] 189, 200, & 772. 1974; Mold., Phytologia 28: 
445, 460, 465, & 468. 1974; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.25: 380. 
1975; Menninger, Color Sky 10. 1975; Zimmerm. & Ziegler in Zimmern. 
& Milburn, Transp. Pl. 1 [Pirson & Zimmerm., Encycl. Pl. Physiol., 
sere<2,/\L] 24502u 1975;.-L,- He & Ee: 2. Bailey, Hortus Third 1162, 
1976; Meher-Homji, Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. 88: 120. 19773; Sub- 
ramanian & Kalyani, Indian Forest. 103: 113 & 117. 1977; Kurup, 
Journ. Bombs Nat. Hist... Soc. 75: 325, 329, & 332. 1978;. Sharma, 
Shetty, Vivekan., & Rathakrish., Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 75: 
16 & 33. 1978; Speangers & Balasubramanian, Trop. Ecol. 19: post 


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92. 1978. 

Additional illustrations: Rheede, Hort. Malab. 5: pl. 1. 1685; 
Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 1, 503, fig. 175. 1906; Alston, Kandy 
Fl. [65], fig. 347. 1938; Worthington, Ceyl. Trees 348. 1959; 
Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 2, 503, fig. 175. 1971. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a large shrub or 
small to very large tree, 2,.5--33 m. tall, spreading, the bole 
often to 1.2 m. long, the crown to 10 m. wide, the trunk fluted, 
15--90 cm. in diameter, the branches compressed, channelled, 
drooping, the branchlets tetragonal, dark-green, sulcate, the wood 
smooth, heavy, weighing 58--60 pounds per cubic foot, even- 
textured, varying from light olive-gray to brownish-gray or 
grayish-brown, capable of being seasoned, quite durable in water, 
very tough, disease-resistant, termite-proof, polishing well, not 
easily split, not readily warping, the bark varying from brown or 
tan to dull-brown, pale orange-brown, light-tan, ochraceous, yel- 
lowish, gray, grayish-white, yellowish-gray, or "creamish-yellow", 
fissured or cracked longitudinally, peeling off in narrow strips 
2--3 cm. wide or in 2 x 2.5 inch scales, leaving sandy-colored 
scars, loose, rough, yellow and fibrous within, the living bark 
soft, yellow or d ek-yellow, 5--10 mm, thick, the leaves compound, 
usually trifoliolate ("tripalmate"), papyraceous, acuminate, 
bronze-colored, usually appearing in March, the old leaves decid- 
uous at about the same time, the inflorescence terminal, panicu- 
late, flexuous or pendulous, the "cymes scorpioid", the flowers 
small, few, fragrant, the calyx pale-rusty or pale-brown, with a 
dull-violet base, the filaments pale-purple or white, the anthers 
black, the connective blackish, and the fruit drupaceous, round or 
spherical, about the size of a pea or 3/8ths inch long, at first 
green, later turning dark-blue, blue-black, purplish, purple, or 
black, smooth, often with small white dots, the pericarp fleshy, 
juicy at maturity. 

The corollas are described as "white, tinged with blue” by 
Nairne (1894), Cooke (1905), and Sharma & al. (1978), "pale-violet 
or white" by Worthington (1959), or "cream-colored, with a white 
lip" by the Baileys (1976). Collectors also describe the corollas 
in various ways: "white" on Saldanha 13974, "white with prominent 
purple lip" on Saldanha 16938, “white, lower lip bluish-purple" on 
Cramer 4366, "blue" on Hladik 855, Mueller-Dombois & Comanor 
67072528, Ripley 135, Stevens 472, and Sweeney s.n., "bluish" on 
Fosberg & Sachet 53010 and Saldanha 14365, "pale-blue" on Comanor 
567 and Kostermans 23289 & 23478, “bluish-purple" on Jayasuriya 
1262, “bluish-purplish" on Sumithraarachchi DBS.508, "purplish- 
blue" on Sumithraarachchi DBS.462 and Waas 1267, “purplish-blue, 
lower lip blue" on Jayasuriya 1990, "purple" on Cooray 69111730R 
and Ramamoorthy & Gandhi F.F.P.2752, “bluish-purple with middle 
lobe of lower lip deep-purple" on Amaratunga 1023, "lilac" on 
Bernardi 14304, "violet-blue with lower lip a darker shade, white 
around margin" on Davidse & Jayasuriya 8393, “pale-violet" on 
Amaratunga 175, Bernardi 15240, and Kostermans 26007, "very light- 
pink, lower lobes dark-violet with a yellow stripe at base of tube, 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 351 


the tube with maroon tinge" on Davidse 7338, "mauve-pink" on Ama- 
ratunga 268, “lower lip purple, side lobes and upper 2 lobes 
purplish-white"on Saldanha 16553, “limb border lavender, paler 
within, center lavender" on Fosberg & Jayasinghe 57119, and 
"corolla-tube dull pale-violet, white-hairy, with darker longi- 
tudinal dashes under the lip. 4 upper petals outside pale, inside 
light-blue, lip outside light-blue, inside with yellow base, 
further up violet-blue" on Jacobs XI.K.6. 

Recent collectors have encountered V. altissima on steep for- 
ested slopes and exposed windswept rocky outcrops, in dry decidu- 
ous secondary forests and dry forests in general, in evergreen or 
semi-evergreen forests, wet deciduous forests, intermediate for- 
ests, and "disturbed uneven forests yo 10 m. tall", in jungles and 
dry-zone jungles, at the edges of forests or jungles, and in the 
forested margins of rock outcrops, on sandy, light-colored, sandy- 
pebbly, or "brown-red clayey-lateritic-loamy" soil, even in regions 
of more than 56 inches annual rainfall, from sealevel to 1100 m. 
altitude, in flower in January and from March to November, in fruit 
in April and from July to January. 

Ramamoorthy & Gandhi, as well as Saldanha, report the species 
as "common" in Mysore, India, although the latter collector also 
found it only "occasional" in some localities. Ellis & al. found 
it growing along roadsides in Kerala, citing their nos. 20488 & 
24004; Vajravelu & al. (1968) list it as "common" in Kerala, citing 
Joseph 17138, and (1967) "common" also in Madras, citing their 
no. 24106. Sebastine & Vivekanathan (1967) refer to it as "rare" 
in the Cheevapara region of Kerala, but as a "common tree on [the] 
western slopes of the Devicolam range", citing their no. 25337. 
Ellis (1968) found it in Andhra Pradesh, citing his no. 25554, 
Kurup (1978) asserts that it inhabits "tropical wet rainforests 
in [the] western Ghats, forming [the] top storey with Messua ferrea, 
Hopea parviflora, etc."" Agarwal (1970) records it from "Bombay, 
Canara, Madras forest distrs., Cochin (Kerala), and Ceylon". Shet- 
ty & al. (1978) refer to it as "common" and cite Rathakrishnan 
37981 and Sharma 35725. Speangers & Balasubramanian (1978) found 
it growing in dry tropical semi-evergreen forests of southeastern 
India with Canthium dicoccum, Manilkara hexandra, Hemidesmus 
indicus, etc., in monsoon stream areas, 

Gaussen & al. (1967) found V. altissima "in the intermediate 
storey of the Toona-Garuga Series"; Ramaswamy (1967) cites his no, 
2707 from Savandurga. Kammathy & al. (1967) encountered the tree 
in dry deciduous forests in Mysore, citing Barnes s.n, Qureshi 
(1965) records it from Madras, while Gamble (1881) says that the 
"Tree [is] only found in the southern $81 forests". Puri (1960) 
lists it from the top and middle layers of tropical evergreen 
forests of several luxuriant strata with an understorey of many 
ferns and tall herbs in northern Kanara of the western coast of 
Malabar; in the top storey of southern tropical wet evergreen 
forests in southern Coimbatore the tree is 10--25 m. tall. In As- 
sam, Kanjilal & al. (1939) report that it ascends to 4000 feet al- 
titude, the hard close-grained wood "valuable for building con- 
struction, furniture, carts, boats, oil-mill pestles, etc." 


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Nairne (1894) describes the species as "plentiful" in southern 
Concan and Canara, asserting that it is "A beautiful tree when in 
flower". Clarke (1885) gives its distribution as the "Deccan 
Peninsula, especially the west side, up to 4000 ft., common". 
Troup (1921) tells us that "The tree stands a moderate amount of 
shade, especially in youth; it produces root-suckers. Growth, 
according to Gamble, 8 to 9 rings per inch of radius, giving a 
mean annual girth increment of 0.7 to 0.78 in." It is also said 
to "regenerate anywhere around". Cooke (1958) gives its distri- 
bution as only west peninsular India and Ceylon, citing Dalzell 

& Gibson s.n., Law s.n., and Stocks s.n. from Concan and Dalzell 
& Gibson s,.n., Talbot s.n., and Woodrow s.n. from Kanara, where 
he says that it is "plentiful" and "abundant" in evergreen for- 
ests, and that its wood is used for building purposes, furniture, 
and carts, being in much demand in northern Kanara. 

The Baileys (1976) give the species’ distribution as Pakistan, 
India, and Sri Lanka, asserting that it is a "Valuable timber 
tree used in cabinet work and building construction". Agarwal 
(1970) says that "It is considered very good for house-construc- 
tion, flooring, in well-construction, for carts, felloes of wheels, 
furniture and rarely for sleepers [=railroad ties]. It can be 
tried for tool handles." Railroad ties made of this wood are 
said to last 30 years. 

In Sri Lanka most authors and collectors describe the species 
as abundant. Thwaites & Hooker (1861) say that it is "Common in 
forests, up to an elevation of 3000 feet", citing Thwaites C.P. 
1958, and noting that "This tree produces one of the most valuable 
timbers in the island for building and other purposes". Worthing- 
ton (1959) lists it from the "low country, dry zone, but also 
found elsewhere, the wood used for furniture, wagons, and railroad 
ties". He collected it in the submontane region on the dry zone 
border. Hallier (1918) found it in cultivation, citing his no. 
C.241, deposited in the Hamburg herbarium. Trimen (1895) comments: 
"A valuable timber-tree. Wood hard, heavy, close-grained, smooth, 
tough, durable, grey; the carpenters distinguish several varieties. 
The bark is used as a fomentation in rheumatic swellings. The 
wood affords a yellow dye, which is not much employed". It would 
be interesting to know if the carpenters' varieties correspond in 
any way with the two taxonomic varieties here accepted. 

Also in Sri Lanka Bernhardi says "arbor obvia tota in insula 
frequens, cortice claro, inflorescentiae candalabriformes". Da- 
vidse & Sumithraarachchi, as well as Comanor and Sohmer, refer to 
V. altissima as "common" in the forests, but Fosberg & Jayasinghe 
refer to it as "infrequent". Cooray calls it a common subcanopy 
tree in low-stature evergreen forests dominated by Mischodon zey- 
lanicus on reddish soil. Cramer reports it "common in open dry 
country", while Fosberg & Sachet found it "common at edge of for- 
est around extensive granite outcrops". Kostermans reports it com- 
mon in both deciduous and evergreen forests, while Hladik reports 
it "common in dry zone near irrigation tank [lake] where under- 
growth has been cut"; Mueller-—Dombois encountered it as com- 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 353 


mon in shallow sand between outcropping rocks along roadsides; he 
and Jayasuriya report it "rather common in jungle forests", while 
he and Comanor affirm that it is a “prominent upper canopy tree 
at forest edges next to villu grassland". Ripley describes it 

as common in "flushes", Sumithraarachchi came upon it in jungles. 

Sweet (1826), Don (1830), and Loudon (1832) all assert that V. 
altissima was introduced into English gardens from Sri Lanka in 
1802. It is also cultivated in Maryland and Florida, on the basis 
on material imported from India by Menninger and represented by 
P, A. Russell 194521. Jacobs XI.,K.6 was collected from cultivated 
material in Java. 

Vernacular names reported by recent collectors and/or authors 
include the following: “ahoi", °*“anhvi", “arong", “ashoi"; “banalgay”, 
"bulgi", “inhet-longhing", "jadh-gach", "kada-manakku", 
"kaddamanakku", "kaddamananakku", "maila", "mairole", "mayilei", 
"mee-yan", "meeyan-mililla-gass", "milla", "mililla-gass", "miyan- 
milla", "mon-awal", "sapu-miila", "selong-phang", "tall chaste- 
tree", "tallest chaste-tree", and "tin-patte". 

Linnaeus" original (1781) description of V. altissima is: "VITEX 
foliis ternatis integerrimis, panicula verticillata: spicis verti- 
cillatis, bacca trisperma. Habitat in vastis sylvis Zeylonae. 
Konig. Foliola ovata, utrinque acuminata, supra glabra, subtus 
pubescentia." K6nig 77, in part, from Sri Lanka, in the Linnean 
Herbarium in London, is the nomenclatural holotype. It is worth 
noting here that Moon (1824) correctly maintains V. altissima as 
a distinct species separate from what he calls V. pubescens (=V. 
pinnata) . both in Sri Lanka. The V. pubescens of Vahl, referred to 
in the synonymy above, is V. pinnata and it is to this taxon that 
Moon was obviously referring. The date of publication of the V. 
pubescens Heyne is erroneously given as "1824" by Santapaugh & 
Waugh (1963). 

The Cooray 69111730R collection, cited below, was gathered as a 
voucher for ecologic observations. Similarly, Ripley 78, 135, & 
247 were collected as vouchers for primate ecology studies. Lewis, 
on the label accompanying the collection cited below, comments that 
this "tree [is] taller and straighter than the ordinary ‘milla’. 

It is worth noting here that Kostermans 23478 is only very 
sparsely puberulent, rather than pubescent, on the lower leaf sur- 
faces. Worthington (1959) erroneously refers to the fruits as 
"berries" -- they are drupes. The illustration given by Alston 
(1938) certainly looks more like V. negundo L, than it does V. 
altissima! Fosberg 56373 is accompanied by a label asserting that 
the plant was a "somewhat depressed spreading somewhat woody herb, 
flowers orange, closed in afternoon, occasional in fencerow along 
weedy roadside" -- obviously a case of mixed labels or some other 
stenographic mixup. Similarly, the label with Sohmer 8237 in the 
New York and Washington herbaria asserts that the plant had 
"flowers orange”, A letter to me from Dr. Sohmer, dated June 17/7, 
1977, says "I have gone back to my field book and find that for my 
collection 8237 I had only the following notation down: '50 ft. 
high tree’. There is nothing about flower color in my notes, and 


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I assume that either an enthusiastic typist added the notation to 
the label that you saw, or it was mistakenly transferred from 
somewhere else." 

Rheede's illustration (1685) is often cited as representing f,. 
juv. alata, but it plainly depicts the typical adult form of V. 
altissima, The name, V. pinnata has been applied mistakenly to 
V. altissima by many authors and collectors, notably by Alston 
(1931, 1938) and Abeywickrama (1959) among authors and by Amaratun- 
ga, Cooray, Cramer, Dittus, Hladik, Mueller-Dombois, Mueller- 
Dombois & Comanor, Ripley, Sohmer, Waas, and Worthington among 
collectors. It has also been misidentified as V. trifolia by 
Sohmer, Sumithraarachchi, and others, 

The Kostermans 24109 and Moldenke & al. 28188, 28189, 28220, 
28228, & 28238, distributed as typical V. altissima, actually 
represent f£. subglabra Thwaites, while Flock 362 and Rodgers MRC. 
164 are V. bunguensis Mold. 

Additional & emended citations: INDIA: Karnataka: Collector un- 
determined s.n. [Mysore] (Pd); Ramamoorthy & Gandhi H.F.P.2752 
(W--2653611); Saldanha 13974 (N), 14365 (N), 15116 (W--2653612), 
16553 (N), 16938 (N)3; W. D. Stevens 472 (Ln--232352); Talbot s.n. 
[N. Canara] (Pd). Kerala: Hohenacker 115 (B, Mu--620, Mu, Mu, N, 
S, S), sen. [prope Mangalore] (B); Stocks, Law, &c. s.n. [Malabar, 
Concan, &c.] (Br, Mu--622, N, Pd, S, W--2497091, W--2497123). 
Tamil Nadu: Kostermans 26007 (W--2828795); G. Thomson s.n. [Mont. 
Nilghiri & Kurg] (M, Mu--621, Pd, S); R. Wight 2325 (B, Mu--1344, 
Mu--1345, Pd, Pd, S, S). State undetermined: Wallich 1755 (Pd), 
1755c (Pd). SRI LANKA: Amaratunga 175 (Pd), 268: (Pd), 1023 (Pd); 
Bernardi 14304 (W--2765949), 15240 (N, W--2808311); Comanor 567 
(N, W--2762569), 576 (N, Pd, W--2762570); Cooray 69111730R (Ac, N, 
W--2612109); Cramer 4366 (W--2807756); Davidse 7338 (Ld, W-- 
2803773), 7446 (Ld, W--2806274); Davidse & Jayasuriya 8393 (Ld, 
W--2808657)’; Davidse & Sumithraarachchi 8153 (Ld), 9075 (Ld, W-- 
2808696); Dittus WD.69102302 (W--2765146, W--2803412), WD.71090606 
(W--2805422); F. R. Fosberg 56373 (N, W--2811402); Fosberg & Ja- 
yasinghe 57119 (ld); Fosberg & Sachet 53010 (Ld, N), 53011 (Tu); 
Gardner s.n. [Jaffna, C.P.1958] (Pd, Pd); Hladik 855 (Pd, W-- 
2761100); Jayasuriya 1262 (Ac, Ld), 1990 (Ld, W--2807845); Koster- 
mans 23289 (Ac), 23478 (Ac, N); J. P. Lewis s.n. [Mulliativu] (Pd, 
Pd); Moldenke, Moldenke, Dassanayake, & Jayasuriya 28329 (Gz, Ld, 
Pd, W--2764534)3; Moldenke, Moldenke, & Jayasuriya 28256 (Ac, Pd, 
W--2764523); Mueller-Dombois 67081404 (Pd, W--2586025A), 68102114 
(N); Mueller-Dombois & Comanor 67072507 (Pd, Pd, W--2586024A), 
67072528 (Pd, W--2586023A); Reitz 30027 (Ac, W--2762786); Ripley 
78 (Pd, W--2719624), 135 (Pd, W--2719619), 189 (Pd, W--2715939), 
247 (W--2719625); Sohmer 8210 (N, W--2808328), 8237 (Lc, N, W-- 
2807754); Sohmer & Jayasuriya 10673 (N); Sumithraarachchi DBS.462 
(W--2807746), DBS.508 (W--2807761); Thwaites C.P.1598 (Pd); Waas 
1267 (W--2807769); Wirawan s.n. [Wilpattu, 15.9.68] (Pd, W-- 
2612111); Worthington 383 (K), 1325 (K), 3764 (K), 4506 (K), 4906 
(K), 5013 (K),5552 (K), sen. [Kandy, Oct. 24, 1957] (K). THAILAND: 
Phengklai, Tamura, Niyomdham, & Sangkachand 4269 (Z). CULTIVATED: 


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Florida: Gillis 8390 (Ft, Z). Java: Herb. Hort. Bot. Bogor. 
IV.A.64 (W--449140); Jacobs XI.K.6 (Ba). 


VITEX ALTISSIMA £. juv. ALATA (Willd.) Mold., Phytologia 28: 468. 
1974. 

Synonymy: Vitex alata Willd., Gesell. Naturforsch. Freunde 
Berlin, ser. 2, 4: 203. 1803 [not V. alata Kurz, 1885, nor Roxb., 
1803, nor Schau., 1885, nor Wall., 1947]. Vitex alata Roth ex G. 
Don in Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 246. 1830. Vitex appendiculata 
Rottl. ex’C. B. Clarke in Hook. £., Fl. Brit. India 4: 584,;*in 
syn. 1885 [not V. appendiculata Willd., 1803]. Vitex altissima 
yar. alata’ Trim, ex J. Cy & Ms Willis, Rev. Cat Fiow. Pl. Ceyly 
69. 1911. Vitex altissima var, alata (Willd.) Mold., Revist. 
Sudam. Bot. 5: 2. 1937. Vitex altissima f. alata (Willd.) Mold., 
Phytologia 22: 126. 1971. 

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Brey, Prod. Fasc. Rar. Pi. , eds 2,;.106..- 17395 Adans., Fan. Pie 2* 
12 & 200. 17633; Willd., Gesell. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, ser, 
2, 4: 203. 1803; Roxb., Hort. Beng. 46. 1814; Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 
316. "16215 Sweet, Hort. Briti, eda, le 323° 4826) and et. 24 
416. 1830; G. Don in Loud., Hort. Brit., ed. 1, 246 (1830) and ed. 
2, 246, 1832; Loud,, Hort. Brits, ed. .2,°3551, 18325~C. Donia 
Loud,, Hort. Brit.’,' ed. 3, ‘246. 1839; Je-Crahy, Pi. Bonk. 156.1639; 
Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed 3,5 S5P 1899? De Dieters, Syn.’ PES eee 
1843; Schau. in A, DC., Prodr. 11: 685. 1847; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. 
Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; Dalz. & Gibs., Bomb. Fl. 201. 1861; Thwaites 
& Hook. f., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., imp. 1, 244. 1861; Kurz, Forest Fl. 
Brit. Surma’ 2 269, 272, ‘6 GiZS 1877s; €.- Be .Ctarke tn Hooks 2y, 

Fl. Brit. India 4: 584. 1885; Nairne, Flow. Pl. West. India 247. 
1894; Trimen, Handb. Fl. Ceyl. 3: 358. 1895; Cooke, Fl. Presid. 
Bombay, ed. 1, 428 & 429. 1905; Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 1, 504. 
1906; J. C. & M. Willis, Rev. Cat. Flow. Pl. Ceyl. [Perad. Man. 
Bot. 2:] 69. 1911; Lam. & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz., ser. 
35°32 ‘48. 29293 Mold.; Revist. Sudam. Bot, Ss) 2, £9375 Molds, (Ge 
ogr. Distrib. Avicenn. 40. 1939; Mold., Prelim. Alph. List Inv. 
Names 49 & 50. 1940; Mold., Alph. List Inv. Names 52. 19425; Mold., 
Known Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 1, 55, 75, & 102. 1942; Men- 
ninger, 1947 Cat, Flow. Trees 25. 1946; Menninger, Introd. Offer 
Flow. Tree Coll. [1]. 1946; Razi, Journ. Mysore Univ. 7 (4): 64. 
1946; Mold., Alph. List Inv. Names Suppl. 1: 16. 1947; Mold., Known 
Geogr. Distrib. Verbenac., ed. 2, 128, 165, & 200. 1949; Menninger, 
1953 Cat. Flow. Trees 16. 1953; Menninger, 1955 Price List n.p. 
1954; Mold., Phytologia 5: 200--202. 1955; Cooke, Fl. Presid. Bom- 
bay, ed. 2, imp. 1, 508 & 510. 1905; Puri, Indian Forest Ecol. 155. 
1960; Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees 593. 1961; Thwaites & Hook. f., 
Enum. Pl. Zeyl., imp. 2, 244. 1964; Cooke, Fl. Presid. Bombay, ed. 
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1970; Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 2, 504. 1971; Mold., Phytologia 
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Phytologia 28: 465 & 468. 1974; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.25: 380. 
1975; Menninger, Color Sky 10. 1975. 

Although long regarded as a separate species or as a distinct 
variety of V. altissima L.f. by numerous authors in the past, it 
seems from field observation that this taxon is merely a "juvenile 
form" of V. altissima distinguished by its leaves having more or 
less broadly winged petioles, the wings being 8--16 mm. wide, 
continuous, dilated, basally cordate and subamplexicaul. Such 
leaves are also found on the turions or "watersprouts" often pro- 
duced on the periphery of the stumps of cutdown mature individu- 
als. They may also be seen on seedlings and on the "suckers" 
sent up from underground runners. Some authors have also ob- 
served that the leaves on non-flowering branches of mature trees 
may have somewhat broader margins on their petioles than are seen 
on those of neighboring flowering branches on the same tree. This 
was confirmed by my wife and myself in the field in Sri Lanka. 

In our experience, however, these nowhere approach the width of 
the wings seen on the juvenile plants, turions, and seedlings. On 
seddlings the lowermost leaves may even be unifoliolate. Some 
authors (e.g., Clarke, 1885) assert that in this juvenile form the 
leaves are often 5-foliolate instead of the normal 3-foliolate 

of mature trees, 

Numerous writers describe the flowers and fruits of "Vitex 
alata", but it seems most likely that they are referring, not to 
this form, but to V. limonifolia Wall., V. peduncularis Wall. or 
V. peduncularis var. roxburghiana C. B,. Clarke, which are the taxa 
regarded as "V. alata" by Kurz, Roxburgh, Schauer, and Wallich. 

Agarwal asserts that "V. alata Heyne" grows in the western part 
of peninsular India and is "common on [the] Western Ghats in 
evergreen forests", the wood described as grayish-brown, moderate- 
ly hard, rough, capable of being seasoned, taking a fair polish, 
appearing to be durable, and weighing 26 kg. per cubic foot. He 
adds that "Although from the available records its useful proper- 
ty is not found but from the specimens it appears that it can be 
usefully exploited for cabinet work & in construction purposes". 
Cooke (1958), under the name V. altissima var, alata Trimen, as- 
serts that it differs from the typical variety in having its "Peti- 
oles always rather broadly winged, widened and cordate at the base; 
leaflets very finely pubescent above, densely grey-pubescent be- 
neath; flowers more laxly arranged", flowering in April and May, 
citing it from Concan (Nimmo s.n.), Deccan (Bhiva s.n.), "S. M. 
Country" (Law s.n.), and Kanara (Talbot s.n.). It would appear 
from this that he, at least, had seen flowering specimens with the 
"juvenile" leaf characters. 

Dale & Greenway (1961) aver that "Vitex alata Heyne, an Indian 
species, has been collected from the Gogoni forest, Kwale district 
[Kenya]: it should not be regarded as indigenous without further 
collection", 

Puri (1960) found what he called V. altissima var. alata in the 
"first storey with Lagerstroemia, Sideroxylon, and Holigarna spp. 
in dense evergreen tropical forests" in northern Kanara. He adds 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 357 


that there "The middle storey is poor or absent; likewise ground 

cover except for seedlings of the trees". This implies that the 

trees were not only flowering, but were producing fruit and 
seedlings. 

Sweet (1826) and Loudon (1832) agree that "V. alata Roth" was 
introduced into cultivation in England from the "E. Indies" in 
1818, but Don (1830) gives the date of introduction as 1820. 

Clarke (1885) describes "V. alata] Heyne" as having “leaves 3- 
foliolate [but some branches, apparently of this, collected by 
Shuter, Law, and Stocks, have some of the leaves 5-foliolate], 
leaflets subsessile broadly lanceolate subentire mature glabrate 
above thinly pubescent beneath, wing of the petiole broad cordate 
at base, panicles terminal compound fulvous-villous, corolla 
scarcely 1/4 in., drupe 1.5 in. diam." He cites Rottler s.n,. 
and Van Royen s.n. from Madras and Cleghorn s.n. from Mysore, com- 
menting: "Scarcely differs from V. altissima but by the wing of 
the petiole, which is 1/3 -- 2/3 in. wide, continuous [in V. 
altissima sometimes winged upwards], dilated, cordate and subam- 
plexicaul at the base; leaflets 2 1/2 in.wide [in V. altissima 1 
S74 2H, ¥" 

Trimen (185) gives the same description given by Cooke, but 
adds this interesting comment to the effect that "var. alata_Tri- 
men....is kept as a species in Fl, B. Ind., but not given for 
Ceylon. Mr. J. P. Lewis informs me that it has a different hab- 
it of growth to the ordinary tree, being taller and straighter. 
He found a few trees only at Vavaddai and Neduchaddikkulam". 
This, again, implies that at least Lewis had seen tall mature 
trees with the petiolar characters of alata. 

Lam & Bakhuizen van den Brink (1921) distinguish the two taxa 
(regarded by them as 2 separate species) as follows: 

Petioles 3.8--6.2 cm. long, winged toward the apex, the wings 
rotundate, altogether 0.8--l1 cm. broad; leaflets somewhat 
pubéscéat ‘Beneath. Fe).. ook. TESCO be eas bee eceeedlGr7e520e 

Petioles 7--15 cm. long, winged toward the base, sometimes also 
towards the apex, the wings 0.4--1.5 cm. broad; leaflets 
pubescent beneath... secs hicsviccestadenvevssevsetevseudlaca 

Nairne (1894) says for "V. alata": “scarcely differs from the 
last [V. altissima], but the wing of the petiole is more pro- 
nounced, and the leaflets sometimes 5, flowers pale-yellow, or 
tinged blue [in V. altissima white tinged with blue]. S. M. 
country and Wari (D.). Konkan (Lisboa)." Here, again, it is 
implied that flowering trees with the alata characters have been 
seen, and, furthermore, that the corollas differ in color. 

In this connection, Dr. Richard J. Brumpton, in a letter to me 
dated March 28, 1975, says: "I have read with interest your re- 
port and conclusions about Vitex alata as the juvenile form of V. 
altissima,.......Let me confess that my interest is genetic rather 
than taxonomic; the kind of observation which you cite begs the 
whole question of ‘control of differentiation', It is indeed hard 
to imagine the mechanism capable of switching the phenotype between 
juvenile and adult stages. (In this part of Britain we see an al- 


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lied phenomenon in that the leaves on lower branches of holly are 
more heavily thorned than those in the upper part of the tree)." 
In this connection it is worth pointing out here again that juve- 
nile leaves with very different morphological characters are often 
seen in Acacia and Eucalyptus, even with differences in phyllotaxy 
in some cases, and numerous juvenile forms of gymnosperms have 
been awarded formal nomenclatural status [vid., Rehder, Man. Cult. 
Pl., ed. 2 (1940) 53, 54, 59, 60] as well as the well-known case 
of Moultonia singularis Balf. f. & W. W. Sm. 

Clarke (1885) says after his description of "V. alata Heyne": 
"Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 201, not of Schauer, nor of Kurz", imply- 
ing, I suppose, a binomial, V. alata, accredited to Dalz. & Gibs. 
and one accredited to Kurz; however, since he does not actually 
write out these homonymous binomials I am not recognizing them as 
having been effectively published and they do not appear in the 
synonymy given by me. Vitex alata Schau. is a synonym of V. li- 
monifolia Schau.; V. alata Roxb. is V. peduncularis f. juv. 
roxburghiana (C. B. Clarke) Mold.; and V. alata Wall. is V. pedun- 
cularis Wall, 

The only common or vernacular names listed for V. altissima f. 
juv. alata are "baruna", "milla", and "winged chaste-tree", The 
Mail-elou Rheede, often included in its synonymy, apparently be- 
longs, rather to that of typical V. altissima L. f. 

On Worthington 2332 the lowest leaves are unifoliolate., The 
collections represented by Alston 1328 and Moldenke & al. 28122, 
28192, & 28252 were all (according to their accompanying labels) 
taken from "a young plant" or a "sapling'’ and Moldenke & al. 

28223 from "watersprouts from a cutdown stump - neighboring mature 
trees without broad wings". Meijer & Balakrishnan 135 bears labels 
reading "tree bole 15 ft., crown 20 ft., girth 6 ft., bole fluted 
and twisted at base, inner bark orange-brown, sapwood ochre, hard" 
-- obviously taken from a mature tree, but there are no inflores- 
cences on the herbarium sheets and the leaves are all of the alata 
type! Most important, however, is the R, Wight collection, cited 
below, from India which has the broadly alate petioles of alata and 
also inflorescences in full anthesis! 

Material of V. altissima f. juv. alata has often been identified 
and distributed in herbaria as typical V. altissima L, f. or as its 
f. subglabra Thwaites. On the other hand, the J. P. Lewis s.n., 
distributed as "V. alata", actually seems to be typical V. altis- 
Sima Lt i 

Citations: INDIA: Andhra Pradesh: Santapau 20799 (Xa); Santapau 
& Wagh 20697 [Wagh 2748] (Xa); Wagh 1306 (Xa), 2859 (Xa). State 
undetermined: R. Wight s.n. [Peninsula Ind. orientalis] (N). SRI 
LANKA: Alston 1328 (Pd); Collector undetermined s.n. (Pd); Fosberg 
& Ripley 51942 (Pd, W--2764803); Kénig 77 in part [Herb. Linn. 
811/3] (Ls, N--photo, Z--photo); Meijer & Balakrishnan 135 (Pd, 
W--2716026); Moldenke, Moldenke, Dassanayake, & Jayasuriya 28192 
(Ac, Gz, Kh, Ld, Pd, Tu, W--2764435); Moldenke, Moldenke, & Jaya- 
suriya 28223 (Ac, E, Gz, Kh, Ld, Pd, Tu, W--2764478), 28252 (E, Pd, 
Tu, W--2764516); Moldenke, Moldenke, Jayasuriya, & Sumithraarach- 


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chi 28122 (Ac, Gz, Kh, Ld, Pd, W--2764553); Mueller-Dombois & Co- 
manor 67062530 (W--2586022A), 68102501 (W--2612108); Ripley 246 
(Pd); Worthington 2332 (K). GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS: Java: Backer 
s.n. [Sept. 1903] (Bz--24714); Koorders & Koorders-Schumacher 
44484b [449%] (Bz--23800), 44720b (Bz--23799). Sumatra: Bal 30 
(Bz--23801); Teijsmann 4287 H.B. (Bz--23802). CULTIVATED: Flori- 
da: Menninger s.n. [Stuart, August 8, 1946] (N); H. N. Moldenke 
21477 (Z). India: Voigt s.n. [H. B. Seramp.] (Cp, N--photo, Z-- 
photo). Java: Herb. Bur. Agric. Manila IV.A.64 (N); Herb. Hort. 
Bogor. XI.K.7 (Bz--25856, N), XI.K.7a (Bz, Bz, Bz, N), XII.B (VI) 
28 (Bz--25857, Bz--26246, Bz, Bz, N). Netherlands: Herb. Lugd.- 
bat. 908267-237 (Le); Royen 87 (E--photo, Le, N, N--photo, Z-- 
Photo), 777 (Le). 


VITEX ALTISSIMA £. SUBGLABRA Thwaites 

Additional & emended synonymy: Vitex zeylanica Turcz., Bull, 

Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 36 (2): 223. 1863 [not V. zeylanica Burm, 
f., 1768]. Vitex altissima var. zeylanica (Turcz.) C. B. Clarke 
in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 584. 1885. Vitex altissima var. 
zeylanica Clarke ex J. C. & M. Willis, Rev. Cat. Flow. Pl. Ceyl. 
69. 1911. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Thwaites & Hook. f., Enum, 
Pl. Zeyl. 244. 1861; Trimen, Journ. Ceyl. Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. 

9: [Syst. Cat. Flow. Pl. Ceyl.] 69. 1885; Trimen, Handb. Fl.Ceyl. 
3: 358. 1895; J. C. & M. Willis, Rev. Cat. Flow. Pl. Ceyl. [Per- 
ad. Man. Bot. 2:] 69. 1911; Mold., Phytologia 16: 496. 1968; Mold., 
Fifth Summ, 1: 281 & 373 (1971) and 2: 713, 731, & 922. i973 
Mold., Phytologia 23: 438. 1972. 

This is a form of questionable validity, It is described as 
having its mature leaf-blades "quite glabrate beneath" and 5 in 
number, In several collections cited below they are, indeed, 
apparently completely glabrous on both surfaces, but in others the 
depressions in the veinlet reticulation beneath are microscopic- 
ally puberulent much as might be seen if the hairs were all mechan- 
ic ally brushed off from the typical form. Most of the specimens 
seen by me have 3 leaflets. More field work is needed to ascer- 
tain if this form is worth maintaining. Trimen (1895) says that 
it "is scarcely worth notice". Clarke (1885) cites Thwaites s.n. 
and Walker s.n. from Sri Lanka. 

It should be noted, that Burman's V. zeylanica is actually a spe- 
cies of Stereospermum in the Bignoniaceae, but it effectively pre- 
cludes the use of the epithet, "zeylanica", by Turczaninow (1863) 
and therefore also by Clarke (1885). Turczaninow's V. zeylanica 
is based on Gardner 674 from Sri Lanka, 

Recent collectors describe V. altissima f. subglabra as a large 
subcanopy tree, 4--20 m. tall, the trunk 1 m. or more in girth, 
to 20 cm. in diameter, with steep buttresses, the bole 15 feet 
tall, the crown 20 feet wide, the bark "ochraceous-rosy-red" or 
light pinkish-brown, with many cracks, soft, 1 mm. thick, the liv- 
ing, bark orange-brown, 3 mm. thick, the inner bark yellow when 
freshly cut, the sapwood ochre, the leaves 3- or 5-foliolate, the 


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fruit green "when mature" [more probably when immature!], borne in 
"bunches on scorpioid cymes". They have found it growing in 
jungles and jungle margins, in submontane forests on steep hill- 
sides, in low-stature evergreen forests dominated by Mishodon 
zeylanicus on reddish soil, "amongst cultivated land" and in "for- 
est confines in open" in the wet zone, at low altitudes to eleva- 
tions of 2500 feet. Kostermans refers to it as "common" and the 
Moldenkes refer to it as "rather abundant", bur Bernardi claims 

it to be "rare", It has been collected in anthesis in January, 
May, and June, and in fruit in January and October, Worthington 
comments that in the wet zone in Sri Lanka the leaves have "very 
long drip-points" as compared to those in drier districts. 

The corollas are said to have been "pink" on Kostermans 24109, 
"pale-violet" on Amaratunga 1343, and "pale-blue and lilac" on 
Bernardi 14183. Moldenke & al. 28238 exhibits one leaf with 5 
leaflets; no. 28189 was taken from a tree where only some 
branches had somewhat alate leaves, others non-alate, and the same 
situation was found on the tree from which no. 28188 was taken; the 
trees from which nos, 28228 and 28238 were taken had many leaves 
exhibiting narrow wings on the petioles, 

It should be mentioned that, in spite of what Clarke asserts 
(1885), Thwaites, in the 1861 work cited by Clarke, actually does 
not propose a trinomial name for the subglabrous-leaved tree. His 
statement (for V. altissima) is merely "Folia subglabra vel subtus 
molliter pubescentia, petiolo saepe plus minus alato". 

The only vernacular name specifically reported for this form is 
"milla". 

Material of this form has been identified as typical V. altissi- 
ma lL. f. by many workers and also as V. pinnata L. and so distrib- 
uted in herbaria. On the other hand, the Collector undetermined 
Sen. at Peradeniya and Ripley 246, distributed as this form, actu- 
ally represent f. juv. alata (Willd.) Mold. 

Additional citations: SRI LANKA: Amaratunga 1343 (Pd); Bala- 
krishnan & Jayasuriya NBK.886 (N, Pd, W--2720184); Bernardi 14183 

(W--2766472); Kostermans 24109 (Ac, Pd, W--2716116); Meijer 412 
(Pd, W--2718562); Moldenke, Moldenke, & Jayasuriya 28220 (Ac, Gz, 
Kh, Ld, Pd, Tu, W--2764494, Z), 28228 (Ac, E, Gz, Kh, Ld, Pd, Tu, 
W--2764489), 28238 (Ac, E, Gz, Kh, Ld, Pd, Tu, W--2764480); Molden- 
ke, Moldenke, Jayasuriya, & Sumithraarachchi 28188 (Ac, E, Gz, Kh, 
Ld, Pd, Tu, W--2764443), 28189 (Ac, E, Gz, Kh, Ld, Pd, Tu, W-- 
2764442); Mueller-Dombois 68102114 (Ld, Pd, W--2612110); Sohmer, 
Jayasuriya, & Eliezer 8271 (Lc, N, W--2807753); Waas & Peeris 540a 
(W--2803418); Walker s.n. [Ceylon] (Pd--type); Worthington 2528 
(Eh. S622 (isn 


VITEX ALTMANNI Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 227. 19673; Mold., 
Fifth Summ,..13,.328, (1971). and 2:; 922. 1971, 


VITEX AMANIENSIS Pieper 
Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 


— 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 361 


57 (2): 402. 1938; Mold., Phytologia 15: 227. 1967; Mold., Fifth 
Summ. 1: 238 (1971) and 2: 922. 1971. 

Tanner describes this species as a tree, 8 feet tall, growing 
in groups, the stem single, the flowers aromatic, and the corol- 
las "mauve". He encountered it in thickets on rich brown loan, 
flowering in October. He records the vernacular name, "mnegege", 
and asserts that the roots are used medicinally for "sharp pains 
in the stomach", the roots being boiled and the resulting liquid 
drunk, 

Additional citations: TANZANIA: Tanga: Tanner 3315 (N). 


VITEX AMBONIENSIS Giirke 

Additional & emended bibliography: Giirke in Engl., Pflanzenw. 
Ost-Afr. C:. 340. 1895; J. G. Baker in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. 5: 317, 329, & 330. 1900; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 57 (2): 403. 1838; H. N. & A. Le Mold., Pl. Life 2: di, i946; 
J. Ke Jacks., Journ. Ecol. 44: 353. 1956; Dale & Greenway, Kenya 
Trees Shrubs 593. 1961; Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk, Med. Poison Pl. 
S. East. Afr., ed. 2, 1055 & 1454, 1962; Mold., Phytologia 16: 

496 (1968) and 17: 42. 1968; Van der Schijff, Check List Vasc. Pl. 
Kruger Natl. Park 81. 1969; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 234, 238, 241, 
245,5::246,:.2483) 252, 2575 & 373-(1971), and 2:,.713, 720,;,789,, 9225 

& 923. 1971; Palmer & Pitman, Trees South, Afr. 3: 1950, 1951, 
1954--1955, 1957, & 1962. 1972. 

Additional illustrations: Palmer & Pitman, Trees South. Afr. 3: 
1954. 19/72. 

Ward encountered this species in sandy soil in the green-tree 
veld, at 200 feet altitude, flowering in November, and describes 
it as a shrub, 18 feet tall, with mauve corollas. Dale & Greenway 
(1961) assert that in Kenya it inhabits the scrub and forest edge 
in the coastal districts. They record the vernacular name, 
"mufudu", and cite Jeffery K.152, Napier 6327, and Van Someren 64 
from Kenya. Van der Schijff (1969) cites Lam 27, "C.5434", and 
Van der Schijff 152, 740, 2902, & 3689 from Kruger National Park, 
Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk (1962) list the vernacular name, "mialali", 
and note that the plant is a Swahili antidote for snake-bite. 

Palmer & Pitman (1972) list the common names, "Amboni vitex" 
and “mupfumbu-pfumbu", and say that the species "enters South Af- 
rica in the north eastern Transvaal and northern Zululand, and 
South West Africa in the Caprivi Strip, growing in coastal and in- 
land bush, often on quartzite ridges, in scrub forest, and in 
savannah, In Zululand it is a particularly common species around 
False Bay. In South Africa it is usually a small or medium-sized 
tree, either bushy or straggling, or a shrub, although in tropical 
Africa it is reported up to 14 m. high. The bark is rough and gray 
or brown, the branches slender, and the young twigs covered with 
yellow-brown or mustard-coloured hairs...The flowers are white, li- 
lac or purple, or sometimes 2-coloured, with a calyx that is red- 
brown and velvety -- as are the bracts....The fruits, ripe about 
April, are large -- up to 3.8 cm. in diameter -- oval, green spot- 
ted with white when young, turning purple, with a conspicuous sau- 
cer-like calyx. They are said to be inedible." [to be continued] 


MAESA (MYRSINACEAE) IN MICRONESIA 


By F. R. Fosberg and Marie—Héléne Sachet 


The genus Maesa has many, mostly ill-distinguished species 
in the Indo-Pacific region. Four of these, one with three vari- 
eties, occur in Micronesia, all probably endemic. We present a 
tentative treatment with descriptions and a key. Two of the 
species and one variety are described here as new. 


Maesa Forsk., Fl. aeg.-arab. 66, 1775.--Mez. Pflanzenr. IV, 
236: 15-54, 1902.--A. C. Smith, Jour. Arn. Arb. 54: 3-36, 1973. 


Shrubs or small trees, leaves simple, margins entire to 
dentate, pinnately veined, with secretory canals in the tissues, 
sometimes appearing as glandular lines or areolations on the 
surfaces; flowers in simple or branched racemes, these one or 
more in an axil, or in loose terminal panicles, with bracts at 
bases and apices of pedicels; flowers 4- or 5-merous, sepals 
imbricate or not at bases, margins often glandular-erose, sur- 
faces usually gland-dotted; corolla deeply or shallowly lobed, 
tube included in or somewhat exserted from the calyx; anthers 
inserted in front of and below corolla lobes; ovary inferior 
or partly so, ovules many on a central placenta, hypanthium with 
or without longitudinal ridges or glandular lines, style short, 
from a lobate disk, stigma subcapitate to somewhat lobate; fruit 
baccate, crowned by persistent calyx, seeds loose or coherent in 
a mass embedded in pulp. 


A. C. Smith (Jour. Arn. Arb. 54: 3-6, 1973) in discussing 
the Fijian Maesa species, has aptly described the taxonomic 
problems presented by this genus. The Micronesian species, 
though fewer, are fully as difficult. Here is offered a tenta- 
tive treatment of the Micronesian species with a key which, it 
is hoped, may enable others to name specimens and possibly de- 
limit populations in the field. Two new species and one new 
variety are described. 


A character used in this key which may be unfamiliar, 
perhaps peculiar to the Myrsinaceae and especially to Maesa, 
is the presence of what have been called "nervilliform lines" 
(Mez), "resiniferous lines" (Mez), or "secretory canals" 

362 


1979 Fosberg & Sachet, Maesa in Micronesia 363 


(Smith) in the tissue of the leaves. These are not always evi- 
dent in dried specimens though frequently more so in cleared 
preparations. In certain species, including 3 out of the 4 
Micronesian ones, they show up as fine sinuously parallel lines 
forming a network or areolation, easily mistaken for a venation 
pattern. However, this areolation, dark in color, is seen, when 
magnified, to be independent of the network of veins. In the 
following key and descriptions, it is only mentioned if it shows 
up at least on the under surface of relatively young leaves in 
dried specimens. The areolation is usually somewhat elongate 
parallel to the principal side veins. 


Key to Micronesian Taxa 


1. Flowers tetramerous, young growth pilose.........ssseeeeeee 
eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee & Maesa canfieldiae 


1. Flowers pentamerous, young growth scurfy to subglabrous...2- 


2. Nervilliform lines forming an areolation with cells 
elongate parallel to the lateral nerves.........++++++3 


3. Immature fruit with prominent vertical dark 
lines, stigma included in calyx, lenticels large, 
abundant on branches.................- Maesa walkeri 


3. Immature fruit not lineate, stigma slightly 
exserted from calyx in young fruit, lenticels 
present but small and not abundant ......-...eeeees 
POP e P ET or ere Pere rye eee e ee 


2. Nervilliform areolation lacking or at least not easy 
to see, (Meesa caroOligensia) ss xsc0 50s cannds tesanne tee ene 


4. Pedicels about 1 mm long or 1leSS....-.eeeeeeeeeeees 
we cccceceeeeees Maesa carolinensis var. subsessilis 


4. Pedicels over 1 m, elongating*‘to 3-4 mm, becoming 
eet Lee) 40) TSW e os bed Gh aka wee meee eee 


5. Leaves mostly broadly obovate, contracted 
to an acute or attenuate baS€... eee eeeeeeeeees 
weeeeeeeee Maesa carolinensis var. carolinensis 


364 Pe YP Oo LO C*Fra Vol. 44, No. 5 


5. Leaves mostly broadly ovate to very broadly 
elliptic, base founded to subcordate ...... has 
Maesa carolinensis var. kusaiensis 


Maesa canfieldiae Fosberg & Sachet, n. sp. 


Frutex vel arbuscula ramulis bruneolis minute lenticellatis 
brevi-pilosis, folia oblonga vel anguste ovata vel obovata acu- 
minata marginibus subintegris supra sparse strigulosis infra 
costis venisque brevi-pilosis nervilliformi-lineolatis longi- 
areolatis, petiolis 1-1.5 cm, racemis axillaribus solitariis 1-2 
cm longis vix ramosis sparse pilosulis, bracteis pedicellorum 
grandis vix connatis late ovato-deltoideis hispidulis lineatis, 
flore 4-mero, corolla tubo 203 plo lobis, bacca globosa lineata. 
(Typus: Angaur, Canfield 693 (US)). 


Shrub or small tree, with slightly zigzag brown minutely 
lenticellate shortly pilose branchlets; leaves oblong to nar- 
rowly ovate or narrowly obovate, apex prominently acuminate, 
base rounded, margin subentire, upper surface sparsely appressed 
hirtellous, under surface paler, pilosulous on midrib and prin- 
cipal veins, with fine "nervilliform lines" parallel with main 
nerves, forming an elongate areolation quite visible to naked 
eye, petiole 1-1.5 cm, shortly pilose; racemes axillary, soli- 
tary, 1-2 cm long, not or very rarely branched, sparsely 
pilosulous, rhachis-bracts minute, acuminate, notably pilosulous, 
pedicels 1-2 mm long, bracts at their summits large, broadly 
ovate-deltoid, slightly carinate, slightly connate at least on 
one side, hispidulous, lineate, margin slightly glandular-erose; 
flowers 4-merous, calyx lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, lineate, 
glandular, hypanthium strongly glandular, corolla with tube 2-3 
times the length of the lobes, sub-urceolate, strongly and 
closely lineate, lobes rounded to obtuse, some slightly mucronu- 
late, anthers included, orbicular, on short filaments, inserted 
part-way up tube, style very short, included in calyx in fruit, 
stigma truncate, depressed in center; immature fruit globose, 
with many raised longitudinal dark brown lines, mature fruit 
globose, about 5 mm diameter, white, juicy, sweet, edible; seeds 
obpyramidal, mature ones unavailable. 


This species is known only from Angaur, Palau, and is said 
by the local inhabitants to have only been known to them since 
World War II. It may well be an introduction from elsewhere, 
but we have not been able to match it. It seems closest to 


1979 Fosberg & Sachet, Maesa in Micronesia 365 


to obtuse or slightly bluntly acuminate, lower surface minutely 
puncticulate, veins 5-8 on a side, petiole 2-4 cm; racemes slen- 
der, up to 10 cm, scarcely scurfy, very densely flowered, pedi- 
cels to 4 mm, becoming reflexed, rhachis bracts ovate-triangular, 
bracts at summit of pedicel very broadly ovate, with very wide 
hyaline margins, margins of bracts and calyx lobes glandular- 
erose, calyx lobes broadly triangular-ovate, obtusish to acute, 
scarcely auriculate, black-dotted; corolla tube slightly exceed- 
ing calyx, lobes rounded, with dark veins when dry; style some- 
what exserted from calyx in young fruit, stigma small, peltate. 


Endemic to Ponape. 


Caroline Is.: Ponape: s.l., Kanehira 837 (US), 1634 (US), 1557 
(P); Langar, Hallier 92 (HBG, US); Paue, Monte Santo, 700 n, 
Ledermann 13586a (B, syntype, here designated as lectotype); 
Patapat, Abh. des Tols, 20-600 m, Ledermann 13187 (B, syn- 
type). 


Maesa carolinensis var. kusaiensis Fosberg & Sachet, n. var. 


Folia late ovata vel late elliptica basi rotundata vel 
subcordata, rachidibus racemorum juniorum spadiceis-—furfuraceis 
a var. carolinensis divergens. (Typus: Hosokawa 6341 (US)). 


Leaves broadly ovate to very broadly elliptic, base rounded 
to subcordate, apex obtuse to broadly and bluntly slightly acum- 
inate, petiole 1-3 cm; racemes only very shortly or scarcely 
pedunculate, rhachis and pedicels brownish scurfy when in flower. 
Otherwise as in var. carolinensis. 


Endemic to Kusaie. 


Caroline Is.: Kusaie: without loc., Kanehira 1359 (US); H. F. 
Moore 82 (US); Malemu, utwa, Fenkol-sanroku, VII. 31, 
1933, Hosokawa 6341 (US, holotype, 2 sheets). 


Maesa carolinensis var. subsessilis Hosokawa, Jour. Jap. Bot. 
13: 612-613, 1937. 


Leaves as in var. carolinensis but usually somewhat nar- 
rower (except in Hallier 93 and Evans 1263), petiole 1-2 cn, 
racemes usually fascicled, on dwarf branchlets, 2-4(-5) at a 
node, not pedunculate, not or scarcely scurfy, pedicels mostly 


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M. papuana Warb., to which it keys in Mez monograph (Pflr. IV, 
236: 16-23, 54, 1902), and to M. tetrandra (Roxb.) A. DC., to 
which it keys in Backer and Bakhuizen, Flora of Java 2: 195, 
1965. From M. papuana it differs in the abundant pilose rather than 
scurfy indument and the much larger leaves with longer petioles. 
From M. tetrandra it differs in the rounded rather than ovate- 
triangular corolla lobes, the included rather than exserted 
stamens, the much shorter leaf-pubescence, and the prominent 
rather than obscure or absent nervilliform areolation. It agrees 
with both these species in the long corolla tube and tetramerous 
flowers. 


Caroline Is.: Palau Is.: Angaur I.: along road NE of boat 
basin, 3 m, Canfield 693 (US, holotype); along old road, 
parallel to and W of airstrip, 4 m, Canfield 210 (US); 
0.6 mi. E of boat basin, 3 m, Canfield 416 (US); along 
road above S bank of NW lake, 10 m, Canfield 759 (US); 
along road 1/4 mi. W of S end of airfield, 3 m, Canfield 
767 (US). 


Named for the collector of all of the known specimens, Miss 
Joan Canfield, former Smithsonian Peace Corps volunteer botanist 
who made notable collections in Palau in 1977-1979. 


Maesa carolinensis Mez, Bot. Jahrb. 56; 535, 1921. 


Shrub or small tree, young parts and racemes glabrous to 
somewhat scurfy, twigs rather prominently lenticellate; leaves 
with medium to broad blades, not noticeably nervilliform- 
areolate, margins entire to slightly undulate, petioles much 
shorter than blades; racemes 1 to usually several in an exil, 
nearly as long as leaf blades, pedicels becoming reflexed, 
bracts minute, those at summit of pedicel to 2 mm long; flowers 
5-merous, corolla tube included in calyx; immature and mature 
fruit without vertical lines or ridges, about 3 mm diam. (Type: 
Ponape, Ledermann 13586a (B)). 


Endemic to Eastern Caroline Islands, one variety each on 
Truk, Ponape and Kusaie. 


Maesa carolinensis Mez var. carolinensis 


Glabrous, leaves tending to be broadly obovate, up to 24 
cm long contracted to an acute or attenuate base, apex rounded 


1979 Fosberg & Sachet, Maesa in Micronesia 367 


less than 1 mm long, even in fruit; calyx lobes rounded, tending 
to become acute in young fruit, disk very small, stigma included 
in persistent calyx. 


Endemic to Truk Group. 


Caroline Is.: known from Moen, Dublon, Fefan, Tadiu, Eten, Tol 
islands. Vernacular name "erenippoi." 


Caroline Is.: Truk: s.1. Koidzumi in 1915 (US); Moen I., 100- 
400 m, Evans 1263 (US, BISH); Dublon I., Hosokawa 6540 (US); 
Tol I. Hosokawa 8322 (US, isotype); Mt. Tumital, Fosberg 
24454 (US, BISH, Fo); "auf dem Tolowan," Hallier 93 (HBG, 
US). 


Maesa palauensis Mez, Bot. Jahrb. 56: 536, 1921. 


Maesa sp., Kawagoe, Bull. Kagoshima Imp. Coll. Forestry 3: 
188, 1918. 


Shrub or small tree, branchlets slightly zigzag, only 
moderately lenticellate, youngest parts rusty scurfy; leaves 
very broadly elliptic or ovate to suborbicular, apex bluntly 
somewhat acuminate or acutish to obtuse or rounded, base obtuse 
to rounded or subtruncate, margin irregularly slightly undulate, 
slightly revolute, main veins 6-8, nervilliform areolation of 
under side of young leaves tending to be dark and areolae some- 
what elongate parallel to direction of main veins, crossed by 
occasional heavier veins, petiole 2.5-5 cm long; racemes 3-8 
cm long, not pedunculate, well-developed ones with one to sev- 
eral branches near base at nearly 90° to rachis, not particu- 
larly scurfy even when young, bracts at bases of pedicels about 
1 mm long, ovate triangular, the pair at summit of pedicels 
similar, slightly broader, slightly acuminate or not; calyx 
lobes triangular-ovate, usually somewhat acuminate, somewhat 
hyaline-margined, slightly glandular-erose; coralla tube in- 
cluded or somewhat exserted from calyx, lobes rounded; style 
included in calyx, even in fruit, very short, stigma scarcely 
larger than style, obscurely lobate, center tending to be de- 
pressed, disk lobate, decurrent on style; fruit globose, fleshy, 
about 3 mm thick, white or pinkish white, crowned by somewhat 
appressed or connivent calyx lobes, at least when immature not 
lineate. (Type: Palau, Koror, Ledermann 14084 (probably 
destroyed)). 


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Most easily distinguished from M. carolinensis by the 
visible nervilliform areolation on young leaves and the more 
frequently branched racemes. 


Known only from the Palau Islands, widely distributed there. 
Vernacular names "ngalibeab," "detimel," "bleagd." 


Caroline Is.: Palau: "Coral Is." Kanehira 2547 (US); S Babel- 
daob, Airai Munic., along airport road W of Gihmel R., 
Canfield 579 (US); NE Koror, 1/2 mi. S of Koror-Babeldaob 
bridge, 4 m, Canfield 569 (US); 5-10 m, "ngalibeab" 
(sterile), Fosberg 32100 (US, BISH, Fo, NY); north section, 
25 m, Hosaka 3324 (US, BISH, Fo, NY); Ngermid, Salsedo 344 
(US); Tor Uil I.: between Koror and Malakal, 3 m, "detimel," 
Fosberg 47604 (US, BISH, Fo); Todai-yama, Kanehira 1869 
(US, P); Urukthapel: east end of island, 1 n, Fosberg 
32020 (US, BISH, Fo, NY, L); s.1., Dutton 89 (US, BISH, Fo); 
south side of SW peninsula 1-2 m, Fosberg 32228 (US, BISH, 
Fo, NY, L); Dutton 89 (US, BISH, Fo); Peliliu: Tuyama s.n. 
in 1937; Blackburn 284 (US, BISH); Purple Beach, east coast, 
coral spit, 2 m, Fosberg 32007 (US, BISH, Fo, NY, L); 
Angaur: northwest corner of island, 25 m, Fosberg 25898 
(US, BISH, Fo, NY, L); NW Angaur, S of NW Pond, 10 n, 
Canfield 698 (US); roadside midway between Lakes A & D, 

10 m, Canfield 207 (US). 


Maesa walkeri Fosberg & Sachet n. sp. 
Mesa sp. Fosberg, Checklist Guam Pl. 79, 1960. 


Frutex vel arbuscula, ramulis castaneis, conspicue albo- 
lenticellatis, glabris praeter pars juvenibus spadiceo- 
furfuraceis; folia ovata vel late-ovata plerumque acuta basi 
rotundata vel subcordata saepe inaequalibus, marginibus leviter 
dentatis vel subintegris, petiolis gracilis 1-3 cm; racemis 
axillaribus maxime 9 cm raro ramosis, pedicellis 2-4 mm, post 
anthesin reflexis, bracteis deltoideis; lobis corollis 5, 
orbicularibus in sicco venosis; bacca globosa lineata 5-6 mm 
diametro. (Typus: Rota, Fosberg 31858 (US)). 


Shrub or small tree, to at least 3 m tall, branchlets 
reddish brown, conspicuously white-lenticellate, not or scarcely 
zigzag, glabrous except youngest growth brown-scurfy; leaves 
ovate to broadly ovate, varying greatly in size from plant to 
plant, 5-12 cm long, apex usually bluntly acute, rarely 


1979 Fosberg & Sachet, Maesa in Micronesia 369 


obtusish, base rounded to truncatish or subcordate, frequently 
the two sides somewhat unequal, margins shallowly dentate to 
subentire, midrib red, nerves 5-9 on a side, reddish, tending to 
be somewhat closer together near base, nervilliform areolation 
clear beneath, somewhat elongate parallel to nerves, petioles 
slender, 1-3 cm long; racemes up to 9 cm long, usually much less, 
rarely branched, with pedicels nearly to base, bracts firm, tri- 
angular, acute, pale or, rarely, black margined, pedicels be- 
coming reflexed in fruit, 2-4 mm long; calyx lobes broadly ovate, 
acutish, slightly glandular-erose; corolla white, tube subequal 
with calyx, lobes orbicular, auriculate, abundantly marked with 
dark red or brown veins when dry; anthers orbicular, about 0.5 
mm across, on short filaments; style about 0.5 mm long, funnel- 
shaped at apex, stigmatic margin irregularly 5-lobed; fruits 
globose or subglobose with numerous fine vertical lines or ridges 
when almost mature or mature, 5-6 mm in diameter, fleshy, trans- 
lucent white or pink when mature, soft, with little flavor but 
somewhat refreshing when eaten; seeds dark brown, roughly 
tetrahedral, angular, about 1 mm long, surface dull, cellular- 
reticulate. 


Probably closest to M. palauensis, but differing in un- 
branched racemes and conspicuously lined immature fruits. Known 
only from Rota and Guam in the southern Marianas. 


Marianas Is.: Rota: road to Sabana area, 200-400 m, Sachet 1800 
(US, BISH); west end of island above Songsong, 200-300 an, 
Sachet 1778 (US, BISH, POM, MO, L); second terrace from 
top, 320m, Fosberg 31858 (US, holotype, BISH, Fo, NY, L, 
isotypes); trail up to Sabana region, 150-250 m, Evans 2134 
(US, BISH, Fo, NY, L). 


Guam: south peak of Mt. Lamlam, 380 m, Fosberg & Evans 
46243 (US, BISH, Fo, MO, L); ridge south of Mt. Lamlan, 
385 m, Fosberg 35331 (US, BISH, Fo, NY, L); track from 
Cetti Bay lookout to top of Mt. Lamlan, 200-405 m, Evans 
1721 (US, BISH, Fo, NY, L); Mt. Lamlam, 370 m, Fosberg 
46249 (US, BISH, Fo, NY); Moran 4708 (US), Moore 243 (US). 


Dedicated to Dr. Egbert H. Walker, for many years a leading 
authority on the Myrsinaceae. 


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Alma L. Moldenke 


"WHY BIG FIERCE ANIMALS ARE RARE. An Ecologist's Perspective" by. 
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some of the bird wonders of Venezuela. His skills and interests 
were conspicuously evident then. He continues his famous father's 
interest so that their joint and separate collections comprise "the 
finest scientific collection of Venezuelan birds in the world." 
South America has about 33% of the birds of all the world and 
"little Venice" or Venezuela has 44% of them from 20 orders, 81 
families, 589 genera, 1296 species and 2102 subspecies and this 
book has almost every species well illustrated, mostly in color.The 
concomitant text gives family characteristics briefly, scientific 
names, common English and Spanish names, sizes, basic features, 
habits, habitats and ranges. Endpaper maps show areas adjacent to 
Venezuela and most of the place names mentioned in the text. This 
study will prove of great use to the many, many birdwatchers and 
ornithologists visiting Venezuela and surrounding areas as well as 
the biology students at the local colleges and university. It 
will supercede the 1954 English and Spanish editions of Kathleen 
D. Phelps' "Aves de Venezuela, cien de las mas conocidas". 


"SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY - Proceedings of an International Conference", 
xiii & 632 pp., 60 b/w fig. & 19 tab. National Academy of 
Sciences Publication 1692, Washington, D. C. 20418. 1969. 
$16.00. 


Although this conference, held at the University of Michigan, 
sponsored by the National Research Council, was convened back in 
1967, these papers and their discussions originating from it still 
make important reading for students of systematics. Fortunately 
the book is still available. Some major topics covered are: the 
role of systematics in biology (E. Mayr), an historical review (F. 
Stafleu), its principles and concepts, systematics of plant popu- 
lations (B. Ornduff), ecological aspects of the systematics of 
plants and of animals, molecular data in microbial, plant (J. Hun- 
ziker) and animal systematics, isolating mechanisms, comparative 
morphology, comparative animal behavior, comparative cytology, 
biometrical and computer techniques. E. 0. Wilson ends his clear- 
ly analytical summary of these important Papers with his inviting 
challenge: for "pure systematics.....[whose] proprietary goals..... 
are among the most interesting and difficult in modern science, 
and they should occupy us, the best minds we can attract to join 
us, and our successors for many years to come." 


372 PH Y:t:O0 2b O65 b Vol. 44, No. 5 


"THE PLANT COLLECTORS OF NORTHERN MEXICO" compiled by Irving W. 
Knobloch, vi & 98 pp. Latin American Studies Center Monograph 
Series No. 17, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich- 
igan 48824. 1979. $3.00 paperbound. 


For about 300 collectors in this area there are given vital 
statistics and notes such as "He started his Mexican collecting in 
1885 and continued this for 26 years.....He distributed 500,000 
sheets of 20,000 species of which 12% were said to be new" for 
PRINGLE, Cyrus Guernsey and are followed by abbreviations for the 
herbaria housing these collections and sources of this information. 
There are people who worked with the U. S. - Mexican Boundary Sur- 
vey. There are those for whom plant collecting was not only a 
satisfying dedication but also very strenuous indeed as indicated 
by such phrases as "died at sea", "drowned in Costa Rica", "starved 
to death", and "he worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in 
Philadelphia for 69 years", It is helpful to have the contents of 
this publication so readily and reasonably available now. 


"THE UNQUIET LANDSCAPE" edited by Denys Brunsden, John C. Doornkamp 
& D. Ingle-Smith, 168 pp., 76 color & 148 b/w photo, 10 color 
& 14 b/w maps, 39 color & 38 b/w fig. Halsted Press of John 
Wiley & Sons, New York, N. Y. 10017. 1977. $12.95 paperbound,. 


The British Geomorphological Research Group originally publish- 
ed this study serially starting in 1975 in the Geographical Magazine 
(London). This all-in-one reasonably priced edition makes these 
beautiful photographs and the descriptive, explicative text by 21 
different specialists available to many more general readers, teach- 
ers, students, and scientists in geomorphology and related fields. 
Mountains, rift valleys, volcanoes, landslides, rivers, deltas, 
lakes, seacoasts, coral islands and reefs, glaciers, deserts, savan- 
nas, equatorial forests, Karst landforms and man-made landforms are 
all presented very effectively. "Man's remodelling of the landscape 
has been achieved in the space of only 10,000 years. Furthermore, 
the potency of his influence will become increasingly felt with con- 
tinued growth of population and technology." The world map of tem- 
perate landforms omits showing the mediterranean area in western 
Chile, one site of the recent comparative studies undertaken by the 
International Biological Program. 


"BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS" by D. C. S. White, xviii & 293 pp., 118 b/w 
fig., 14 tab. & 3 photo. Halsted Press of John Wiley & Sons, 
Inc., New York, N. Y. 10016. 1974. $11.95 paperbound. 


"This book is an introduction to the physical principles encoun- 
tered by biologists [that] originated as a set of papers provided to 
undergraduates at the University of York [U. K.] attending a lec- 
ture course on Physics for Biologists during their undergraduate 
Biology degree."" The physical topics covered are: vectors, mechan- 


1979 Moldenke, Book reviews 373 


ics, deformation of solids, motion of fluids, surface tension, en- 
ergetics and control in biological systems, heat, electricity, 
Magnetism, electronics, apparatics, sound, light and radioactivity 
with multiple biological applications and problems. Solutions, not 
just the answers, are given at the back of the book for the problem- 
questions. There are also given useful tables, making the book 
really helpful, especially for individual study or review. 


"INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS FOR LIFE SCIENTISTS" by Edward Batsch- 
elet, xiv & 495 pp. & 200 b/w fig. Springer-Verlag, New York, 
N. Y. 10010. 1973. $9.80 paperbound. 


This.work was originally published in 1971 as Volume 2 in the 
Biomathematics series edited by Krickeberg, Lewontin, Meyman and 
Schreiber. There seems to be a newer edition dated 1975 with the 
paperbound edition priced at $11.95 and hardcover at $27.60 which I 
have not yet seen. The text here at hand is designed for an intro- 
ductory course for all kinds of biology and medical majors, for a 
reference source to find mathematical methods suitable to their re- 
search problems, for self study and as a guide for teachers. Refer- 
ences to pertinent literature are very helpful. Omitting statistics 
and computer methodology which are usually presented in separate 
courses and understood more readily after the current text is as- 
similated, this book covers: real numbers; sets; relations; power, 
periodic, exponential and logarithmic functions; limits; graphical 
methods; differential and integral calculus; probability; matrices 
and vectors; and complex numbers, 


"THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TREES - Timbers and Forests of the 
World" edited by Herbert Edlin, Maurice Nimmo et al., 256 pp., 
390 color photo, 410 color draw., 91 b/w line draw. & 3 maps. 
Harmony Books of Crown Publishers, New York, N. Y. 10016. 
1978. -$15.95. 


This book provides a "feast for the eyes" with its 800 beautiful 
color illustrations of over 250 species of trees. The concommitant 
text was prepared by fourteen botanical and forestry experts of the 
United Kingdom. The first section deals with the structure and 
functioning of the living tree, the forest ecosystem, reaping the 
timber harvest, and the uses and products of wood. Trees can be 
the universal providers if man does not waste them and does replace 
them. "If man is to continue to base his economy on the resources 
he draws from the guardian forest, then he must become its dedicated 
protector." There follows a guide to conifers, a guide to the 
broadleaved trees of temperate and mediterranean areas, and then a 
guide to the tropical and southern hemisphere trees, including 
palms. Coverage is worldwide. This attractive and informative en- 
cyclopedia has a useful glossary and index and is reasonably priced. 
Botanical and forestry institutions, schools, even on the elementary 


374 Pre Yr orn Bert we Vol. 44, No. 5 


level, as well as high schools and colleges, should find this book 
a good acquisition for their libraries as should the local public 
libraries. 


"BIRDS OF PREY OF THE WORLD" text by Mary Louise Grossman & John 
Hamlet, photography by Shelby Grossman, 496 pp., 54 full-color 
plates & 478 b/w photo, 425 range maps & 646 flight silhou- 
ettes. Bonanza Books of Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 

N. Y. 10016. 1964. $25.00. 


The glories of this oversize book (new printing?) are the ex- 
cellent, numerous color and black/white photographs highlighting so 
many different activities and features of hawks and owls the world 
over. The interesting and carefully prepared, detailed text 
blends well with the illustrations. The Prehistory Chapter tells 
of the origin of birds in the Mesozoic and of the many kinds that 
developed during different epochs of the Cenozoic as summarized in 
an illustrated 2-page chart. The fine Predators and Man Chapter 
traces, through cave paintings and other art forms, these birds’ 
influence on superstitions and religions. The Ecology and Survival 
Chapters describe and with almost motion-picture effect show how 
several successful adaptations work, The Conservation Chapter re- 
lates many incidents on "man as predator upon the birds of prey, 
for in his enthusiasm to control their abundance in any locality, 
he has resorted to every annihilative device born of his inventive 
brain. From a variety of traps and subtle poisons to high-powered 
rifles and shotguns, he has now equipped himself with machines that 
outdistance all he pursues across land and water - he even ascends 
into the air, himself to hunt like a bird of prey....[Man has] the 
ability to kill to extinction, but also.....knowledge, and with it, 
responsibility." 

The second part of this book is taxonomic, presenting Orders 
Falconiformes and Strigiformes with descriptions, illustrations, 
distribution maps and regional guides. For students of ornithol- 
ogy and ecology and "birders' looking for more information or re- 
lated pursuits in bad weather this book is a treasure store! 


"GARDENER'S DELIGHT" by John Seymour with illustrations by Peter 
Morter, 96 pp., 43 color pl. Harmony Books of Crown Publishers, 
Ine., ‘New York, N.° Ys? LOLS, 29 7960"$5.95~ 


This book is truly a delight for any gardener anywhere, plant 
lover, book lover, natural art enjoyer, and anyone interested in 
the 16th/17th century herbals, in alleged healing qualities of 
plants and in the history of plant food preparations. It makes a 
charming and inexpensive gift to give or to receive. Each beauti- 
fully colored and well drawn plate appears on the right hand side 
page with the plant's scientific and common name(s) and one or 
more illustrations. On the matching left hand is the common name(s), 


1979 Moldenke, Book reviews 375 


family, plant growth type, description often with historical quotes 
from Parkinson, Gerard, Culpeper, etc., preparation and use of the 
food and lastly planting directions. This may not sound "charming" 
and "delightful", but it most certainly is! The plate on spearmint, 
Mentha spicata, does not show consistently sessile leaves; nor 

does that of the peppermint, M. piperata, consistently show petio- 
late leaves. Are the plants or the drawings inconsistent? 


"BACK ROADS OF OREGON" by Earl Thollander, 208 pp., 85 maps, 116 
b/w & 6 color draw. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., distributed by 
Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, N. Y. 10016. 1979. $14.95 
clothbound & $8.95 paperbound. 


Like the artist-author's other books in this series, this new 
one "is a travel guide, and on-the-spot pictorial record of land- 
scapes and places seen......1 drew this book not only because of an 
urge to describe to everyone what wonderful things I have seen in 
Oregon, but also to help others, in my small way, discover the 
beauty of the natural world. Without strong support from concerned 
people, preserving and managing the natural areas that remain will 
be difficult." There is beauty, charm and intimacy in the backroad 
sites chosen for sketches and words about the lakes and creeks, 
the mountain ranges and canyons, the wild flowers and sagebrush, 
the state parks and farmlands, the mighty rivers and ocean shores. 


"TMMS' OUTLINES OF ENTOMOLOGY" Sixth Edition by O. W. Richards & 
R. G. Davies, 254 pp. & 95 b/w fig. Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 
London EC4P 4EE & distributed: in the U.S.A. by Halsted Press 
of John Wiley & Sons, New York, N. Y. 10017. 1978, $24.95 
clothbound, 


The various editions of this outline have been very useful es- 
pecially for agriculture, forestry, entomology and biology students 
as a summary of and companion to Imms' "General Textbook of Entomo- 
logy" particularly in British-influenced schools and technical 
institutes, It could now become more widely used in the United 
States. This outline's 6th edition matches the text's 10th edition 
of 1977 and is entirely reset with many small modernizations in 
the physiology, phylogeny and bibliography sections. On page 105 
the bedbug genus is misspelled, 


"THE DYNAMICS OF ARTHROPOD PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEMS" by Michael P. 
Hassell, vii & 237 pp., 82 b/w fig. & 7 tab. Princeton Uni- 
versity Press, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. 1978. $16.00 
clothbound & $6.95 paperbound. 


This study is No. 13 in that fine series of Monographs in Popu- 
lation Biology,of small size, easy-to-read printing, data set into 


376 PH YE Oc Ge A Vol. 44, No. 5 


reasonable mathematical models, text well and convincingly written, 
and concepts clearly developed by these techniques. With arthro- 
pods much of the data can be collected from caged specimens not 
only for predator—parasites that feed directly on their prey but 
also for insect parasitoids (14% of known species, mostly hymen- 
ops and dips) in which only the adult female searches for hosts 

for ovipositing. Some of this material is extrapolated for bio- 
logical control of crop and food pests. Even the dangers of 
accidental importation of hyperparasitoids are plotted. 


"CASTE AND ECOLOGY IN THE SOCIAL INSECTS" by George F. Oster & Ed- 
ward 0. Wilson, xv & 353 pp., 1 color plate, 86 b/w fig., & 
3 tab. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 
08540. 1978. $20.00 clothbound & $7.50 paperbound,. 


This important new study, a prolegomenon, of the theory of 
caste evolution among social insects is presented as Number 12 in 
the Monographs in Population Biology. The entire book is organ- 
ized around a series of mathematical models having "two purposes: 
(1) to provide an unambiguous conceptual structure for the theory, 
and (2) to serve as a guide for future empirical research....We 
have chosen to view the evolution and ecology of insect castes 
from the perspective of ergonomic efficiency -.....the only theme 
that is both unifying and sufficiently explicit to offer some hope 
of empirical verification -.......Natural selection generally acts 
to increase ergonomic efficiency". 

"We feel justified in making optimization theory the corner- 
stone of caste theory. The rigidity of caste systems, their stabil- 
ity through evolutionary time, and the existence of literally 
thousands of species that can be examined as independent evolution- 
ary experiments make the theoretical enterprise feasible." In 
between these statements in the text are the examples from those 
termites, wasps, ants and bees whose caste systems have been evalu- 
ated with intelligent results well worth the reading and possibly 
further pursuing. 


"TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS" by J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson, iii & 253 
pp., 23 b/w fig., 2 tab. & 6 maps. Croom Helm Ltd., London 
SW.1l & U.S.A. distributor Halsted Press of John Wiley & Sons, 
Inc., New York, N. Y. 10017. 1979. $12.95 paperbound. 


The original 1975 hardcovered edition was enthusiastically re- 
viewed in a previous issue of this journal; now this moderate (but 
not inexpensive) flexible-covered, small-margined edition is 
available to ecology students and teachers and ecologists especial- 
ly who want their own (extra) small-sized copy (perhaps) to mark 
up with their own notes. Accordingly, this new edition is also 
enthusiastically welcomed as it delineates "the more important 
terrestrial habitats of the earth, with special respect to their 
influence on the fauna". 


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CONTENTS 


NIEZGODA, C. J., & NEVLING, L. L., Jr., Some problematic species 


OE RUB aGe io das eta fe iw RW Ghar Peta eee ane rer: Te J 
CROAT, T. B., Matayba apetala (Sapindaceae) new for the flora of 

PMIMDINUES fo x's akin in clash de ee dal Bh Ore hah ee ee ah OR ie EE 381 
MOLDENKE, H.N., Notes on new and noteworthy plants. CXXXI.... . 384 
MOLDENKE, H. N., Additional notes on the genus Vitex. XIV ....... 385 
BARNEBY, R. C., A new Disciphania (Menispermaceae) from 

French Guiana ..... EAS, CR eee PATROL ALR PEA E> 418 


OSWALD, F. W., A new form of Helianthus from south-west Florida ... 419 
MOLDENKE, A. L., Book reviews.......... rt ne ae 421 


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SOME PROBLEMATIC SPECIES OF ALBIZIA 


Christine J. Niezgoda § Lorin I. Nevling, Jr. 


Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605 


Like most genera of the Mimosoideae, Albtzta is ill-separa- 
ated from its relatives (Fosberg, 1965). It is a difficult group 
whose taxonomy is not firm as the traditional means of distin- 
guishing the genus on the basis of the legume is inconvenient 
and sometimes misleading. In a previous paper we proposed to 
limit the genus Albizta in the New World to those species which 
have 16-grained polyads (for further discussion see Niezgoda § 
Nevling, 1979). An expanison of the study of Albizia carbonartia 
brought several other species of Albizia to our attention. These 
are characterized by having 32 pollen grains per polyad rather 
than 16. 


In the New World there are 28 species of Albizta that are 
described from this area and an additional six Old World species 
that have become naturalized and widespread through deliberate 
cultivation. Eleven of these native species have been trans- 
ferred from other mimosoid genera, primarily Pithecellobtum 
(apparently the closest relative to Albizta). Of those that 
have been described since 1925, eighteen have been the work of 
Britton and his collaborators (Killip, Rose and Wilson). Flower- 
ing material was available from about half of these species and 
the majority have a polyad of 16 grains (Table 1). Aside from 
Albizia carbonarta, we found three additional species with 32- 
grained polyads: A. longepedata; A. marthae; and A. ntcoyana. 


The confusing Albtzta longepedata has gone through a long 
history of nomenclatural changes. The plants of this species 
have been placed in six genera with three epithets. The earliest 
valid name, Acacta guachapele H.B.K., was later transferred by 
Bentham into Lystloma. A new epithet, longepedatun, was esta- 
blished in Ptthecellobiwn by Pittier, who later created Samanea 
samaningua for the same species complex. Macbride, following the 
earlier recognition of Pithecellobtum by Pittier, made an addi- 
tional combination P. samaningua. Later Macbride also recognized 
Ptthecellobtum guachapele referring back to the earliest valid 
epithet. Two of the Pithecellobtwn combinations, P. longepedatun 
and P. samaningua have subsequently been transferred into Albtata. 
Additionally, Harms established a new genus Pseudosamanea, with 
type species P. guachapele, based on Acacta guachapele. 

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378 PHY TOL 6eT A Vol. 44, No. 6 


It is obvious from these numerous combinations that many of 
the authors were doubtful as to the correct generic placement of 
this species. Additionally, Schery (1950) notes, ''This species 
A. longepedata is quite distinct from other species of Albtzta in 
Panama, differing primarily by its pronouncedly umbellate, long- 
pedicellate flowers". Britton and Rose, who made the original 
combination in Albtzta refer to this species under Pseudosamanea 
at a later date (1936). Pseudosamanea is a monotypic genus that 
is easily distinguished from other genera in the Ingeae by the 
enlarged and sterile central flower in mature inflorescences. It 
is our opinion that this is the proper placement of this species 
and we recognize Albtzta longepedata as a nomenclatural synonym 
of Pseudosamanea guachapele. 


Pseudosamanea guachapele (H.B.K.) Harms, Notizb. 11: 54, 
1930. 


Acacta guachapele H.B.K., Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 281, 1824. 
(TYPE: Humboldt & Bonpland s.n.). 


Lystloma guachapele (H.B.K.) Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc. 
30:°533, 1875. 


Ptthecellobtum longepedatum Pittier, Contr. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 20: 464, 1922. (TYPE: C. Werekle s.n. US). 


*Samanea samantngua Pittier, Arb. y Arbust. n. Venez. 
dec 4-5: 54, 1925. (TYPE: Prttver 11442). 


Albtata -longepedata (Pitt.) Britton § Rose, Tropical 
Woods 11: 14,. 1927. 


Pithecellobtum samaningua (Pitt.) Macbr., Candollea 
6: 4, 1934. 


Pithecellobtum guachapele (H.B.K.) Macbr., Field. Bot. 
Vol .([i3S, Part Sti): S4.. 1983, 


(see also: Pitthecellobtum guachapele (H.B.K.) Cowan, 
Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 10(1): 144, 1958.) 


Albtzta guachapele (H.B.K.) Dugand, Phytologia 13: 389, 
1966. 


* Another citation for this name is: Bol. Cient. y Tecn. Mus. 
Com. Venez. 1: 54. 1925. This is an incorrect reference as 
the journal consisted of only two issues, both published in 
1927. The first volume has only 48 pages. After the first 
two volumes it was continued as Trabajos del Museo Comerical 
de Venezuela. 


1979 Niezgoda & Nevling, Species of Albizia 379 


The other two species, Albizia marthae and A. ntcoyana, were 
described lacking fruiting material. There are very few collec- 
tions of either of these species and none with mature fruits. 
Also the placement of A. (?) ntcoyana was considered questionable 
at the time of publication. There are no substantial morphologi- 
cal characters present to separate these species of Albizta from 
Pithecellobium. However, the presence of 32-grained polyads sup- 
ports their transfer from Albizia to Pithecellobtum. 


Pithecellobtum marthae (Britton § Killip) Niez. & Nevl., 
comb. nov. 


Albizia marthae Britton & Killip, Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 
35: 133, 1936. (TYPE: 4H. H. Smith 296 US). 


Pithecellobium nicoyanum (Britton & Rose) Niez. & Nevl., 
comb. nov. 


Albizia ntcoyana Britton §& Rose, N. Am. Fl. 23: 47, 1928. 
(TYPE: A. Tonduz 13885). 


LITERATURE CITED 


Britton, N. & J. Rose. 1936. Mimosaceae and Caesalpiniaceae of 
Colombia. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 35: 101-208. 


Fosberg, F. R. 1965. Revision of Albizta sect. Pachysperma 
(Leguminosae-Mimosoideae). Reinwardtia 7(1): 71-90. 


Niezgoda, C. J. & L. I. Nevling, Jr. 1979. The Correct Generic 
Placement of Albizia carbonarta Britton. Phytologia 
44: 307-312. 


Schery, R. W. 1950. Leguminosae subfamily Mimosoideae. Jn: 
R. E. Woodson, R. W. Schery, et al., Flora of Panama. 
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37: 184-314. 


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TABLE 1: Species of Albizta found in the New World. 


SPECIES POLYAD # OTHER PLACEMENTS 
A. adtnocephala 16 = Ptthecellobium 
A. bertertana = Acacta 
A. carbonarta 32 = Pithecellobtum* 
A. cartbea 16 = Pithecellobtum 
A. colombtana 
A. cortpatensts = Pithecellobtum 
A. cubana 
+A. dtstachya 16 
A. (?) dubta 
+A. faleatarta 16 = Adenanthera 
A. guachapele 32 = Pseudosamanea 
A. hasslert 16 = Ptthecellobium 
A. hummeltana 
A. tdtopoda 16 = Pithecellobtum 
+A. jultbrisstin 16 
+A. Lebbeck 16 
A. longepedata 32 = A. guachapele 
A. (?) longtpes 
+A. lLophantha 16 
A. lundellit 
A. malacocarpa 32 = A. carbonarta 
A. marthae 32 
A. (?) ntcoyana 32 
A. ntopotdes 16 = Pithecellobium 
A. (?) obltqua 
A. ocetdentalts 16 
A. ortegae 
A. pauctptnnata 
A. pedicellata 
A. plurtjuga 
A. polyecephala 16 = Pithecellobtum 
+A. procera 16 
A. (?) purpusit 16 
A. rubtginosa = A. Lundellit 
A. stnaloensts 
A. tomentosa 16 = Pithecellobtum 


+ Old World species. 


The new combination in Pithecellobium was incorrectly published 
in Phytologia 44: 307-312, the following is the correct citation: 


Pithecellobtum carbonartum (Britton) Niez. §& Nevl. 


MATAYBA APETALA (SAPINDACEAE) NEW FOR THE FLORA OF PANAMA 


Thomas B. Croat 
Missouri Botanical Garden 


Since completion of the Sapindaceae in the Flora of 
Panama (Croat, 1976), a species of Matayba, M. apetala 
(Macfad.) Radlk. has been collected in the Canal Zone. This 
species is otherwise known only from the West Indies (Great 
er Antilles) and Central America north of Guatemala. It 
has been collected in Belize and as far north as the state 
of Veracruz in Mexico. The Panama locality is noteworthy in 
being somewhat disjunct and even more noteworthy is the fact 
that the species was collected in the Canal Zone in an area 
that has in general been well collected. It was first dis- 
covered there by Gene Sullivan, who was making his first 
collecting trip in the tropics. Since the species was not 
treated in the Flora of Panama, a complete description 
follows: 


Matayba apetala (Macfad.) Radlk., Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. 
Cl. Kénigl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munchen 9:535. 1879. 


Cupania apetala Macfad., Fl. Jam. 1:162. n. 2. 1837. 
TYPE: Jamaica (not seen). 


C. oppositifolia A. Rich., Fl. Cub., in Ramon de la Sagra, 
Hist. ete°de Cuba I. 292. tabs'32 1845. “EYPE: ‘Cuba, 
Guanaba, in Vuelta de Abajo (not seen). 


]a 


» Mexicans Turez., Bull.’ Mose. 31(1) 2405.9 2856), -YPR: 
Mexico, Veracruz, near Mirador, 3,900 ft. Linden 734 
(not seen). 


Ratonia apetala Griseb. non Wright, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. Isl. 
126. 1864. TYPE: Same as Cupania oppositifolia A. 
Rich. 


Matayba mexicana (Turcz.) Radlk., Sitz. Bayer. Akad. 9:536. 
n. 462.3879. 


M. oppositifolia (A. Rich.) Britton, Scient. Surv. Porto 
Rico V:4(1924) 528. 


M. apetala f. oppositifolia Radlk. in Urb., Symb. Antill. 
I 354. 1899. TYPE: Same as Cupania oppositifolia 
A. Rich. 
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Cupania verapazensis Lundell, Wrightia St20 19722 etree 
Guatemala, Baja Verapaz, Union Barrios, Contreras 11333 
(LL, holotype). Sie 


Matayba verapazensis (Lundell) Lundell, Phytologia 34:370. 
1976. 


Trees (5-)10-23 m high, 9-50 cm dbh; branchlets densely 
ferruginous with short, minute, appressed trichomes, becom- 
ing glabrous in age. Leaves parapinnate, opposite or sub- 
opposite, 8-25 cm long; petioles subterete, weakly flattened 
and margined adaxially, 2-5.5 cm long; rachis margined; 
leaflets 4-17, oblong-elliptic, to oblanceolate, usually 
acuminate with a bluntly rounded tip, sometimes obtuse, acute 
or narrowly rounded at the apex, narrowly acute to attenuate 
and often unequal at the base, (3-)6-12 cm long, 1-3.5 cm 
wide, subcoriaceous, glabrous on the upper surface, the mid- 
rib raised, the reticulate veins often prominulous, gla- 
brous or sparsely appressed-pubescent below, later glabrous, 
often glandular dotted, sometimes subpapillose, the primary 
lateral veins 7-12, scarcely more prominent than the lesser 
veins, spreading at gq 45-60° angle and joining a collective 
vein near the margin, the leaf axils usually with a few 
foveolate domatia, the margin entire, revolute. Inflores- 
cence terminal and upper axillary, the flowers in slender 
racemiform panicles 4-20 cm long, as long as or longer than 
the subtending leaves; rachis densely ferruginous, appressed- 
pubescent; bracts deltoid, minute; peduncles usually 2-4 mm 
long; pedicels slender, 1.5-3 mm long; peduncles pedicel 
and calyces densely appressed-pubescent. Flowers with the 
calyx lobes ovate to elliptic to broadly ovate, acute to 
obtuse at the apex, 7-10 mm long; petals greenish yellow, 
yellow-green, or greenish, rudimentary or to 1 mm long, obo- 
vate, emarginate at the apex, clawed at the base, puberulent; 
disc puberulent; stamens 8, filiform, glabrous to sparsely 
puberulent in the lower 2/3, 2-3 mm long, the anthers ovoid, 
basifixed, glabrous, 0.5 mm long; ovary pubescent. Capsules 
distinctly stalked, reddish, 10-12(-20) mm long, sparsely 
appressed-pubescent when young, glabrescent, the stalk 
usually 3-4 mm long; seeds ellipsoidal, shiny black, 6-10 mm 
long, the aril fleshy, light orange, extending to the lower 
1/3 of the seed. 


Matayba apetala ranges from Mexico (Veracruz) and 
Belize to Honduras on the Atlantic slope at low elevations. 
The species also occurs in the Greater Antilles and in Pan- 
ama, where it was collected only in premontane wet forest in 
the Canal Zone. It is to be expected on the Atlantic slope 
of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. It is distinguished from other 


1979 Croat, Matayba apetala 383 


Central American species by its smaller, often more numerous 
leaflets, and the frequent presence of axillary domatia on 
the lower blade surface. 


Panamanian collections examined: CANAL ZONE: Naval 
Pipeline Road N of Gamboa, from entrance to 5 km from gate, 
Sullivan 104 (MO). 6 km from gate Croat 37030 (AAU, C, CAS, 
CR, COL, DUKE, F, GH, K, LL, MEXU, MISSA, MO, NY, P, PMA, 
ESA, §, U, G,. VEN). 


A new key to the Panamanian species of Matayba is pro- 
vided. 


a. Leaflets often foveolate in the axils beneath (with a 
distinct pit); leaflets usually more than 3 pairs or 
with the margin serrate. 


bs Leaflets with the margin serrate, usually in less 
than 3 pairs... . .M. scrobiculata (HBK) Radlk. 

bb. Leaflets with the margin entire, usually in more 
than 3 pairs... . .M. apetala (Macfad.) Radlk. 


aa. Leaflets with the axils beneath glabrous or barbulate, 
not foveolate; leaflet margins entire. 


es Beatlets.2 . . » «\..M. kennedyi Creat 
cc. Leaflets usually 4 or more (2 or 4 pairs). 


d. Lower surface of the leaflets with the vein 
axils barbulate; petiolules and leaf rachis 
glabrous or inconspicuously tomentose; disc of 
the flower tomentose; capsules glabrous out- 
side... .. . «M. glaberrina Radlk. 

dd. Lower surface of the leaflets with the axils 
glabrous; petiolules and leaf rachises with 
coarse, long, brownish trichomes, disc of the 
flowers glabrate; capsules densely brown-tomen- 
tose outside . . .M. ingaefolia Standley 


LITERATURE CITED: 


Croat, T. B. 1976. Sapindaceae in Woodson & Schery, Flora 
of Panama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 63:393-540. 


NOTES ON NEW AND NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. CXXXI 


Harold N. Moldenke 


ERIOCAULON MELANOCEPHALUM f. LONGIPES (Griseb.) Mold., stat. nov. 


Eriocaulon melanocephalum var. longipes Griseb., Cat. Pl. 
Cub. 226. 1866. 


LANTANA PEDUNCULARIS £. HMACROPHYLLA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 


Lantana peduncularis var. macrophylla Mold., Phytologia 14: 
325, 1967 


LIPPIA ROSMARINIFOLIA £. LATIFOLIA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Lippia rosmarinifolia var. latifolia Mold., Phytologia 14: 
Ji « AGOT 


PAEPALANTHUS CAPILLACEUS £. PROLIFERUS (Gleason) Mold., stat. nov. 


Paepalanthus capillaceus var. proliferus Gleason, Bull. 
Torrey Bot. Club 58: 328. 1931. 


PAEPALANTHUS PERPLEXANS var. STEYERMARKII Mold., var. nov. 

Haec varietas a forma typica speciei laminis foliorum 
junioribus utrinque perspicue longiterque argenteo-villosis re- 
cedit. 

This variety differs from the typical form of the species in 
having its upper (younger) leaves conspicuously silvery-villous 
on both surfaces with long and loose hairs. 

The type of the variety was collected by Julian A. Steyer- 
mark, Victor Carrefo Espinosa, Roy McDiarmid, and Charles Brewer- 
Carias (no. 115640) in dense growth bordering a stream and 
zajna toward the eastern side of Cumbre del Ptari-tepui, lat. 5° 
45" N., 61°45" W., to the north of Mision de Santa Teresita de 
Kavanayen, at 2360--2420 m. altitude, Bolivar, Venezuela, on Febru- 
ary 23, 1978, and is deposited in my personal herbarium. The col- 
lectors note "leaves gray-green with gray hairs, heads gray-white 
with black and gray involucre" and have annotated the holotype as 
"Paepalanthus n. sp. aff. perplexans Mold." 


SYNGONANTHUS GLANDULOSUS f. EPAPILLOSUS (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Syngonanthus glandulosus var. epapillosus Mold., Phytologia 
26: 177--189. 1973. 


VITEX TRIFLORA f£. QUINQUEFOLIOLATA (Mold.) Mold., stat. nov. 


Vitex triflora var. quinquefoliolata Mold., Phytologia 1: 
104. 1934. 


384 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS VITEX. XIV 


Harold N. Moldenke 


VITEX Tourn. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Woodville, Med. Bot. Suppl., 
Gay Se 2F pl. 137. T6323 Wight, leon. Pi, Tad. Graent. 43) 
11--12, pl. 1465--1467. 1849; Menzel, Jahrb. Preuss. Geol. Landes- 
apse. 342° 625> pl. 5,-fig. 936. 1953: 8. Hatiier> Peace. fries 
Herb. Leid. 37: 40--54. 1918; S. & G. Mangenot, Bull. Jard. Bot. 
Brox. 27%° 653. 1957: Balle & Hallé, Adansonia; ‘ser. 2, P [237] 

& 265. 1961; H. N. Andrews, U. S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 1300: 224. 
1970; Kutuzkina, Paleont. Journ. Acad. Nauk USSR 3: 156--158, fig. 
L & 2. 1970; Palmer & Pitman, Trees South. Afr.; ede" 2, 33° T9476 
1949--1963. 1972; Napp-Zinn, Anat. Blatt. A (1): 410 & 653. 1974; 
ER. Lancaster, Medit. Pl. Gard. 131.°1977;~ Fournet, Fi.’ ilftuser, 
Phan. Guad. Mart. 1391--1393, fig. 662. 1978; Troncoso in Burkart. 
Fl. Giustr. Entre’ Ries 352230; 231, °290, & 292——294, tise 1306. 
1979; Mold., Phytologia 44: 329--361. 1979. 

Balle & Hallé (1961) report the mistletoes, Globimetula braunii 
and Phragmanthera capitata, as parasitizing two unknown species of 
Vitex in Ivory Coast. 


VITEX AGNUS-CASTUS L. 

Additional bibliography: Woodville, Med. Bot. Suppl., ed. 3, 2: 
pl. 137. 18323 Stapf, Ind. Lond. 6: 476. 19313 °R. Paneascrers mecre. 
Pl. Gard,i3k. 1977) Fourmet, FL. tiluser. “Pian. “Guad. fiare. 2 soe 
& 1393. 1978; Mold., Phytologia 44: 330--348. 1979; Troncoso in 
Barkare; FL. Tlastr. Entre Bios 52°292.- 1979. 

Additional illustrations: Woodville, Med. Bot. Suppl., ed. 3, 2: 
pl. £37. 18325 RY Laneaster, Medit; Pl. Gard. 191 tin coler) ners. 
Fournet (1978) records this species cultivated in Guadeloupe 

and Martinique. 


VITEX ALTISSIWA L. f. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind.Orient.4 
(3): 11, pl. 1466. 1849; H. Hallier, Meded. Rijks Herb. Leid. 37: 
44--45. 1918; Mold., Phytologia 44: 348--360. 1979. 

Emended illustrations: Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 4 (3): pl. 
1466. 1849. 


VITEX ALTISSIMA f. juv. ALATA (Willd.) Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Stapf, Ind. Lond. 6: 478. 1931; Mold., 
Phytologia 44: 348 & 355--360. 1979. 


VITEX AMBONIENSIS Giirke 
Additional & emended bibliography: Palmer & Pitman, Trees South. 
Afr., eds 2,.1950, 1951,)4955, 1957, & 1962. 1972; Mold.; Phytolo— 
gia 44: 361. 1979. 
385 


386 PRY TOVeGrEA Vol. 44, No. 6 


Emended illustrations: Palmer & Pitman, Trees South. Afr., ed. 
2, 1954. 1972. 

The Tanner 3315, distributed as V. amboniensis, seems actually 
to be V. amaniensis Pieper, while Richardson & Livingstone s.n. 
[30 October 1960] is V. doniana var. parvifolia (Engl.) Mold. and 
Watt 17 is V. mombassae Vatke. 

Additional citations: RHODESIA: Leveridge s.n. [Herb. Rhodes. 
85922] (Mu). SOUTH AFRICA: Natal: Ward 2731 (Mu). 


VITEX AMBONIENSIS var. AMANIENSIS Pieper 

Additional & emended bibliography: Pieper, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
Beibl. 141: 69. 1928; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 57 
(2): 403. 1938; Mold., Phytologia 8: 29. 1961; Mold., Fifth Summ. 
1s 238,.41971), and :2:,923..4971. 


VITEX ANDONGENSIS J. G. Baker 

Additional synonymy: Vitex andongensis Baker & Hiern ex Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 2: 713, in syn. 1971. 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.- 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 317 & 329--330. 1900; Mold., Phytologia 
15: 89. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 245 (1971) and 2: 713 & 923. 
1971, 

Baker (1900) cites only the type collection, Welwitsch 5696, 
from Angola, in the herbarium of the British Museum, London. 

Additional citations: ANGOLA: Loanda: Welwitsch 5696 [F. G. 
Mey. photo 2994] (Gz--photo of type, N--photo of type). 


VITEX ANGOLENSIS Giirke 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.- 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 316 & 325. 1900; Good & Exell, Journ. Bot. 
68: Suppl. 144. 1930; Mold., Phytologia 15: 227. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 245 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 

Baker (1900) cites only the type collection, Welwitsch 5758, 
from Angola, deposited in the herbarium of the British Museum, 
London. 

Good & Exell (1930) have encountered the species in "shrub- 
grown thickets and on decayed ant-hills", citing their nos. 2263 
& 2264 and listing the local vernacular name, "muvomba". 

Additional citations: ANGOLA: Huila: Welwitsch 5758 [G. F. Mey. 
photo 2992] (Gz--photo of type, N--photo of type). 


VITEX APPUNI Mold. 

Synonymy: Vitex appunii Mold. apud Lépez-Palacios, Revist. 
Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 94. 1975. 

Additional bibliography: H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 48. 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 227. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ, 1: 128, 
131, & 179 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971; Lépez-Palacios, Revist. Fac. 
Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 94--95. 1975; Lépez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. 
Verb. 582--585 & 654, fig. 136. 1977. 

Illustrations: Lépez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. [584], fig. 
136. 1977. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 387 


Recent collectors refer to this species as a tree 5 m. tall, 
the flowers very abundant and showy, attracting large quantities 
of insects, and have found it in flower in April. The corollas 
are said to have been “blue-purple" on Aristeguieta 6083. The 
vernacular names, "guarataro" and "totumillo", have been recorded 
for it. Lopez-Palacios (1975) says that it "Es un arbolito bajo, 
hasta de unos 8 m., que solo se he registrado en las sabanas 
secas del Edo. Guadrico [Venezuela]. Como el tipo proviene de la 
Guyana Britanica, es posible que se encuentre en el amolio espa- 
cio existente entre el Gudrico y Roraima."" In his 1977 work he 
cites from Guarico: Aristeguieta 4257 & 5027, Aristeguieta & Ta- 
mayo 5071, and Aristeguieta & Zabaia 7025, all in the Caracas 
herbarium. / 

Material of this species has been misidentified and distribu- 
ted in some herbaria as V. capitata Vahl and V. orinocensis H.B.K. 
Additional citations: VENEZUELA: Guadrico: Aristeguieta 6083 

(N). 


VITEX AUREA Mold. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 227. 1967; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 262 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 

Croat describes this species as a tree, 5 m. tall, with green 
fruit in January, and found it in cultivation at 1200 m. altitude. 

Additional citations: CULTIVATED: Madagascar: Croat 28777 (N). 


VITEX AXILLARIS Wall. 

Synonymy: Vitex ? axillaris Wall., Numer. List [48], no. 1760, 
hyponym. 1829. 

Additional bibliography: Wall., Numer. List [48], no. 1760. 
1829; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 588. 1885; 
Mold., Phytologia 15: 228. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 284 (1971) 
and @'923. 19713 Mold. ,. Phytolopiac234 429; 4972. 

According to Clarke (1885) the Wallich collection on which this 
name is based is not represented in the Wallich Herbarium at Kew. 
Jackson in Hook. f. & Jacks., Ind. Kew., imp. 1, 2: 1213 (1895) 
was the first to remove the question-mark placed after the gener- 
ic name by Wallich. Nothing else is known to me of this taxon and 
until the Wallich type is located, it is not possible to dispose 
of the binomial satisfactorily. 


VITEX BAKERT B. L. Robinson, Prot. Ams) Acad. Sei. bbe 53b./ 1916, 
Synonymy: Vitex diversifolia J. G. Baker in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. 
Trop. Afr. 5: 323. 1900 [not V. diversifolia Kurz, 1870]. 
Bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 
316 & 323... 1900;' B, Ls. Robinson; Pree. Ams Acad. Sei. 512; 33Rs 
1916; Lely, Useful trees N. Nigeria 116. 1925; Hutchins. & Dalz., 
Fl. W. Trop. Afrs, ed. 1, 275 :&.276. 1936; Dalz., UsefulWPily Wi 
Afr. 457. 1937; H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 49. 1948; Fedde & 
Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 60 (2): 576. 1941; Worsdell, Ind. 
Lond. Suppl. 2: 500. 1941; Kerharo & Bouquet, Pl. Méd. Tox. Céte 
Iv. 234. 1950; Mold., Phytologia 6: 133. 1958; Kershaw, Journ. 


388 PH RTO pee a4 Vol. 44, No. 6 


Ecol, Brit. 56: 473. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 2: 713 & 727. 1972 
Mold., Phytologia 34: 261. 1975. 

Illustrations: Lely, Useful Trees N. Nigeria 116. 1925. 

This taxon has sometimes in the past been regarded as being 
conspecific with V. simplicifolia Oliv.., but it differs markedly 
from at least the type collection of that species. Baker (1900) 
describes it as "A small tree; branchlets densely clothed with 
short whitish pubescence. Leaves 3-foliolate or simple, subcori- 
aceous, green and obscurely pubescent above when mature, densely 
matted beneath when young and less distinctly so when mature; 
leaflets obovate-cuneate or when solitary suborbicular, entire; 
end leaflet shortly stalked, 4--5 in. long, more than half as 
broad; main petiole 2--3 in. long. Cymes axillary, long- 
peduncled; branchlets densely villous; pedicels very short. Calyx 
campanulate, 1/8 in. long, densely villous; teeth minute. Corolla 
small, very hairy outside. Fruit globose, the size of a small 
cherry or plum, with a calyx 1/2 in. diam." He based it on Bar- 
ter 1096 from Nigeria and 1644 from the Niger Republic. MHutchin- 
son & Dalziel (1936) describe it as "A small tree, densely pale- 
pubescent, with small hairy flowers 1/4 in. long, greenish with 
blue-purple corolla-lobes, in peduncled axillary cymes, and 
violet-black plum-like fruit," citing Barter 1096 & 1644, Dalziel 
176, Dent Young 206, Kitson 689, Lely P.197, and Vogel 97,report-— 
ing it common on savannas, flowering from January to May. They 
give its overall distribution as French Sudan, Gold Coast, and 
Nigeria. Dalziel (1937) records it from French Sudan, Gold Coast, 
Togo, and Nigeria, noting that "The fruits are violet-black, cup- 
ped like an acorn, with thin edible pulp and a large 3--4-seeded 
stone. The twigs are used in N. Nigeria as tooth-sticks". He 
records the local vernacular names, "buji", "bummehi", "bummeji", 
"bummere", "dinyar biri", "‘dunyar biri", "idjoli", "kuru", 
"nambalerri", and "panyero buda". Kershaw (1968) reports that in 
Nigeria it grows in association with Combretum binderianum and 
Crossopteryx febrifuga in the limestone areas. 

Kerharo & Bouquet (1950) tell us that this "Petit arbre assez 
fréquent dans les formations de savanes de Cote d'Ivoire et de la 
Haute-Volta........est utilisé en médecine indigéne contre les 
maladies de peau (décocté d'écorce en lotion) et comme odontalgi- 
que". They list the following common names: "ara", "awon", 
"awondolo", "dinehiar beurhi", "koto kiama", "kotoni", "m'bli", 
and "m'bliassoua". 

Citations: SUDAN: Bahr-el-Ghazal: Schweinfurth 1519 (N--cotype, 
N--photo of cotype, S--cotype, Z--photo of cotype). NIGERIA: 
Northern: Chaloner, Elliott, & Molsla s.n. [Dec. 1965] (Ln-- 
245526). 


VITEX BALBI Chiov. 

Additional bibliography: Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees Shrubs 
592 & 593. 1961; Mold., Phytologia 15: 228. 1967; Gillett, Numb. 
Check-list Trees Kenya 47. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 241 (1971) 
ane. 25923. 29/1. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 389 


Dale & Greenway (1961) cite Balbo 55, 78,& 861 from “East and 
west Mt. Kenya" and describe this little-known species as follows: 
"Tree. Leaves 5-foliolate with a stout petiole to 5 in. long, 
cylindrical and densely tomentose; leaflets sessile or subsessile, 
the terminal leaflet shortly petiolulate, coriaceous, obovate, 
the terminal to 5 in. long and to 2 in. wide, the laterals to 2 
in. long and to 1 in. wide, apex rounded or obtuse and cuspidate, 
margin entire or minutely and irregularly undulate subcrenulate, 
lamina sparsely scabrid puberulous above, pubescent villose below, 
copiously on the nerves and veins. Flowers in axillary panicles 
with peduncles to 3 1/2 in. long, pedicels 1/10 in. long densely 
tomentose; corolla tube curved, 1/6 in. long, lobes 5, entire; 
ovary globose and hairy. Drupe obovate, 2/3 in. long, speckled 
with black". 

These same authors provide a very useful key to the Kenyan spe- 
cies of this genus as recognized by them. It is well worth re- 
peating here: 

1. Panicles terminal, sometimes from upper leaf-axils as well. 
2. Leaflets 3--5, markedly discolorous, 1--3 leaflets 
SEAIEEA 66s keto dds becuse r Bea eb es SEM hea © = clawerees 5 eee 
2a. Leaflets 3, not discolorous. 
3. Leaflets glandular-puberulous on the veins beneath........ 
V. lamiana. 
3a. Leaflets usually scabrid and more or less rugose above 
and densely to sparsely pubescent beneath.V. strickeri. 
la. Inflorescences all axillary. 
4, Leaflets glabrous, usually 5, sometimes up to 7, all dis- 
tinctly stalked. 
5. Leaflets membranous, elliptic or lanceolate-obovate, acute 
or cuspidate; cymes lax, with a very long peduncle...... 
V. carvalhi. 
5a.Leaflets leathery, obovate-cuneate, slightly apiculate, 
rounded, or emarginate; cymes dense, peduncle to 3 in. 
LORE onic nse 8 Se ours obs nee Viele ee ete & are aie ateein 6 aieln/. ee ee 
4a. Leaflets more or less pubescent or tomentose, at least be- 
neath. 
6. Ovary glabrous, with sessile glands or sometimes with a 
few scattered hairs; leaflets 5. 
7. Leaflets sessile or subsessile, the terminal one with a 
petiolule.up to. 1/4380 Vonescred. baie ess Pe haa: 
7a.Leaflets distinctly petiolulate. 
8. Leaflets oblong to narrowly elliptic, base acute, 
apex shortly acuminate, scabrous above; a savanna 
ELGCCGc i. cans disc oni ca es tus ams wees a woke reads Va SReers. 
8a. Leaflets oblong-elliptic, base rounded or subacute, 
sometimes oblique, apex shortly acuminate, pubescent 
above; a high forest timber tree........V. keniensis. 
6a. Ovary densely clothed with more or less erect hairs, 
glands often present but more or less concealed by hairs; 
leaflets 3--7, normally 5. 
9. Leaflets sessile or subsessile, pubescent above. 


390 PHY 70 LOG TA Vol. 44, No. 6 


10. Bracts lanceolate or oblanceolate; leaflets 3--5, 
obovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic....V. mombassae. 

10a. Bracts linear; leaflets 5, obovate.........V. payos. 

Qa. Leaflets petiolulate, glabrous above. 

11. Leaflets 3--5, usually 3, elliptic-lanceolate or ob- 
long, apex acute or acuminate..........V. tangensis. 

lla. Leaflets 5--7, usually 5, oblanceolate-elliptic to 
oblong-lanceolate, apex acute........V. amboniensis 


VITEX BARBATA Planch. 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.- 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 316 & 323. 1900; Roberty, Pet. Fl. Ouest- 
Afr. 178. 1954; Gledhill, Check List Flow. Pl. Sierra Leone 30. 
1962; Mold., Phytologia 16: 496. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 210, 
2154 2475, 218, 220, -& 226: (197)). and. 21.714 6 923. 1971s 

Hutchinson & Dalziel (1936) list this species from French Su- 
dan, Sénégal, Gambia, French Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Gold 
Coast, citing Chevalier 496, 510 bis, 511, 12460, 12467, & 12990, 
Dalziel 8061, Heudelot 30, Ingram s.n., Kitson 835, and Scott 
Elliot 4881 & 5189. 

Material of V. barbata has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as V. pachyphylla J. G. Baker. 

Additional citations: GABON: Krukoff 119 (N). 


VITEX BEFOTAKENSIS Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 228. 1967; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 262 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 


VITEX BENTHAMIANA Domin 

Additional synonymy: Vitex trifoliap parviflora Benth. ex K. 
Schum. & Hollr., Fl. Kaiser Wilh.-land 121--122. 1889. 

Additional bibliography: K. Schum. & Hollr., Fl. Kaiser Wiln.- 
land 121--122. 1889; F. M. Bailey, Compreh. Cat. Queensl. Pl. 386. 
1913; Wangerin, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (1): 668. 1936; Fedde & 
Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (2): 286. 1937; H. N. & A. L. 
Mold., Pl. Life 2: 50. 1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 228. 1967; 
Mold. Fifth Summ. 1: 349 (1971) and. 2: 729, 730, °%& 923. 29733 

Perry describes this plant as an erect shrub, 8 feet tall, 
with pink corollas, and found it growing in creekbeds with Eucal- 
yptus camalduensis, flowering in May. 

Additional citations: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: R. A. Perry 1061 
(Ai, W--2156492, Z--photo). 


VITEX BENUENSIS Engl. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
59) (2) %» 417.,19393:,Mold., Phytologia 15: 228.:1978s:Mold., Pitea 
Summ. 1: 224 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 


VITEX BEQUAERTI DeWild. 
Synonymy: Vitex bequaertii DeWild. apud Fedde & Schust., 
Justs Bot. Jahresber. 42: 252. 1920. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 391 


Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
bets “42% 252,; 19203: B. Ne & Ay Lo .Moid?) th ste 22450. 1948s 
Mold., Phytologia 15: 228. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 231 (1971) 
aud iA24923 « (1971. 


VITEX BERAVIENSIS Vatke 

Additional bibliography: Wangerin, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 53 
(2): 644. 1925; Mold., Phytologia 16: 496 (1968) and 17: 17, 22, 
& 23. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ.-1: 262 (1971) and.2s°713,9714%% 738; 
&.923. 1971. 

Additional citations: MADAGASCAR: Hildebrandt 3085a (Mu--1532- 
cotype). 


VITEX BERAVIENSIS var. ACUMINATA Mold. 

Emended synonymy: Vitex arborea Bréon ex Mold., Phytologia 5: 
213, in syn. 1955 [not V. arborea Brown, 1806, nor Desf., 1847, 
nor Fischer, 1829, nor Roxb., 1814]. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 91 (1967) and 
172 173 22, °& 23. 19683 Mold.,: Fifth Summ. 1: 262 (1971) and 2: 
¥ia, 718, Vib, & 923. 1972; 

It should be noted here that the V. arborea accredited to Brow 
in the synonymy above belongs in the synonymy of V. heptaphylla 
A. L. Juss., that ascribed to Desfontaines and to Fischer is V. 
negundo f. albiflora Mold., while that credited to Roxburgh is 
V. pinnata L. 


VITEX BERAVIENSIS f£. PILOSA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 16: 496. 1968; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 262 (1971) and 2: 714 & 923. 1971. 


VITEX BERAVIENSIS f£. VILLOSA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 16: 496. 1968; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 262 (1971) and 2: 714 & 923. 1971. 


VITEX BETSILIENSIS Humbert 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 16: 496. 1968; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 262, 263, & 373 (1971) and 2: 714 & 923. 1971. 


VITEX BETSILIENSIS ssp. BARORUM Humbert 

Synonymy’ Vitex barorum Bernardi ex Mold., Fifth Summ. 2: 714, 
in syn. 1971. Vitex barorum Humbert ex Capuron, Adansonia, ser. 2, 
L2s -526eh67Zs 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 91. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 263 & 373 (1971) and 2: 714 & 923. 19713; Capuron, 
Adansonia, ser. 2, 12: 52. 1972. 

Bernardi describes this plant as a large shrub or small tree, 
the leaves very coriaceous, ferrugineous-tomentose beneath, and 
found it growing at 1100--1200 m. altitude, fruiting in November. 

Additional citations: MADAGASCAR: Bernardi 11228 (Ac, N). 


VITEX BOGALENSIS Wernham 
Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 


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42: 252. 1920; Mold., Phytologia 15: 228. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 
Ls. 22680197 1) and 2359235251972, 

It should be noted here that the Missouri Botanical Garden 
photograph A.856, cited below, consists not only of a picture of 
Vitex bogalensis, but also one of Phyllanthus kaesneri Hutchins. 

Additional citations: CAMEROONS: Talbot 1046 [Mo. Bot. Gard. 
photo A.856, in part] (N--photo of type, W--photo of type). 


VITEX BOJERI Schau. 

Additional bibliography: Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 
1858; Wangerin, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (1): 668. 1936; H. N. & 
A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 50. 1948; Mold., Phytologia 16: 496. 
1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 263 & 426 (1971) and 2: 714, 717, & 
923. 1971. 

Additional citations: MADAGASCAR: Bojer s.n. [Be-zon-zong] 
(Mu--625--isotype). 


VITEX BOJERI var. SUBORBICULARIS Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 92. 1967; Mold., 
Bifth Summ. bs 263° (1971). and 2: 923.°1971. 


VITEX BRACTEATA S. Elliot 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 229. 1967; 
Mold.4/) Fifth Suaims.(1 .263°¢1971) - and: 2% .923.°1972. 

Bernardi describes this species as an erect shrub or small 
tree, the branches dark-green, the leaves "hispid" [this is not 
true!], coriaceous, "like those of a Petrea", the flowers borne on 
long slender pedicels, the corollas wine-red, and encountered it 
in sandy woods, flowering in November. 

Additional citations: MADAGASCAR: Bernardi 11505 (Ac). 


VITEX BREVILABIATA Ducke 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 53 (1): 1076. 1932; Mold., Phytologia 15: 229. 1967; Moka, 
Fifth Summ. 1: 179 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 


VITEX BREVIPETIOLATA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 229. 1967; 
Mold... FiEth Summ.) 12179 (297 Djecandeee 92s. 297i 


VITEX BUCHANANII J. G. Baker 

Additional synonymy: Vitex buchanani "Bak. ex Guerke" apud 
Richards & Morony, Check List Fl. Mbala 239. 1969. 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.- 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 315 & 319. 1900; Fedde & Schust., Justs 
Bot. Jahresber. 57. (2): 402.1938; H. N. & A. Ls Mold.) ‘Pi. eiire 
2: 51. 1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 229. 1967; Richards & Morony, 
Check List Pl. Mbala 239. 1969; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 238, 246, 
250) 6-252 (1971) [and 22 714547265. SA 025g 197 b. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a "herbaceous plant", 
small shrub, or tree, 4--6 m. tall, forming thickets, the young 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 393 


twigs hairy, the leaflets 3--5, slightly rough above, hairy be- 
neath, the petioles hairy, the flowers borne in lateral panicles 
on old wood, and have found it growing in coastal sandy grassland- 
bushland, in woodland on steep banks above cliffs, in thickets 
on sand dunes, and among rocks in sandy soil, at altitudes from 
sealevel to 1300 m., flowering in February. Schlieben found it 
“abundant between boulders". The corollas are said to have been 
"pale-green, with [a] dark mark on [the] upper petal" on Richards 
19024. Buchanan 318 in the United States National Herbarium is 
marked "V. buchanani Baker, n. sp.", but actually is not one of 
the collections on which Baker based the taxon. 

Richards & Morony (1969) cite Richards 4484, 10928, 18988, and 
19204 from Tanzania, no. 18988 being from Crocodile Island. 

The B. J. Harris 6180, distributed as V. buchananii, actually 
is V. mossambicensis Giirke, while Ludanga DSM.225, Schlieben 6008, 
and Wingfield, Kabuye, & Vollesen 3468 are V. schliebeni Mold. 

Additional citations: TANZANIA: Tanga: Harris & Tadros BJH. 
5586 (Z)3; Schlieben 1614 (Mu). ZAMBIA: Mrs. H. M. Richards 19024 
(N). MALAWI: J. Buchanan 318 (W--74078). 


VITEX BUCHANANII var. QUADRANGULA (Giirke) Pieper 

Additional synonymy: Vitex buchanani var. quadrangula (Giirke) 
Pieper, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Beibl. 141: 54. 1928. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
bers 5/7 (2)2-402. 1938; Molds; Phytolopia' 1S: 2295°9b7 5 Molds; 
Fifth jsammieL:- 233°&*250 (1971) and 22714, 726507809235 rk 


VITEX BUCHNERI Gurke 

Additional & emended bibliography: Giirke, Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 18: 
166. 18945 J. G.. Baker in’ Thiselt.—Dyer, Fl.) Trop. Afe. 52 S4b7 8 
331." 1900; BH. N. & A. Le Mold., Pl. Life 2: 525 2946; Mota, Pay 
tologia 15: 229. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 231 & 245 (1971) and 
23 925.5 2974. 

Material of this species has been misidentified and distribu- 
ted in some herbaria as V. camporum Buettn. 

Additional citations: ZAIRE: Liben 1926 (E--2168606). 


VITEX BUDDINGII Mold. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 229. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 328 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 

Additional citations: GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS: Borneo: Budding 227 
[Boschbouwproefst. bb.27010] (N--isotype). 


VITEX BULUSANENSIS Elm. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 8: 29--30. 1961; 
Mold, , Fifth /Semm:: 1:.318:.(197))and 22.923.) 1971. 

Additional citations: PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Luzon: Elmer 17004 
(Mi--isotype). 


VITEX BUNGUENSIS Mold., Phytologia 35: 419. 1977. 
Bibliography: Mold., Biol. Abstr. 64: 2438. 1977; Mold., Phyto- 


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logia (352;489 (1977)5 362 36¢(1977), and 443)354, 2979. 

Collectors describe this plant as a tree, 30--50 feet tall, 
aromatic, gnarled, with brown-lined bark, or as a "trailer with 
woody stems", the leaves digitate, fragrant, entire or sometimes 
all coarsely dentate [=juvenile?]. They have encountered it in 
anthill thickets and at the edge of thickets, at 150 m. altitude, 
flowering in January.. The corollas are said to have been 
"purple/white" on Rodgers MRC.164. The vernacular name, "mpujwa} 
is recorded for the species. Flock 363 exhibits all coarsely 
dentate leaflets, but Wingfield later visited the locality where 
it was collected and found all the leaves entire-margined; he 
concludes that perhaps the toothed ones represent a juvenile 
state. Most of the material cited below was originally misiden- 
tified and distributed as the south Indian and Sri Lankan yitex 
altissima L. f, 

The specific epithet adopted by me for this species was chosen 
because of the locality where the type collection was gathered as 
given on its accompanying label when sent to me. Unfortunately, 
this was published before the following comments from Robert Wing- 
field of the University of Dar-es-Salaam were received by me: 
"Since this plant is not confined to the Bungu area, and since 
there are 3 other 'Bungu' sites in the Tanzanian gazetteer, 
whereas this Bungu is not yet on any map or gazetteer, may I 
suggest you choose some other name? E.g. as a possibility, 
'zanjensis', from zanj the old Arab name for the Kenya-Tanzania 
coastal region and in Zanzibar & Zinjanthropus - or something 
still less obscure." 

Citations: TANZANIA: Tanga: Flock 362 (Tz); Minjas & Raya DSM. 
1908 (Z--type); Rodgers MRC.164 (Tz), s.n. (Tz). 


VITEX BURMENSIS Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 93. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 284 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 


VITEX CAESPITOSA Exell in Good & Exell, Journ. Bot. 69, Suppl. 2: 
145--146. 1931. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Good & Exell, Journ. Bot. 
69, Suppl. 2: 145--146. 1931; Mold., Phytologia 15: 230. 1967; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 245 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 

This species is based on Gossweiler 3302 deposited in the her- 
barium of the British Museum in London, re-determined as "V. doni- 
ana Sweet?" The original description reads as follows: "A caes- 
pitose undershrub with annual shoots. Leaves glossy on both 
faces, coriaceous, translucent. Flowers whitish-violet. Leaflets 
up to 12 x 4.5 cm., the outer ones smaller; petioles up to 7 cm. 
long; inflorescences 4--4.5 cm. long; pedicels usually about 0.5 
mm. long; bracteoles 3--4 mm. long; calyx 3 mm. long, measuring to 
the end of the calyx-teeth, slightly zygomorphic; corolla 7 mn. 
long, the upper lip measuring about 2 mm.; stamens 3--3.5 mm. 
long; ovary 1.5 mm. in diam. with style attaining 4--5 mm. in 
length; fruit up to 10 x 6 mm. This species seems nearest to Vi 


1979 -Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 395 


puberula Baker, also from Angola, but can be distinguished by 
having three leaflets instead of five, by the opposite leaves, 
and by the abruptly acuminate leaflets." 

Citations: ANGOLA: Luanda: Gossweiler 3302 [Mo. Bot. Gard. 
photo A.857] (N--photo of type, W--photo of type). 


VITEX CALOTHYRSA Sandw. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex callothyrsa Lépez-Palacios, Revist. 
Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 97, sphalm. 1975. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber) 58 (2)2-330..1938; Mold. ; Phytologia 15: °230s 19673 Mold., 
Fitth Suen 15° 128, 133, & 1790 (2971) and: 2) 7255' 767 4 & 923. 
1971; Lépez-Palacios, Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 95 & 

o7') (£4eg.°18). 19753 Mold.; Phytologia 31: 412... 1975; Lépez= 
Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 579, 581, 585--588, & 654, fig. 137. 
197 1, 

Illustrations: L6pez-Palacios, Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. 

Andes 15: [fig. 18]. 1975; Lépez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. [586], 
Pees ESS 1977. 

Loépez-Palacios (1975) says: "Aunque el Dr. Moldenke cita V. 
calothyrsa como de Bolivar y del Territorio Amazonas.....nunca he 
visto ejemplares de Bolivar; todas las colecciones que yo he 
examinado, inclusive el tipo, Spruce 3356, provienen del Terri- 
torio Amazonas. Es, pues, un error la ubricaciGn del Rio Paci- 
moni en Bolivar.......3; también debe advertirse el lapsus de la 
cita de William 14993 como del Brasil....que procede de la isla 
de Trapichote, en el Delta del Ventuari, Alto Orinoco, Territorio 
Amazonas (Ven.), pero a lo mejor esta ejemplar es V. compressa." 
In his 1977 work he cites from Amazonas, Venezuela: Maguire, Wur- 
dack, & Bunting 37402, 37403, & 37413, Spruce 3356, Vareschi 7779, 
and Wurdack & Adderley 42328. 

Additional & emended citations: VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Spruce 
3356 [Macbride photos 17564, 30185, & 34229] (B--isotype, Bm-- 
isotype, Br-—-isotype, Cb--isotype, Cb--isotype, Ed--isotype, F-- 
663043—-photo of isotype, F--876591—photo of isotype, F--923106—- 
photo of isotype, F--976277--photo of isotype, K--type, K--isotype, 
Kr--photo of isotype, Kr--photo of isotype, Kr--photo of isotype, 
Lu--isotype, N--isotype, N--photo of isotype, N--photo of isotype, 
N--photo of isotype, P--isotype, V--isotype, X--isotype, W--photo 
of isotype); Ll. Williams 14993 in part (Ve--12874). GUYANA: R. 
Schomburgk s.n. [British Guiana] (Ut--3253678). 


VITEX CANESCENS Kurz 

Additional synonymy: Vitex heterophylla f. tomentosa Jenkins, 
in herb. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma 
2: 269, 270, & 612. 1877; Gamble, Man. Indian Timb., ed. 1, 296 & 
522.. 1881; C; B. Clarke in Hook. f£., Fl, Brit. India 42 586.°> 1885; 
Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 1, 504. 1906; Kanjilal, Das, Kanjilal, 
& De, Fl. Assam 3: 479, 481--482, & 561. 1939; Biswas, Indian 
Forest Rec., ser. 2, Bot. 3: 42. 1941; Mold., Phytologia 16: 496-- 


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497. 1968; Sawyer & Cherms., Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 23: 126. 
1969; El-Gazzar & Wats., New Phytol. 69: 483 & 485. 1970; Brandis, 
Indian Trees, imp. 2, 504. 19713 Mold., Fifth Summ. 1:279, 5264, 
290, 293,:298;, 303, & 373 (1971) and 2:..714 & 923. 1971; El- 
Gazzar, Egypt. .Journ. Bots 17::/5-& 784-1974. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a shrub or deciduous 
tree, 4--12 m. tall ["200--250 feet tall" according to King's 
collector], the trunk 7--30 cm. in diameter at breast height, of- 
ten buttressed, the bark rough and furrowed, fawn-gray, the wood 
cream or cream-gray, hard, the blaze "tan over tan", the leaves 
light glossy-green above, paler beneath, the flowers with a slight 
odor, usually produced before the leaves, the buds yellow-green 
with a brown hue, the calyx light-green, and the fruit light-green 
with a red-brown tinge. They have encountered it in mixed bamboo/ 
deciduous forests, sandy open forests, rocky deciduous forests, 
stunted pyric swamp forests, and "in the open sun in scrub with 
occasional trees to 15 m. tall along with Bauhinia and Lantana", 
at altitudes of 6--1330 m., flowering in January and from March 
to June, fruiting in March and June to October. 

The corollas are said to have been "light-tan or buff" on 
Squires 814, “cream" on Maxwell 75-48, "white" on King's Collector 
s.n., and “lobes with purple veins and dots" according to Kanjilal 
& al. (1939). The leaves are used as cattle fodder in Assam. 
Vernacular names recorded for the species are "arekdal", "borkeng- 
thing", "ching moi", "dieng-sartudkhar", "mathokhrai", "panch- 
pati", "phung-arong", "teta", and "than-thang". 

Maxwell 72-109 has the leaves exceptionally hairy. A bark 
specimen accompanies Squires 814. King 5493 serves as a voucher 
for a wood collection. The inflorescence is very dense on Squires 
814, but very loose on Jenkins s.n. and King's Collector s.n. The 
new leaves are said to unfold in April in Thailand. Sawyer & 
Chermsirivathana (1969) report "phytocenoses 1,3,4; 330--710 m." 
in this species. 

Clarke (1885) cites Griffith 6066 and Masters s.n. from Assam, 
McLelland s.n. & Kurz s.n.from Pegu and Ava in Upper Burma. He 
comments that "Vitex canescens, Wall. Cat. 1757, is not in Wal- 
lich's Herbarium; Kurz does not state whether he intended or guessed 
his own V. canescens to be the same as Wallich's or no." 

Material of V. canescens has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as V. pubescens Vahl. 

Additional citations: INDIA: Assam: Jenkins s.n. [Assam] (Mu-- 
691, Mu--1133, Pd); King's Collector s.n. [April 1893] (Mu--3801). 
THAILAND: R. M. King 5493 (W--2435951); Maxwell 72-60 (Ac), 72-109 
(Ac), 75-303 (Ac). INDOCHINA: Annam: Squires 814 (Mu). Cambodia: 
Pierre 648 (W--2602822). NEW GUINEA: Papua: Schodde 2755 (Ba). 
CULTIVATED: Florida: Gillis 8682 (Go, Z). 


VITEX CAPITATA Vahl 

Additional & emended synonymy: Vitex bignonioides Humb. & Bonpl. 
apud Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., ed. 1, 888. 1821. Vitex bignonioides 
- Kunth apud Spreng.,in L., Syst... Veg., eds 16, 2: 757s 1825.8 Beeree 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 397 


bignonioides H.B.K. apud Loépez—Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 589, in 
syn. 1977. Vitex wicttrockiana [Moldenke] apud Lépez-Palacios, 
Fils) Venez, Verb. 654;. im syn. 1977. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Pers., Sp. Pl. 3: 361. 1819; 
Steud, ,) Noms.» Bot. Phan,., ed, 1, 858. 1821; Sweet, Hort... Brits, ed. 
2,416.5,1630; Loud, Hort. Brat.,, e6s.) 2, 551.) 48325; Sweet, Hece. 
Brat. werd, 2 591.-183993; BD. ABiere: Syn PLS: 6122. 1849sSehaucs 
Eagmaea,205..484. 18475. Schau. in, A. DC.,)Prodr. 11:4689. 2847; 
Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; Pittier, Contrib. U. 
S. Nat. Herb. 20: 483 & 487. 1922; Knuth, Feddes Repert. Spec. 
Now. Beih,, 432, [Init..FL.. Venez), 607..19273.H. Ns & Acc. Mobdy, 
Pi, ite 2: 89. 1948; J.) AeiSteverm.,- AcE. (Bot... Veneg: + be0254, 
1966; Mold., Phytologia 16: 497. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 3, 
53, & 29. 1968; - Dennis, Kew Bull. Addit. Ser. 3::177) & 289,.1970; 
Lasser, Act. Bot... Venez. 4: 48.1970; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1:..112, 
P27 ObeA-285 133,179, .&. 303 CEST DR) atid) 27.549, 026, £45 yp Fo bees 
1971; Barrios & Briceno, Mem. II Congres. Venez. Bot. 155, 170, 
4733-477, & 179. 19743. Bowes,.Dict. Useful Pl. 96, 19743  Mold.; 
Phytologia 28: 452 (1974) and 31: 383. 1975; Lépez-Palacios, Re- 
vist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 95--96. 1975; Lépez-Palacios, Fl. 
Venez. Verb. 581, 589--594, 626, & 654, fig. 138. 1977. 

- Additional illustrations: Lépez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 
Pao) «tae. 1538... .1977. 

Recent collectors describe this species as an unarmed shrub or 
small tree, 1.5--25 m. tall, the trunk erect, simple, cylindric, 
12--30 cm. in diameter; leaves decussate-opposite, 3--5 digitate- 
ly foliolate, mostly 5-foliolate, calyx dark-green, filaments 
deep-blue to amethyst, anthers dark-purple, fruit at first green, 
later red or purple, more or less spherical, 1 or 2 produced per 
cyme, the old fruit brown. They have found it growing on granite 
cliffs, in sandy disturbed soil of mata de cipd, in dry scrub, and 
in small patches of woods on savannas, at 50--900 m. altitude, 
flowering from March to June and in November, in fruit from March 
to July. Veillon notes: "apamate blanco-canalete". The corollas 
are said to have been "blue" on Curran 1797, Gentry & al. 11148, 
and Murga Pires & al. 14336, "violet" on Fosberg 45241, "“light- 
red" on Mori & al. 11070, “bright-purple" on Collector undeter- 
mined 15 and Senaratna 193, "azul-arroxeado" on Murga Pires & al. 
14387, "azul a ametistina, con pelos blancos en la base del lébula 
inferior" on Ruiz-Teran & al. 10858, and "petals and stamens 
purple" on Prance & al. 11225.  Murca Pires and his associates 
say: "arvore pequena, comu 4s vezas''; Mori and his associates call 
it "common" and describe the "frutos pretos". 

Sweet (1830) and Loudon (1832) both assert that V. capitata was 
introduced into cultivation in England in 1822 from Trinidad, 
while V. bignonioides was introduced in 1826 from Caracas, Venezu- 
ela. Pittier (1922) also keeps the two taxa distinct, keying 
them out as follows: 

1. Leaflets sessile or almost so; corolla-tube only twice as long 
asthe. calyx: Venesuel aves. 6.6 aks ass nse meamee sp DIgnonioides. 
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the calyx. 
2. Corolla woolly in the throat; calyx distinctly but shortly 
repand-dentate; Trinidad & Venezuela..........V. capitata. 
2a. Corolla almost glabrous in the throat; calyx hardly denticu- 
lates Guyands. csc cceveccseuectssesvesseesV¥. SChombULgKionse 

Vernacular names recently reported for V. capitata include 
"acietuno", "calisaya morada", "escolilla", "five leaf fiddle 
wood", "flor azul", "guarataro", "headed-flowered chaste-tree", 
"mariquita", "piedrero", "piqueguaro", "trumpet-flow'd chaste- 
tree", and "trumpet-flowered chaste-tree". 

Dennis (1970) reports the following fungi as parasitizing this 
species: Phyllachora taruma Speg. and Uredo viticis Juel, both in 
Trinidad. 

Lopez—-Palacios (1975) notes that "En lo que respecta a las 
localidades citadas por el Dr. Moldenke.....hay que anotar lo 
siguiente: El Edo. Zamora ya no figura en la actual nomenclatura 
de la divisi6n territorial; hoy corresponde al Edo. Barinas. 
Ademas de los Estado alli citados colecciones antiguas y recientes 
atestiguan su existencia en los de Anzoategui (Pittier 14884); 
Portuguesa [Tamayo s.n. (VEN.34114]; Sucre (Steyermark & otros 
107814 y Aristeguieta 5555). Lasser 225, acreditada erréneamente 
por Moldenke para Monagas (Phytologia 5: 264) [It is not so ac- 
credited there!], procede de Santa Barbara de Barinas. Williams 
12696 es un ejemplar muy pobre (2 hojas y un inflorescencia en 
VEN. y apenas 3 foliolos sueltos en NY.); me dan fuertas dudas de 
que sea V. staheli por sus cimas divericadas, el tamano de los 
foliolos, y el excepcional porte del Arbol (18 m.), ya que las 
citas de los restantes ejemplares colectados en Venezuela no pasan 
do los 11 m. En P he visto un Chaffanjon M.11 ‘borde de 1'Oreno- 
que', con una cedula anexa que dice 'Mariquita-Calysaya morada'. 
Parece que con ella se quiere indicar nombres vulgares." Ldépez- 
Palacios (1977) cites the following collections from Venezuela: 
Amazonas: Chaffanjon ll, Spruce 3746, Vareschi s.n. Anzoategui: 
Aristeguieta & Agostini 5555, Pittier 14884. Apure: Badillo 1372, 
Smith V.1460, Trujillo 2120, Vélez 2688. Aragua: Bonpland 741, 
Ll. Williams 10188. Barinas: Lasser 225, Lépez-Palacios 3145, 
Smith V.1526, Veillon 87. Bolivar: Aristeguieta 5283, 5842, 
Cardona 2872, Grosourdy Cat. 13 s.n., Little 15961, Pittier 12849, 
Ruiz-Teran, Carabot, & Morales 10560, 10858, Steyermark 86791, 
94269; Ll. Williams 11642, 12046, 12696, 12849. Carabobo: Fer- 
nandez-Yépes F.679, Saer 868. Delta Amacuro: Little 15950. Gu- 
arico: Aristeguieta 4183, 4187, 6083, Burkart 16206. Lara: Pit- 
tier 11756. Monagas: Aristeguieta 1729, F. D. Smith 230, Steyer- 
mark 61777, Wurdack & Monachino 39451. Portuguesa: Tamayo s.n. 
Sucre: Steyermark & al. 107840. 

Material of this species has been misidentified and distribu- 
ted in some herbaria as V. montevidensis Cham., V. schaueriana 
Mold., and V. trifoliolata L. f. On the other hand, the Little, 
Ortega U., Samaniego V., & Vivar C. 548, distributed as V. capita- 
ta, actually is V. moronensis Mold., while Prance, Forero, Pena, & 
Ramos 4623 is V. schomburgkiana Schau. and Aristeguieta 6083 seems 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 399 


better placed as representing V. appuni Mold. The Williams 12696, 
cited by me as V. capitata in a previous publication, seems bet- 
ter regarded as V. stahelii Mold. as pointed out by Lépez-—Palac- 
ios. 

Additional & emended citations: COLOMBIA: Bolivar: Romero- 
Castafieda 1636 (N). VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Curran 868 (N), 1797 
(N). Anzoategui: Aristeguieta & Agostini 5555 (N). Barinas: 
Gentry, Morillo, & Morillo 11148 (W--2786426)3; Lasser 225 (Ca-- 
734623, N, Ve--12850); Loépez-Palacios 3145 (Ld, N); Veillon 87 
(W--2654202). Bolivar: Aristeguieta 5842 (N); Gentry & Berry 
14725 (N), 15103 (N); Ruiz-Teran, Carabot, & Morales 10858 (Ac); 
Ruiz-Teran, Carabot, Morales, & Jahn 10560 (Tu); Ruiz-Teran & L6- 
pez-Palacios 11658 (Mi). Delta Amacuro: Curran 1810 (N). Mona- 
gas: F. R. Fosberg 45241 (Ld). BRAZIL: AmazGnas: Murga Pires, 
Cavalcante, Magnago, & Silva 14387 (Ld). Bahia: Mori, Mattos 
Silva, Kallunki, & Santos 9925 (Ld); Mori, Mattos Silva, Santos, 
Kallunki, & Pennington 9441 (Ld); Mori, Santos, & Thompson 11070 
(Ld, N). Minas Gerais: Glaziou 14160 (B, Br, Cb, Cp, K, N, N-- 
photo, P, P, P, W--1112492, Z--photo). Roraima: Murga Pires, 
Cavalcante, Magnago, & Silva 14336 (Ld); Murga Pires, Leite, & 
Lima s.n. [Herb. IPEAN 14610 (79)] (Ld); Prance, Forero, Pena, & 
Ramos 4623 (S); Prance, Steward, Ramos, & Monteiro 11225 (Ld, N); 
Ruiz-Teran & LOpez-Palacios 11034 (Ld). CULTIVATED: Sri Lanka: 
Collector undetermined 15 [125/46] (Pd, Pd, Pd); Moldenke, Mol- 
denke, & Jayasuriya 28144 (Ac, Ld, Pd, W--2764413); Senaratna 
193 (Pd). 


VITEX CARBUNCULORUM Smith & Ramas 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 230. 1967; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 284 & 298 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 


VITEX CARVALHI Gurke 

Additional & emended bibliography: Giirke in Engl., Pflanzenw. 
Ost-Afr. C: 339. 1895; J. G. Baker in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afye 5 5).396,6°326. )4.900;,.H.. N. & As dis) Mold., Pl, (shite, 2s. 534 
1948; Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees Shrubs 592 & 593. 1961; Mold., 
Phytologia 15: 230. 1967; Gillett, Numb. Check-list Trees Kenya 
47. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 241 & 252 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 

Baker (1900) cites only the type collection, Carvalho s.n., 
from Mozambique. Dale & Greenway (1961) cite Tiede 23 from Kenya. 


VITEX CAULIFLORA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 230. 1967; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 263 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 


VITEX CAULIFLORA var. LONGIFOLIA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 95. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 263 (1971) and 2:-923. 1971. 


VITEX CAULIFLORA var. VILLOSISSIMA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 95. 1967; Mold., 


400 Pa T° T"8 EVOrG rs Vol. 44, No. 6 
Fifth Summ. 1: 263 (1971) and 2: 923. 1971. 


VITEX CESTROIDES J. G. Baker 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 16: 497. 1968; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 263 (1971) and 2: 715 & 923. 1971. 


VITEX CHARIENSIS A. Chev. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 230. 1967; Mold., 
Fitth: Somme le 227 (L971) and’ 2: 923. 2971. 


VITEX CHARIENSIS var. LATIFOLIA A. Chev. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 95. 1967; Mold., 
Pitth Sumi. '1:-227 C1971) and ‘25 923. 15971. 


VITEX CHRYSLERIANA Mold. 

Additional bibliography: H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 53. 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 230--231. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 
17S °CL 974) and 29235 DOLL. 


VITEX CHRYSOCARPA Planch. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Hook. f. & Benth. in Hook., 
Niger Fl. 486. 1849; J. G. Baker in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
5: 316° & 325. 1900; Hutchins. & Dalz., Fl. W: Trop. Afr.,° ea 3 
2: 275 & 276. 1936: Dalz., Useful Pl. W. Trop. Afr. 456. 29377 
N. & Al Ls Mold., PL. Life 2: 90% 1948; Roberty, Pet. Fis Ouser 
Afr.°178. 1954; Huber in Hutchins. & Dalz., Fl. W. Trop. Ate] Ga. 
2, 2: 446 & 448. 1963; Mold., Phytologia 16: 497 (1968) and 17: 
27.) 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 210;'°215, ‘217; 219,° 2215 °222 752 
& 246° (1971) and 2:°715, 731, & 923. 1971; Moid., Phytologia’Z2- 
420. 1972; Gray & DeZeeuw, IAWA Bull. 1974 (2): 25, fig. 2. 1974. 

Illustrations: Gray & DeZeeuw, IAWA Bull. 1974 (2): fig. 2. 
1974. 

Hooker & Bentham (1849) list this species as "Vitex (Chryso- 
mallum) chrysocarpa" and cite Vogel s.n. from Nigeria. Dalziel 
(1937) records the vernacular names, "balamagnian", "bu-kudu-né", 
"insuo-koto", and "kuru", noting that in Togo the wood of this 
plant is used to make fishing gear. 

Additional citations: ZAIRE: Toussaint 534 (E--2168607). 


VITEX CHRYSOMALLUM Steud. 

Additional bibliography: D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 612. 1843; 
Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; H. N. & A. L. Motds, 
Pl. Life 2: 72. 1948; Mold., Phytologia 16: 497--498. 1968; Mold., 
Fifth Sum. 1:° 263° 8426’ (L971) and’ 22° 713, 715, “116, 722, = 
S24 1971. 


VITEX CHRYSOMALLUM var. LONGICALYX Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 96. 1967; 
Mold. Fifth ‘Sum, 1: 263° (1971) and 2: 924. T97L. 


VITEX CHRYSOMALLUM var. TOMENTELLA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 96. 1967; Mold., 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 4O1 
Fifth Summ. 1: 263 (1971) and 2: 924. 1971. 


VITEX CILIATA Pierre 

Additional & emended bibliography: Pellegrin, Mem. Soc. Linn. 
Normand. 26 [ser. 2, 1 (3); Fl. Mayombe 2]: 49--50, pl. 2. 1928; 
Saint Aubin, For. Gabon [194] & 206. 1963; Mold., Phytologia 15: 
231 6 £967) Mold. ,;* Fifth Summ, 19°226° & '227°-€1971) sand 2: 7358 
924. 1971. 

Additional & emended illustrations: Pellegrin, Mem. Soc. Linn. 
Notmand 2° 26: [Sers -2,°1°(3)3° Fl. Mayomb.. 2): pid 22 1928s Gaint 
Aubin, For. Gabon opp. [194]. 1963. 

Saint Aubin (1963) records the vernacular names, "angona", 
"evino", and "nto", for this species but all also applied to V. 
Pachyphylla J. G. Baker. Vitex ciliata seems to be based on Le 
Testu 1701 from Gabon, although Pellegrin (1928) also cites Klaine 
3257 from the same country. 


VITEX CILIO-FOLIOLATA A. Chev. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 231. 1967; Mold., 
Prtth Sammy le 220 G97) and 2: 924. -1971. 


VITEX CLEMENTIS Britton & P. Wils. 

Additional’ bibliography: H. N. & A. Le Mold.; PL. Life 2: 83. 
1946%° Adain’ in Leon & Alain, Fl. Cuba, “imp. 13.4: 317 “Sesee, 
1957; Mold. ;°Phiytologia : 453 °231.- 19675 Mold. Fifth Sam. 2 98 
(1971)> and 22°924. 19713°Alain in LeGn & Alain, ‘Fl. Cuba, “imp. °2; 
Ber siy *&. Sib 1974. 


VITEX COCHINCHINENSIS Dop 

Additional bibliography: Wangerin, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (1): 
669. 1936; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (2): 286. 
1937; Mold., Phytologia 15: 231. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 303 
(19F2) and 27/9245 “LOTE. 


VITEX COFASSUS Reinw. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Cofassus Rumpf, Herb. Amboin. 3: 
28--30, pl. 14, fig. B. 1743. Cofassus alba Rumpf, Herb. Amboin. 
3: 28. 1743. Cofassus femina Rumpf, Herb. Amboin. 3: 28. 1743. 
Cofassus mollis Rumpf, Herb. Amboin. 3: 28. 1743. Cofassus pal- 
lida Rumpf, Herb. Amboin. 3: 28. 1743. Vitex punctata Schau. in 
A. DC.; Prodr.. 12+ 687. 1847 [net-V. punctata Mete.,. 2920] s.0 Vitex 
cofassus typica H. J. Lam apud Worsdell, Ind. Lond. Suppl. 2: 500. 
1941. Vitex cofassi Hall. £. ex Mold., Fifth Summ. 2: 715, in syn. 
1971. Vitex cofassus "Reinw. ex Bl." apud Foreman, Div. Bot. 

Dept. For. N. Guin. Bot. Bull. 5: 63. 1972. Vitex cafassus Reinw., 
in herb. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Rumpf, Herb. Amboin. 3: 28-- 
30, pl. 14, f4e8 Ba. 17435 Moon; Cats. Indig, lBsots.Plosteyi. sls. 46. 
1824; Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 14: 813. 1826; D. Dietr., Syn. 
Pl. 3: 611. 1843; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 502. 1858; 
Thwaites & Hook. f., Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 244. 1861; Hassk., Neuen Schl. 


402 PB. Y.7)8 LOA Vol. 44, No. 6 


48. 1866; Heyne, Nutt. Pl. Nederl. Ind., ed. 1, 112--113. 1917; 

H. Hallier, Meded. Rijks Herb. Leid. 37: 47--48, 51, & 85. 1918; 
Lam & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz., ser. 3,..33 48s 1921- 

Fedde & Schust, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 47 (2): 246. 1927; Fedde, 
Justs Bot. Jahresber. 47 (2): 423. 1929; Fedde & Schust., Justs 
Bot. Jahresber. 60 (2): 576. 1941; Van Royen, Nova Guinea, ser. 2, 
10: 240. 1960; Mold., Phytologia 16: 498. 1968; Mold., Resumé 
Supp... t7¢..6. 1968; Uphof,. Diet. Econ. Pl... eds 2, 5454 290 
Begemann, Lex. Nutzh. 4: 2470--2471 (1969) and 5: 2631. 1969; 
Worthley & Schott, Life Sci. 8: 225--238. 1969; Farnsworth, Phar- 
macog. Titles 5 (8): xvii & item 8792 (1970) and 5, Cumul. Gen. 
Ind... 197.iL:, Mold.» Fifith.Summs be 319, .320,,.328,:331,).32a. 3000 
339, 340, 373, & 468.(1971) and.2:,.715,:716, 722,.726, 788, "esgeen 
1971; Versteegh, Meded. Landbouwhogesch. Wagen. 71-19: 10 & 62. 
1971; Foreman, Div. Bot. Dept. For. N. Guin. Bot. Bull. 5: 14, 63, 
178, & [179]. 1972; Hartley, Dunstone, Fitzg., Johns, & Lamberton, 
Lloydia 36: 294. 1973; Mold. in Woodson, Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. 
Bot. Gard. 60: 131 & 148. 1973; Farnsworth, Pharmacog. Titles 9 
(1): xxviii. 1974; Mold., Phytologia 28: 452 & 465 (1974) and 34: 
267. 1976; Fundter & Wisse, Meded. Landbouwhogsch. Wagen. 77 (9): 
205--209; 1977. 

Additional illustrations: Foreman, Div. Bot. Dept. For. N. 

Guin. Bot. Bull. 5: [179]. 1972; Fundter & Wisse, Meded. Landbouw- 
hogsch. Wagen. 77 (9): 208 & 209. 1977. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a large, tall, canopy 
tree, 8--37 m. tall, freely branched, sometimes branching 0.5 m. 
from the base, at other times with a bole 3--5.5 m. high, crooked, 
very much grooved and flanged; trunk often very gnarled and irregu- 
lar, 25--75 cm. in diameter at breast height, with a girth to 3 m., 
with or without buttresses, the buttresses (if present) thick, 
equal, to 4 m. high and 2.5 m. long; outer bark pale-gray, gray, 
gray-brown, or pale brownish-gray to brown, light-brown, or yellow- 
ish-brown, often banded, sometimes "cream-powdery", close, soft, 
rather smooth or rough, very fibrous, scaly or "stringy-flakey", 
about 1/4 inch thick, peeling off in large, thin, fibery flakes or 
shredding into thin papery scales, the under bark brown, the inner 
bark, white, yellow, or yellow-straw, with conspicuous rings of 
fibers; crown light-green, sparse, spreading; branches heavy; wood 
hard, white or straw-color, without odor or exudate, the sapwood 
yellow or pale-yellow, the heartwood gray- or dark-brown, sharply 
defined; lenticels large, numerous; slash wood hard, light-brown 
or yellow; slash bark hard, "fawn-colored with flecks"; blaze pale- 
brown or '"4-layered: orange-white, yellow, white with orange 
channels, and yellow"; buds green, covered with short hairs; leaves 
light yellowish-green, sometimes reddish-margined, or else dark- 
or mid-green and glossy or rather dark dull-green above, paler or 
light-green and dull beneath; inflorescences terminal, paniculate, 
their branches green; flowers scented or scentless; corolla-throat 
hairy; fruit oval or irregularly globular, about 8 mm. long and 7-- 
10 mm. wide, shiny, at first light- or dull-green to gray-green 
or even yellowish-white, blue or black to reddish-purple when ripe, 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 403 


fleshy, shiny. 

Collectors have found this species growing in open fields, on 
the sides of beaches, and in swamp margins on flat plains, in 
rainforests and lowland rainforests on clayey soil, in burned- 
over secondary forests, in valley bottoms, coastal forests and 
well-drained primary forests, in forests on sandy loam soil, al- 
luvial rainforests, and along open roadsides on volcanic clay 
soil with Morinda, Thelypteris, and Scleria, as well as in “alluv- 
ial freshwater-tidal forest ecotones" and "ridge forests on 
shallow soil over conglomerate rock", from sealevel to 550 m. 
altitude, flowering from February to July, as well as October to 
December, fruiting in February, April to July, September, and 
October. Kajewski refers to it as "common in rainforests" and 
Walker & White report it "common in lowland rainforests". 

The corollas are said to have been "white" on Herb. Brit. 

Sol. Isls. Prot. 6697 & 6830 "whitish-blue on Kuswata & Soepadmo 
111, "blue" on Herb. Brit. Sol. Isls. Prot. 5967, "lilac-blue" on 
Gillis 10995, "purplish-blue on Fryar 3347, "mauve-blue" on 
Schodde & Craven 4497, “blue and purple" on Robinson 302, "purple" 
on Canfield 567, Collector undetermined 343, and Sutrisno 35, 
"mauve'’ on Croft & Lelean LAE.65427, Floyd 6633, and Walker & 
White 20, "violet" on Brass 21950, “lavender" on Brass 21909,and 
"yellow" on Herb. Brit. Sol. Isls. Prot. 6785. 

Vernacular names reported for this species include “afas", 
“ahsane;*'“aneano”, "“a* sane”, “bai-ah”, “bitum",« “fata” father’s 
"sofasa", “gofassa", "gupasa", "kofasa", "namavue", "New Guinea 
teak", "ridohokko", "sassuwar", and "vitex". A wood sample ac- 
companies Schodde & Craven 4497. Robinson 302 is said to repre- 
sent the Cofassus femina of Rumpf's (1743) plate 14 B, which ex- 
hibits both 1- and 3-foliolate leaves. The type of the species 
itself is probably a Rumpf collection from Amboina. 

Kajewski notes that the "exceptionally strong timber [is] used 
by natives [in the Solomon Islands] for making large wooden bowls 
and platters for feasts, pounding food in [a] manner similar to 
mortar". Wood anatomy characters are given in detail by Fundter 
& Wisse (1977) who cite NGBW nos. 809, 843, 1335, 9436, & 10074 
from New Guinea. Foreman (1972) cites NGF.577, 2862, 16422, 
19690, 45643, 45748, & 48608, Kajewski 1033 & 1843, Rechinger 
3748, Schodde & Craven 365l, 4004, & 4119, Wat. 6-B, and Wat. Yale 
29, all from Bougainville island. 

Heyne (1917) gives detailed notes on the uses of this species 
in Indonesia and differentiates the characteristics of the three 
forms of the species noted by Rumpf (1743). For Cofassus alba he 
lists the vernacular name, "gofasa perampoean", for Cofassus mas 
"gofasa batoe", and for C. femina “gofasa gaba-gaba". From Ceram 
he lists also the local names, "gofasa tikar" and "gofasa mérah". 
Hallier (1918) records the name, “adjie bitie" from Celebes, 
"matatakum" from New Guinea, and "gafussu", "govasa-batu-baum", 
and "govasa-gaba-baum" from the Molucca Islands. He cites Heyne 
2821 from Celebes, Elbert 2732 from Buton, DeVriese & Teijsmann 5 
& 6, Forsten s.n., and Reinwardt 1465 from the Moluccas, and 


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Weinland 155 from New Guinea. Lam (1919) cites Boerlage 503 and 
Robinson 302 from Amboina, Hulstijn 404 from Sula Besi, and Hul- 
stijn 414 from Mangoli. Uphof (1968) gives the range of the spe- 
cies as "Malay Archipelago, Celebes, Moluccas etc." and notes 
that its wood is "durable, resistant to sea-water and moist soil; 
used for building vessels." Begemann (1969) describes the wood 
characters in detail, gives the distribution as "Neu-Guinea und 
den Salomon-I[nseln, aber auch in Malaysia, dem Sarawak und in 
Indonesien heimisch", and notes that "Das Holz wirt generell zu 
den gleichen Zwecken wie Teak.....verwandt, speziel aber im Boots- 
und Schiffbau, als Bau- und Konstruktionholz mit einer mittleren 
Beansprechung, zum Innenausbau, als Fussboden und Perkett, fur 
M6bel, Leitungsmaste und Schwellen....Die Lieferméglichkeiten 
sind beschrankt. Der Hauptabnehmer dieses Holzes ist nach wie 
vor Australien." 

Hartley and his associates cite their nos. 963lb & 10154, Ver- 
steegh (1971) reports that the slash of this wood turns dark-green 
on exposure and the living bark yellow, and that in the English 
and Indonesian trade the wood goes by the name of "gofassa". 

Foreman (1972) gives detailed descriptions of the tree, its 
bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, and wood (density 44 lbs. per cubic 
foot). He affirms that "The timber is strong, hard, durable and 
does not warp after cutting. It is used in boat building and has 
been used for panelling. The poor form restricts its attractive- 
ness to saw millers. It is used much for carvings and drums..... 
The wood is very similar to that of Viticipremna novaepommeranae 
(Vitex quinata) which has been cut extensively on New Britain, 
but that species has a much better form than Vitex cofassus." He 
gives its distribution as "Moluccas, Micronesia, New Guinea, 
throughout the Solomon Islands and Bismark Archipelago." The Gil- 
lis collection, cited below, was gathered from cultivated material 
in Florida, grown from the seed of Fairchild 319 from Maripa is- 
land in the Moluccas. 

It should be pointed out here that Foreman (1972) is in error 
in synonymizing Viticipremna novae-pommeraniae (Warb.) H. J. Lam 
with Vitex quinata (Lour.) F. N. Will. 

It is also worth noting here that according to Merrill (1917) 
Cofassus mas Rumpf is in part Vitex cofassus and in part V. parvi- 
flora A. L. Juss. Actually, on p. 28 Rumpf says: "Post Metrosi- 
deri species hoc celebre tignum suum obtinet locum, cujus tres 
nobis obvenere species: Prima mas seu rubra; Secundo alba, seu 
pallida: Tertio mollis, quae femina esse putatur, quae omnes parum 
forma, modoque crescendi differunt, excepto lignorum colore."" On 
his pl. 14 fig. A and B are drawn as attached to each other -- 
"A", above, is trifoliolate and probably represents V. parviflora, 
while "B", below, is unifoliolate and probably represents V. co- 
fassus. As to the names he cites, it seems that Cofassus mas and 
C. rubra probably represent "A" or V. parviflora, while C. alba, 
C. pallida, C. mollis, and C. femina probably represent "B" or 
V. cofassus. "A" is drawn with flowers, "B" with fruit. "A" is 
marked "folia maris" on the plate and "B" is marked "femina". 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 405 


The Blume (1826) reference cited in the bibliography above is 
eften mistakenly cited).as "82.3". "92" $13", or "L825", that. of 
Moon (1824) is sometimes cited as "1821"; that of Thwaites & Hook- 
er (1861) as "246" or "1839"; and that of Foreman (1972) by the 
misleading title-page date of "1971". 

Additional citations: PALAU ISLANDS: Aimiriik: Kanehira 1977 
(W--1656936). Koror: Canfield 567 (W--2835869, W--2835970). 
Palau: Hosokawa 7051 (W--2036330). MOLUCCA ISLANDS: Amboina: C. 
B. Robinson 302 (W--654620). Ceram: Kuswata & Soepadmo 111 
(N). Halmahera: Herb. Neth. Ind. For. Serv. bb.23772 (N), _ bb. 
23773) (N).) Ternate: Herb: Neth. Ind. For. Serv. /bb-23185. () . 
AROE ISLANDS: Kobroor: Herb. Neth. Ind. For. Serv. bb.25296 (N). 
NEW GUINEA: Papua: Brass 21909 (W--2603087), 21950 (W--2603093). 
Territory New Guinea: Fryar 3347 (N, W--2211051); Schodde & 
Craven 4497 (Ac); Weinland 155 (Mu--3963); Womersley 2913 (N), 
3313 (W--2211054). BISMARK ARCHIPELAGO: New Britain: Floyd 6633 
(W--2603222); Frodin NGF.26866 (Iu); Henty & Lelean NGF.49499 
(Mu); Womersley & Kazakoff NGF.7082 (W--2603189). New Ire- 
land: Croft & Lelean LAE.65427 (Mu). SOLOMON ISLANDS: Guadal- 
canal: Walker & White B.S.I.P.20 (W--2157870, W--2157871). Mal- 
aita: Kajewski 2381 (W--1752235). New Georgia: Maenu'u s.n. 
[Herb. Brit. Sol. Isls. Prot. 5967] (W--2578788). Ulawa: Teona 
suns [Herbs Brit. Sol..<Isls.. Prot.:'6269] (W-=2575326).. 0 Yeabel: 
Beer collectors s.n. [Herb. Brit. Sol. Isls. Prot. 6830] (W-- 
2578424), s.n. [Herb. Brit. Sol. Isls. Prot. 6697] (W--2578661), 
s.n. [Herb. Brit. Sol. Isls. Prot. 6785] (W--2578460), s.n. [Herb. 
Brit. Sol. Isls. Prot. 7778] (W--2578379). CULTIVATED: Florida: 
Gillis 10995 [Pl. Introd. 139401 M.10573] (Ld). India: Herb. 
Hort. Bot. Calcut..s.n.. (Pd). .Java:..Sutrisno(35 (Herb: |} Here. 
Bogor. XIII.J.87] (N). Sri Lanka: Collector undetermined 343 
(Pd), <satice (Pe): 


VITEX COFASSUS f£. ANOMALA Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 98. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth) Samni.cL: '328,°333, & 3/3 (19/1). and; 27 (924.1 7970. 


VITEX COFASSUS var. PUBERULA H. J. Lam 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 47° €2) :,.246. (1927) and 60. (2): 5/76. 19413; Mold... Phytologia 
15¢. 9850 19675' Mold... Fifth Summ. 1: 334, 338; & 340 (1971) aad.2: 
715 .&. 924... 2971. 


VITEX COLUMBIENSIS Pittier 

Emended synonymy: Vitex colombiensis Pittier apud A. W. Hill, 
ind. Bews Suppi.) 72252. 1929. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Pittier, Contrib. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 20: 483--485. 1922; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
53 (1): 1076. 1932; Record & Mell, Timbers Trop. Am. 525--527. 
1924; Mold., Phytologia 15: 232. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 120 
(1971) and 2: 778 & 924. 1971. 

Lopez—Palacios, in a personal communication, lists the follow- 


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ing vernacular names for this species: "Totumillo costeno segin 
Duque-Jaramillo; Aceotuno en Bolivar, y en la regidn de Uraba 
posiblemente sea a esta especie a la que se denomina Truntago 
(-negro; -blanco; tena), Jorge Ignacio del Valle, o. c.: 275". 


VITEX COMPRESSA Turcz. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Pittier, Contrib. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 20: 483 & 485. 1922; Pittier, Man. Pl. Usual. Venez. 94 & 
451. 1926; Knuth, Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Beih. 43: [Init. Fl. 
Venez.] 607. 1927; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 53 (1): 
1076. : 1932; Pittier, Sapl. Pl. Usual. Venez: 55. 19393 H.. ae 
A. Li’ Mold.) Pls Life: 2: 61.1948; Macbr.,* Field ‘Mus. Publ.- aoe 
13 (5): 692 & 693. 1960; Mold., Phytologia 16: 498. 1968; J. A. 
Steyerm., Act. Bot. Venez. 3: 83. 1968; Uphof, Dict. Econ. Pl., 
ed. 2, 122, -255, & 545.1968; Mold., Fifth Summ, 1; 111, 112,03 
126,° 1315" 153, (134, -144,°179,. 373, & 470° (1971) and 2: 714) 92r5 
730, & 924. 1971; Loépez-Palacios, Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 
15: 95--97. 1975; Mold., Phytologia 34: 259. 1976; Soukup, Biota 
11: 20. 1976; Loépez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 579, 581, 595-- 
601, 639, 648, & 654, fig. 139. 1977;.R. F. Sm., Act. Bot. Vener 
13: 186,° 2085 & 240, 1973. 

Illustrations: L6pez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. [596], fig. 
139. 29773 B..F.-Sm., Act.) Bot. Vemes. 13:°240.° 1978% 

Recent collectors describe this species as a small or tall 
tree, 2.5--30 m. tall, erect, unarmed, leafy, the trunk 8--30 cm. 
in diameter at breast height, the leaves firmly membranous, rich- 
green above, "concha arenosa en textura", the lower petal 3- 
lobed, the filaments white, pilose, the anthers deep-purple or 
black, the line of dehiscence cream-color, and the fruit green 
[immature?], fleshy, depressed at the apex, bland. They have 
found the plant growing in periodically inundated forests (varzea), 
primary forests in the warm zone, on stream banks, on savanna- 
covered slopes with dry thickets, and between rocks on sand of 
river banks, at altitudes of 10--300 m., flowering in February, 
April, June, and August, in fruit in April and from June to Sep- 
tember. 

The corollas are said to have been "rose" on Cavalcante 2482 
and Murga Pires & al. 14414, "purple" on Blanco 998, "light- 
purple, the throat light yellowish-green" on Ruiz-Teran & Lopez- 
Palacios 11701, “pale-blue, the lower lip dark-blue with a yel- 
low spot" on Lanjouw & Lindeman 2028, and "lateral lobes light- 
blue, central lobe dark-purple with a yellow spot inside” on Mori 
& al. 8137. Macbride (1960) says that V. compressa "Becomes a 
stout tree to 30 meters tall, the straight trunk to a meter in 
diameter; flowers blue to purple, fragrant". He lists it from 
Peru with a question, adding that it is found naturally "To Co- 
lombia, Trinidad and Brazil". 

Vernacular names reported for the species include "aceituno", 
"suaratare", “guarataro", "guateloro", “hakiaballi", 
"kalebashout", "pachaca", "totumillo", “totumillo blanco", 
"totumillo sarnito", and "totumo". Uphof (1968) refers a "Guiana 
Chaste Tree" to Vitex divaricata Sw., but it seems more probable 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 407 


that this name belongs to V. compressa. Smith (1978) lists V. 
compressa from Lara, Venezuela. 

Lépez-Palacios (1977) cites the following collections from Ven- 
ezuela: Amazonas: Ll. Williams 14993. Anzoadtegui: Pittier 15069 
& 15118. Aragua: Montaldo 3076, 3403, & 3425; Stauden 17; Trujil- 
lo 3413; Ll. Williams 10257. Barinas: Marceno-Berti & Lezama 219. 
Bolivar: Aristeguieta 5315 & 5844; Bernardi 7400; Little 17596 & 
17618; Steyermark 86381, 86621, 86722, 86916, 94217, 94239, & 
94269. Carabobo:Karsten s.n.; Steyermark & Carreno 106876. Fal- 
con: 3lanco 925 & 998; Ruiz-Teran 467 & 701; Steyermark & Manara 
110731. Guarico: Aristeguieta & Agostini 6407; Ruiz-Teran & L6- 
pez-Palacios 11701. Lara: Badillo 409; Smith V.1753; Steyermark 
56822. Miranda: Steyermark & Steyermark 110042. Monagas: Aris- 
teguieta & Vera 7524. Portuguesa: Trujillo 3901. Sucre: Steyer- 
mark & Manara 107898. Trujillo: Curran 761; Pittier 10848; Tru- 
jillo & Bunting 2819. Yaracuy: Bernardi 6955; Madriz 38. Zulia: 
Aristeguieta & al. 6846; Delascio & Benkosky 3084; Tejera E.117; 
Trujillo 4242. 

Additional & emended citations: COLOMBIA: Caqueta: Romero- 
Castaneda 4094 (N). Guajira: Trujillo 4242 (Ut--333344b). Magda- 
lena: Romero-Castaneda 1057 (W--2104673), 9051 (N); H. H. Smith 
2107 (Ld). VENEZUELA: Aragua: Vogl 814 (Mu). Bolivar: Aristegu- 
ieta 5844 (N); J. A. Steyermark 94217 (N, W--2438641). Falcdn: 
Aristeguieta, Blanco, & Carrillo 6846 (N); C. A. Blanco 925 (N, 
W--2777220, N), 998 (N); Steyermark & Manara 110731 (N). Guarico: 
Ruiz-Teran & Lopez-Palacios 11701 (Ld). Miranda: Steyermark & 
Steyermark 110042 (N); Trujillo 2819 (Ld). Zulia: Aristeguieta, 
Blanco, & Carrillo 6846 (Ac); Budowski 2 (Ld, N). GUYANA: D. H. 
Davis 726 (N). GUYANAN ISLANDS: Thomas: Mori, Bilten, Persaud, 
Boyan, Roberts, Jugernauth, & Dwarka 8137 (Ld, N). SURINAM: Lan- 
jouw & Lindeman 2028 (W--2796107); Lindeman 5443 (Ld, W--2640856) ; 
J. P. Schulz 7709 (N). BRAZIL: Parad: Cavalcante 2482 (Ld, N); 
Murga Pires & Leite 14845 (Ld). Roraima: Murga Pirex, Cavalcante, 
Magnago & Silva 14414 (Ld). 


VITEX CONGENSIS A. Chev. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 232. 1967; 
Moid: 5 Faitth Samm, 12 (259 60231, (1971):and, 23. 776; &-924eyi9/1: 


VITEX CONGESTA Oliv. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 232. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 263 & 468 (1971) and 2: 648 & 924. 1971. 


VITEX CONGOLENSIS DeWild. & Th.-Dur. 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.- 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 316 & 325. 1900; Fedde & Schust., Justs 
Bot. Jahresber. 57 (2): 402. 1938; H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 
2: 61. 1948; Mold., Phytologia 16: 498. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 
bs 2245: 231, O87 265 (E971) and: 22) 710, 7175: 718): 7769 hGr924 + DOs 

Recent collectors describe this species as a small tree, 40--50 
feet tall, or as a shrub, 3--4 m. tall, the trunk 20--70 cm. in 


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diameter, and have encountered it on sandy plains, along rivers, 
and on savannas with Hymenocordia acida, at 470 m. altitude, 
flowering in March, fruiting in November. A vernacular name re- 
ported for it is "kpar-seh". 

Baker (1900) cites Schweinfurth 3442 from Zaire as the type of 
what he called V. aesculifolia J. G. Baker and notes that "Vitex 
CONGOLENSIS 2 lace ae es is not separable from V. ferruginea, Schu- 
mach. & Thonn., by the description. It was collected by Dewévre 
at Bokakata in the northern part of the Congo Free State [Zaire]". 

Material of V. congolensis has been misidentified and distrib- 
uted in some herbaria as V. rufa A. Chev. and V. thonneri DeWild. 

Additional citations: LIBERIA: G. P. Cooper 355 (W—1378523). 
ZAIRE: Carlier 286 (Mu); Louis 3509 (N), 13889 (W--20911lo); Luy- 
ten 29 (Mu). 


VITEX CONGOLENSIS var. GILLETII (Giirke) Pieper 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
52 (2)s 2402. 198858. N.Ye Ay D.oMold., Pi. Life 2: Gi ,eoaR 
Mold.,: Phytologia 15: 232. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 231 (1972) 
and {25 717 &-924..°2971. 


VITEX COOPERI Standl. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
57 | (2)22 404.1936; HL ON. 16 A. sh Molds, Pl. -Liften2 3545-98 
Kribs, Comm. For. Woods, ed. 2, 161--162, fig. 474 (1959) and ed. 
3, 161--162, fig. 474. 1968; Mold., Phytolcgia 16: 498. 1968; 
Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 4. 1968; Whitmore & Hartshorn, Lit. Rev. 
Com. Trop. Trees 95. 1969; Gibson, Fieldiana Bot. 24 (9): 234-- 
235. 1970; Farnsworth, Pharmacog. Titles 6 (9): xii & title 15746. 
1971; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 81, 84, 86, 89, & 91 (1971) and 2: 
924. L971; Saez R.-& Nassar C., Revist. Biol. Trop.’ 16¢ 137,923783 
Farnsworth, Pharmacog. Titles 6, Cum. Gen, Ind. [122]. 1973; Mold. 
in Woodson, Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 131, 134--135, 
& 148. 1973; Janos in Sanders & al., Endomycor. 437--446. 1975; 
Molina &.:,.Ceiba 19: 96. -1975; Anon., Forest. Abstr. 37! Sae 
(1976) and 37 (10): 9. 19763; Croat, Fl. Barro’ Colorado 40° @.742. 
1978. 

Illustrations: Kribs, Comm. For. Woods, ed. 2, fig. 474 (1959) 
and ed. ‘33 £ig 0474. 1968% 

Recent collectors describe this species as a tree, 30--80 feet 
tall, the trunk 12--30 inches in diameter, fluted at the base, the 
flowers fragrant, and have found it growing from sealevel to 50 n. 
altitude, flowering from June to August. The corollas are said to 
have been "blue" on Woodson & Schery 937 and "lavender" on Allen 
5294. 

Whitmore & Hartshorn (1969) report V. cooperi from "lowland 
forests from Guatemala to Panama". Croat (1978) tells us that on 
Barro Colorado Island, Panama, it flowers and fruits "in the wet 
season". He gives its overall distribution as "Guatemala to Panama; 
sea level to 600 m. In Panama, known from tropical moist forest 
in the Canal Zone and Darién and from premontane wet forest in 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 409 


Chiriqui (Progreso); reportedly fairly common on the Atlantic 
watershed around Gatun Lake (Fisher 1) and no doubt more wide- 
spread and common than collections indicate." Gibson (1970) re- 
ports it from damp thickets in Izabal, Guatemala, as well as the 
Atlantic coast of Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. 
She notes that "This has been confused with V. floridula Duchass. 
& Walp. of Panama, which has larger flowers and short-pedunculate 
cymes. It more closely resembles the West Indian V. divaricata 
Sw. which has slightly larger flowers and glabrate pedicels and 
calyxes."" She distinguishes the Guatemalan species as follows: 
"Leaflets 3; calyx cupuliform, subtruncate, remotely and minutely 
Seniseul ste 4.6% 43s 1G SeE Gels eee eelecus ceneseeVefameroeEs 
Leaflets 5 (rarely 7); calyx campanulate, lobate or dentate. 
Leaflets glabrous beneath or nearly so; calyx with triangular- 
oblong to linear, often reflexed lobes 1.5--2.5 mn. 
GE Saino clei nics 6 ce pea ble a ee ab oe ess bs aes bae Veeeenree. 
Leaflets tomentulose and velutinous beneath; calyx with acute 
SBOE biO.5——honmn, bEGNE Eee acs kx ce bwe en eek ones ci Veer 
Janos (1975) calls V. cooperi "rare" in northeastern Costa 
Rica. He has found that inoculations of Endomycorrhiza into the 
roots of this species significantly improve growth and the abil- 
ity to survive attack by native insects "owing to the more vigor- 
ous growth of their axillary buds." 
Vernacular and common names reported are "“cua-ja", "cuajada", 
"raja bien", "rajate bient", and "yellow manwood". 
Additional citations: COSTA RICA: Puntarenas: P. H. Allen 5294 
(N, Ws). PANAMA: Canal Zone: Stern & Chambers 159 [Yale wood 
51651] (E--1739902). Chiriqui: Woodson & Schery 937 (W--1209356). 


VITEX COURSI Mold. 

Additional bibliography: Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.13: 570. 
1968; Mold., Phytologia 16: 498. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 263 
(1971) and 2: 716 & 924. 1971. 


VITEX CRENATA A. Chev. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 240. 1967; Ver- 
giat, Journd Agr. Trop. Bot... Apph..17: 337. 1970; Mold., Fitth 
Summ. 1: 227 (1971) and 2: 924. 1971. 

Vergiat (1970) records the vernacular names, "alya", "bili", 
and "bili betena", for this species, describing it merely as an 
"Arbre de savane, 4 feuilles crénetées vers le summet. Floraison: 
grappes de fleurs lilas. Fructification: grappes de trois a quat- 
re fruits noir violacé, de la grosseur d'une cerise, comestibles." 
He asserts that "La décoction des feuilles est bue contre la 
dysenterie. La décoction de l1'écorce contre la toux, on l'emplois 
aussi pour laver les pieds enfles. L"'eau de macération de 1'écor- 
ce, aspirée par le nez, excite les sécrétions nasales. Les ra- 
clures fraiches des racines pilées avec des graines de...Amblygo- 
nocarpus Schweinfurthii,servent a confectionner des petits tampons 
que l'on maintient appliqués sur les dents dont on souffre." He 
says that an unidentified species of Vitex in the same area of 


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what used to be called French Equatorial Africa exhibits the same 
medicinal properties as V. crenata. 


VITEX CUSPIDATA Hiern 

Additional bibliography: Bouquet, Invent. Pl. Med. Tox. Cong. 
Braz. 33. 1967; Mold., Phytologia 15: 240. 1967; Mold., Fifth 
Summs bs 231°6.245 | (1971) 'and! 2: 1924511971. 

Meyer's photograph of the type collection, cited below, actual- 
ly shows the holotype of the species preserved in the herbarium 
of the British Museum, London. ; 

Citations: ANGOLA: Cuanza Norte: Welwitsch 5665 [F. G. Meyer 
photo 2991] (Gz--photo of type, N--photo of type). 


VITEX CYMOSA Bert. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex cymosa "Bert. ex Spreng.' 
Fl, Angi} Paran., -ed, 1, 580, +2965. 

Additional & emended bibliography: D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 612. 
1843; Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 11: 688. 1847; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. 
Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 3 (2): 258. 18985 
Briq. in Chod. & Hassl., Bull. Herb. Boiss., ser. 2, 4: 1169. 

1904; Briq. in Chod. & Hassl., Plant. Hassler. 2: 505. 1904; Peck= 
olt, Bericht. Deutsch. Pharm. Gesell. 14: 481. 1904; Fedde & 
Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 39 (2): 320. 1913; Pittier, Contrib. 
U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 484. 1922; Pittier, Man. Pl. Usual. Venez. 94 
& 451. 1926; Knuth, Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Beih. 43: [Init. Fl. 
Venez.] 607. 1927; Pittier, Supl. Pl. Usual. Venez. 55. 19395 
Chardon, Mycologia 32: 199--200. 1940; Pérez-Arbeladez, Pl. Util. 
Colomb., ed. 1, 442. 1947; Michalowski, Serv. Tecn. Interam. Coop. 
Agr. Bol. 174 (1954), 173 (1955), and 189. 1955; Pérez-Arbelaez, 
Pl. Util. Colomb., ed. 2, 745. 1956; Cuatrecasas, Revist. Acad. 
Colomb. Cienc. 10: 241. 1958; R. C. Foster, Contrib. Gray Herb. 
184:°171. 1958; Macbr., Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 13 (5): 692=-695 4 
697. 1960; Martinez-Crovetto, Bonplandia 1: 198. 1963; Angely, Fl. 
Anal. Paran., ed. 1, 580. 1965; Mold., Phytologia 16: 498. 1968; 
Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 4. 1968; A. L. Mold., Phytologia 18: 128. 
1969; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 91, 128, 179, 184, 188, 203, & 373 
(1971) and 2: 531, 715--717, 725, & 924. 1971; Mold., Phytologia 
23: 418. 1972; Altschul, Drugs Foods 246. 1973; Mold. in Woodson, 
Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 131, 136--137, & 148. 1973; 
Mold., Phytologia 28: 452. 1974; Troncoso, Darwiniana 18: 395 & 
412. 1974; Kooiman, Act. Bot. Neerl. 24: 462. 1975; Lépez-Palacios, 
Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 97. 1975; Zimmerm. & Ziegler in 
Zimmerm. & Milburn, Transp. Pl. 1 [Pirson & Zimmerm., Encycl. Pl. 
Physiol., ser. 2, 1]: 503. 1975; Lépez-Palacios, Revist. Fac. 
Farm. Univ. Andes 17: 50--51. 1976; Mold., Phytologia 34: 256. 
1976; Lépez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 581, 582, 602--606, 649, & 
654, Fig.°140. 1977 % 

Additional illustrations: Lépez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. [603], 
fig. 140. 1977. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a shrub, 2--4 m. tall, 
or a large tree, 10--23 m. tall [or to "86 m." according to Berg & 


apud Angely, 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 411 


al.], the trunk 25--50 cm. in diameter, the stems and/or branches 
arching, the bark light-colored, finely fissured, the flowers 
showy, "visitadas por abundantes abejas y abejorros", the calyx 
dark-blue, and the fruit about 24 mm. long and 14 mm. wide, at 
first green or greenish, then red or reddish-black, finally 
maroon, dark red-brown, or black, and fleshy, "vinoso", falling 
off at the slightest touch when ripe. They have found the plant 
growing in gallery forests, tropical moist forests, rain forests, 
primary forests on terra firma, and "disturbed forests with Pro- 
sopis and Scheelea", on floodplains, in degraded cerrado, along 
quebradas on streamsides and riverbanks, at lake margins, in 
small patches of low wet woods, on creek margins, and in both 
whitewater and blackwater flooded varzea river margins, at alti- 
tudes of 16--550 m., in flower from January to March and June to 
November, in fruit in January, April, and June to August. Ander- 
son reports finding it "emergent from water in dense inundated 
vegetation of trees and vines or riverine forests"; Prance found 
it overhanging rivers. 

The corollas are said to have been "blue" on Anderson 10982, 
McDaniel & al. 2683, and Prance & al. 5372, 14144, & 15080, 
"lavender-blue" on Anderson 10874, "blue-lilac" on Fernandez & 
Jaramillo 7105, “blue with white center" on Prance & al. 59124, 
"lilac" on Hatschbach & Scherer 30433, "violet" on Schunke 2413, 
"purple" on Campbell & al. 22456, and "deep-purple" on Haught 
4039. 

Fosberg reports finding the species "occasional". The leaves 
are extraordinarily large on Berg & al. P.19703. Steinbach says: 
"fruta.....del tamanmo de un olivo, a que se parece también alyo 
en el gusto. Es fruta muy sana". In Colombia Fosberg reports 
the fruit eaten by the natives, "but [they] are of very flat 
taste". Schunke asserts that the wood is used for farmhouse con- 
struction in Peru. Chardon (1940) reports it attached by the 
parasitic fungus, Phyllachora toruma Speg., the report based on 
Muller 166 & 225. 

Peckolt (1904) says of Vitex cymosa: "In den Staaten Bahia, 
Matto Grosso, Minas und Para [Brazil] vorkommend mit den Tupybe- 
nennung Taruma -- Olfrucht. Urwaldbaum, bis 20 m hoch, mit 
schéner, dicht belaubter Krone, fiinf- bis siebenzdhligen, ober- 
seite gldnzend griinen, unterzeits weissfilzigen Bldttern. Bltiten 
blau. Kugelrunde, weisse, fast transparentée saftige Steinfrucht 
von der Grosse einer Herzkirsche. Ein wohlschmeckendes Waldobst; 
vom Safte wird mit gleichen Teilen Zucker ein Hustensirup berei- 
tet. Das Dekokt der Rinde wendet man an bei sekunddrer Syphilis. 
Das Holz dient zu Bauten." It is problematic whether this white 
pleasant-tasting fruit tree of Brazil is conspecific with the 
black and not especially good-tasting fruit tree passing under 
this name in other regions. 

Vernacular names reported for V. cymosa include "aceituna", 
"aceituna del monte", "aceituno", "cormunon", "cuajado", "pechiche} 
"taruma", “tarima", "taruma", "tarumao", "“veludo", and "zaruma". 

Altschul (1973) cites Steinbach 6428 from Bolivia; Macbride 


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(1960) cites Weberbauer 5341 from Lima, Peru, giving the species’ 
overall distribution as "To Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Patagonia" 
—- "Patagonia" obviously an error for "Paraguay". Lopez-Palacios 
(1977) cites the following collections from Venezuela: Zulia: 
Aristeguieta & al. 6763, Karsten s.n., Muller 1114, Pittier 10477 
& 10491, Plée 7 & 12, Tamayo 4575. Zulia or Falcon: Curran 744. 
He comments that "La especie es bastante caracteristica. En Ven- 
ezuela, que yo sepa, solo ha sido registrada en los Edos. Zulia y 
Falcén. La referencia que el Dr. Moldenke.....hace para el Edo. 
Bolivar parece basarse en alguna mala interpretacién, quizas Car- 
dona 2119, que es V. staheli." He also says: "No he tenido opor- 
tunidad de examiner los tipos de Vitex cymosa Bert. y Vitex fla- 
vens HBK., pero el material que se les asigna en los herbarios es 
tan similar, que hace pensar que con coespecificos o que el mater- 
ial he sido mal interpretado." 

Material of V. cymosa has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as Godmania aesculifolia (H.B.K.) Standl. or as 
Bignoniaceae sp. On the other hand, the Mexia 6177, distributed 
as V. cymosa, actually is V. gigantea H.B.K., while Fiebrig 5382 & 
5807, Jorgensen 3786, and Vattuone & Bianchi L.170 are V. megapo- 
tamica (Spreng.) Mold., and Mexia 5251 & 5474 are V. mexiae Mold. 

Additional citations: PANAMA: Darién: Duke & Bristan 8244 (E-- 
1864914). COLOMBIA: Caldas: Fernandez-Pérez & Jaramillo Mejia 
7105 (N, W--2844805). Guajira: Saravia T. 2339 (W--2587516). 
Cundinamarca: Gentry, Daly, Leén, & Barbosa 18107 (Ld). Magdalena: 
F. R. Fosberg 39401 (Ac); Haught 4039 (N); Romero 1029 (W-- 
2104654); H. H. Smith 1936 (Ld). VENEZUELA: Zulia: Aristeguieta, 
Blanco, & Carrillo 6763 (Ac, N); Budowski 14 (Gz, N)3; H. M. Curran 
102 (N), 206 (N), 235 (N). PERU: Tumbes: Schunke Vigo 2413 (N). 
BRAZIL: Amaz6nas: Berg, Bisby, & Monteiro P.19703 (Ld, N); McDan- 
iel, Fernando, Leonel, & Quintino 2683 (W--2667277); Prance, Maas, 
Atchley, Steward, Woolcott, Coelho, Monteiro, Pinheiro, & Ramos 
14144 (Ld, N)3; Prance, Maas, Woolcott, Coelho, Monteiro, & Ramos 
15080 (Ld, N)3; Prance, Philcox, Forero, Coelho, Ramos, & Farias 
5291 (Ac). Mato Grosso: Hatschbach & Scherer 30433 (Ld, N, W-- 
2705990); Prance & Silva 59124 (N); Prance, Silva, & Murga Pires 
59124 [L.S. 120] (N); Prance & Schaller 26286 (N); R. P. Richards 
6511 (N). Para: W. R. Anderson 10874 (Ld, N), 10982 (Ac, N); 
Campbell, Ongley, Ramos, Monteiro, & Nelson P.22456 (Ld, N). 
Parana: Hatschbach & Haas 15809 [4317] (Ld, Ld, W—2536540). Ron- 
d6nia: Prance, Forero, Wrigley, Ramos, & Farias 6719 (E--2135202); 
Prance, Philcox, Forero, Coélho, Ramos, & Farias 5291 (N), 5372 
(Ld. N). BOLIVIA: El Beni: E. Schmidt 155 (Mu); Werdermann 2336 
(E—999946). PARAGUAY: Hassler 12307a (Ws). CULTIVATED: Egypt: 
Tackholm & Elsayed s.n. [1/6/1961] (Gz, Gz). 


VITEX DEGENERIANA Mold. 

Additional; biblioggsaphy: H. N. & ALL. Mold., Pl. Life Zegaae 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 241. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 224 
C1972 pcan 28245. D9FEs 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 413 


VITEX DENTATA Klotzsch 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.- 
Dyer; Fl. Trop. Afr: 5: 316 & 320—321. 1900; Mold:; ‘Phytologia 
a5: 241. 19675° Mold. 3 Fitth Sam. 15° 252° (1971) ‘atid 2: "9249 ' 19722 


VITEX DINKLAGEI Girke 

Additional bibliography: H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 56. 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 241. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 224 
(197%) and (22/924; 1971. 


VITEX DIVARICATA Sw. 

Additional synonymy: Tanaecium paniculatum Sieb. apud Buek, 
Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 469. 1858. Vitex divaricata var. 
divaricata [Sw.] apud Alain in Le6én & Alain, Fl. Cuba, imp. 1, 4: 
318. 1957. Vitex divaricata var. divaricata [Alain] ex Mold., 
Résumé 383, in syn. 1959. Vitex divaricata var. divaricata Alain 
ex Mold., Fifth Summ. 2: 716, in syn. 1971. Vitis divaricata 
Mold. ex Lopez-Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 606, in syn. 1977. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Raeusch., Nom. Bot., ed. 3, 
is? Erol; OB: Dietr.,-Synt PL. -9e6L1L. 18439; Schau: ila DEG, 
Prodr. 11: 691. 1847; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 469 & 501. 
1858; Urb., Symb. Antill. 7: 357. 1912; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. 
Jahresber. 40° (2): 336.1915; Pittier, Contrib. U. S. Nat. “Herb. 
20: 484. 1922; Pittier, Man. Pl. Usual. Venez. 386 & 451. 1926; 
Knuth, Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Beih. 43: [Init. Fl. Venez.] 607. 
1927; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 57 (2): 404. 1938; 
R. W. Br., Compos. Scient. Words 833. 1954; Cocker & Shaw, Journ. 
Chem. Soc. Lond. 1962: 5194--5197. 1962; Anon., Hortic. Abstr. 34: 
151. 1964; Little & Wadsworth, Comm. Trees Puerto Rico [U. S. Dept. 
Agr. Handb. 249:] 476 & 486--487, fig. 230. 1964; J. A. Steyern., 
Act. Bot. Venez. 1 (2): 13 & 17. 1966; D'Arcy, Rhodora 69: 439. 
1967; Kariyone, Ann. Ind. Rep. Pl. Chem. 1962: 136. 1967; Mold., 
Phytologia 16: 498--499. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 17: 2. 1968; 
Upho£, *Dict.Beon. PL., ed. 2, £22,255, 8 545. 1968 5 ‘Dennis, cen 
Bull. Addit. Ser. 3: 289. 1970; Gibson, Fieldiana Bot. 24 (9): 
234. 1970; Moid., Fifth Summ. 1: 98, 101,./106,;. 107, B09, Dib, 412, 
E235 393, 0%. SOL: (1971) and. ‘2: 639, 716, 732, ° 6 924. 29713 Maids, 
Phytologia 23: 416 (1972) and 25: 228. 1973; Hegnauer, Chemotax. 
Pfl. 6 [Chem. Reihe 21]: 672. 1973; Alain in Ledn & Alain, Fl. 
Cuba, imp. 2, 2: 317--318. 1974; Howes, Dict. Useful Pl. 96. 1974; 
Little, Woodbury, & Wadsworth, Trees Puerto Rico Virg. Isls. 2: 
[U. S. Dept. Agr. Handb. 449] : 854, 990, & 1023. 1974; Lopez- 
Palacios, Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 15: 97--100 (1975) and 
Be. 50; -£9763.-L. Hst& Bo Zs: Bailey, Hostus Third 1162. 1976s) ian— 
rence & Mohammed, Journ. Agr. Soc. Trin. Tob. 76: 345. 1976; Lépez- 
Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. 581, 582, & 606--610, fig. 141. 1977; 
Fournet, Fl. Illustr. Phan. Guad. Mart. 1392--1393, fig. 662. 1978. 

Additional illustrations: Lépez—Palacios, Fl. Venez. Verb. [607], 
fig. 141. 1977; Fournet, Fl. Illustr. Phan. Guad. Mart. 1392, fig. 
662. 1978. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a very handsome tree, 


414 Po Yt bsOue GA Vol. 44, No. 6 


6.5--13 m. tall, the trunk 10--20 cm. in diameter at breast height, 
the bark light-tan, the lateral leaflets often caducous, thus 
giving the leaves a 1-foliolate appearance, the flowers fragrant, 
hairy in the center, the stamens lavender, the immature fruit 
green or yellow-green, turning brownish, fleshy. They have found 
it growing in dry or montane forests, at forest edges, in clear- 
ings, and along roadsides from near sealevel to 1000 m. altitude, 
flowering in May and June, fruiting in July and August. 

Vernacular names recently reported for V. divaricata are 
"aceituno", "black fiddle wood", "higiierillo", "totumillo", and 
"white fiddlewood". Uphof (1968) lists "Guiana chaste tree", hut 
this name more probably applies to V. compressa Turcz. instead. 
Raeuschel (1797) makes the remarkable (and completely erroneous) 
statement that V. divaricata is a native of "India orient." 

The corollas are said to have been "blue" on Little 13698 and 
Purseglove P.6439, "violet-blue" on Proctor 17797, "purplish-blue" 
on Little 13081, “violet with blue lip" on Proctor 20929, and "4 
petals pale-lavender, the fifth dark-purple, center white" on Wag- 
ner 560. 

Lépez-Palacios describes the species as an "Arbol ca. 12 m. 
Hojas por lo general 1-folioladas y cuando 3-folioladas los folio- 
los laterales pequenos (0.5--5 x 0.2--4 cm.), el foliolo central 
generalmente obovado o eliptico; cimas divaricadas con 2 bracteas 
pequenas; caliz 5-apiculado; corola lila, el pétalo central un poco 
mas oscuro y ligeramente amarillo y barbelado en la base, el tubo 
con lineas moradas al interior; 4 estambres didinemos, filamentos 
arqueados con pequenisimos pelos glandulares; tecas negras apici- 
fijas, divergentes, con dehiscencia longitudinal; polen blanquecino; 
estilo bifurcado en el apice......frecuente también ls parta adya- 
cente del Edo. Mérida, alt. 50 m.; fl. Oct." he also comments 
that "El Dr. Moldenke cita en sus trabajos 11 Vitex para Colombia. 
Yo he agregado ademas a Vitex divaricata Sw.....Garcia Barriga & 
Lozano 18443 (COL), Reyes, Tibi a Petrolea, junio 1--3 de 1968, 50 
m., que he colocado aqui por la forma de sus inflorescencias y de 
sus hojas, y por su vecindad al Lago de Maracaibo, regién en donde 
se he registrado para Venezuela." He also notes (1977) that "Mol- 
denke.....cita para este taxon el Edo. Sucre. Es posible que se 
atribuyan a esta Estado las dos colecciones paralelas citadas ar- 
riba, Jahn 483 y Withford 43, ambas de Puerto La Cruz, del Distri- 
to Federal, no de Sucre, ni tampoco la poblacién homénima del Edo. 
Anzoadtegui." He cites from Venezuela the following collections: 
Aragua: Pittier 8628, Ll. Williams 10111 & 11119. Distrito Feder- 
al: Clemente 784, Jahn 483, Vivas 37, Whitford 43. Falcén: Ruiz- 
Teran 461. Mérida: Lépez-Palacios & Bautista 3410, Ruiz-Teran 576 
& 2197. Zulia: Lépez-Palacios 2999. Knuth (1927) cites Pittier 
8628 from "Miranda"; he also cites Jahn 483. Steyermark (1966) 
records the species from Sucre. 

The Baileys (1976) describe the flowers as "violet or blue" and 
note that the wood is used for making shingles and the leaves to 
yield tannin. Cocker & Shaw (1962) report that the heartwood con- 
tains esters and their long-chain alcohols and acids in which the 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 415 


C compounds predominate. Uphof (1968) adds that the leaves con- 
tain 14 percent tannin. Dennis (1970) reports that the tree is 
host to the parasitic fungus, Phyllachora taruma Speg., in Trini- 
dad and "Colombia". 

Fournet (1978) regards V. multiflora Miq. as a synonym of V. 
divaricata Sw. 

The C. V. Morton 4785, distributed as Vitex divaricata, actual- 
ly is not verbenaceous. 

Additional & emended citations: PUERTO RICO: R. A. Howard 16646 
(S); Little 13081 (N, W--2633021), 13275 (N, W--2633046), 13698 
(N, W--2632845); Sintenis 2601 (Ac); Vélez 319 (Lv); R. J. Wagner 
560 (Ws). VIRGIN ISLANDS: Tortola: Little 16400 (N). LEEWARD 
ISLANDS: Guadeloupe: L'Hérminier s.n. [V-VI 1893] (N). Marie Gal- 
ante: Proctor 20929 (Ld, W--26138-5). WINDWARD ISLANDS: St. Lu- 
cia: R. A. Howard 11558 (Ld); Proctor 17797 (W--2585081). MTRINI- 
DAD AND TOBAGO: Trinidad: Purseglove P.6439 (N). VENEZUELA: Dis- 
trito Federal: Jahn 483 (Ve, Ve, W--1065393). Zulia: LOpez-Palac- 
965452999) (Ac,.Ny°Z). 


VITEX DIVARICATA var. CUBENSIS Urb. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahres- 
ber. 40°(2):°336 1915; Urb., Arkiv Bot. 21A: (17): 110. 1929s° Fedde 
& Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 57 (2): 404. 1938; Alain in Leon & 
Alain, Fl. Cuba, imp. 1, 4: 317--318. 1957; Mold., Phytologia 15: 
104. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 98 & 373 (1971) and 2: 716 & 924. 
1971; Leon & Alain, Fl. Cuba, imp. 2, 2: 317--318. 1974. 

Day encountered this plant growing in potreros. Alain (1974) 
lists it from "Rocas’y sabanas: probable en toda Cuba." 

Additional citations: CUBA: Havana: E. H. Day 481 (N). Province 
undetermined: Sagra 504 (P). HISPANIOLA: Dominican Republic: Mar- 
sano’s.n. [April 19,°2962], (Jz). 


VITEX DIVERSIFOLIA Kurz, Rep. Veg. Andam. App. A: 45 & 75. 1870 
[not V. diversifolia J. G. Baker, 1900]. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Kurz, Rep. Veg. Andam. App. 
A: 45. &95. 16703 CC. B. Clarke’ in ‘Hook. £., Fis<Brit. Indiac479585. 
1885; Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 1, 504. 1906; Mold., Phytologia 
16: 499. 1968; Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 2, 504. 19713; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 285 (1971) and 2: 924. 1971. 

In view of the controversy about the validity of the name herein 
used for this taxon, it may be worth quoting Clarke (1885) whose 
description is "leaves simple and 3-foliolate glabrate, leaflets 
sessile oblong cuneate at both ends entire, panicles terminal ful- 
vous-strigose, bracts ovate prominent, corolla 1/3 in. Andaman 
Islands; Kurz. Branchlets and shoots fulvous-strigose, or subtomen- 
tose. Leaflets attaining 5 by 1 3/4 in., above with minute thinly- 
scattered white glands, beneath finely reticulated, microscopically 
white-tomentose in the depressions, obscurely puberulous on the 
midrib; nerves 6--8 pairs; petiole 1 1/2 in. Panicles 2--3 in., 
upper leaves graduating into bracts; upper bracts 1/4 in. Calyx 
1/8 in., campanulate, subtruncate, fulvous-strigose. Corolla ful- 


416 PU VFL, oO: Gok a Vol. 44, No. 6 
vous-villous, subtomentose. Drupe not seen." He bases the name 
on Kurz Andam. Rep. App. A 45 and B 14". Kurz (1870) describes 
the! plant. merely as: "30: ft. takl,/ 12: foot bole, 2++2.1¢42i88, 
girth, Port Blair seashore" and "Steep hill sides along the 
northern coast of Port Blair from South Point to Flat Shallows, 
rather frequent.'"' The original for the "B: 14" reference cited 
by Clarke (1885) has not been located by me -- the name does not 
occur in the Appendix B following the Appendix A in the 1870 
work by Kurz referred to here. 

Additional citations: ANDAMAN ISLANDS: South Andaman: Kurz s. 
n. [South Andaman] (Mu--1137--isotype, Z--isotype). 


VITEX DJUMAENSIS DeWild. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 241. 1967; 
Mold. 5S Fifth Samm, } 12.231 (1971).:and42::924.-1971. 


VITEX DONIANA Sweet 

Additional synonymy: Vitex umbrosa H. T. ex Sweet, Hort. Brit., 
ed. Lio: 323. in syn. 1826 [net V.. umbrosa Sw., 1788]... Veeem 
cienkowski Kotschy & Peyr. apud Palhinha in Ficalho, Pl. Uteis 
Afr. Portug. 238. 1947. Vitex umbrosa "G. Don ex Sabine" apud 
Cuf., Senckenb. Biol. 43: 283, in syn. 1962. Vitex cienkowskii 
Kotsehy & Perr. apud Uphof,. Dict..Econ..Pl., ed. 2, 545, injsyua 
1968. Vitex odoniana Legris, Trav. Sect. Scient. Techn. Inst. 
Frang. Pond. 3 (5): 24, sphalm. 1969. Vitex cuneata Schum. in 
herb. Vitex umbrosa Sabine, in herb. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. l, 
13323 (1826). andedi.2,,4165718305 Louded Bort. Beit..cedeied 
551.°18323;, Schaus.in A. DC., -Prodr. 11: .694-——-695.. 1847; Hookiige 
& Benth. in Hook., Niger Fl. 486--487. 1849; Buek, Gen. Spec. 
Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; Schweinfurth, Heart Afr. 1: 221. 1874; 
Jy Ge Baker in Thiselt.—Dyer, Fl.Trop.:Atr. 5: .316; 317,232 
327, & 328. 1900; Volkens, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 5, App. 22 
(2):,.34--35, fig. 1. 19095 Rein, Tropenpfl. .152) 329. &. 382. 09223 
Kirtikar & Basu, Indian Med. Pl., ed. 1, 1936. 1918; Sturtev., N. 
Y. Dept. Agr. Ann. Rep. 2 (2), imp. 1, [Notes Edible Pl.] 598. 
1919; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 42: 252. 19203; Good 
& Exell, Journ. Bot. 68: Suppl. 144. 1930; Irvine, Pl. Gold Coast 
xlii, xlix, lvii, lxvi, & 436-—-437. 1930; Hutchins. & Dales, 9Fes 
W. Trop. Afr., ed. 1, 2: 268 & 275--277, fig. 273. 19363 Wanger— 
in, Justs Bot. Jahresber. 56 (1): 669. 1936; Hansford, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. Lond. 153: 9. 1941; Palhinha in Ficalho, Pl. Uteis Afr. Por- 
tug. 238. 1947; Hansford & Deight., Mycol. Paper IMI.23: 70. 

19483 Ho N. & As ‘L.. Moldsy Pl.) Life 2s. 535.56,.8& 65. 19465, Rees 
Williams, Usef. Ornament. Pl. Zanzib. 18, [20], 351,-484, & 4855 
fig. 4. 1949; Kerharo & Bouquet, Pl. Méd. Tox. Céte Iv. 233--234. 
1950; Snowden, Grass Comm. Mtn. Veg. Uganda 94. 1953; Roberty, 
Pet. Fl. Ouest-Afr. 178--179. 1954; J. K. Jacks., Journ. Ecol. 
44: 349 & 360. 1956; Alain in Ledn & Alain, Fl. Cuba, imp. 1, 4: 
317 & 318. 1957; Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees Shrubs 592--595, 
fig. 108. 1961; Hansford, Sydowia Ann. Myc., ser. 2, Beih. 2: 690 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 417 


& 695. 1961; Irvine, Woody Pl. Ghana 1lxxxii, lxxxviii, & 761--762. 
1961; J. D. Chapm., Veg. Mlanje Mtns. 38. 1962; Cuf., Senckenb. 
Biol. 43: 283 & 329. 19623 S.. 6.C. Manguénot, Rev. Cytol. Biol. 
Veg. 25: 411--447. 1962; Rougeot, Inst. Frang. Afr. Noire IFAN.14 
(4); 1962; F. G. Browne, Bull. Ant. Res. 54: 229--266. 19633; Aub- 
rév., Bois For. Trop. 93: 30. 1964; Langsdale-Br., Osmoston, & 
Wils., Veg. Uganda 55. 1964; Burkill, Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay 
Penins. 2: 2278 & 2279. 1966; Amico, Webbia 22: 492, 503, 515, & 
523. 1967; Bouquet, Invent. Pl. Méd. Tox. Cong. Brazz. 33. 1967; 
Kershaw, Veget.. Act... Geobot, 152 244,. 251-—253,. 257,. 258, & Zol. 
1967; Ornduff, Reg. Veg. 50: 86 & 121. 1967; Amico & Bavazzano, 
Webbia 23: 280 & 302. 1968; Astle, Kirkia 7: 95. 1968; Kershaw, 
Journ, Ecol. [Brit.] 56: 473,477, & 482., 1968; Mold., Phytologia 
16: 499. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 8 (1968) and 17: 4. 1968; 
Uphof, Dict. Econ. Pl., ed. 2, 545. 1968; Begemann, Lex. Nutzh. 

4; 2260--2261 (1969) and 5: 2564 & 2631. 1969; Cohic, Ann. Univ. 
Abidjan (E) 2: 100 & 112. 1969; Bolkhov., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., 
Chromos. Numb. Flow. Pl. imp...i, J17.. 1969; Hyland, U...5. Dept. 
Age. Pl. Invent. 173: 169. 1969: Legris, Trav. Sect. Seient. Techn. 
Inst. Frang. Pond. 3 (5): 24. 1969; Richard & Morony, Check List 
Pl. Mbala 239. 1969; Roberts, Commonw. Forest. Inst. Paper 44: 39, 
AOS P27. ¢& 199. 1969°.Drar, Pup. Garra Uniy, Herb, 3: Lit. 1970; 
Gillett, Numb. Check-list Trees Kenya 47. 1970; Latham & Dugerdil, 
Adansonia, ser. 2, 10: 564. 1970; Gameel, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 84. 
1971; Mold. 2ifth Summ. 1:..98,.209,. 240,. 215--222,. 224—-227, 231, 
233,,. 234.4 238. 240,241, 245,247, 29s 2o2n easy ode) eee, ee 
(1974) .and..2:2 715, 7565) 319, d245, F2oe 130, 926q & 9On well. Den 
Outer, Meded. Landsbouwhogs. Wagen. 72-19: 8 & 58--59. 1972; 

Encke & Buchheim in Zander, Handwérterb. Pfl.-Namen, ed. 10, 525. 
1972s" Hedrick, Sturtev. Notes Edible. Pl... imp. 2; ° 398. 1972; Le= 
walle, Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 42 [Trav. Univ. Off. Bujumb. 
Fae. gete Ci20):. 25, 26, BBs, B96 Shorehe f ese ee eel Ne 
Thomas, Notes Afric. 134: 50. 1972; Altschul, Drugs Foods 247. 
1973; Greenway, Kirkia 9 (1): 37. 19373; Sowunmi, Grana 13: 184 & 
[189]. 1973; Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. Num. Flow. 
Pl1., imp. 2, 717. 1974; Alain in Leén & Alain, Fl. Cuba, imp. 2, 2: 
317% 318. 19743: Mold... Phytologia.28: 442 & 452. 1974; Jaeger. & 
Mold., Phytologia 30: 387, 389, & 402--403. 1975; Lebrun & Stork, 
Ind. Cart. Répart. Pl. Vasc. Afr. 133. 1977; Paradis & Houngnon, 
Bull... Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paras, ser. 3,503 [Bot. 341: 163. 
1977; Wickens, Kew Bull. Addit. Ser. 5: 309, map 152. 1977; Law- 
ton, Journ. Ecol. 66: 183, 188--190, & 193. 1978; Mound & Halsey, 
Whitefly World 86 & 115. 1978. 

Additional illustrations: Hutchins. & Dalz., Fl. W. Trop. Afr., 
eds 1, .28,277,,fig- 273» 1930; BR. O, Williams, Uset. Ornament. Pi. 
Zanzib. [20] & 484, fig. 4. 1949; Dale & Greenway, Kenya Trees 594, 
fies 108.1961. 


[to be continued] 


A new Disciphania (Menispermaceae) from French Guiana 


R. C. Barneby 
New York Botanical Garden 


DISCIPHANIA (verosimiliter sect. Sarcostephana) UNILATERALIS 
Barneby, sp. nov., a congeneribus omnibus foliorum 
unilateraliter secus caulem dispositorum lamina 
oblongo-elliptica 3--4-plo longiori quam latiori primo 
intuitu diversa. -- FRENCH GUIANA. Trois Sauts: forét 
primaire, région de Zidock ville, 12.1.1975 (fr), Grenand 
653. -- Holotypus, NY. 

A small slender vine of virgin forest, glabrous throughout, 
the leaves all turned to one side of the weakly scandent 
canaliculate hornotinous stems; petioles 2--4 cm, twisted at both 
ends; leaf-blades membranous, when dry dull brownish-olivaceous, 
in outline oblong-elliptic 13--17 x 4--5 cm, 3--4 times as long 
as wide, at base broadly cuneate, at apex acuminate (the obtuse 
acumen 8--10 mm), from base weakly 5-nerved, the stronger (inner) 
lateral pair of nerves ascending through no more than 1/4 of 
blade, the midrib giving rise to + 8 pairs of major secondary 
nerves, the tertiary reticulation fine and lax, the ultimate 
areoles much > 1 mm diam; inflorescence ¢ unknown; inflorescence 
?: peduncle + 6 cm, twisted at both ends; spike + 20-flowered, 
the axis in fruit + 8 cm; flower unknown; drupe grapelike 
plumply ovoid-ellipsoid + 15--17 mm, the ripe exocarpic skin 
chocolate-brown, the mesocarp gelatinously juicy, the endocarp 
(of sect. Sarcostephana) in broad view 15 x 11 mn, its 
dorsoventral crests + 1 mm, its 3 latero-marginal wings 2--2.5 mm 
wide. -- N. V. (Wayapi): alasiku. 

The genus Disciphania, instantly recognized in tribe 
Tinosporeae by its sessile flowers and peculiarly crested 
endocarp, is most highly developed in upper Amazonia and the 
Peruvian-Ecuadorian Andes (Barneby, 1970, p. 124--sequ.) and has 
not been recorded hitherto either from the Guianas or from 
northeastern Brazil. The discovery of a Disciphania on the upper 
Oiapoque river near 539 W., 29 N. is in itself a notable event and 
it can cause no surprise that the species is an undescribed one. 
So far as can be told from the fruiting specimen before me, D. 
unilateralis belongs probably to sect. Sarcostephana Barneby, but 
is unique in that group, as indeed in the whole genus, in its 
narrowly oblong-elliptic leaves which, by a twist of the petiole, 
are arranged unilaterally along the slenderly scandent stems. 

I am indebted to the Director of Herbier du Centre 
ORSTOM (CAY) for communicating the type to NY through Dr. B. A. 


Krukoff. Literature Cited 


Barneby, R. C. 1970. Revision of Neotropical Menispermaceae 
tribe Tinosporeae. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 20 (2): 81--158. 
418 


A NEW FORM OF HELIANTHUS FROM SOUTH-WEST FLORIDA 


Fred W. Oswald 


HELIANTHUS TUBEROSUS f. OSWALDIAE Oswald, f. nov. 


Haec forma a forma typica speciei differt habente 
tubera grandes nodis numerosis; nodi plerumque 
stipitati. Cutis perpallida bruneola, crassa duraque. 
Tubera fasciculata proxime infra vel prope caules, 
jlla infra rhizomatibus nullis. Tubera nova pullulantia 
statim juxta plantas adultas. Caules purpureo-rubri 
pilis rigidis niveis. Folia viridia, lutescentia ad 
fusca post anthesin, plantae mox effectae incrementa 
nova foliacea angulo caulium supernorum sub semino-~ 
capitulis siccatis, aliquando reflorentes floribus 
mendosis. 


This form differs from the typical form of the 
species in having tubers large with numerous knobs; 
the knobs’ generally stalked. Skin very light tan, 
thick and tough. Tubers clustered immediately below 
or near stems, those below lacking rhizomes. New 
tubers sprouting promptly next to matured plants. Stems 
purple-red with stiff whitish hairs. Leaves green, 
turning yellow to brown after the flowering season, 
soon developing new leafy growths from the angle of 
the upper stems below the dried seed heads and oce# 
casionally reflowering with imperfect blossoms. 


In f. nebrascensis Cockerell, and alexandri 
Cockerell, the skin is thin. In purpurellus Cockerell, 
the tubers are purple-red. In fusiformis Cockerell, 
the tubers are occasionally knobbed, but not stalked. 
In var. multituberculatus Cockerell, the tubers are 
completely covered with unstalked protuberances. 
Stems are purple-red but leaves do not become red as 
in albus Cockerell. Leaves puberulent underneath, not 
densely softehairy as in var. subcanescens Gray. 


Fast growing, tall, much-branched and many~f lowered 
plants; the heavy tops often bending the purple-red 
stalks to earth. 


The holotype of this form was collected by the au- 
thor and his wife on July 4, 1979, 110 feet west of 


419 


420 en. FeO, O26 Tk Vol. 44, No. 


Magnolia Drive and 300 feet south of Bayshore Road, 
North Fort Myers, Florida, and is deposited in the 
Lundell Herbarium at the University of Texas, Austin, 
Texas. 


This tall sunflower is named in honor of Eileen 
Wolde Oswald, co#discoverer with the author. 


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CONTENTS 


ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). XXI. Additions 
to Alloispermum, Galinsoga, and Tridax ............... 425 
ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). XXII. Two new 
Species DFC Bld JONI EVA | ES Ro? hay Ae ehaei eek eeeey a 436 
ROBINSON, H., Two new genera of Vernonieae (Asteraceae) from Brasil, 
Heterocy psela and PSeudostiyjeig so. Cake as Be ee BS 442 
KING, R. M., ROBINSON, H., & BARROSO, G. M., Studies in the 
Eupatorieae. (Asteraceae). CLXXVII. A new genus, 


WVEOTULTVATRTINS | NCEE Eee ae he ete ene Rati a Ae ie oe Rt A 451 
KING, R. M., & ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). 
CLXXVIII. Additions to Eitenia and Lomatozoma ....... 455 
KING, R. M., & ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). 
CLXXXIV. A new species of Arrojadocharis............. 463 
KING, R. M., & ROBINSON, H., Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). 
CLXXXV. Additions to the genus Lasiolaena............ 466 
MOLDENKE, H. N., Notes on new and noteworthy plants. CXXXII ... 473 
MOLDENKE, H. N., Additional notes on the genus Vitex. XV........ 474 


IRWIN, H. S., & BARNEBY, R. C., New names in Senna P. Mill. and 
Chamaecrista Moench (Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae ) 


precursory to the Chihuahuan Desert Flora ............. 499 
FOSBERG, F. R., & SACHET, M.-H., Correction to Maesa (Myrsinaceae) 
| BE DEF OU EGE 6 ko ase On EE Aa aaa pen SAS Ueae Fed AOR ae 502 
MOLDENGRE Ack: Book seyiews sii pinay Wee ok Li eeate Uae 502 
Index to authors im Volume Forty-four? i353). otk eae a EA 505 
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STUDIES IN THE HELIANTHEAE (ASTERACEAE). XXI. 
ADDITIONS TO ALLOISPERMUM, GALINSOGA, AND 


TRIDAX. 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


A number of new species have been encountered in recent years 
which belong to various genera in the subtribe Galinsoginae of the 
Heliantheae. In each of the cases, the traditional generic limits 
have been a problem, and some tentative solutions are offerred. 
The three genera in which the new species are placed, are as 
follows. 


Alloispermum 


During the initial listing of the species when the genus was 
resurrected from the synonymy of Calea (Robinson, 1978a), the 
concepts of the South American species were particularly inadequ- 
ate. The area seemed to be dominated by a highly variable A. 
caracasanum with two minor segregates. A single specimen collect- 
ed by Lehmann in Ecuador and some laxly cymose material collected 
by Cuatrecasas in Colombia were regarded as only extremes of A. 
caracasanum, while A. pachense was kept separate. Since that time, 
one species, A. steyermarkii, with extremely long-pointed involuc- 
ral bracts, has been described from Venezuela (Robinson, 1978b), 
two specimens have been seen from a widely disjunct area in 
southern Peru, the Cuatrecasas collection has been recognized as 
a first Colombian record of the otherwise Ecuadorian A. sodiroi, 
and the Lehmann collection from Ecuador has been re-examined and 
found to be distinct. The concepts of A. lindenii (Sch.Bip. ex 
Wedd.) H.Robins. and A. steyermarkii H.Robins. remain unchanged, 
but the studies have indicated the need for the following two new 
species, new combination and new synonymy. 


Alloispermum caracasanum (H.B.K.) H.Robins. is re-interpreted to 

include C. pachensis Hieron. The latter was originally 
described for material that lacked ray flowers. Such discoid 
forms have sometimes been treated as Calea caracasana forma 
discoidea B.L.Robins. These occur sporadically throughout the 
range of the species, and they seem best treated at the level of 
a forma. 

There are more significant variations in A. caracasanum. 
The typical element has five ays in the head and glabrous outer 


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surfaces of the involucral bracts. Specimens with 8 rays in the 
heads and pubescent outer surfaces of the involucral bracts are 

rather common in Colombia, but the two characters are not always 
correlated. 


Alloispermum lehmannii H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae subscandentes? mediocriter ramosae. Caules brunnes- 
centes teretes sparse hirsuti, pilis sub nodis densioribus. Folia 
opposita, petiolis plerumque 1-2 mm longis; laminae lanceolatae ad 
5-6 cm longae et 1.0-1.7 cm latae base anguste rotundatae vel 
breviter obtusae margine subintegrae apice argute acuminatae 
supra dense scabridulae subtus subdense pilosae fere ad basem 
trinervatae,nervis secundariis ad marginem subparallelibus. In- 
florescentiae laxe corymbosae, ramis 3.5-5.5 cm longis pilosis, 
pilis erecto-patentibus superioribus densioribus. Capitula ca. 7 
mm alta sine radiis ca. 8 mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 20 ca. 
3-seriatae subcoriaceae marginaliter rubro-tinctae ovatae vel 
late oblongae plerumque 3-4 mm longae et 2.0-2.5 mm latae apice 
rotundatae subscariosae extus glabrae; paleae scariosae suboblong- 
ae ca. 3 mm longae apice obtusae. Flores radii ca. 73; corollae 
albae? ca. 8 mm longae, tubis ca. 2 mm longis dense hispidulis, 
limbis oblongis ca. 6 mm longis et 4 mm latis apice valde tri- 
lobatae extus inferne pilosulis. Achaenia radii ca. 2 mm longa 
glabra; pappus nullus. Flores disci 25-30; corollae flavae 
3.5-4.0 mm longae extus plerumque dense pilosulae, tubis ca. 1.2 
mm longis, faucis abrupte campanulatis ca. 1.7 mm longis superne 
sparse pilosulis, lobis 0.6-0.7 mm longis et latis; thecae 
antherarum ca. 1.2 mm longae, cellulis endothecialibus in pariet- 
ibus tranversalibus 3-4-noduliferis; appendices antherarum non 
glanduliferae. Achaenia disci ca. 2.5 mm longa sparse setifera; 
Squamae pappi ca. 15 subulatae plerumque 3.0-4.8 mm longae. 

Grana pollinis 30-32 pm in diam. 

TYPE: ECUADOR: Tungurahua: Am Tungurahua-Volcan. 2000 nm, 
30.10.1879. Lehmann 330 (Holotype US). The specimen was deter- 
mined as Calea integrifolia Hemsl. by Klatt. 

Alloispermum lehmannii is most notably distinct by the small 
disk corollas and short paleae. The single specimen also shows 
a more flexuous habit and more elongate branches of the inflores- 
cence than is characteristic of the related A. caracasanum. The 
type locality on the Volcan Tungurahua seems distinctly isolated 
from the ranges of A. catacasanum and A. sodiroi to the north. 


Alloispermum sodiroi (Hieron.) H.Robinson, comb. nov. Calea 
sodiroi Hieron., Bot. Jahrb. 29: 51. 1900. Sabazia sodiroi 
(Hieron.) Turner, Wrightia 5 (8): 305. 1976. The species is most 
obviously distinct from A. caracasanum by the strongly cymose 
lax inflorescence with the obviously older terminal heads being 
greatly over-topped by the lateral branches. Dr. Cuatrecasas 
also informs me that his recent collection of an 8-rayed form 
from Cundinamarca, Colombia (Cuatrecasas & Jaramillo 28792), is 


1979 Robinson, Alloispermum, Galinsoga, & Tridax 427 


a more herbaceous subscandent plant. In contrast, A. caracasanum 
is definitely a shrub. The paleae of the latter are also less 
toothed or lobed. 

The transfer of the species from Calea to Sabazia by Turner 
(1976) raises the question of why this species was singled out 
from among its relatives such as A. caracasanum, but it also 
points up the serious problem of generic distinction between 
Sabazia and Alloispermum. A brief review of the species has not 
shown me any simple answer with an obvious point of separation, 
but it has left me with the impression of a rather uniform 
Alloispermum having larger plants, distinctly branching inflores- 
cences, ray achenes always lacking a pappus while a pappus is 
normally present on the disk achenes, and endothecial cells with 
multiple thickenings. Sabazia, as represented by its type, S. 
humilis (H.B.K.) Cass. (Longpre, 1970), is a smaller herbaceous 
plant with a strong tendency toward solitary long-pedunculate 
heads, it has a pappus that is short or lacking, and has mostly 
single thickenings on the transverse walls of the endothecial 
cells. Problems arise in such species as Sabazia palmeri (A.Gray) 
Urbatsch & Turner of Mexico, which has the habit of Alloispermun, 
but has a distinct pappus on the ray achenes, and in S. trianae 
(Hieron.) Longpre of Colombia and S. densa Longpre of Costa Rica 
which have the habit of Sabazia but have the pappus and some 
other features of Alloispermum, It is not certain that the habit 
differences represent a single phyletic trend. The pollen sizes 
show a tendency to be larger in Alloispermum, but they are also 
larger in the southern species of Sabazia. The species of Sabazia 
from Mexico that have been examined, including S. palmeri, have 
small dense papillae on the inner surfaces of the disk corolla 
lobes. Alloispermum has consistently larger papillae on the 
lobes and has a uniform pubescence to the outer surfaces of the 
lobes. Sabazia densa and S. trianae also have larger papillae, 
though not exactly as in Alloispermum. Sabazia acoma (Blake) 
Longpre of Colombia has larger papillae, but differs by the lack 
of hairs on the outer surfaces of the disk corolla lobes. 

I am not prepared to see such extremes as Alloispermum and 
typical Sabazia placed in the same genus. For the present, lL 
have left in Sabazia all those species that lack the precise 
characters of Alloispermum, having either solitary long-peduncul- 
ate heads or a different form of pappus. For others who might 
favor a broader genus concept, it should be noted that the name 
Alloispermum has priority over Sabazia. 


Alloispermum weberbaueri H.Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae subscandentes suffruticosae ad 2 m altae mediocriter 
ramosae. Caules brunnescentes teretes leniter striati sparse 
hirsuti, pilis superioribus densioribus. Folia opposita, petiol- 
is 3-8 mm longis; laminae lanceolatae 5.0-7.5 cm longae et 1-2 cm 
latae base obtuse vel acute cuneatae margine integrae vel remote 
serratae apice anguste acuminatae supra tenuiter pilosae subtus 


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tenuiter pilosae et in nervis dense hirsutae fere ad basem tri- 
nervatae, nervis secundariis maxime ascendentibus. Inflorescent- 
iae laxe corymbosae, ramis ultimis plerumque 2-5 cm longis sensim 
dense pilosulis et interdum stipitato-glanduliferis. Capitula ca. 
10 mm alta et sine radiis 8-10 mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 15 
ca. 3-seriatae subcoriaceae flavescentes ovatae vel oblongae 3-7 
mm longae et 2-3 mm latae apice subacutae subscariosae extus 
glabrae; paleae scariosae lanceolatae 6-7 mm longae inferne 1.5- 
2.0 mm latae apice anguste acutae margine in part erosae vel 
dentatae. Flores radii plerumque 10-12; corollae albae 7-12 mm 
longae, tubis 2.5-3.0 mm longis dense hispidulis, limbis oblongis 
5-9 mm longis et 3-4 mm latis apice distincte trilobatae extus 
inferne pilosulis. Achaenia radii 2.0-2.3 mm longa glabra; pappus 
nullus vel raro unisquamellosus., Flores disci ca. 30-45; corollae 
viridi-flavae ca. 6 mm longae extus plerumque dense pilosulae, 
tubis 1.7-2.0 mm longis, faucis 3.0-3.5 mm longis superne sparse 
pilosulis, lobis 0.7-0.9 mm longis et 0.6-0.7 mm latis; thecae 
antherarum ca. 1.8 mm longae, cellulis endothecialibus in pariet- 
ibus transversalibus 3-4-noduliferis; appendices antherarum non 
glanduliferae. Achaenia disci ca. 2.3 mm longa plerumque sparse 
setifera; squamae pappi plerumque ca. 20 subulatae plerumque ca. 
4.5 mm longae raro nullae. Grana pollinis ca. 30-32 pm in diam. 

TYPE: PERU: Ayacucho: Prov. Huanta: Choimacota Valley. Alt. 
2900-3000 m. Evergreen bush-wood. Climbing shrub. Ray-fls. 
white, disk-fls. yellow. Feb. 28-Mar. 10, 1926. A.Weberbauer 
7581 (Holotype US). PARATYPE: PERU: Ayacucho: Ccarrapa, between 
Huanta and Rio Apurimac; alt. 1200 meters; open hillside. Herb, 
to 7 ft, with divaricate branches; rays white; florets greenish 
yellow. May 5, 6, 1929. Killip & A.C.Smith 22422 (US). 

Alloispermum weberbaueri is distinct among the South Amer- 
ican species by the numerous rays in the heads. The rather lax 
inflorescence and the more scandent habit further distinguish the 
species from A. caracasanum. The paratype specimen is from the 
same region as the holotype and is obviously the same species, 
but it has no pappus on either the ray or disk achenes. The 
latter condition evidently represents that calvous-achened 
condition that occurs sporadically in the Asteraceae and which is 
characteristic of the ray achenes of all species presently placed 
in Alloispermum. 

The species range in southern Peru is widely disjunct from 
other members of the genus. The nearest approach is A. lehmannii 
of central Ecuador. 


Galinsoga 


The genus has been revised recently by Canne (1977), and has 
been broadened to include such elements as Sabazia trifida Fay 
and Tricarpha durangensis Longpre. The genus is further extended 
here to include the following related new species from Venezuela. 


1979 Robinson, Alloispermum, Galinsoga, & Tridax 429 


Galinsoga macrocephala H.Robinson, sp. noy. 


Plantae herbaceae annuae? mediocriter ramosae ca. 30 cm altae. 
Caules purpurascentes teretes leniter striati sparse albo-hirsuti. 
Folia opposita, petiolis 2-5 mm longis; laminae ovatae plerumque 
12-20 mm longae et 3-13 mm latae base obtuse cuneatae et perbrev- 
iter acuminatae margine multo serrulatae apice acutae vel breviter 
acuminatae supra in sicco atro-virides subtus pallidiores utrinque 
dense pilosae fere ad basem ascendentiter trinervatae. Inflores- 
centiae diffusae laxe plerumque alterne ramosae pauci-capitatae, 
ramis 9-27 mm longis hirtellis et stipitato-glanduliferis. Capit- 
ula late campanulata ca. 8 mm alta et 7-8 mm lata; squamae involu- 
cri ca. 25 flavo-virides subimbricatae membranaceae late oblongae 
3-6 mm longae et 2.0-2.5 mm latae apice obtusae vel acutae margine 
anguste scariosae minute setuliferae extus glabrae 4-6-pallido- 
maculatae; receptacula conica; paleae interiores minores scariosae 
facile deciduae. Flores radii ca. 14; corollae rubro-purpuras-— 
centes ca. 6 mm longae, tubis 4.5 mm longis dense breviter hispid- 
ulis, limbis minute subquadratis ca. 1.5 mm longis et 1 mm latis 
apice distincte trilobatis. Flores disci ca. 25; corollae flavae 
3.5-4.0 longae, tubis angustis 2.0-2.5 mm longis dense breviter 
hispidulis, faucis late infundibularibus ca. 1 mm longis inferne 
sparse hispidulis, lobis ca. 0.4 mm longis et 0.3 mm latis extus 
superne pauce breviter puberulis; thecae antherarum ca. 0.5 mm 
longae; appendices antherarum anguste ovatae glabrae. Achaenia 
obovata ca. 2.7 mm longa et 0.7 mm lata glabra; setae pappi 
numerosae fusiformes perfacile deciduae plerumque 1.0-1.5 mm 
longae. Grana pollinis 27-30 pm in diam. 

TYPE: VENEZUELA: Merida: El Delgadito ad El Portochuelo, 

2700 m. 18 XI 1976. A.Charpin, F.Jacquemoud & L.Ruiz-teran 13531 
(Holotype US). 

The new species has the general habit of Galinsoga, and it 
keys to that genus in the partial key to the genera of the 
Galinsoginae by Canne (1978). Also, the short ray flowers are 
very reminiscent of the ray of G. quadriradiata R.& P., and the 
anthers are small as in other members of the genus (Powell, 1965). 
The readily deciduous setiform pappus of the new species differs 
from the forms traditionally included in the genus, but a similar 
form is found in one Mexican species, G. formosa Canne (=Sabazia 
trifida Fay), included in the genus by Canne (1977). The new 
species remains unique in the genus by the comparatively large 
size of the heads. The peripheral paleae do not form complexes 
with the inner involucral bracts as in typical Galinsoga. 

The extremely deciduous nature of the pappus setae makes an 
exact count impossible. A guess would be about 10 per achene, 
and they are present on both the ray and disk achenes. 


Tridax 


After careful consideration, the following new species is 
placed in the genus Tridax. 


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Tridax moorei H.Robinson sp. nov. 

Plantae herbaceae vel inferne lignosae perennes multo ramosae 
ad 12 cm altae. Caules pallide rubrescentes teretes albo-strigosi. 
Folia opposita, petiolis ca. 1 mm longis; laminae lineares 6-9 mm 
longae et ca. 1 mm latae base anguste cuneatae margine integrae 
apice anguste obtusae supra lucidae sparse strigoso-pilosae subtus 
anguste subcarnosae plerumque in nervis primariis et marginis 
strigoso-pilosae, nervis secundariis indistinctis subnullis. 
Inflorescentiae diffusae in ramis terminales unicapitatae, pedun- 
culis plerumque 1-3 cm longis strigoso-pilosis. Capitula campan- 
ulata 7-8 mm alta et 5-6 mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 20 tri- 
seriatae subimbricatae membranaceae flavescentes vel in parte 
rubro-tinctae lanceolatae 2.5-5.5 mm longae plerumque 1.0-1.5 mm 
latae apice acutae margine subscariosae et laxe fimbriatae extus 
leniter striati et sparse pilosae; receptacula alte conica; paleae 
lineares ca. 5 mm longae. Flores radii ca. 8; corollae albae, 
tubis ca. 2.5 mm longis minute pilosulis, limbis oblongis ca. 5 
mm longis et 2 mm latis apice distincte trilobatis. Flores disci 
ca. 303 corollae albae? ca. 4.5 mm longae, tubis ca. 1 mm longis 
dense scabridulis, faucis cylindraceis vel anguste infundibular- 
ibus ca. 2.5 mm longis extus glabris, lobis triangularibus ca. 

0.6 mm longis et 0.45 mm latis extus minute puberulis; thecae 
antherarum ca. 1.5 mm longae, cellulis endothecialibus in pariet- 
ibus transversalibus uni-noduliferis; appendices antherarum non 
glanduliferae; ramis stylorum 1.0-1.3 mm longis. Achaenia ca. 2 
mm longa dense setifera; setae pappi in achaeniis radii paucae 
breves plerumque 0.5 mm longae; setae pappi in achaeniis disci ca. 
16 anguste subulatae plerumque 3.5-4.5 mm longae barbellatae vel 
subplumosae inferne aliquantum alatae. Grana pollinis ca. 30 pm 
in diam. 

TYPE: MEXICO: Hidalgo: Dist. Actopan: Slopes and summit of 
Cerro de las Canteras, near Puerto de San Pedro, Km. 104 on high- 
way from Pachuca to Actopan, alt. 2500-2700 m. In crevices of 
cliffs on east face of summit. Flowers white. 12 October 1946. 
H.E.Moore, Jr. 1487 (Holotype BH). 

The Moore specimen has been held for a number of years as an 
undescribed member of the Galinsoginae because precise generic 
position was not clear. The barbellate to subplumose pappus 
setae and the more or less solitary heads might indicate Tridax, 
but the lack of inner lobes on the ray corollas and the lack of a 
gland on the anther appendage are unusual for that genus. In the 
partial key to the genera of the Galinsoginae by Canne (1978) the 
species falls into Sabazia, but the species does not fit into the 
concept of the latter genus derived from the present study of the 
Alloispermum-Sabazia relationship. A position in Tridax ultimate- 
ly seems best, with the realization that a new genus may eventual- 
ly need to be established for the species. 


1979 Robinson, Alloispermum, Galinsoga, & Tridax 431 
Literature Cited 


Canne, J. 1977. A revision of the genus Galinsoga (Compositae: 
Heliantheae). Rhodora 79: 319-389, 


- 1978, Circumscription and generic relationships of 
Galinsoga (Compositae: Heliantheae). Madrofo 25: 81-93. 


Longpre, E. K. 1970.-. The systematics of the genera Sabazia, 
Selloa and Tricarpha (Compositae). Publ. Mus. Michigan State 
Univ., Biol. series 4 (8): 283-383. 


Powell, A. M. 1965. Taxonomy of Tridax (Compositae). Brittonia 
17: 47-96. 


Robinson, H. 1978a. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). IX. 
Restoration of the genus Alloispermum. Phytologia 38: 411- 
412. 


- 1978b. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). XV. 
Various new species and new combinations. Phytologia 41: 
33-38 e 


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Tridax mooret H. Robinson, Holotype, Bailey Hortorium, 
Cornell University. 


STUDIES IN THE HELIANTHEAE (ASTERACEAE). XXII. 


TWO NEW SPECIES OF CALEA FROM BRASIL 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560 


A recent paper describing four species of Calea from Brasil 
(Robinson, 1979), provided results of efforts to identify members 
of the genus in Bahia and some adjacent parts of Brasil. Since 
the completion of that paper, two additional new species have 
been encountered, from Minas Gerais and Bahia, both showing 
superficial resemblance to C. rotundifolia (Less.) Baker. The 
new species from Minas Gerais proves to have represented in the 
U.S. National Herbarium by a Belem collection received many years 
ago under the latter name. Receipt of a second specimen of the 
Belem collection and the recent collection of similar material by 
R. M. King in Bahia, has led to the present re-evaluation. The 
two new species are more closely related to each other than to 
any other members of the genus, but they are amply distinct, as 
noted below. 

It has also been noted that the nom. nov. proposed in the 
recent paper was superfluous, the name Calea marginata was 
proposed for the latter homonym, Calea longtfolita (DC.) Baker, by 
Blake in 1937 in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 
22%. 387. 


CALEA BELEMIT H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae ca. 1 m altae mediocriter ramosae. 
Caules brunnescentes teretes subangulati perdense hirtelli. 
Folia opposita, petiolis brevibus 2-4 mm longis; laminae coriaceae 
orbiculares vel suborbiculares plerumque 2.5-5.0 cm longae et 2.0- 
4.5 cm latae base late rotundatae margine multo grosse crenato- 
serratae apice rotundatae vel vix obtusae supra erecte pilosae 
subscabrae subtus hirtellae vel tenuiter pilosae in nervis et 
nervulis valde reticulo-prominentes, nervis secundariis subpin- 
natis, in binis submediis ascendentioribus. Inflorescentiae 
terminales in ramis dense corymbosis, ramis plerumque oppositis 
hirtellis, ramis ultimis 0-3 mm longis. Capitula interdum 
tripliciter sessiliter aggregata cylindrica 14-17 mm alta et 3-4 
mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 18 subimbricatae 5-6-seriatae 
flavo-rufescentes late ovatae vel oblongae 2-10 mm longae et 2-3 
mm latae apice breviter obtusae vel rotundatae minute fimbriatae 
extus plerumque glabrae basilares vis herbaceae et pauce hirtell- 
ae: paleae 1-2 bracteiformes ca. 10 mm longae. Flores 5 in 
capitulo discoidei; corollae flavae ca. 7.5 mm longae extus 
glabrae, tubis ca. 3 mm longis, faucibus late campanulatis ca. 2 
mm longis, lobis oblongo-lanceolatis ca. 2.5 mm longis et 0.8 mm 


1979 Robinson, New species of Calea 437 


latis; thecae antherarum ca. 2.5 mm longae; appendices antherarum 
extus glanduliferae. Achaenia 7.0-7.5 mm longa base longe 
anguste stipitata inferne subcarnosa et glabra ceterum dense 
setifera, setis leniter flexuosis biseriatis multi-cellularibus; 
squamellae pappi ca. 15 anguste ellipticae superne subulatae ca. 
3 mm longae ad 0.2 mm latae margine erosae extus minute spiculi- 
ferae. Grana pollinis plerumque 50-55 pm in diam. valde breviter 
spinosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Minas Gerais: Rodovia BR 4, Km 924. Mata Cipd. 
Planta de 1 m de altura. Capitulo amarelo, invdélucro esverdeado. 
27.6.1968. R. P. Belem 3763 (Holotype US). 

For the distinctions of the species see the discussion under 
C. morit sp. nov. 


CALEA MORII H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae 1-2 m altae mediocriter ramosae. Caules 
brunnescentes subhexagonales perdense hirtelli. Folia opposita, 
petiolis 2-9 mm longis; laminae late oblongae vel suborbiculares 
2.5-6.0 cm longae et 1.6-5.3 cm latae base late rotundatae 
margine subtiliter serrulatae apice late rotundatae vel obtusae 
et minute mucronulatae supra hirtellae et sparse glandulo- 
punctatae subtus dense breviter tomentellae et inter nervulas 
dense glandulo-punctatae in nervis et nervulis valde reticulo- 
prominentes. Inflorescentiae terminales in ramis densae 
corymbosae, ramis plerumque oppositis perdense hirtellis vel 
subtomentosis. Capitula plerumque tripliciter sessiliter 
aggregata cylindrica ca. 12-14 mm alta et 3-4 mm lata; squamae 
involucri subimbricatae ca. 18 ca. 5-seriatae latae ovatae vel 
oblongae 3-9 mm longae ad 3 mm latae apice obtusae vel breviter 
acutae margine et extus plerumque in partibus superioribus 
tomentellae extus sparse glandulo-punctatae, bracteae interiores 
praeter apicem glabrae, bracteae exteriores ad apicem vix 
herbaceae; paleae 1-2 bracteiformes ca. 10 mm longae apice 
breviter acutae glabrae margine plerumque uni-dentatae. Flores 
4-5 in capitulo discoidei; corollae flavae ca. 7 mm longae, tubis 
ca. 2.5-2.8 mm longis extus dense glandulo-punctatis, faucibus 
distincte campanulatis ca. 2 mm longis extus glabris, lobis 
oblongo-lanceolatis ca. 2.5 mm longis et 0.8 mm latis superne 
dense glandulo-punctatis; thecae antherarum ca. 3 mm longae; 
appendices antherarum extus glanduliferae. Achaenia 5.5-6.0 mm 
longa base breviter stipitata inferne carnosa et subglabra 
ceterum dense setifera et glandulo-punctata, setis leniter 
flexuosis biseriatis multi-cellularibus; squamellae pappi ca. 13 
anguste oblongae superne breviter subulatae vel subtruncatae ca. 
3 mm longae extus minute spiculiferae. Grana pollinis plerumque 
50-60 pm in diam. valde breviter spinosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municipio de Rio de Contas. Base de 
Pico das Almas, a 18 km ao NW de Rio de Contas. Elev. 1300 nm. 
Common shrubs 1-1 meters tall, flowers yellow. July 22, 1979. 
R. M. King, S. Mort, T. S. Santos & J. Hage 8097 (Holotype RB, 


438 PB TOL, Oxby Th Vol. 44, No. 7 


isotypes CEPEC, US). PARATYPES: BRASIL: Bahia: Munic{pio de Rio 
de Contas. Base de Pico das Almas, a 18 km ao NW de Rio de 
Contas. Elev. 1300 m. Shrub one meter tall, flowers yellow. 
July 24, 1979. R. M. King, S. Mori, T. S. Santos & J. Hage 8121 
(CEPEC, US); Municipio de Mucug@, a 3 km ao S de Mucugé. Na 
estrada que vai par Jussiape. Elev. ca. 1000 m. Shrub 2 meters 
tall, flowers yellow. July 26, 1979. R. M. King, S. Mort, T. S. 
Santos & J. Hage 8161 (CEPEC, US). 

Both C. belemit and C. morii can be distinguished readily 
from C. rotundifolia by the lack of ray flowers and by the lack 
of the more herbaceous-tipped lower involcral bracts. In both of 
the new species, the outermost flowers of the heads sometimes 
lack anthers, but the corollas are in no way asymmetric. The 
only previously described discoid member of the species complex 
is C. lantanotdes Gardn. which has 6-8 flowers in the head, and 
has longer linear-lanceolate pappus setae that reach more than 
3/4 the length of the corolla. 

In comparison of the two new species, Calea belemit differs 
from C. morii initially by the more rounded, more serrate, less 
pubescent leaves, and by the mostly glabrous involucral bracts. 
In details of the florets, C. belemit has the corollas glabrous, 
the achenes narrow with a long-stipitate base, and the pappus 
squamae narrowly elliptical with subulate tips. In C. mortz, the 
tube and lobes of the corolla are densely glandular-punctate on 
the outer surface, the achenes are broad with stout bases, and 
the pappus squamae are more oblong with generally blunt or 
retuse tips. Also, the throat of the corolla is generally short- 
er and more abruptly expanded at the base in C. belemtt. 


Literature Cited 
Robinson, H. 1979. Studies in the Heliantheae (Asteraceae). 


XIX. Four new species of Calea from Brasil. Phytologia 
44 (4): 270-279. 


Robinson, New species of Calea 439 


PLANTAS ih) BRASIL 
Regiio # 
Calea rotundi‘olia Saker 


Det. G. Barroso, 1971 


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2648074 


Calea belemit H. Robinson, Holotype, United States 
National Herbarium. Photos by Victor E. Krantz, Staff 
Photographer, National Museum of Natural History. 


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Calea mortt H. Robinson, Holotype, 
Rio de Janeiro. 


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Calea enlargements of heads: Top. C. belemit. Botton. 
C. morit. 


TWO NEW GENERA OF VERNONIEAE (ASTERACEAE) FROM BRASIL 


HETEROCYPSELA AND PSEUDOSTIFFTIA 


Harold Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


Brasil is a major center of diversity for the Vernonieae, 
and of the 70 genera listed by Jones (1977) in his review of the 
tribe, 27 occur in that country. Many of the genera are endemic 
to Brasil, including all of the typical element of the subtribe 
Lychnophorinae. Additional undescribed genera are to be expected, 
from both re-evaluation of previously described species, and from 
the discovery of totally undescribed entities. Two genera of the 
latter type are described here, Heterocypsela from the State of 
Minas Gerais and Pseudostifftta from Bahia, the former distin- 
guished by the markedly dimorphic achenes in the head, and the 
latter showing an incrassate style form unlike those in any other 
members of the Vernonieae. 


HETEROCYPSELA ANDERSONII H. Robinson, genus et sp. nov. 

Plantae herbaceae perennes 1.5 m altae. Caules fulvescentes 
teretes striati glandulo-punctati et evanescentiter appresse 
piliferi, pilis T-formibus sessilibus, internodis ad 7 cm longis. 
Folia alterna membranacea inferiora base petioliformia superiora 
subsessilia, petiolis ad 5 mm longis; laminae inferiores oblan- 
ceolatae plerumque ca. 18 cm longae et ca. 6 cm latae base anguste 
cuneatae attenuatae margine superne sensim argute serrulatae apice 
subabrupte argute acuminatae; laminae superiores lanceolatae vel 
oblongo-lanceolatae plerumque 7-14 cm longae et 2-4 cm latae base 
subrotundatae vel obtusae margine argute serrulatae apice leniter 
argute acuminatae supra sparse evanescentiter appresse piliferae 
subtus dense glandulo-punctatae et densius appresse piliferae, 
pilis T-formibus, nervis secundariis utrinque 8-10 ca. 45 
ascendentibus, nervulis indistinctis. Inflorescentiae valde 
cymosae, ramis secundariis ad 14 cm longis, ramis ultimis 5-30 mm 
longis dense canescentiter piliferis. Capitula late campanulata 
ca. 15 mm alta et 12-15 mm lata; squamae involucri 70 subimbri- 
catae ca. 6-seriatae 3-8 mm longae, exteriores lineares vel fili- 
formes laxe patentes, ceterum base ovatae vel oblongo-lanceolatae 
ad 1.8 mm latae apice distincte caudato-acuminatae in acuminis 
1.5-3.5 mm longae margine dense breviter fimbriatae vel superne 
minute scabridulae extus scabridulae inferne callose albo-striatae 
in medio viridi-vittatae albo-marginatae superne interdum rubo- 
tinctae; receptacula plana glabra. Flores ca. 60-70 in capitulo. 
Corollae disciformes purpureae anguste infundibulares ca. 9 mm 
longae, tubis 3.5-4.5 mm seats Oe sensim angustis inferne 


1979 Robinson, Heterocypsela & Pseudostifftia 443 


glabris superne dense hirtellis, faucibus ca. 2 mm longis inferne 
hirtellis superne sensim scabridulis, lobis recurvatis linearibus 
ca. 3 mm longis et 0.4 mm latis extus scabridulis apice perdense 
scabridulis; filamenta in parte inferiore tenua in parte super- 
iore distincta ca. 0.2 mm longa; thecae antherarum ca. 2.7 mm 
longae; appendices antherarum anguste ovatae ca. 0.5 mm longae et 
0.3 mm latae apice subobtusae abaxialiter et in connectivis 
sparse minute glanduliferae; basi stylorum distincte parve 
noduliferi; styli superne in scapis et ramis dense longe scabrid- 
ulae, ramis filiformibus ca. 2 mm longis. Achaenia biformia; 
achaenia exteriora obcompressa triangularis ca. 3 mm longa et 2 
mm lata glabra laevia in marginis lateralibus distincte alata; 
cellulis superficialibus achaeniorum subquadratis 12-25 pm in 
diam. in partibus collenchymatis crystalliferis; pappus multi- 
setosus perfacile deciduus, setae plerumque ca. 4 mm longae 

setae breviores ad 0.7 mm longae; achaenia interiora prismatica 
immatura ad: 2 mm longa setifera; setae pappi aliquantum persis-— 
tentes ca. 40 plerumque ca. 5 mm longae base tenues supra basem 
latiores, seriebus exteriores nullis. Grana pollinis 40-50 pm in 
diam. valde lophorata, cristis altis minute multo spinuliferis, 
spinis majoribus nullis (reticulation mostly the V. cognata-type 
of Stix, 1960, with polar areole, variations involve a wall 
partially separating the area of the pore from the upper and 
lower extensions of the colpar areole, and the polar areole 
sometimes being 5-sided rather than 6-sided. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Minas Gerais: 15 km by road W. of Janudria on 
road to Serra das Araras; elev. 575-650 m; hill of raw jagged 
limestone and tall forest at its base. Herb 1.5 m tall, with 
perennial base; flowers purple; limestone. 20 April 1973. 
William R. Anderson, P. A. Fryxell, S. R. Hill, R. Rets dos 
Santos & R. Souza 9223 (Holotype UB, isotype US). 

Heterocypsela is named after the strikingly dimorphic 
achenes of the head, the most extreme example of such dimorphism 
seen in the tribe. Two other genera of the tribe have some 
achene dimorphism, Lychnophoropsts Sch. Bip. and Pithecoseris 
Mart. in DC., both from Brasil and both members of the subtribe 
Lychnophorinae, having clustered heads and only 3-15 flowers in 
each head. In these genera the outer achenes differ only in 
being glabrous and in having a somewhat differentiated pappus. 
The pappus elements of the inner achenes are usually more per- 
sistent and sometimes broader. As such, the two Brasilian genera 
do not seem closely related to the new genus. 

Heterocypsela is evidently more closely related to the 
fleshy herbaceous Dipterocypsela Blake of Colombia. Both genera 
have numerous flowers in the head and both have the outer achenes 
obcompressed with wings on the lateral margins that extend 
upward as short teeth beside the pappus. In Dipterocypsela the 
comparatively immature condition of the inner flowers in the Type 
leaves the question of dimorphism uncertain, but at least some 
achenes inside the outer series seem to be as winged and glabrous 


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as those of the outer series. The most basic distinction 
between Heterocypsela and Dtpterocypsela is the actinomorphic 
corolla of the former, the latter genus being one of the notable 
examples of asymmetric corollas in the Vernonieae. Diptero- 
cypsela also has the heads sessile on well-developed serially- 
cymose inflorescence branches, and in spite of the general 
similarity to Heterocypsela, it seems likely that the two genera 
have arisen from different though related elements within the 
large genus Vernonia. 

The specimen of the new genus was originally put aside 
because of the distinctive appearance of the long-pedunculate 
heads and the long-attenuate involucral bracts. The species has 
a superficial resemblance to Vernonia subulata Baker, but the 
latter is an annual with dense spreading oxylepidous involucral 
bracts that are evenly tapering from their base. 


PSEUDOSTIFFTIA KINGII H. Robinson, genus et sp. nov. 

Plantae erectae fruticosae vel subarborescentes ad 2 m altae 
mediocriter ramosae. Caules teretes striati appresse fulvo- 
puberuli vel sublepidoti. Folia alterna, petiolis ca. 5 mm 
longis base subabrupte latioribus; laminae coriaceae distincte 
obovatae vel cuneiformes plerumque 4.5-8.5 cm longae et 2.5-7.0 
cm latae base distincte cuneatae margine integrae apice truncatae 
vel leniter retusae supra et subtus appresse puberulae vel sub- 
lepidotae, nervis primariis percurrentibus vel submucronatis, 
nervis secundariis pinnatis utrinque ca. 8 ca. 45° ascendentibus, 
nervis et nervulis utrinque prominulis. Inflorescentiae copiose 
thyrsoideo-paniculatae in ramis dense corymbosae, bracteis 
superioribus subulatis ca. 1.5 mm longis, ramis ultimis plerumque 
1-3 mm longis sublepidotis. Capitula anguste campanulata vel 
cylindrica uniflora, involucro ca. 7 mm alto et 2.5-3.0 mm lato; 
squamae involucri ca. 18 subimbricatae ca. 5-seriatae valde 
inaequilongae ovatae vel lineari-lanceolatae 1.5-6.0 longae et 
1.0-1.7 mm latae superne rubrescentes margine dense fimbriatae 
apice breviter acutae extus leniter distincte uni-costatae sub- 
evanescentiter sublepidotae; squamae interiores facile deciduae; 
receptacula glabra. Flores 1 in capitulo; corollae disciformes 
purpureae subcarnosae anguste infundibulares 12-13 mm longae, 
tubis 6-7 mm longis cylindraceis glabris, faucibus indistinctis 
ca. 1.5 mm longis extus glandulo-punctatis, lobis leniter vel 
distincte incurvatis lanceolatis 4.0-4.5 mm longis et 1.2-1.5 mm 
latis extus dense glandulo-punctatis; filamenta in parte 
inferiore tenua in parte superiore vix discriminentia ca. 0.4- 
0.5 mm longa; thecae antherarum ca. 4 mm longae, cellulis endo- 
thecialibus elongatis in parietibus transversalibus 1-3- 
noduliferis; appendices antherarum lanceolatae ca. 1 mm longae 
et 0.4 mm latae glabrae margine involutae apice subacutae; base 
stylorum valde noduliferi, nodis abruptis ca. 1 mm latis et 0.4 
mm altis; styli superne incrassati dense scabridi, ramis stylorum 
lanceolatis ca. 2 mm longis. Achaenia prismatica ad 4.5 mm longa 


1979 Robinson, Heterocypsela &:Pseudostifftia 445 


10-costata dense breviter villosa glandulifera, setis distaliter 
plerumque uniseriatis base plerumque biseriatis; carpopodia 
breviter annuliformia ca. 0.6 mm lata et 0.1 mm alta, cellulis 
subquadratis ca. 5-seriatis; setae pappi ca. 100 plerumque 
uniformes capilliformes plerumque ca. 8 mm longae aliquantum 
persistentes superne vix latiores extus leniter complanatae, 
setae exteriores paucae breviores. Grana pollinis 60-70 pm in 
diam. subregulariter spinosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municipio de Mucugé. Estrada que liga 
Mucugé. 17 km de Mucugé. Campo rupestre. Elev. ca. 1100 meters. 
Small tree 2 meters tall, flowers purple, most past anthesis. 

July 27, 1979. FR. M. King, S. A. Mori, T. S.. dos Santos @ J. Hage 
8179 (Holotype RB, isotypes CEPEC, US). PARATYPES: BRASIL: Bahia: 
Municfpio de Rio de Contas, a 10 km ao NW de Rio de Contas. Elev. 
1000 meters. Subshrub branching from base, flowers white?, 
mostly in pappus. July 21, 1979. R. M. King, S. A. Mort, T. S. 
dos Santos & J. Hage 8084 (CEPEC, US); Pico das Almas. a 18 kms. 
NW de Rio de Contas. Elev. 1600-1850 meters. Shrub 1% meters 
tall, flowers white. July 24, 1979. R. M. King et al. 8145 
(CEPEC, US); Serra do Sincora. By Rio Cumbuca, about 3 km. N of 
Mucugé on the Andarai road. On conglomerate sandstone rock with 
partly burnt-over vegetation among rocks by river and neighboring 
hillside. Alt. ca. 850 m. Approx 41° 23'W, 13° 00'S. Shrub 2 m 
high. Leaves mid-green with rusty tomentum. Flowers mauve. Feb. 
57 1974 RS Me Hartey, 8... As Renvotze, Ce Mo Erskine’ C. A. 
Brighton & R. Pinhetro 16024 (K). 

The genus is named after the general resemblance to the 
Mutisian genus Stifftia of eastern Brasil, especially S. untflora 
Ducke. The new genus is clearly not Mutisian, however, having a 
short transparent anther appendage, having spherical spinose 
pollen with a single layer of distally branched baculae, and 
having some prominent glandular-punctations, all being characters 
indicative of the Vernonieae and rare or lacking in the Mutisieae. 

Still, the new genus is not readily placed in the Vernonieae. 
The resemblance to various members of Vernonta subgenus Criton- 
topsts appears to be misleading. There are deciduous inner 
involucral bracts and single-flowered heads in members of the 
latter subgenus in the Andes and in the equivalent Mexican 
subgroup Eremosts. These characters are similarly combined in 
the new genus, but Pseudostifftia lacks the sharply differenti- 
ated outer pappus series and the irregularly crested Lychnophora- 
Type pollen that occurs in those subgroups of Vernonia. It is 
the style of Pseudosttfftta that presents the most striking 
differences, having a broadened upper portion bearing only short 
scabridulae and broad tapering branches. This contrasts with 
the long hairs and slender branches typical of other Vernonieae. 
The style is more like various members of the Mutisieae and 
Cynareae, though the scabrosity does not terminate below in a 
pronounced rim. The size of the style has allowed some dissect- 
ion, and the cells of the mesophyll seem to contain some unusual- 


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ly elastic and viscid substance. In section, the stigmatoid 
tissue forms a pale strongly differentiated central cylinder that 
is particularly evident in the broader upper part of the shaft. 
The fleshiness seen in the style is reflected in the thick wall 
of the corolla which remains with lobes somewhat incurved after 
flowering. The filaments are also rather fleshy, and the anther 
collar is scarcely differentiated. The endothecial cells are 
unusually elongate compared to other members of the tribe, with 
thickenings restricted to the upper and lower ends. 

The pappus has a few shorter outer setae, but there is no 
sharply demarcated outer series. Such a pappus is most closely 
approached in the Vernonieae in the genus Fremanthus. The pollen 
of the new genus also approaches the type seen in Fremanthus and 
Lychnophora, but the surface is not at all lophorate and has 
almost no groupings of spines. Actually, the spines are more 
prominent than those observed in the typical Lychnophora-Type. 
In addition to other differences, the habit of the new genus, 
with its rather open thrysoid-panicle, in no way resembles the 
inflorescences in members of the subtribe Lychnophorinae. 

The new genus, in spite of some superficial resemblance to 
some species of Vernonta, seems to represent an extremely 
isolated element in the tribe. The style form may reflect the 
relationship that is already recognized between the Vernonieae 
and such tribes as the Cynareae and Mutisieae, but it is not of 
the exact form seen in the latter tribes, while its thickness is 
the primary difference from other Vernonieae. It is believed 
that the incrassated styles in the various tribes reflect a 
similar genetic potential within the subfamily, but that they do 
not reflect a direct relationship between Pseudostifftta and the 
other tribes. 

The single species of the genus is individually distinctive 
in the cuneate shape of the leaves, having tips that are usually 
broadly truncate to slightly retuse. The very immature Harley 
collection has somewhat more rounded leaf-tips, but it is evi- 
dently the same species. The collection data on two of the 
series of specimens indicates the flowers are white, but in these 
plants all the corollas had apparently fallen. 


Literature Cited 
Jones, S. B. 1977. Vernonieae-systematic review. In V. H. 
Heywood et al., eds. The Biology and Chemidtry of the 
Compositae. 503-521. 


Stix, E. 1960. Pollenmorphologische Untersuchungen an Composi- 
ten. Grana Palynol. 2 (2): 41-104. 


1979 Robinson, Heterocypsela & Pseudostifftia 447 


qERUARIO 
HVER SIDADE 
= ORASILIA 


Heterocypsela andersonii H. Robinson, Holotype, Herbdrio 
Universidade de Brasilia. Photos by Victor E. Krantz, Staff 
Photographer, National Museum of Natural History. 


448 P BY. T.6 L Q16.7 A Vol. 44, No. 7 


Heterocypsela andersonitt H. Robinson. Top. Enlargement 
of heads. Bottom. Pollen grain with pole at top, line equals 


10 pm. 


1979 Robinson, Heterocypsela & Pseudostifftia 449 


ASTERACEAE of BAHIA. BRAZIL 


Pseudostifftia kingit H. Robinson, Holotype, Jardim 
Botanico, Rio de Janeiro. 


450 PueYT0:L 0 e'r's Vol. 44, No. 7 


Top left. Enlargement 
Pollen grain, line equals 


Pseudostifftia kingit H. Robinson. 
of heads. Top right. Styles. Bottom. 


10 pm. 


STUDIES IN THE EUPATORIEAE (ASTERACEAE). CLXXVII. 


A NEW GENUS, MORITHAMNUS. 


R. M. niae H; acbiisoa & G. M. tarvecs™ 


The multiflowered members of the Eupatorieae having spirally 
inserted leaves, have their greatest concentration in the State 
of Bahia, Brasil. The genera Agrianthus, Arrojadocharits, Bahtan- 
thus, Lastolaena and Stylotrichum all occur in that region. 
Material has now been seen of another member of this group from 
Bahia which is named here as a new genus, Morithamus. 

The new genus is immediately recognizable in the field by 
its coarse leaves and candelabra-form branching. Closer 
examination shows a pappus of reduced short setae that immediate- 
ly would exclude the genus from the broad concept of Eupatortun. 
The plant is extremely viscid, the inflorescence shows ascending 
subfasciated branching with decurrent ridges, and the receptacle 
is not conical, all characters shared with the apparent closest 
relative, Bahianthus. The new genus is most obviously different 
from the latter by the larger and more succulent stems and 
leaves, the strictly eximbricate involucral bracts with firm 
slender tips, the great size of the heads with over 100 flowers, 
the setae on the ribes near the apex of the achene, and the short 
pappus with setae of more regular width. 

The resin ducts of Morithamus furnish some interesting 
comparisons with those of other related genera. The new genus 
has distinct ducts both above and below many of the veins in the 
leaves. In Agrianthus, there are large ducts in the leaves, 
perhaps the largest in the tribe, but they are in one series. In 
Bahianthus, the leaves have only resiniferous pockets which are 
not linked into ducts. In the corollas of the new genus, the 
double ducts appear again, paired along each vein of the corolla 
throat. In the other genera of the relationship, including 
Agrianthus, Arrojadocharis, Bahtanthus, and Lastolaena, the ducts 
along the veins of the corolla throat are single. 

The genus is named in honor of Dr. Scott A. Mori, Curator of 
the Herbarium at CEPEC in Itabuna, Bahia, who has greatly aided 
in the collection of this and many other Asteraceae during recent 
field work by the senior author. 


spepartment of Botany, Smithsonian Institution 
Washington, D.C., 20560. 


2 jardin Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 
ZC-20-6B Brasil. Bolsista do ONE 


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MORITHAMNUS CRASSUS R. M. King, H. Robinson & G. M. Barroso, 
genus et sp. novum Asteracearum (Eupatorieae). 

Plantae suffruticosae vel subarborescentes 1-2 m altae 
mediocriter candelabriformiter ramosae viscosae. Caules incrass- 
ati carnosi teretes subtiliter late striati glabri et glandulo- 
punctati interdum in aspectu minute lepidoti. Folia dense 
spiraliter inserta, petiolis ad ca. 2.5 cm longis distaliter 
indistincte demarcatis; laminae carnosae obovatae plerumque 8-15 
em longae et 2.5-4.5 cm latae base argute cuneatae in petiolis 
superioribus decurrentes margine integrae apice obtusae et anguste 
apiculatae supra et subtus glabrae dense glandulo-punctatae, 
nervis secundariis aliquantum irregularibus subpinnatis valde 
ascendentibus. Inflorescentiae abrupte terminales interdum 
superatae ab innovatione lateralis, ramis elongatis corymbose 
depositis ascendentibus, ramis ultimis 4-55 mm longis saepe 
extra-axillaribus, bracteis subinvolucralibus plerumque remotis 
linearibus ca. 7 mm longis. Capitula hemisphaerica ca. 9 mm 
altae et 12-14 mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 35 eximbricatae 
duplo-seriatae herbaceae lineares vel anguste lanceolatae ca. 7 
mm longae extus dense glandulo-punctatae viscosae interiores 
persistentes margine scariosae et in sicco reflexae; receptacula 
plana vel leniter convexa glabra. Flores ca. 100 in capitulo; 
corollae lavandulae ca. 5 mm longae extus plerumque glabrae, 
tubis angustioribus ca. 1 mm longis, faucibus late cylindraceis 
ca. 3.5 mm longis, ductis resiniferis in nervis binis valde 
distinctis, lobis ovato-oblongis ca. 0.8 mm longis et 0.7 mm 
latis intus brevibus extus superne glanduliferis et minute 
cristiferis; filamenta glabra in partibus superioribus 0.20-0.25 
mm longa crassa, cellulis oblongis vel linearibus in parietibus 
valde annulate ornatis; thecae antherarum lavandulae ca. 2 mm 
longae, cellulis endothecialibus quadratis vel brevioribus; 
appendices antherarum oblongo-ovatae ca. 0.3 mm longae et latae; 
basi stylorum glabri non noduliferi, rami stylorum filiformes 
dense papillosi. Achaenia ca. 3 mm longa 5-costata base breviter 
constricta plerumque glabra superne in costis dense setifera; 
carpopodia breviter cylindrica ca. 0.1 mm longa et 0.4 mm lata, 
cellulis ca. 5-seriatis quadratis ca. 25 pm latis, parietibus non 
incrassatis non noduliferis; setae pappi uniseriatae 20-25 
irregulares breves plerumque 0.5-1.0 mm longae subsquamelliformes 
margine sub-barbellatae extus planae, cellulis apicalibus argute 
acutis. Grana pollinis 27-30 pm in diametro breviter spinosa. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municfpio de Mucugé. Estrada que liga 
Mucugé com Andarai a 11 kms. Elevation ca. 1150 meters. Small 
tree 1-2 meters tall, leaves very sticky, flowers pink. July 27, 
1979. R.M.King, S.A.Mori, T.S.dos Santos & J.L.Hage 8166 
(Holotype RB; isotypes CEPEC, US). PARATYPES: BRASIL: Bahia: 
Municfpio de Mucug@. 22 km S of Andarai on road to Mucugé. Open 
area of peaty marsh. Wetter areas predominantly sedge, grasses 
and other monocots, on white sand and peat, with some small 
shrubs with scattered rocky bluffs with scrub and small trees. 


1979 King, Robinson, & Barroso, A new genus 453 


Approx. 41° 20' W, 12° 57' S. Alt. ca. 1000 m. Sub-shrub 1.5 m. 
Leaves rather fleshy, viscid. 16 February 1977. R.M.Harley, S.J. 
Mayo, R.M.Storr, T.S.Santos & R.S.Pinhetro 18728 (K, US received 
as Senecto sp.); Bahia: Serra do Andarai, sobre pedros. Dimitri 
Sucrt 10865 (RB, US). 


Acknowledgement 


We would like to thank the following people for their help 
in the project. Dr. Dourimar Nunes de Moura, Superintendent for 
International Cooperation, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvemento 
Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) Brasilia, Dr. Paulo Alvin, 
Director of Research, and Dr. Scott A. Mori, Curator of the 
Herbarium, both of the Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau (CEPEC), 
Itabuna. 


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Morithamus crassus R. M. King, H. Robinson & G. M. 
Barroso, Holotype, Jardim Botanico. Photo by Victor E. 
Krantz, Staff Photographer, National Museum of Natural History. 


STUDIES IN THE EUPATORIEAE (ASTERACEAE). CLXXVIII. 


ADDITIONS TO EITENIA AND LOMATOZOMA. 


R. M. King and H. Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560 


Recent studies of Brazilian material have encountered some 
previously undescribed species belonging to two of the small genera 
of the subtribe Praxelinae, both genera being endemic to Brazil. 
The new species of Eitenita represents a second for that genus, and 
provides further insight into the limits of variation to be 
expected. The new species of Lomatozoma brings the total for that 
genus to four, and a key is provided for that genus, which until 
recently was considered monotypic. The occurence of asymmetry in 
corollas of both genera is notable, not having been present in 
previously described members of Lomatozoma. This characteristic, 
which is unusual in the tribe Eupatorieae, has nw been noted in 
three genera of the subtribe Praxelinae: Eitenia, Lomatozoma and 
Praxeltopsts. 

The genus, Eitenta, judged on the basis of two species, is 
closest to the genus, Eupatoriopsts, with which it shares the 
elongate receptacle and the broad obcompressed mostly two-ribbed 
achenes. The leaves also are similar in the trinerved condition 
originating at the bases of the short petioles, a feature less 
evident in most other members of the Praxelitnae. The original 
description of Eitenta (King & Robinson, 1974) emphasized the 
asymmetric corollas of the peripheral flowers and the long pappus 
setae as distinctions from Eupatortopsts, both characters still 
being valid. More subtle differences include the more cylindrical 
throats of the corollas, the narrower anther thecae, the longer 
papillae inside the throat of the corolla, especially along the 
veins, and the less cylindrical receptacle. Re-examination of 
the isotype of Eupatoriopsts has shown another major distinction 
in the involucre of the latter, the bracts are thinner and more 
persistent, mostly spreading rather than falling to allow release 
of the achenes. In the latter feature, Eupatortopsis has parti- 
ally reverted from the characteristic form of involucre in the 
subtribe Praxeltinae. 


EITENIA POLYSETA R. M. King & H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae herbaceae annuae? erectae ca. 30 cm altae pauce vel 
mon ramosae. Caules pallide rubrescentes teretes striati dense 
hirsuti. Folia opposita, petiolis 1-2 mm longis; laminae 1.5-2.5 
cm longae et 0.7-1.5 cm latae base breviter acutae margine argute 
2-4-serratae vel lobatae apice argute acutae supra sparse pilosae 
subtus subcarnosae distincte ee See plerumque in 


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nervis pilosae plerumque a caulibus valde ascendentiter trinerv- 
atae, nervis subtus prominentibus. Inflorescentiae diffusae 
inferne opposite ramosae, ramis ultimis 2-4 cm longis glabris vel 
subglabris. Capitula cylindrica vel anguste campanulata ca. 8 mm 
alta et 4 mm lata base pauce glandulo-punctatae; squamae involu- 
cri 22-25 valde inaequales appressae omnino facile deciduae 
lanceolatae 2-7 mm longae ad 1.3 mm latae margine anguste 
scariosae apice caudato-attenuatae extus trinervatae glabrae. 
Flores ca. 50 in capitulo; corollae albae in floribus exterior- 
ibus asymmetricae in lobis exterioribus ca. 1.5 mm longae, tubis 
ca. 1 mm longis glabris, faucibus intus papillosis, papillis in 
nervis aliquantum longioribus, lobis plerumque ca. 0.6 mm longis 
et 0.45 mm latis intus dense longe apiculate papillosis extus 
sparse puberulis superne pauce glandulo-punctatis; thecae anther- 
arum ca. 0.7 mm longae; appendices antherarum anguste oblongae 
ca. 0.2 mm longae et 0.12 mm latae; appendices stylorum angustae, 
papillis non patentibus. Achaenia obcompressa plerumque bicost- 
ata raro tricostata ca. 2.3 mm longa superne ca. 1.0 mm lata in 
costis marginalibus ubique longe setifera caeterum sparse breviter 
setifera; setae pappi ca. 20 longiores plerumque 3.5 mm longae, 
setae tenuiores breviores interdum alterna interspersae. Grana 
pollinis defectiva 18-23 pm in diam. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Goids: Serra dos Pirineus. ca. 10 km (straight 
line) NE of Corumba de Goids; elev. 1050 m; woods and rocky 
cerrado at base of waterfall on Rio Corumb4. Herb in open sand 
near stream; flowers white. 15 May 1973. Anderson 10354 
(Holotype UB). PARATYPE: BRASIL: Distrito Federal: Universidade 
de Brasilia, disturbed cerrado. Elev. 975 m. 6 May 1966. d.S. 
Irwin, J.W.Grear, R. Souza & R.Rets dos Santos 15645 (US). 

The new species differs from FE. praxeloides by the more 
densely hirsute stems, the more acute bases of the leaves, the 
sharp tips of the leaf lobes, the predominantly opposite branch- 
ing in the inflorescence, the basal involucral bracts being 
generally larger and less numerous, the inner involucral bracts 
having longer tapering attenuate tips, the corollas being whitish 
rather than violet, and the setae of the pappus being more numer- 
ous. The pappus of the new species has up to 20 setae, of which 
10 or more are thick as in F. praxelotdes. The remaining inter- 
spersed setae are shorter and very slender. The papillae along 
the veins inside the throat of the corolla are not as long as in 
E. praxeloides, being scarcely differentiated from the papillae 
of the intervening surface. 

Both species of Eitenta occur in the Goids area, but the new 
species is from in and near the Federal District. FEzttenia 
praxelotdes is from the Munic{pio of Parafso do Norte de Goids, 
500 km to the north of the Federal District. 

Both specimens of the new species have defective pollen and 
the anthers are quite small. Correlated with, and perhaps partly 
because of the lack or near lack of pollen, the long papillae of 
the style appendages mostly remain appressed. In E£. praxelotdes, 


1979 King & Robinson, Fitenia and Lomatozoma 457 


pollen is present and not deformed, the papillae of the style are 
spreading, and the corollas are distinctly pigmented, all indicat- 
ing maintainence of active pollination mechanisms and a normal 
sexual reproduction. 


The genus Lomatozoma was recognized for over a century on 
the basis of the dissected leaves and the short pappus of the 
original species, L. artemisitifoltum. The paleaceous receptacle 
was also noted. Recent additions to the genus (King & Robinson, 
1975, 1978) have shown that the leaves are not always dissected 
and that the receptacles are usually not paleaceous. The genus 
has continued to be distinguished, however, on the basis of the 
minute carpopodium, the non-conical receptacle, and the short 
capillary pappus. The trichomes have been given little notice 
previously, but recent studies show that they are the most unique 
features of the genus. There are two types, both glandular. The 
undersurfaces of the leaves in all four species bear glandular 
dots of unusually large size. The other type of gland in the 
genus is best developed in L. artemisiifoliwm where the stems 
and leaves are covered with long-stipitate glands which are 
uniseriate. The other species have comparatively minute glands 
on the stems, various surfaces of the leaves, and on the involuc- 
ral bracts which, on microscopic examination, also prove with few 
exceptions to be uniseriate. As the exceptions suggest, these 
glands are related to the biseriate glands found elsewhere in the 
family. No other example of uniseriate hairs with glandular tips 
is presently recorded for the Asteraceae. 


LOMATOZOMA INAEQUALE R. M. King & H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae herbaceae perennes ca. 40 cm altae multo ramosae. 
Caules brunnescentes teretes striati perminute stipitato-glandul- 
iferi inferne glabrescentes pallide corticati. Folia opposita, 
petioles plerumque 2-6 mm longis; laminae ovatae plerumque 9-14 
mm longae et 5-14 mm latae base truncatae vel breviter obtusae 
margine utrinque 1-3-lobatae inter lobos inferiora profundius 
divisae apice breviter obtusae supra perminute stipitato-glandul- 
iferae subtus pallidiores dense glandulo-punctatae, glandulis 
magnis globosis. Inflorescentiae diffusae laxe cymosae, ramis 
tenuibus plerumque 1-5 cm longis perminute stipitato-glandulifer- 
ae. Capitula cylindrica ca. 6 mm alta et 2.5-3.0 mm lata; squamae 
involucri ca. 25 imbricatae omnino deciduae valde inaequales 
ovatae vel anguste oblongae 1.5-5.0 mm longae et ca. 1.0 mm latae 
superne margine et extus perminute stipitato-glanduliferae apice 
acutae vel breviter acuminatae; receptacula superne convexa. 
Flores 15-20 in capitulo; corollae lavandulae ca. 4 mm longae 
juveniter superne leniter incurvatae, tubis ca. 0.5 mm longis 
extus glabris, faucibus 2.5 mm longis intus in partibus interior- 
ibus valdius papillosis, lobis inaequalibus interioribus 0.6-0.7 
mm longis exterioribus ca. 0.9 mm longis intus perpapillosis 
extus sparse puberulis; thecae antherarum ca. 1 mm longae; append- 


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ices antherarum ovatae ca. 0.25 mm longae et 0.12-0.15 mm latae 
apice interdum subacutae. Achaenia ca. 2.2 mm longa plerumque in 
costis lateralibus setifera superne densius et longius setifera 
base dense spiculifera; setae pappi ca. 15 valde inaequales 0.4- 
2.0 mm longae patentiter marginaliter scabridulae extus papillos- 
ae, cellulis apicalibus argute acutis. Grana pollinis ca. 20 pm 
in diam. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Mato Grosso: Top and eastern slope of mountain 
ca. 9 km NE of Barra do Garcgas; elev. 500-700 m; sandstone and 
sandy soil with cerrado. Herb in crevices in sandstone; heads 
pale blue, turning pink in press. 6 May 1973. Anderson 9826 
(Holotype UB, isotype US). 

Lomatozoma tnaequale is closely related to L. huntit, also 
from Mato Grosso. Both species have shortly acute involucral 
bracts with minute glands on the outer surface. The latter 
species is most obviously distinct in the more deeply lobed and 
often tripartite leaves. The new species is unique in the genus 
in the partially zygomorphic nature of the corollas. The corollas 
have the outer lobes larger and the inside surface of the throat 
nearest the center of the head is more strongly papillose. 


The four species of Lomatozoma can be distinguished by the 
following key. 


1. Stems and leaves densely pubescent with long gland-tipped 
hairs; involucral bracts narrowly acute; paleae present 
PML Se Macphee ahaa ad a Cie (a aa De aay alte, TEP re 


1. Stems and leaves with only minute or sessile glands; involuc- 
ral bracts with short-acute or rounded tips; paleae absent 2 


2. Involucral bracts with mostly rounded or obtuse tips, minute 
glands restricted to the margin; heads with 25-27 flowers 
. . * . . * * . . . . > e . . . a > . ° . a L . andersontt 


2. Involucral bracts with mostly short-acute to apiculate tips, 
with minute glands on margins and upper outside surface; 
heads. with 10-20. flowers vo; 14 665.6:60:~0, 6 9a) «eee tt 


3. Leaves shallowly lobed; heads with 15-20 flowers; corollas 
zygomorphic, with longer outer lobes, tip of corolla 
dnourved.in. bude dio pes 0) Hk 4) we, Colne 2% deiencpl eee 


3. Lower leaves tripartite or deeply lobes; heads with ca. 10 : 
flowers; corollas symmetrical .......... J. huntit 


1979 King & Robinson, Eitenia and Lomatozoma 459 
LITERATURE CITED 


King, R. M. and H. Robinson 1974. Studies in the Eupatorieae 
(Asteraceae). CXXIV. A new genus, Eitenia. Phytologia 


28 (3): 282-285. 


1975. Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). CXLVIII. 
A new species of Lomatozoma. Phytologia 32 (3): 246-249. 


1978. Studies in the Eupatorieae (Asteraceae). CLXXIII. 
A new species of Lomatozoma. Phytologia 39 (3): 129-131. 


Acknowledgement 


We would like to thank the following people for their help 
in the project. Dr. Dourimar Nunes de Moura, Superintendent for 
International Cooperation, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvemento 
Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) Brasilia, Dr. Paulo Alvin, 
Director of Research, and Dr. Scott A. Mori, Curator of the 
Herbarium, both of the Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau (CEPEC), 


Itabuna. 


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+ HERBARIO 
2 'B UNIVE RSIDAUE 
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{PROGRAMA FLORA 


Ev tenia polvsela RM Kins 3 1 Rhes Holehpe 
Anderson 10354 


Supatoriopsis hoffmenniana Hieron, 


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(dup. teteS NM. Barronco, 1°74) 


Botanical Garden ty WR, Anderson, 
wis Gos Santos, and R. Sour 


Eitenta polyseta R. M. King & H. Robinson, Holotype, 
Herbdrio Universidade de Brasflia. Photos by Victor E. 
Krantz, Staff Photographer, National Museum of Natural History. 


1979 King & Robinson, Fitenia and Lomatozoma 461 


fH  HtRmARio 
iv) UNIVERSIDA Ng 
DE BRASILiA 


PLANTS OF THE PLANALTO DO BRASIL 
Cotiected for The New York Botunical Garden by W. RL Anderson 
&, KR. Hit, BR. Reis dos Santos, and R. Soura 


Extatio de Maio Grosso 


Lomatozoma itnaequale R. M. King & H. Robinson, Holotype, 
Herb4rio Universidade de Brasflia. 


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SEARLS TEP RES A EE a 
BEET AED LEE EEE LED EES 


Enlargements of heads: Top. Eitenta polyseta. Bottom. 
Lomatozoma tnaequatle. 


STUDIES IN THE EUPATORIEAE (ASTERACEAE). CLXXXIV. 


A NEW SPECIES OF ARROJADOCHARIS. 


R. M. King and H. Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


The genus Arrojadocharts was first described by Mattfeld 
(1923) under the name Arrojadoa, to include a single species from 
Bahia having linear spirally-inserted leaves, long peduncles, a 
reduced pappus, and a short anther appendage. The genus was 
placed in the subtribe Ageratinae as that subtribe was broadly 
defined at that time. Close relatives of the genus were not 
obvious, and Robinson and King (1977), in their review of the 
tribe Eupatorieae, placed Arrojadocharis in the Piquerta Group 
with other genera such as Ageratumn or Phania, having a reduced 
pappus or anther appendage. The position was unsatisfactory 
because the Piqueria Group is primarily Central American and 
Andean with only a few unique elements in Brasil. Also, the 
Group is opposite-leaved, with a few possible exceptions. Recent 
collections from Bahia include material of a new species that 
seems to resolve the question of the relationship of Arrojado- 
charts. 

The new species is similar to Arrojadocharits praxelotdes 
Mattf. in the linear, ascending, spirally-inserted leaves with a 
fine spreading whitish pubescence, and the eximbricate involucre, 
but it differs notably in lack of long peduncles in the inflores- 
cence and the presence of a well-developed pappus. The species 
would have been placed technically in the broad concept of 
Eupatortum and would seem an unlikely addition to Arrojadocharts. 
Nevertheless, the most important set of characters given by 
Mattfeld for his genus invlove the extremely high-conical recep- 
tacle with paleae on the lower part. The new species has recep- 
tacles and paleae of the same form. The defective pappus of the 
Mattfeld species seems better interpreted as a reduction of the 
type found among various of the Gyptoid genera, including 
Agrianthus, Morithamus and Stylotrichum. In A. praxelotdes, 
some of the specimens have no pappus, but those plants with a 
pappus have short setae that are in no way squamiform. 

The new species differs from A. praxelotdes by a few 
additional minor characters such as the pubescence of the corolla, 
but the difference in pubescence of the stems and leaves is of 
particular interest. The fine whitish hairs of both species look 
similar superficially, but those of A. praxelotdes have gland 
tips while those of the new species are non-glandular. Problems 
arise when it is noticed that the non-glandular hairs of the new 
species have the cells uiseriate and they are thus not directly 


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equivalent to the similar sized hairs of the Mattfeld species. 
Closer examination shows numerous shorter slender uniseriate 
hairs among the gland-tipped hairs of A. praxelotdes, and there 
are a few minute gland-tipped hairs scattered among the non- 
glandular hairs of the new species. The actual difference proves 
to be in the relative prominence of the two differing hair types. 

The new species is named after T. S. dos Santos, on the 
staff of the Herbarium at CEPEC in Itabuna, Bahia. 


ARROJADOCHARIS SANTOSII R. M. King and H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae herbaceae annuae vel breviter perennes ad 40 cm 
altae ascendentiter interdum suffasciculate ramosae in caulis 
foliis et bracteis involucri dense albo-hirtellae. Caules teretes 
striati persparse glandulo-punctatae. Folia spiraliter inserta 
sessilia linearia plerumque 10-15 mm long ad 1.3 mm lata margine 
integra dense pilose fimbriata apice anguste acuta supra sparse 
pilosa et glandulo-punctata subtus dense hirtella, nervis 
parallelis utrinque prominulis. Inflorescentiae in ramis termin- 
ales uni-capitatae vel pauci-capitatae, pedunculis 2-5 mm longis 
dense pilosulis. Capitula late campanulata 7-8 mm alta et ca. 
8-10 mm lata; squamae involucri ca. 20 eximbricatae 2-3-seriatae 
subaequales lineares plerumque 5-6 mm longae et ad 1 mm latae 
superne purpurascentes apice anguste acutae vel vix acuminatae 
margine et extus dense pilosulis; receptacula peralte conica; 
paleae inter flores exteriores praesentes bracteiformes sed 
angustiores et plerumque glabrae. Flores ca. 50 in capitulo; 
corollae intense lavandulae ca. 4.5 mm longae anguste infundibul- 
ares extus sparse breviter glanduliferae, tubis ca. 1.2 mm longis 
indistinctis, lobis ca. 0.8 mm longis et 0.6-0.7 mm latis 
utrinque mamillosis vel papillis; thecae antherarum ca. 1.4 mm 
longae; appendices antherarum breviter rotundatae ca. 0.15 mm 
longae et 0.25 mm latae. Achaenia ca. 2.5 mm longa sparse minute 
glandulifera et plerumque in costis subdense setifera; setae 
pappi ca. 25 plerumque 2.5-4.0 mm longae extus minute spiculifer- 
ae margine dense fimbriatae. Grana pollinis ca. 23 pm in diam. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municfpio de Rio de Contas. Pico das 
Almas, a 18 kms NW de Rio de Contas. Elev. 1600-1850 m. flowers 
dark pink. 24 July 1979. R.M.King, S.Mori, T.S. dos Santos & 
J.Hage 8143 (Holotype RB, isotypes CEPEC, US). 


Literature Cited 


Mattfeld, J. 1923. Compositae. In "Plantae LiUtzelburgianae 
brasiliensis" (R. Pilger, ed.). Notizbl. bot. Gart. Mus. 
Berl. 8: 428-451. 


Robinson, H. and R. M. King 1977. Chapter 15. Eupatorieae- 
systematic review. In The Biology and Chemistry of the 
Compositae (V.H.Heywood, J.B.Harborne & B.L.Turner, eds.). 
437-485. 


1979 King & Robinson, Arrojadocharis 465 


ASTERACEAE of BAHIA, BRAZIL 


Arrojadocharis santosii R. M. King & H. Robinson, Holotype, 
Jardim Botfnico, Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Victor E. Krantz, 
Staff Photographer, National Museum of Natural History. 


STUDIES IN THE EUPATORIEAE (ASTERACEAE). CLXXXV. 


ADDITIONS TO THE GENUS ZASIOLAENA 


R. M. King and H. Robinson 
Department of Botany 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 20560. 


Recent efforts in the study of the Eupatorieae of eastern 
and central Brasil would indicate that a great number of undescr- 
ibed taxa remain in these inadequately collected areas. The 
genus Lastolaena of Bahia is a particularly good example, where 
the few known collections almost all represent new species, and 
none of the previously known species has been recollected. It is 
a symptom of the most preliminary stage of plant exploration. 

The first member of the genus Lastolaena was recognized as 
Eupatortum blanchetit Sch.Bip. ex Baker in the Flora Brasiliensis 
(1876). Almost a hundred years later, King and Robinson (1972) 
established the genus Lastolaena for E. blanehetit and for a 
second previously undescribed species. A recent trip to Bahia by 
the senior author has now resulted in the collection of two more 
undescribed species. We provide here a review of the four 
presently known species of the genus. 

Lastolaena is most readily recognized by the spirally 
arranged obovate tomentose leaf-blades occurring with heads 
containing numerous pink or lavender flowers. The involucres are 
slightly subimbricate, and the receptacles are distinctly conical 
with at least some hairs. The style branches are usually dis- 
tinctly broadened and flattened at the tips, as in the genera 
Agrtanthus and Arrojadocharis which are apparently closely 
related. There are no hairs on the shaft of the style and no 
stipitate-glandular hairs on the corolla as in Stylotrichun, but 
the latter is also probably closely related. The pappus setae 
are almost subulate or awn-like in aspect with the lateral 
margins forming a narrow wing below. The genus Bahtanthus super- 
ficially seems like a glabrous variant of Lastolaena, but the 
former differs in numerous significant details that indicate more 
remote relationship, the inflorescence is subfasciculate in its 
branching pattern, the receptacle is plane or only slightly 
conical, the style branches are scarcely broadened or flattened 
distally, the achenes are glabrous, and the pappus setae are more 
irregular in width without the narrowly winged bases. 


Key to the species of Lastolaena 


466 


1979 King & Robinson, Genus Lasiolaena 467 


1. Leaves mostly ca. 6 mm wide, short-acute; undersurface thinly 
covered with flaccid thin-walled hairs which are concen- 
trated between the nerves, darker color and glandular dots 
of nerves evident; anther appendages with entire margin 

L. santostt 


1. Leaves mostly 7-10 mm wide, obtuse; undersurface densely 
covered with slender contorted wiry hairs which completely 
cover the nerves, glandular dots of leaves obscure or 
lacking; anther appendages minutely crenulate distally . 2 


2. Heads each on a distinct peduncle; achenes sparsely pubes- 
cent; apical cells of some pappus setae with rounded tips 
L. duartet 


2. Heads usually in pairs or in small clusters terminating 
branches of the inflorescence; achenes densely pubescent; 
apical cells of pappus setae with acute tips ...+.-.--.:- 3 


3. Mature achenes ca. 2 mm long, bearing numerous setae on 
lateral surfaces; corollas with slender hairs near tips 
of lobes L. blanehettit 


3. Mature achenes ca. 3 mm long, densely covered with glands 
on lateral surfaces, without evident non-glandular setae; 
corollas without slender hairs on lobes L. mortt 


LASIOLAENA MORII R. M. King and H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae 1.0-1.5 m altae ascendentiter ramosae. 
Caules obscure angulati superne dense tomentosi. Folia spiral- 
iter inserta, petiolis 6-7 mm longis leniter demarcatis; laminae 
late obovatae 17-25 mm longae et 10-15 mm latae base anguste 
acuminatae margine superne pauce serrulatae apice breviter obtus- 
ae vel rotundatae supra evanescentiter tomentellae non glandulo- 
punctatae subtus dense albo-tomentosae, nervis secundarius paucis 
valde ascendentibus. Inflorescentiae in ramis terminales dense 
corymbosae, ramis brevibus dense tomentosis. Capitula 2-4 sess- 
ilia in binis vel glomerulis congesta ca. 9 mm alta et 7 ™ 
lata; squamae involucri 20-25 leniter subimbricatae 2-3-seriatae 
lanceolatae vel anguste lanceolatae 4-7 mm longae ad 1.5 mm latae 
superne purpurascentes apice breviter anguste acuminatae extus 
dense hyaline glandulo-punctatae et albo-tomentosae; receptacula 
distincte conica hirsuta. Flores 12-18 in capitulo; corollae 
lavandulae vel violaceae ca. 5 mm longae in faucibus et lobis 
sparse glandulo-punctatae, tubis ca. 1.7 m longis, lobis ca. 0.8 
mm longis et 0.6 mm latis; thecae antherarum ca. 1.7 mm longae; 
appendices antherarum maturae oblongae ca. 0.5 mm longae et 0.35 
mm latae deciduae margine distaliter leniter crenulatae. Achaen- 
ia ca. 3 mm longa dense breviter glandulifera, setis non glandul- 
iferis raris vel nullis; setae pappi 35-40 plerumque 3.0-4.5 mm 


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longae, cellulis apicalibus argute acutis non deformibus. Grana 
pollinis ca. 25 pm in diam. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Munic{pio de Rio de Contas. Pico das 
Almas, a 18 kms ao NW de Rio de Contas. Elev. 1600-1850 m. 
flowers pink. 22 July 1979. R.M.King, S.Mort, T.S.dos Santos & 
J.Hage 8110 (Holotype RB; isotypes CEPEC, US). PARATYPES: BRASIL: 
Bahia: Municipio de Mucugé, a 3 km ao S de Mucugé. Na estrada que 
vai par Jussiape. Elev. ca. 1000 m. Uncommon shrubs 1% meters 
tall, flowers lavender. R.M.King, S.Mort, T.S.dos Santos & J.Hage 
8157 (CEPEC, US); Municipio de Mucugé. Estrada que liga Mucugé 
cam Andarai a 11 kms de primeiro. Elev. 1150 m. Shrub one meter 
tall, flowers pink, mostly in bud. 27 July 1979. R.M.King, 
S.Mort, T.S.dos Santos & J.Hage 8171 (CEPEC, US). 

The species is most distinctive in the larger size of the 
flower parts and the densely glanduliferous achenes which lack 
setae. The number of flowers in the head is less than any other 
species of the genus, but the number of setae in the pappus is 
greater. The apical cells of the pappus setae are unmodified, 
while those of the longer setae in L. blanchetii are congested 
and obtuse. In LZ. duartet the longer pappus setae have apical 
cells that are often enlarged with rounded ends. The number of 
flowers in the heads of the new species are not quite as variable 
as the cited span of numbers implies. The type and King 8171 
tend to have 18 flowers in the head while King 8157 tends to have 
12. 

The anther appendages of the type specimen have proved so 
fragile that none could be prepared intact. Inspection of the 
less mature paratypes showed their appendages were not fragile 
but were shorter. Under the compound microscope a zone of tissue 
is seen that may represent an area of persisting intercalary 
growth at the base of the appendage which may add to the length 
of the appendage as the flower matures. Ultimately, at full 
maturity, the zone appears to wither allowing the appendage to 
dehisce. Such fragile appendages have not been noticed in other 
species of the Asteraceae. 


LASIOLAENA SANTOSII R. M. King and H. Robinson, sp. nov. 

Plantae fruticosae ad 1 m altae ascendentiter interdum 
fasciculate ramosae. Caules leniter angulati et striati dense 
flaccide tomentosi. Folia spiraliter inserta, petiolis ca. 7 m 
longis leniter demarcatis; laminae anguste obovatae ca. 15-20 mm 
longae et 5-6 mm latae base anguste acuminatae margine superne 
multo minute serrulatae apice breviter acutae supra glandulo- 
punctatae et dense minute puberulae subtus plerumque in areolis 
flaccide tomentosae in nervis et nervulis glandulo-punctatis, 
nervis secundariis numerosis valde ascendentibus, anastomosis 
densis. Inflorescentiae in ramis terminales pauci-capitatae 
subumbellatae, ramis ca. 10-15 mm longis dense tomentellis. 
Capitula in ramis solitaria late campanulata ca. 6 mm alta et 
plerumque 6-8 mm lata; squamae involucri 30-40 leniter subimbri- 


1979 King & Robinson, Genus Lasiolaena 469 


catae 2-3-seriatae lineari-lanceolatae 3-5 mm longae ad 1 mm 
latae superne purpurascentes apice anguste acutae herbaceae extus 
glandulo-punctatae et flaccide tomentellae; receptacula distincte 
conica sparse puberula. Flores 45-65 in capitulo; corollae 
lavandulae ca. 4 mm longae in faucibus et lobis sparse glandulo- 
punctatae, tubis ca. 1.3 mm longis, lobis 0.8-0.9 m longis et 
0.5 mm latis; thecae antherarum ca. 1 mm longae; appendices 
antherarum quadratae ca. 0.25 mm longae et latae margine integrae. 
Achaenia ca. 2 mm longa dense breviter setifera et glandulifera; 
setae pappi 25-27 plerumque 2.5-3.5 mm longae superne saepe 
purpurascentes, cellulis apicalibus argute acutis non deformibus. 
Grana pollinis ca. 23 jm in diam. 

TYPE: BRASIL: Bahia: Municfpio de Rio de Contas. Pico das 
Almas, a 18 kms NW de Rio de Contas. Elev. 1600-1850 m. Shrub 
one meter tall, flowers pink. 24 July 1979. R.M.King, S.Mori, 
T.S.dos Santos & J.Hage 8138 (Holotype RB; isotypes CEPEC, US). 

Lastolaena santosti is notable for the distinctive form of 
tomentum which consists of flaccid thin-walled hairs. The hairs 
are collapsed when dry and they are often matted into small 
plate-like sheets. The other three species of the genus all have 
a denser tomentum of contorted, slender, firm-walled cells. The 
comparatively thin tomentum covers the undersurface of the leaves 
unevenly and the darker glanduliferous veins can be seen. The 
upper surface of the leaves also has glandular-punctations, a 
feature not evident in the other species. The leaves of 
L. santosit are also distinctive in their sharper apices and the 
fine serrulation of the upper margin. 


Literature Cited 


Baker, J. G. 1876. Compositae II. Eupatoriaceae. In Martius, 
Flora Brasiliensis. 6 (2): 181-374. 


King, R. M. and H. Robinson 1972. Studies in the Eupatorieae 
(Asteraceae). XCVI. A new genus, Lastolaena. Phytologia 
24 (3): 185-186. 


Acknowledgement 


We would like to thank the following people for their help 
in the project. Dr. Dourimar Nunes de Moura, Superintendent for 
International Cooperation, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvemento 
Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) Brasilia, Dr. Paulo Alvin, 
Director of Research, and Dr. Scott A. Mori, Curator of the 
Herbarium, both of the Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau (CEPEC), 
Itabuna. 


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Lastolaena morit R. M. King & H. Robinson, Holotype, 
Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro. Photos by Victor E. Krantz, 
Staff Photographer, National Museum of Natural History. 


1979 King & Robinson, Genus Lasiolaena 


ASTERACEAE of BAHIA. BRAZIL 


Lastolaena santosii R. M. King & H. Robinson, Holotype, 


Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro. 


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Lastolaena enlargements of leaves and heads. Top. 
L. mortt. Bottom. L. santostt. 


NOTES ON NEW AND NOTEWORTHY PLANTS. CXXXII 


Harold N. Moldenke 


GEUNSIA FARINOSA £. SERRATULA Mold., f. nov. 

Haec forma a forma typica speciei laminis foliorum margine 
distincte irregulariterque serrulata. 

This form differs from the typical form of the species in hav- 
ing its leaf-blades marginally very distinctly, although irregu- 
larly, serrulate, especially on the upper half. 

The type of the form was collected by Y. Fox (SAN.57700) 
along tractor trail 1963 in the Longgun area, Sg. Sakong Kechil, 
Sandakan Bay, Sandakan District, Sabah, Malaysia, on May 12, 1967, 
and is deposited in my personal herbarium. 


STACHYTARPHETA RHOMBOIDALIS var. PUBERULA Mold., var. nov. 

Haec varietas a forma typica speciei ramis ramulisque lamin- 
isque foliorum utrinque puberulis recedit. 

This variety differs from the typical form of the species 
chiefly in having its branches, branchlets, and leaf-blades de- 
cidedly puberulent and the lower leaves often shortly petiolate. 

The type of the variety was collected by Gates & Estabrook 
(no. 69) in sandy soil on rocky campo near a stream on east- 
facing hillside of exposed layered sedimentary rock and shallow 
soil, 1500 m. altitude, at Chapada dos Veadeiros, 5 km. east of 
Alto Paraiso, lat. 14° S., long. 47° W.. Goias, Brazil, on Janu- 
ary 26, 1979, and is deposited in the herbarium of the University 
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan. The collectors describe the 
plant as a loosely branched shrub to 1 m. tall, the corollas 
deep-purple with transparent dots, the style purple, and the 
stigma green. 


TEIJSMANNIODENDRON PTEROPODUM f£. CRISTATUM Mold., f. nov. 

Haec forma a forma typica speciei alis petiolorum permagnis 
latissime cristatis recedit. 

This form differs from the typical form of the species in hav- 
ing the wings on its petioles very much and quite uniformly en- 
larged in the form of a crest, the crest extending from the apex 
to the base of the petiole and about 5 cm. wide at the midpoint. 

The type of the form was collected by G. Mikil (SAN.37769) 
along a stream in primary forest on a steep valley side, Sg. So- 
sopodon, Penampang District, Sabah, Malaysia, at about 800 feet 
altitude, on December 16, 1963, and is deposited in my personal 
herbarium. 


VERBENA CAROLINA var. HIRSUTA (Mart. & Gal.) Mold., stat. nov. 
Verbena hirsuta Mart. & Gal., Bull. Acad. Brux. 11 (2): 321. 
1844. 


473 


ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENUS VITEX. XV 


Harold N. Moldenke 


VITEX DONIANA Sweet 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 44: 386, 389, & 
416-417. 1979. 


Recent collectors describe this species as a tree, 3 to over 25 
m. tall, often single-stemmed, or a middle-sized or very large 
shrub, often solitary; trunk 30--100 cm. in diameter at breast 
height; wood soft, light; sap colorless; bark rough; branchlets 


glabrous; leaves "5-lobed" [i.e., composed of 5 leaflets], very 
dark-green above, grayish beneath, glabrous; inflorescence "cov- 
ered with rusty-brown hairs"; flowers in dense axillary cymes, 
hairy, "on long pedicels [i.e., peduncles] in leaf-axils"; fruit 
"the size of a cherry", green with lighter patches or white spots 
when immature, blackish-purple when ripe, edible. The chromosome 
number is reported by the Manguenots (1962) as 2n = 32. Gossweil- 
er calls the plant a "wet hydrophyte". The corollas are said to 
have been "white" by Den Outer (19720, "yellowish or white with 
blue-purple corolla-lobes" by Hutchinson & Dalziel (1936), and 
"petals dirty-white inside with a blue lip" by Williams (1949). 
It is said to have been "blue to mauve" on Reckmans 1409 and 
"white, upper petal purple" on Richards 25816. 

Siwunmi (1973) describes the pollen as follows: "Pollen grains 

isopolar, radially symmetrical; 3-colpate; lobate-oblate spher- 
Oidal JY 25.7 t_ Bo25 022.2 pm). Sexine subtectate. NPC: 343. 
Colpi ca. 17.6% 1.4pm long, width ca. 1.4¢ 0.1m. Apocolpium 
diameter 8.0%0.lpm. Exine 2.0 ym thick (thinner at the colpi). 
Sexine reticulate, reticulation finer at apocolpia than at meso- 
colpia. Muri 0.42 O.lym wide, distinctly simplibaculate. Lu- 
mina 0.7% 0.1mm wide. Tectal part of muri 0.6% 0.lym, baculate 
zone 0.5% 0.lwm, foot layer 0.9% 0.1 wm thick", based on Jos 
1965. 

Recent collectors have encountered V. doniana in dry gulches, 
on wooded savannas and secondary savannas in mesophyll forests, 
at the edges of sandy bushland, on riverbanks and lake shores, in 
the riverine forest belt, in gallery forests and light forests on 
heavy loam, on shrubby savannas, in hard stony soil in open park- 
lands, and in gullies in Brachystegia woodlands, at 700--1900 m. 
altitude, flowering in January and February and from April to No- 
vember, fruiting from January to April and in August. Greenway 
(1973) describes it as dominant in mixed but mainly compound- 
leaved Brachystegia microphylla wood on hillsides. Kershaw 
(1967) says that in Nigeria, according to Keay (1948), this species 
grows in open woodlands with Lophira alata, Terminalia glaucescens, 
Daniella oliveri, Hymenocardia acida, Detarium senegalense, and 
Afzelia africana as the characteristic species of trees. He also 

474 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 475 


lists it as found in the Isoberlinia-Parinari and Monotes-Parinari 
associations, as well as in the fringing woodlands with Pterocar- 
pus erinaceus, more characteristic of the southern Guinea zone in 
Nigeria, but widespread in the northern zone where it is valued by 
the natives for its edible fruit. Irvine (1970) asserts that it 
occurs in the grass savannas as well as in deciduous and secondary 
forests in Ghana, thriving especially in very dry and gravelly 
soil. Lawton (1978) tells us that it is a member of the "chipya 
ecological group of species growing in an open habitat where dry 
season fires are intense." 

Hutchinson & Dalziel (1936), including V. divaricata Baker in 
the synonymy, record V. doniana from savanna forests and/ open country 
from "Senegal to N. Nigeria and Lagos Colony! Also in Fernando ro: 
Extends to E. Sudan, Upper Nile Land, and E. Africa; also Congo Ba- 
sin and Angola." Crowfoot (1928) records it from northern and 
central Sudan, Gillett (1970) from Kenya, Paradis & Hougnon (1977) 
from Dahomey, Giirke (1895) from the Comoro Islands, Amico (1967) 
from Zambezia in Mozambique, Bouquet (1967) from the Republic 
of Congo, and Astle (1968) from Zambia. Drar (1970) records it 
from Bahr El Ghazar, Sudan, citing his nos. 1069 & 1607; Gameel 
(1971) also lists it from Sudan. Chapman (1962) refers to it as 
"widespread, common" in Nyasaland. Rein (1911) says that it 
"Kommt in den siidlichen Gegenden des weissen und blauen Nils und 
am Sobat vor, ein grosser Baum mit fiinfteiligen Blattern, weissen, 
sehr leichten Holz." Hyland (1969) lists it as cultivated in 
Maryland, based on U. S. Dept. Agr. Pl. Invent. 307744 from 
Nigeria. Sweet (1826) and Loudon (1832) report it introduced into 
cultivation in England from Sierra Leone in 1824. 

It is worth noting that Tackholm & Elsayed 86 and s.n. [23/6/ 
1961] and s.n. [22/11/1961] have extraordinarily long petiolules, 
while Staner 1405 exhibits leaflets that are apically very much 
acuminate-pointed. Gossweiler 9168 has insect-galled leaves. 

Begemann (1969) describes the tree and its wood as follows: 
"Ein sehr grosser Baum mit breit-ausladender Krone, der Hohen tber 
25 m und Durchmesser zwischen 40 und 100 c/m erreicht. Der Schaft 
hat hohe Wurzelanlaufe und ist nur selten gerade und zylindrisch 
gewachsen. -- Die Rinde ist sehr diinn bis diinn und hellbraun bis 
gelblich-grau. -- Splint und Kernholz gehen in einander tiber und 
sind nur schwach zu unterscheiden. Der Split ist etwa 4 bis 6 c/m 
breit und gelblich-grau, wogegen das Kernholz im frischen Zustande 
cremefarben ist, spater auf hellbraun iibergehend. Jahresringe sind 
mit blossem Auge kaum zu erkennen. Das Holz hat hdufig Silikat- 
Einlagen und keinen besonderen Geschmack oder Geruch. Die Struk- 
tur ist durchweg drehwlichsig, die Textur ziemlich grob un ungleich- 
missig. Das Holz schwindet stark und gilt als bedingt dauerhaft, 
wenn es nicht standig dem Wechset zwischen Feuchtigkeit und Trocken- 
heit ausgesetzt wird. Es ist mittelschwer, hart, fest und nur sehr 
wenig elastisch. Die Trocknung bedarf grosser Sorgfelt, da eine 
starke Tendenz zum Reissen und Werfen besteht. Im trockenen Zu- 
stande ist das Standvermégen im allgemeinen gut. Durch den Kris- 
tallgehalt des Holzes ist die Bearbeitung erschwert und erfordert 
einen grésseren Kraftaufwand. Werkzeuge stumpfen schnell. —- 


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Trotzdem ldsst sich das Holz maschinell und von Hand gut bearbeiten. 
Gehobelte Flachen werden durch den Drehwuchs erst mit Nachbearbeit- 
ung glatt und haben matten Glanz. Die Oberfldchtenbehandlung be- 
reitet keine Schwierigkeiten. Es empfiehlt sich, Schrauben und 
Nagel zur Vermeidung von Rissbildung vorzubohren. Holzverbindung- 
en mit Leim oder Zapfen sind leicht herzustellen und haltbar. Auch 
schil- und messerfuhig. -- Spezifischen Gewicht um -.52 bein 15% 
Feuchtigkeitsgehalt. Verwendung: Fir Aussenzwecke, wie auch als 
Bau- und Konstruktionsholz wenig zu empfehlen; gut geeignet ftir Bau- 
und Mébelschreinerei, als Kisten- un Bindholz, Mittellagen, ftir die 
Sperrholz-Industrie u.4. -- Das Holz f4llt inwendig nicht sehr ast- 
rein aud. Handel: Trotz ausreichendem Vorkommen in den Wuchsgebieten, 
hat das Holz bisher im Import noch keine Bedeutung erlangt." 

Jaeger & Moldenke (1975) refer to V. doniana as "Le plus grand 
des Vitex de 1'Afrique Occidentale", growing to 25 m. tall, and 
found "du SéneZal au Cameroun; trés répandi en Afrique tropicale de 
préférence en savane et en terrain découvert". 

Among the common and vernacular names applied to this tree, its 
fruit, and/or its wood as reported by recent collectors and authors 
are\the following: ."abisoa", "“abis(wa)", "ada", “adaga”, "atetewa 4 
"“sfua"', VYakposso” ,~“anago", “anecho",, "aranga”, “black plum’, 
"boume", "bugink", "bulgelwa", "chinkamba", "dagomba", "dinya", 
"Don's chaste-tree", "dunya", "dyakossi", "edi", “ekarukei", "ewe", 
"ios M£6","£opiti, "£641ti",, "“Eonejiti",. “eidjiko", “heifokoaees 
"ingari", "kalembe", "kazonga", "Kenya oak", "koro", "koro ba", 
"koto", "koto", "kratschi", “kukpweli", “kurain", "kurnyuk", “iedo”, 
"lubai", "meru", "meru oak", "mfifya", "mfudu", "mfuru", "mfurulegea", 
"mfuru ya mtoni", "mfuu", "mgwobe", "mkhulu", "mkunungu", "mpulu", 
"mpuro", "m'purro", "mufudu", "mufufu", “mufuru", "mufutu", "muholu", 
"muhomozi", "mukarukei", "munyamazi", "mutahuru", "muviru", "muvuru", 
"narenga", "npindimbi", "nrindimbi", "nya", "nyarina", "odogo", 
"of6n", “omufutu", “omuvyero", “ori", "orli", "“oyelo", "panyero", 
"samanibir", "so", “sod",,."sokoro", ."tschaudjo",."uoli",. “yuele > 
and "zeitun". 

Volkens (1909) speaks of the inflorescences as white and comments 
that "Aus den schwarzen, glatten, essbaren, kugligen Friichten und 
den jungen Bl&ttern wird Tinte gekocht", the species inhabiting 
"Galleriewdldern, Baumsteppen und auf Farmen" and being "weit ver- 
breitet. Das weisse, mittelschwere Holz diirfte sich besonders fiir 
M6bel gut eignen. In Oberguinea werden Schiffsplanken und Furniere 
daraus gemacht, die Eingeborenen benutzen es fiir Bootsrippen". Bur- 
kill (1966) says that the fruits are "said to be used as a substi- 
tute for tea and coffee in tropical Africa". This is also claimed by 
Rein (1911). 

Irvine (1961) provides the longest discussion of the economic 
uses of this species, saying that "The flowers and fruits attract 
bees; hives are often put in the branches. It is specially planted 
in N. T., the leaves being used for stock.....Also planted in vil- 
lages [in]...N. Nigeria....for the edible fruits and young leaves, 
used as a pot herb. A Sweetmeat (Hausa alewa) made from these and 
other fruits, and a black molasses or beverage (e.g. tea substitute 
in Sudan) can be prepared from them. Ink also made from young 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 477 


leaves or fruit or sometimes bark, gum added. Bark and roots used 
to prepare a cloth dye (for Adink(a)ra cloths) are cut up, boiled 
with iron slag as mordant; poured into another pot, and boiled 
till thick; egg or sugar then added. The bark is a substitute for 
soap in S. Leone......lhe fruit-pulp is said to contain oil...... 
The timber is whitish to light brown, darkening later; it rather 
resembles teak and is of medium weight and straight grain, nails 
well, and is said to be durable. It is used in housebuilding, 
furniture, boxes, crates, bowls, stools, shelves, and in Uganda 
for knife-handles, chairs, and trumpets. A favourite wood for 
making log beehives. It is useful for firewood; and the ashes for 
soap-making -(S. Leone....).....dried leaves...medicinal...A decoc- 
tion of pounded roots is used in Fr. Guinea for stomach troubles.. 
A decoction of the root-—bark is recommended as a drink or for 
baths and is used on the Iv. Coast for children with rickets...... 
The bark is used in various Iv. Coast remedies for leprosy and 
sterility. A bark decoction is used as a gargle....The bark is 
used in W. Ashanti for stomach complaints. The bark and leaves 
are sometimes given for diarrhoea and dysentery....The leaves 
are used by the Moshi on the Iv. Coast to keep crocodiles from 
water holes. A leaf decoction is drunk, or used as an enema for 
dysenteric diarrhoea.....A leaf infusion is given for colds in 
Guinea.....The pounded leaves are applied to the body as a febri- 
fuge.....The tender leaves are chewed, or an infusion of leaves 
and bark are used medicinally in Ghana. The fruits are used in 

N. Nigeria for constipation....and are sometimes given for diar- 
rhoea and dysentery. In S. Leone they are considered good for 
conditions due to A and B avitaminosis, associated with sores at 
the corners of the mouth and eyes, and sometimes in advanced 
cases, with paralytic symptoms.....Loranthus growing on this tree 
is used in N. Nigeria for leprosy.....In Katanga (B. Congo) the 
tree is said to be used to induce conception...." 

Dale & Greenway (1961) aver that the edible fruit is "sweet, 
mealy, somewhat resembling a prune in taste. Wood white or 
yellow-white to pale brown, darkening in age, even and straight 
in grain, fine and uniform in texture, soft, moderately durable, 
easy to work with tools; it smooths reasonably but does not take 
a polish, nails satisfactorily and does not split, tenons, mor- 
tises, recesses and moulds well; weight about 53 1b. per cu. ft. 
air dry. The timber has some resemblance to teak, and is used 
locally in West Africa for boat timbers (ribs, etc.), for small 
canoes, house-building and so on. It is suitable for uses to 
which poplars and deals are put, for interior fitting boxes, 
crates, shelving, low-grade furniture, etc. It must not be ex- 
posed to damp, and is not suitable for purposes calling for 
great strength." Irvine (193) reports that in Gold Coast the 
species is used for firewood, dye, ink, and the edibility of its 
fruit. Williams (1949) found the fruit being eaten by children 
in Zanzibar and the wood employed there for laths, roof-building, 
planks, canoe-outriggers, and guitars. Thomas (1972) records 
its use in treating yellow fever. Altschul (1973), Alain (1974), 
Giirke (1895), and Watter & Breyer-Brandwijk (1962) all comment 


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on the edibility of the fruit. Tanner reports the species used in 
Tanzania to treat cases of prolonged labor during childbirth. 
Sabine (1824) comments that although the fruit is edible, it is 
inferior in quality to that of both the yellow and sugar plums of 
tropical Africa. Schweinfurth (1874) reports that the "sweet, 
olive-shaped fruit is relished exceedingly by natives of central 
Africa’. Uphof (1968) repeats that the fruit is the size of an 
olive and much esteemed. "A gum is used for compounding Mallam's 
ink; also considered an antidote for arrow poison. Leaves used 
as a substitute for tea in Trop. Afr." Watt & Breyer-Brandwijk 
(1962) claim that in Zambia V. doniana is used as a remedy for 
anemia and the root for gonorrhoea. Rein (1911) says that "Die 
harten Friichte werden gerdstet und augfekocht als Ersatz fur Tee 
und Kaffee genossen". Irvine (1930) reports the fruit sold in 
native markets in Ghana. 

Hansford (1961) reports V. doniana as a host for the fungus, 
Meliola cookeana var. viticis (Hansf.) Hansf. in Uganda, based 
on the type collection of the fungus, Hansford 799, and M. cook- 
eana Speg. in Sierra Leone, based on Deighton 564, 987, 1551, & 
1766. Cohic (1969) found it to be host to the insects, Aleuro- 
tuberculatus nigeriae Mound, A. gambiae Gameel, and Bemisia 
hancocki Corbett. Roberts (1969) reports it as host to the 
larvae of the lepidopteron, Bunaea alcinoé (Stoll) and the 
beetle, Premnobius cavipennis Eichhoff in Nigeria. 

Baker (1900) separates his various taxa, now regarded by most 
authors as being conspecific, as follows: 

1. leaves usually S-feltlolates is sssiies ccstisccvascvoes¥, Goma 
la. Leaves usually 5-foliolate. 
2. lé@aflets, not corlacedusess cestsscssccesscsovee eV. GEWEVEEEs 
2a. Leaflets coriaceous. 
3. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx.............V. cuneata. 
3a. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx.......V. cienkowskii. 
As being typical of V. doniana he cites Heudelot 379 from Sene- 
gal. As typical of V. dewevrei he cites Dewevre s.n. from Lower 
Congo; of C. cuneata he lists Thonning s.n. from Upper Guinea, 
and as typical of V. cienkowskii he cites Barter 1108, Millen 
118, Rowland s.n., Scott Elliot 5211, and Vogel 67 from Upper 
Guinea, Cienkowsky s.n., Heughlin s.n., Schweinfurth 1307 & 1890, 
Scott Elliott 7179, and Speke & Grant 81 from Nile Land, Smith 
s.n. from Congo, Welwitsch 5633, 5645, & 5746 from Angola, Kirk 
1 from Zanzibar, Hildebrandt 1123 from Tanganyika, Kirk 40 from 
Mozambique, and Buchanan 80, Kirk s.n., Meller 5,and Scott s.n. 
from Nyasaland. 

Good & Exell (1930) cite their nos. 5376 & 5376a from Angola 
and 6305, 7851, 8652, & 9168 from Portuguese Congo, asserting 
that the tree grows in wet situations and on riversides, often in 
company with Canthium schimperianum. They note that it is "Wide- 
spread in Tropical Africa". Palhinha (1947), speaking of an un- 
identified species of Vitex in Portuguese Congo, says that "Esta 
planta parece-me bastante proéxima, sefiao idéntida, a Vitex cune- 
ata Sch. et Thonn., e igualmente afim da Vitex Cienkowski Kotschy 
et Peyr., da qual difere pelas folhas maiores e inflorescéncias | 
um pouco menores e mais fracas." 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 479 


Roberty (1954) refers to V. doniana as "forme la plus commune” 
in West Africa "surtout prés des riviéres ou marais. Trés vari- 
able, 4 formes principales" -- after which he lists, apparently 
as "forms", V. barbata Planch., V. chrysocarpa Planch., "V. doni- 
ana s.s.", and V. grandifolia Giirke, but I regard these as four 
separate and distinct species. To include them all under Vitex 
doniana would most certainly render that taxon “"trés variable"! 

Dale & Greenway (1961) cite Dale 3115, Graham 25 & 2226, and 
Napier 5329 from Kenya. Hutchinson & Dalziel (1936) cite Berter 
1108, Chevalier 2769, Chipp 463, 727, & 744, Dalziel 350, Heude- 
lot 379, Lely P.134, Millen 118, Milne s.n., Pobéguin 682, Rowland 
S.n., Scott Elliot 5211, Warnecke 156, and Yates 59. Lewalle 
(1972) cites his no. 608; Astle (1968) cites his no. 2718 from 
Zambia; Amico & Bavazzano (1968) cite their no. 455; Cufodontis 
(1962) cites Kuls 256, 281, & 473. DeWildeman (1914) cites Hom- 
blé 318 as the type of his V. homblei; Irvine (1930) cites Ir- 
vine 151 & 194 from Ghana. The Don s.n. from Sierra Leone and 
Heudelot s.n. from Senegambia cited by Hooker & Bentham (1849) 
are most certainly V. doniana, 

Material of V. doniana has sometimes been misidentified and 
distributed in some herbaria as V. madiensis Oliv. On the other 
hand, the Angil 2774, Lewalle 2200, Lowe 2049, Reekmans 2702, 
Richards 25816, Tanner R.T.1758, 4272, & 4488, and Vigne 3541, 
all distributed as typical V. doniana, are regarded by me as 
representing var. parvifolia (Engl.) Mold., while Drar & Mahdi 
1607 is not verbenaceous. 

Additional citations: SIERRA LEONE: G. Don s.n. [Mo. Bot. 
Gard. photo A.851] (N--photo of type, W--photo of type); Gledhill 
DH.577 (Mu); Jaeger 1401 (Ac), 1756 (Ac), 9258 (1d). LIBERIA: 

J. T. Baldwin 10989 (W--2672784, W--2672785). TOGO: Warnecke 

156 (Mu--3857). NIGERIA: Blum 2502 (Ws). ZAIRE: Gerard 2504 
(Mu); Louis 12487 (N), 12562 (W--2091094); W. Robyns 1144 (W-- 
1942516); Staner 1405 (W--2091224); Taton 7395 (Mu). BURUNDI: 
Reekmans 1409 (E--2209171), 1414 (E--2209177). UGANDA: Bagshawe 
813 (W--1505799). TANZANIA: Tanga: Tanner 4804 (Ba). ANGOLA: 
Kongo: Gossweiler 9168 (W--1373601). Lunda: Gossweiler 14109 
(W--2074458). ZAMBIA: Evrard 3951 (Mu); E. A. Robinson 3938 (Mu). 
MALAWI: Brass 17074 (W--2061955); J. Buchanan 194 (W--806717). 
CULTIVATED: Egypt: Drar s.n. [12/1/1960] (Gz); Tackholm & Elsay- 
ed 86 (Gz, Gz), sen. [23/6/1961] (Gz, Gz), sen. [14/11/1961] (Gz), 
sen. [22/11/1961] (Gz, Gz); Tackholm & Mahdi s.n. [17/5/1967] 

(Gz, Gz). 


VITEX DONIANA var. PARVIFOLIA (Engl.) Mold. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 107--108. 1967; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 224, 231, 234, 247, & 252 (1971) and 2: 
715, 716, 924, & 968. 1971; Mold., Phytologia 28: 442 & 452 
(1974) and 44: 386. 1979. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a "small shrub" or 
as a small or large spreading tree, 5--20 m. tall, much branched, 
with a thick bole and dense rounded crown, giving thick cover, 
the stem single, upright, the bark gray, rough, lined or corruga- 
ted, the sap.colorless, the wood white, soft to cut, with a 


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brown "slip", the leaflets 5, coriaceous, dark or glossy bright- 
green, the flowers aromatic, the calyx with pale-brown indumentun, 
and the fruit (immature?) pale-green. They have found it growing 
near lakes, in "abercorn" gardens, in light forests on sandy loam 
soil, in open parkland on hard stony soil, in light forests on 
hillsides with gravel and loam soil, and “in deep shade in well- 
grown Brachystegia woodland with luxuriant rich undergrowth con- 
taining evergreen shrubs", at 500--2165 m. altitude, flowering in 
September and November, fruiting in February, March, May, and 
November. Watmough speaks of it as "occasional" in Zambia. 

The corollas are said to have been "mauve" on Tanner R.T.1758, 
"violet" on Reekmans 2702, "pale yellow-mauve" on Richards 21451, 
"white to pale-mauve" on Lewalle 2200, and “white, upper petal 
purple" on Richards 25816. 

According to Tanner the bark of this tree is used in the treat- 
ment of leprosy in Tanzania. Material has been misidentified and 
distributed in some herbaria as typical V. doniana Sweet, V. am- 
boniensis Giirke, and V. madiensis Oliv. 

Additional citations: SUDAN: Blue Nile: Kassas, Mobarak, Fadlal- 
lah, Omar, & Osman E.1035 (Gz, Gz). Bahr El Ghazal: Drar & Mahdi 
1069 (Gz). GHANA: Vigne 3541 (N). NIGERIA: Lowe 2049 (N). BU- 
RUNDI: Lewalle 2200 (W--2595398); Reekmans 2702 (E--2200855). 
TANZANIA: Tanga: Richards 25816 (Mu, N); Schlieben 1282 (Mu); Tan- 
ner R.T.1758 (Ba, Ca--183319, N), 4272 (Ba), 4488 (Ba). ZAMBIA: 
Angils 2774 (N); Richards 21451 (E--1836522); Richardson & Living- 
stone s.n. [30 October 1960] (Au--220301); Watmough 209 (Mu). 
CULTIVATED: Sudan: Drar & Mahdi 138 (Gz). 


VITEX DRYADUM S. Moore 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
39 (2): 320. 1913; Mold., Phytologia 15: 241--242. 1967; Mold., 
Fif th Suum,./1 = 252° (1971). and ‘2: 924. 1971. 

The type of this species, Swynnerton 1062, from Gazaland, Mo- 
zambique, in the British Museum herbarium has been photographed by 
the Missouri Botanical Garden as their type photograph number A. 
854. It is possible that V. oxycuspis var. mossambicensis Mold. 
may belong here. 

Additional citations: MOZAMBIQUE: Gazaland: Swynnerton 1062 [Mo. 
Bot. Gard. photo A.854] (Gz--photo of type, N--photo of type). 


VITEX DUBOISII Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 212. 1967; Mold., 
Sirth Summ, 12.231 (1971). and 2: 924, L971. 


VITEX DUCKEI Huber 

Synonymy: Vitex duchei Huber, in herb. 

Additional bibliography: H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 57. 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 16: 499. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 1/79 
(197%) “and ‘2s, 9242 1972 

Recent collectors describe this species as a shrub, 80 cm. tall, 
and have found it growing in sandy soil of capoeira, flowering in 
June. The corollas are said to have been "purple and white" on 
Campbell & al. P.22554. Material has been misidentified and dis- 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 481 


tributed in some herbaria as "Bignoniaceae". 

Additional citations: BRAZIL: Amaz6nas: Prance, Pena, Allen, & 
Ramos 2706 (S). Para: Campbell, Ongley, Ramos, Monteiro, & Nelson 
P.22554 (Ld, N, N); M. Silva 1634 (N). 


VITEX DUCLOUXII Dop 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
56 (2): 286. 19373; H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 57. 1948; 
Mold., Phytologia 15: 242. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 290 (1971) 
and 2:°924. (1971. 


VITEX EBERHARDTII Dop 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
56° (2): 286. 1937:'H. N. & A. Le. Moid., Pl. Life 2: 5/7. 19465 Mold, 
Phytologia 15: 242. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 303 (1971) and 2: 
S24 1972. 


VITEX ELAKELAKENSIS Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 242. 1967; 
Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 263 (1971) and 2: 924. 1971. 


VITEX ELMERI Mold., Phytologia 38: 307--308. 1978. 

Synonymy: Vitex elmari Mold., Biol. Abstr. 65: 6769, sphaln. 
1978. 

Bibliography: Mold., Biol. Abstr. 65: 6769. 1978; Mold., Phyto- 
logia 38: 307--308. 1978; Hocking, Excerpt. Bot. A.33: 86. 1979. 

Collectors have found this tree in flower in February. 

Material has been misidentified and distributed in some herbaria 
as the very closely related Vitex negundo L. 

Citations: PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Luzon: Elmer 5611 (N--type); £. 
D. Merrill 3627 (N); Pancho & Apolinario 285 (Au--11005); Roth- 
dauscher s.n. [Manilla, 1879] (Mu--1516, Mu--1517, Z). 


VITEX EPIDICTYODES Mildbr. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
57 (2): 402. 1938; Mold., Phytologia 15: 242. 1967; Mold., Fifth 
Summ. 1: 232, 238, & 250 (1971) and 2: 716 & 924. 1971; Mold., Phy- 
tologia 31: 388. 1975. 

Recent collectors refer to this species as a shrub, 3 m. tall, 
the (immature?) fruit green, and have encountered it on savannas 
and wooded savannas, at altitudes of 900 to 1200 m., fruiting in 
December. 

Material has been misidentified and distributed in some herbar- 
ia as V. madiensis ssp. milanjiensis (Britt.) White. 

Additional citations: BURUNDI: Reekmans 1391 (E--2209172), 2204 
(E--2209186). 


VITEX ERIOCLONA H. J. Lam 

Synonymy: Vitex erioclona Lam. ex Uphof, Dict. Econ. Pil Bt. 2, 
545, sphalm. 1968. 

Additional & emended bibliography: H. J. Lam, Bull. Jard. Bot. 
Buitenz, ,ser. 3, 3: 48 & 51. 1921; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. 


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Jahresber. 53 (1): 1076. 1932; Uphof, Dict. Econ. Pl., ‘ed. 2; °545, 
1968; Mold., Phytologia 15: 242. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 328 
(1971) and 2: 716. & 924. 1971. 

Uphof (1968), crediting this species to Lamarck, says of it: 
"Tree. Indonesia, esp. the Poso region. Wood easy to work, 
durable; keeps a long time when in contact with the soil; used 
for making small vessels". 


VITEX EXCELSA Mold. 

Additional bibliography: H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 43. 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 242. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 179 
(1971) and 2: 924. 1971; Mold., Biol. Abstr. 64: 2433. 1977; 
Mold., Phytologia 35: 277 (1977) and 36: 33. 1977. 


VITEX EXCELSA var. PETIOLATA Mold., Phytologia 35: 277. 1977. 

Bibliography: Mold., Biol. Abstr. 64: 2433. 1977; Mold., Phy- 
roleeia 35: 277.,41977). apd: 36: 33.. 1977. 

Collectors describe this plant as a "tree 111.5 feet tall", 
with a trunk diameter of 36 inches, and have encountered it at 150 
m. altitude, flowering in August. The corollas are said to have 
been "lilac" in color on Ardstegui V.123, a collection said to 
have been taken from the type tree. The immature leaves are 
strikingly similar to those of V. panshiniana Mold. A vernacular 
name reported is "quinilla colorada". 

Citations: PERU: Loreto: Ardéstegui V.75 (N--type, W--2825839-- 
isotype), V.123 [field no. 104.1] (N, W--2825838). 


VITEX FARAFANGANENSIS Mold. 
Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 242. 1967; Mold., 
Fifth. Summ. 1: 263 (1971) and 2: 924. 1971. 


VITEX FERRUGINEA Schum. & Thonn, 

Additional synonymy: Viter fosteri Aubréville, Ann. Acad. Sci. 
Colon. 9: 237, sphalm. 1938. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Schum. & Thonn. in Schum., 
Beskr. Guin. Pl. 62. 1827; Hook. f. & Benth. in Hook., Niger Fl. 
487. 1849; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; J. G. Ba- 
ker in Thiselt.-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 316 & 324--325. 1900; 
Hutchins. & Dalz, Fl. W.x.Trop. Afr.,) eds: 15. 220275 & 276.495 
Aubréville, Ann. Acad. Sci. Colon. 9: 257. 1938; H. N. & A. L. 
Mold., Pl. Life 2: 60. 1948; Kerharo & Bouquet, Pl. Méd. Tox. 
Céte Iv. 234. 1950; Metcalfe & Chalk, Anal. Dicot. 1036, fig. 248 
H. 1950; Irvine, Woody Pl. Ghana 762--763. 1961; S. & G. Mangue- 
not, Rev. Cytol. Biol. Veg. 25: 411--447. 1962; Huber in Hutchins. 
& Dalz., Fl. W. Trop. Afr., ed. 2, 446--448. 1963; Ornduff, Reg. 
Veg. 50: 86 & 121. 1967; Mold., Phytologia 16: 499. 1968; Bolkh., 
Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chrom. Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. 1, 717. 
1969; Roberts, Commonw. Forest. Inst. Oxf. Paper 44: 38 & 199. 
1969; Gadella, Act. Bot. Neerl. 19 (3): 433. 1970; Gillett, Numb. 
Check-list Trees Kenya 47. 1970; Anon., Biol. Abstr. 52: 89. 
1971; Mold.,. Fifth Summ. 1: 216, 220-—223, 232,:234, 8.245) (9739 
and 2: 717 & 924. 1971; Mold., Phytologia 23: 420 & 437. 1972; 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 483 


Bolkh., Grif, Matvej., & Zakhar., Chromos. Numb. Flow. Pl., imp. 
2, 717. 1974; Kooiman, Act. Bot. Neerl. 24: 462. 1975; Mold., Phy- 
tologia 34: 261 (1976) and 44: 408. 1979. 

Additional illustrations: Metcalfe & Chalk, Anat. Dicot. 1036, 
fig. 248 H. 1950. 

Recent collectors and authors describe this plant as a tree to 
60 feet tall, softly rusty-pubescent, the leaves digitate, the 
petioles densely rusty-pubescent; leaflets 5--7, sessile, 4 inches 
long, 2 inches wide; flowers small, borne in cymes, densely pubes- 
cent outside; corollas small, pubescent outside; fruits globose, 
1/3 inch in diameter. The corollas are said to have been "white" 
on Becquaert 17 and "blue/cream" on Malima 19. The species has 
been found growing on savannas, flowering in July. Irvine (1961) 
gives its distribution as from the Ivory Coast to Ghana. Kerharo 
& Bouquet (1950) assert that in the Ivory Coast it enters into a 
composition used to treat trypanosomiasis, reporting the local 
names, "kpépésson", "mbolé", and "paintou". 

The Manguenots (1962), as well as Bolkhovskikh and his associ- 
ates (1974), give the chromosome number for the species (as V. 
fosteri) as 2n = 32. Gadella (1970) -- whose surname is mis- 
spelled "Gadelia" in the Biological Abstracts reference (1971) -- 
reports the chromosome number for V. ferruginea as 2n = 32, based 
on Versteegh & Den Outer 562 from Ivory Coast. He also cites 
seedling material, Van Steenbergen 205, both collections deposited 
in the Wageningen herbarium 

Roberts (1969) reports the following insects as attacking Vitex 
ferruginea in Nigeria: Doliopygus erichsoni, D. interpositus, 
Platypus hintzi, P. spinulosus, and Pycnatmon cribrata. Of the 
last-mentioned he says: "Larvae of this species feed on Vitex fer- 
ruginea,trees of all ages being attacked. They live singly between 
two leaves held together with silk. At Ibadan larval development 
takes at least 16 days and the pupal period from 12 to 17 days. 
Larvae were found in February, June, September, and November." 

It is of interest to note that Hutchinson & Dalziel (1931) kept 
V. ferruginea and V. fosteri as separate species [although later 
combined by Huber (1938)], distinguishing them from each other as 
follows: 

1. Leaves tomentose or densely pubescent beneath.......V. fosteri. 
la. Leaves glabrous or thinly pubescent or minutely tomentellous 

BOROSER ¢ oc 2 6:ce dire ee Eins waddle Wee 2d Od wees Se WERE ee ae eee ipen 

Additional citations: ZAIRE: Becquaert 17 (W--1659331); Corbis- 
ier-Baland 1293 (Gz, Gz, N); Lebrun 1478 (W--2091172). TANZANIA: 
Tanga: Malima 19 (Ld). 


VITEX FISCHERI Giirke 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.-Dyer, 
Fl. Trop... Afr. 5: 317 & 330—-331. 1900; H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pi. 
Life 2: 59. 1948; Dale, Descrip. List Introd. Trees Uganda 70. 
1953; Snowden, Grass Comm. Mtn. Veg. Uganda 94. 1953; Dale & Green- 
way, Kenya Trees Shrubs 592 & 595. 1961; Langsdale-Br., Osmoston, & 
Wils., Veg. Uganda 115 & 118. 1964; Mold., Phytologia 15: 242--243. 
1967; Gillett, Numb. Check-list Trees Kenya 47. 1970; Mold., Fifth 


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Summ. 1: 234, 238, & 242 (1971) and 2: 924. 1971; Mold., Phytolo- 
gia 44 389. 1979. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a tree, 20 feet 
tall, with a single stem, the bark rough, and the sap clear, and 
have encountered it in sandy soil of grassland, at 4000 feet al- 
titude, fruiting in May. Tanner reports that the roots are “used 
for infertility in women and for pain below the ribs". He reports 
the vernacular name, "mhunda", in Tanzania. Girke (1895) refers 
to the species as a tree or shrub with rather long-petiolate leaves 
and 5 lanceolate-oval glabrous leaflets. Dale & Greenway (1961) 
assert that it grows in wet savannas at 4000 to 6000 feet alti- 
tude in Kenya, where it is know as "mkhulu", "moholu", "mohutu", 
and "mufutumwe". Langsdale-Brown and his associates (1964) en- 
countered it in undifferentiated semi-deciduous thickets and in 
Albizzia-Chlorophora forests in Uganda. 

Baker (1900) cites Scott-Elliot 7252 & 7411 from Uganda and 
Fischer 476 and Stuhlmann 3394, 4137, & 4183 from Tanzania. 

Additional citations: TANZANIA: Tanga: Shantz & Tanner 4235 
(Tu--129104); Tanner R.T.4252 (Ba). 


VITEX FLAVA Ridl. 

Additional bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 
57 (2): 404. 1938; Mold., Phytologia 15: 243. 1967; Mold., Fifth 
Summ. 1: 328 (1971) and 2: 925. 1971. 

This species is based on Haviland 2025 from "along the path to 
Tegora", Sarawak, collected on December 20, 1892. The collector 
speaks of the plant as a small tree with yellow corollas. Ridley 
(1929) notes that "This is most nearly allied to V. longisepala 
King, of the Malay Peninsula, but that is densely hairy all over, 
whereas this plant is almost completely glabrous with merely a 
little deciduous pubescence, the bracts are much smaller and the 
sepals and corolla are covered with yellow glands as is the ovary 
and the leaves on both sides". 


VITEX FLAVENS H.B.K. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Vitex flavens Kunth apud Spreng. 
in L., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 2: 757. 1825. Vitex flavens Humb.é 
Kunth apud D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 612. 1843. 

Additional bibliography: Spreng. in L., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 2: 
757. 1825; D. -Dietr., Syn. -Pl. 3: 612. 18433 Schau. ,»Linnaea Ze: 
484. 1847; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; H. N. & 

A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 80. 1948; Braga, Pl. Nordest., ed. 2, 
338. 1960; Macbr., Fieldiana Bot. 13 (5): 692, 694, & 695. 1960; 
Mold., Phytologia 16: 499--500. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 29. 
1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 91, 120, 137, 144, & 179 (1971) and 

2: 217, 727, & 925. 1971; Mold. in Woodson, Schery, & al., Ann. 
Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 131, 135--136, & 148. 1973; Lépez-Palacios, 
Revist. Fac. Farm. Univ. Andes 17: 50--51. 1976; Soukup, Biota 11: 
20. 1976; Mold., Phytologia 44: 412. 1979. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a tree or small tree, 
5--26 m. tall, the trunk "1 cm. in diameter at breast height" 
[doubtless a very young tree or a typographical error for 1 dm.], 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 485 


the bark gray, with many deep longitudinal furrows, and the 
leaves opposite and compound, and have found it growing in dry 
upland scrub and on "low semi-arid hills back of beach", at alti- 
tudes of sealevel to 466 m., flowering in December. The corol- 
las are said to have been "purple" on Dodson & Thien 1644 and 
these collectors report the vernacular name, "pechinche", from 
Ecuador. 

Braga (1960) describes V. flavens as an "Arvore com félhas com- 
postas, digitadas, de flores vistosas, em racemos, sendo o fruto 
uma pequena drupa, 4-locular. Boa madeira." He regards V. pan- 
shiniana Mold. as a synonym and calls the species "mama de 
cachorro". 

Lépez—Palacios, in a personal communication to me, says: "No 
he tenido oportunidad de examiner los tipos de Vitex cymosa Bert. 
y Vitex flavens HBK., pero el material que se les asigna en los 
herbarios es tan similar, que hace pensar que son coespecificos 
o que el material ha sido mal interpretado. Téngase en cuenta 
esta observacién para futuros trabajos en esta género." 

Macbride (1960) reports the wood of V. flavens used for con- 
struction, at least in Ecuador. He cites only Tessmann 3247, 
4492, & 4587 from Loreto, Peru, giving its overall distribution 
as "To Colombia and Amazonian Brazil". 

Material of V. flavens has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as Godmania sp. and Tabebuia sp. 

Additional citations: COLOMBIA: Huila: Little 9137 (N). ECUA- 
DOR: Guayas: Dodson & Thien 1644 (Ws, Z). 


VITEX FLORIBUNDA Legris 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 15: 243 (1967) and 
17: 10 & 21. 19683; Mold., Fifth Summy 1:°279 (1971) and-2: 925. 
1971: 


VITEX FLORIDULA Duchass. & Walp. 

Synonymy: Vitex floridula “Duchass. & Walp. ex Walp.' 
Bultman & Southwell, Biotropica 8 (2): 79. 1976. 

Additional bibliography: Mold., Phytologia 16: 500. 1968; 
Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 4. 1968; Gibson, Fieldiana Bot. 24 (9): 
234. 1970; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 91 (1971) and 2: 925. 1971; 

Mold. in Woodson, Schery, & al., Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 60: 131, 135, 
& 148. 1973; Bultman & Southwell, Biotropica 8 (2): 79, 92, & 93. 
1976; Mold., Phytologia 44: 409. 1979. 

Illustrations: Pittier, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 171. 
1916. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a tree, 20 m. tall, 
the trunk 12 inches in diameter at breast height, "mostly decid- 
uous", and have found it in flower in April. They record for it 
the vernacular name, "cuajado", from the Panama Canal Zone. Gen- 
try reports the young fruit eaten by the local inhabitants in 
Panama. The corollas are said to have been "purplish-blue" on 
Gentry 4963. 

The Seibert 1535, distributed as V. floridula, actually is V. 
parviflora A. L. Juss. 


apud 


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Additional citations: PANAMA: Panama: A. Gentry 4963 (N). 


VITEX FROESII Mold. 

Additional bibliography: H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 60. 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 243. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 179 
(L971) and. 25. 925_.2971, 


VITEX GABUNENSIS Giirke 

Additional & emended bibliography: J. G. Baker in Thiselt.- 
Dyer , Fl. Trop. Afr. 5: 317 & 327. 1900; Mold., Phytologia 15: 243. 
1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 226 (1971) and 2: 925. 1971. 

Baker (1900) cites only the type collection of this species, 
Soyaux 163, from Gabon. 


VITEX GAMOSEPALA W. Griff. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex nn. 15, 16 Hook. f. & Thoms. ex C. 
B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 588, in syn. 1885. 
Vitis gamosepala Henderson ex Mold., Résumé Suppl. 3: 42, in syn. 
1962. Vitex gamopetala Griff. ex Mold., Fifth Summ. 2: 717, in 
syn. 1971. 

Additional & emended bibliography: W. Griff., Notul. Pl. Asiat. 
4: 178 & 764. 1854; Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Pl. 2 (2): 
1154. 1876; C..B. Clarke in Hook. £., Fl. Brit. India 4: °586i6 
588. 1885; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 39 (2): 320. 
1913; Lam & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz., ser. 3, 3: 48. 
1921; S. Moore, Journ. Bot. Lond. 63: Suppl. 81. 1925; Fedde & 
Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 47 (2): 246 (1927) and 60 (2): 576. 
1941; H..N. & A. Le Mold., Pl. Life 2: 67 & 82. (19485 ‘Sureaia| 
Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. 2: 2278. 1966; Mold., Phytologia 
15: 243. 1967; Chan & Teo, Chem. Pharm. Bull. Tokyo 17: 1284-- 
1286. 1969; Farnsworth, Pharmacog. Titles 5 (4): xii & item 4122 
(1970) and 5, Cum. Gen. Ind. 1971; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 298, 
306, & 328 (1971) and 2: 710, Fis, ¢738,27235.03k6 7320S 
1971; Mold., Phytologia 23: 438 (1972), 34: 266 (1976), and 36: 

E| «Oe a ep a 

Recent collectors describe this species as a tree or small 
tree, 4--8 m. tall, or as a treelet, 3 m. tall, the branches pen- 
dent, the flowers asymmetric, the sepals yellow, and the fruits 
round, 3/4 inch in diameter, l-seeded, green or red when immature, 
and have found it growing along trails in disturbed evergreen 
forests and in the transition zone between deciduous and ever- 
green forests, at altitudes from sealevel to 330 m., flowering in 
December, January, and April, fruiting in January, April, and 
July. The corollas are said to have been "yellow" on Larsen & 
Larsen 33421 and on Seesink & Santisuk 4960, while on Stone 8931 
they are described as "outside covered with tiny round yellow 
glands, tube within violet with white hairs". 

Bentham (1876) says of V. gamosepala: "insignis est calyce 3- 
fido, lobis rigidis erectis obtusis, 2 anticis tubo aequilongis, 
tertio postico duplo longiore; corolla normalis, fructus deest". 
Clarke (1885) says that "The corolla as well as the inflorescence 
shows the affinity to V. vestita". Burkill (1966) lists the ver- 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 487 


nacular names, "léban nasi" and "1&ban pachat" [meaning, respect- 
ively, leech's léban and cooked-rice léban], "pelong" [probably 

an error for Microstemon], "s€tulang" [in common with some other 
small trees, usually with hard wood], and "sulong chong", in Mala- 
ya. He describes the species as "A small tree found in Sumatra, 
the Malay Peninsula and Borneo; in the Peninsula it is apparently 
throughout. The vernacular names suggest that the wood is hard, 
but nothing precise is on record regarding it". ; 

Griffith 6065 is a cotype of Lam's var. typica and, indeed, 
may actually be the type collection of the species, although the 
original description by Griffith does not cite a number. It is 
cited by Clarke (1885) as V. gamosepala [p. 588] and as V. coria- 
cea C. B. Clarke [now known as Teijsmanniodendron coriaceum (C. 

B. Clarke) Kosterm.] [on p. 586] -- perhaps the number represents 
a mixture. Clarke cites for V. gamosepala only Griffith 6065 and 
Maingay 1202 from Malacca. 

In view of certain confusion regarding to the application of 
Griffith's name it may be of value to repeat his original descrip- 
tion here: "Arbor. mediocris. Fol. trifoliata, foliolis lanceola- 
tis acuminatis venatio apocyneoid. Cymis axillaribus foliis multo 
brevior. Cal. tubo brevi bilabiat. labio super majore integro 
inferiore bipartito extus. Cor. tubo anguste infundibulif. 
glandulosus calyce fere duplo longior, bilabiat., labio super. 
bifido erecto reflexo infer. 3-lobo, annulus pilorum ad medium 
tubi. Stam. 4 vix didynama, filam. subulatis robustis basi pubes- 
cent. Stylus longitud. stamin., stigma bifidum subaequal. Anth. 
biloculares narrow horse-shoe-shaped, filam. inserti in sinus. 
Cells not quite all along the inner margins of the curve, so that 
the anthers are mucronate at the base. See Fig. II. Pl. CCCCXLV- 
Ets * Cor. extus glandulosa, in aestivat. the up- 
per lip is outermost, lower lip middle lobe innermost. Hab. Mal- 
acca at Ching Rhingull. Obs. The upper lip of the calyx which is 
glandular outside, is made up of 3, it often presents faint obso- 
lete traces of composition, sometimes decided, The venation is 
too irregular to decide the point. In this respect it differs 
from Vitex, but not always unless indeed the anthers and stigma 
or fruit present corresponding differences." 

It should be noted that the plate referred to in the above 
description in Griffith's "Notulae" (1854) and not appearing 
therein is undoubtedly the pl. 448, fig. 2, in his "Icones" of the 
same year. The former work is sometimes erroneously cited as 
having been published in "1851". 

The Boeea 7155, 7184, 7245, 7532, 7784, 7821, 7°71, & 8126, 
distributed as typical V. gamosepala, actually all represent var. 
kunstleri King & Gamble instead. 

Additional & emended citations: THAILAND: Larsen & Larsen 
33421 (Ac, Z), 34054 (Ac, Ld); Seesink & Santisuk 4960 (Ac). MA- 
LAYA: Malacca: W. Griffith 6065, in part (Mu-—-694--cotype, N-- 
cotype, N--photo of cotype, Pd--cotype, S--cotype, Ut--11513-- 
cotype, Z—-cotype, Z--photo of cotype), S-n- [Malacca] (Mu--695-- 
cotype, Pd--cotype). Selangor: Hardial & Sidek 400 (N); B. C. 
Stone 8931 (K1--20593). 


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VITEX GAMOSEPALA var. KUNSTLERI King & Gamble 

Additional & emended bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. 
Jahresber. 39 (2): 320. 1913; S. Moore, Journ. Bot. Lond. 63: 
Suppl. 81. 1925; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. Jahresber. 53 (1): 
1077... .19323.:H. No& Av Ls Molds, Pl.<.Life.2: 67. 1948;.Mold.. Fae 
tologia 15: 111. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 306 & 328 (1971) and 
22 $40, F256 -dobs 1325 .& 925. 1971; Mold.,.Phytologia 36%38, 

A977 % 

Recent collectors refer to this plant as a shrub, treelet, or 
small tree, 4--5 m. tall, the trunk 5 cm. in diameter, the branches 
pendent, the unripe fruit yellow or yellowish-green, and have found 
it growing in old jungles and in sandy soil on hillsides, at 80 m. 
altitude, flowering in March, fruiting in April and August. The 
corollas are said to have been "yellow" on Bartlett 6919. 

The Moore reference (1925) in the bibliography above is some- 
times cited as authored by Rendle or as "S. Moore in Rendle", but 
according to the table of contents in the volume in which it occurs, 
the entire paper was authored by Moore. 

Almost all the collections cited below were originally distrib- 
uted as typical V. gamosepala W. Griff. 

Additional citations: MALAYA: Pahang: Balgooy 2468 (Ac, N). 
GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS: Sumatra: Bartlett 6919 (W--1551876); Boeea 
7155 (W--1681733), 7184 (W--1682015), 7245 (W--1682040), 7532 (W-- 
1682162), 7784 (W--1861613), 7821 (W--1861617), 7971 (W--1682320), 
8126 (W--1682459); Forbes 2771 (W--2317943); Soepadmo 181 (Ca-- 
1322018); Toroes 5599 (N). 


VITEX GAMOSEPALA var. SCORTECHINII King & Gamble 

Additional & emended bibliography: Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. 
Jahresber. 39 (2): 320. 19133 S. Moore, Journ. Bot. Lond. 63: 
Suppl. .81. 19253.H. N. .& A. Lei Mold., Pl. Life,.2:.82.,.19485 Miaiaa. 
Phytologia 15: 111. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 306 & 328 (1971) 
and 2: 717 & 925. 19713; Mold., Phytologia 34: 266. 1976. 

Recent collectors describe this plant as a small tree, 6 m. tall, 
"with long rambling branches", the trunk 10 cm. in diameter, the 
bark grayish-white, the young leaves reddish, and the fruit black, 
and have encountered it growing at 100-—-1565 m. altitude, flowering 
in March and August, in fruit in September. The corollas are said 
to have been "yellow" or "yellow-green" on Soepadmo & Mahmud 1113 
and "pure clear yellow" on Stone 9540. 

The Moore (1925) reference in the bibliography, above, is some- 
times cited as "Moore in Rendle" or even as having been authored by 
Rendle, but according to the table of contents of the volume in 
which it was published it was authored by Moore alone. 

Additional citations: MALAYA: Kelantan: Soepadmo & Mahmud 1113 
(K1--16709); Stone 7332 (K1--8494, K1—15504). Selangor: Stone 
9540 (K1--15941). 


VITEX GARDNERIANA Schau. 

Additional synonymy: Vitex gradneriana Schau. ex Anon., Biol. 
Abstr. .51:: 77015) sphalm. u1970,; 

Additional bibliography: Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 489 


1858; Peckolt, Bericht. Deutsch. Pharm. Gesel. 14: 480--481. 1904; 
H. Ny @ Aa be Molds, Ply, Life 22/60. 1948; ‘Sraga;: Pl. Nerdest.., 
ed. 2, 297. 1960; Mold., Phytologia 15: 243-—-244. 1967; Anon., 
Biel: Abstr 51: 7701 62970) «amd Sh :GL4)>-B. AlS. 220, (S248. 2870; 
Barros, Matos, Vieira, Sousa, & Madeiros, Journ. Pharm. Pharmacol. 
22: 116--122. 1970; Farnsworth, Pharmacog. Titles 5 (11): xviii & 
item 14903 (1970) and 5, Cumul. Gen. Ind. 1971; Mold., Fifth. 
Sen. hs 179 CEST) aed. 22 Lig 918, & 82501197 

Peckolt (1904) says of this species: "In den Staaten Alag6as, 
Pernambuco und Rio de Janeiro corkommend. Volksnamen: Gerimato, 
Girimato, Jeramataia, Jeramataia miuda, korrumpierte Tubybenen- 
nungen. Die lanzettlichen Blatter des Strauches als Resolvens und 
gertihmt bei habitueller Verstopfung". Braga (1960) says: 
"Jaramataia....Arvore. Félhas opostas, digitadas, 3--5 folfolos 
obovais alongados, pubescentes. Flores pedunculadas, roxas, em 
pequenos cimos axilares densos. Drupa carnosa, 4-locular. Félhas 
calmantes, anti-reumaticas. Conhecida também por Tamanca e 
Tamanqueira." His statement that the leaves are 3--5-foliolate 
is remarkable; all specimens seen by me have them merely 1-folio- 
late and they are so described by Schauer in his original descrip- 
tion. It is very probably that Braga's description is based on a 
misidentification. 

Material of V. gardneriana has been misidentified and distribu- 
ted in some herbaria as Aegiphila sp. 

Additional citations: BRAZIL: Ceara: Allemao 1179 (P). State 
undetermined: Clausen s.n. (P). 


VITEX GAUMERI Greenm. 

Additional synonymy: Vitis gaumeri Greenm. ex Mold., Résumé 
Suppl. 16: 30, in syn. 1968. Vitex gaumeri Green ex Kribs, Comm. 
For. Woods, ed. 3, 161, sphalm. 1968 

Additional & emended bibliography: Pittier , Contrib. U. S. Nat. 
Herb. 20: 483 & 486. 1922; Roys, Tulane Univ. Mid. Am. Res. Ser. 
Publ. 2: [Ethno-bot. Maya] 221, 257, 300, & 326. 1931; Yuncker, 
Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 9: 330. 1940; H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 
2: 60. 1948; Kribs, Comm. For. Woods, ed. 2, 161, fig. 473 (1959) 
and ed. 3, 161, fig. 473. 1968; Mold., Phytologia 16: 500 (1968) 
and 17: 28. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 3, 13, & 30. 1968; 
Pennington & Sarukhdn, Man. Ident. Arb. Trop. 370--371. 1968; Ech- 
enique-Manrique, 25 Maderas Trop. Mex. 191--198 & [234]. 1970; 
Gibson, Fieldiana Bot. 24 (9): 234--235, fig. 47. 1970; Mold., 
Fifth Summ. 1: 77, 81, 82, 84, & 374 (1971) and 2: 593, 717, 718, 
726, 732, & 925. 1971; Mold., Phytologia 23: 416. 1972; Altschul, 
rugs Foods 246. 1973; Menninger, Color Sky 47. 1975; Molina R., 
Ceiba 19: 96. 1975; Mold., Phytologia 34: 252 (1976) and 44: 409. 
1979. 

Additional illustrations: Kribs, Comm. For. Woods, ed. 2, 161, 
fig. 473 (1959) and ed. 3, 161, fig- 473. 1968; Pennington & Sar- 
ukhan, Man. Ident. Arb. Trop. 370 & 371. 1968; Echinique-Menrique, 
25 Maderas Trop. Mex. [197] & 198. 1970; Gibson, Fieldiana Bot. 

24 C9)2 2355) Gigs: 4761970. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a shrub or tree, 3-- 

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bark gray, lightly fissured, sometimes scaly, the slash green un- 
der hard bark, the soft bark yellow, fibrous; wood cream-color, 
with a light astringent odor; branches ascending, tetragonal when 
young; leaves decussate-opposite, the leaflets dark-green above, 
gray or grayish-green beneath; flowers very fragrant, visited by 
many species of insects; the [immature] fruit green or dark-green, 
drupaceous, "axillary". They have encountered it in forests in 
general and more particularly in pine and open pine forests, both 
low and high forests, as well as in high evergreen forests with 
Terminalia amazonia, Dialium guianense, Calophyllum brasiliense, 
Manilkara zapota, Swietenia macrophylla, Aspidosperma cruentus, 
Reedia macrantha, Nectandra spp., and Brosimum spp. They have 
found it growing in thickets, along small streams in pastures, 

in secondgrowth, in low forests bordering lakes, in clearings and 
along the edges of rivers, in tintal, and along streams through 
Byrsonima-Curatella savannas, at 300--1100 m. altitude, flowering 
from May to August, and fruiting in January, May, June, and August 
to November. 

The corollas are said to have been "blue" on Contreras 855, 
2336, 5388, & 5658, Davidse & Pohl 2133, Dwyer 12598 & 12753, Ma- 
tuda 3905, Molina R. 5459, Molina R. & Molina 25766, and Ortiz 
1044, "bluish" on Contreras 9707, "bluish-purple" or "“blue-purple" 
on Lundell 15887 and Lundell & Lundell 7321, “lilac" on Penning- 
ton & Sarukhan 9618, "violet" on Chavelas & al. 2980, and "laven- 
der-blue, one lobe larger and darker blue" on Croat 23540. 

Moreno speaks of "latex blanco", but as far as I know true la- 
tex in unknown in this genus. The Molinas describe the species 
as “common in river thickets" in Honduras; Shepherd refers to it 
as an "occasional canopy tree on mesic sites" in Campeche, Mexico. 
Pennington & Sarukhan say "Corteza lisa, finamente fisurado, pardo 
amarillente". Bequaert reports the leaves employed as a horse 
fodder. Roys (1931) says that V. gaumeri is "A tree 30 to 50 feet 
high.....It is very handsome and puts forth a blue flower from 
which bees gather honey [nectar]. The shade of this tree is very 
salubrious......[it has] white wood....The Maya texts prescribe a 
decoction of the leaves as a bath to cure asthma....malaria...and 
chills. The crushed leaves are poulticed on ulcers and abscesses 
«eee--[the vernacular name] x-kom-yaxnic, applied to Solanum ama- 
zonicum Ker indicated a real or fancied resemblance to the yaxnic 
or Vitex gaumeri....Ruellia tuberosa L. is called x-cabal-yaxnic 
because its blossom resembles that of yaxnic or Vitex gaumeri." 

Wood characteristics are given in detail by Echenique-Manrique 
(1970), while Kribs (1968) describes them as follows: "Color uni- 
form light grayish brown or yellowish brown, or with darker zones 
which correspond with the growth zones. Luster medium. Odor and 
taste not distinct. Moderately hard and heavy, sp. gr. 0.64--0.72 
(air dry); weight, 40 to 45 lbs. per cu. ft. Grain usually inter- 
locked which produces a ribbon figure on the radial. Texture fine. 
Growth rings distinct and due to thicker walled fibers at end of 
ring. Vessels barely visible without lens on the cross section; 
evenly distributed, solitary and in radial groups of 2--3; tang. 
diam. 85u to 178u, av., 128u; lumina sometimes with tyloses; pits 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 491 


alternate, small, diam. 4u--5u. Fibers libriform with medium 
thick walls. Parenchyma vasicentric 1-—-3 cells wide, occasional- 
ly short aliform, and diffuse. Rays visible without lens on the 
cross section; heterogeneous type III; multiseriates 2--5 cells 
wide, mostly 3--4 cells and up to 40 cells high; uniseriates 
scarce; vessel-ray pits round to oval, minute. Ripple marks ab- 
sent. Gum ducts absent. Uses and source of supply agricultural 
implements and vehicles, sporting and athletic goods (polo stick 
heads, golf club heads, mallets, etc.); tool handles and cattle 
yokes. British Honduras, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico." 

Yuncker (1940) describes the species as a "Tree about 15 
meters tall and 35 cm. in diameter. Leaves palmately compound, 
the leaflets densely hairy beneath, entire; flowers small, deep 
blue, with pleasant odor, in paniculate clusters. In open for- 
ests on semi-arid highland near the village of Las Flores, at 180 
meters altitude" [in Atlantida, Honduras]. Gibson (1970) comments 
that "V. gaumeri is much like V. hemsleyi Briq. of Mexico, but 
differs in its much heavier indument and smaller flowers". The 
fruits are galled on Contreras 1639 & 6088. 

Recent vernacular names reported for V. gaumeri include 
"crucillo", "dachnik" [=green ear], "fiddlewood", "jocote de mico", 
"nichté", "ya'axnik", "yashcabté", "y'ashnik", and "yaxnic". 

Pennington & Sarukhan (1968) note that "Se encuentra restringi- 
da a la vertiente del Golfo desde el centro de Tab[asco] hasta la 
peninsula de Yucatan, formando parte del estrato superior de Sel- 
vas medianas subperennifolias y subcaducifolias asociada con 
Brosimum alicastrum, Manilkara zapota, Bursera simaruba, Astronium 
graveolens, Pouteria unilocularis, etc. siempre a altitudes meno- 
res a los 500 m. y en suelos derivados de materiales calizos, som- 
eros y de buen drenaje superficial. Usos. En la actualidad do se 
usa su madera pues presenta inconvenientes tales como rajarse con 
relativa facilidad. Podria usarse en un futuro para fabricar par- 
quet." 

Gibson (1970) cites only Whitford & Stadtmiller 74. 

Material of V. gaumeri has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as V. pyramidata B. L. Robinson and as Godmania 
aesculifolia (H.B.K.) Standl. 

Additional citations: MEXICO: Campeche: Chavelas P. & Pérez J. 
ES.789 (Mi, Mi); Matuda 3905 (Ws); Pennington & Sarukhan K.9625 
(N); Shepherd 50 (Mi, Ws). Chiapas: Chavelas P., Alanis, & Rosas 
ES.2980 (Mi); Pennington & Sarukhan K.9166 (N), K.9618 (N). Quin- 
tana Roo: Moreno 140 (N). Yucatan: Enriquez 493 (W--2597466); A. 
Gentry 535 (Ws), 538 (Ws); Lundell & Lundell 7321 (Au--192504, N, 
Ws). GUATEMALA: El Petén: Contreras 855 (Au--228053, Ld), 1639 
(Ld--278540, Ld, Ld, W--2558710), 2336 (Au--228025, Ld, Ld), 2526 
(Au--228020, Ld, N), 5388 (Au--254003, Ld, Ld), 5658 (N), 5836 
(Au--254199, Ld, Ld, Mi), 6088 (Ld--278534, Ld, Ld, W--2558712), 
9707 (Ld, Ld, W--2795352); C. L. Lundell 15887 (Ld, N), 15983 (Ld), 
16079 (Ld); Ortiz 1044 (Ws), 1153 (N), 1259 (N). BELIZE: Croat 
23540 (N); Dwyer 10834 (N), 12598 (Lc, N, W--2742191), 12753 (N); 
Dwyer & Liesner 12196a (W--2800216); Gentle 2528 (Tu--35170); A. 
Gentry 8267 (N), 8511 (N); Poole & Watson 1017 (Ld, Ld); Proctor 


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30250 (Ld). HONDURAS: Choluteca: Harmon & Fuentes 5987 (N, Ws); 
Hazlett 999 (E--2162966); A. Molina R. 5459 (W—2572523). Comay- 
agua: Molina R. 8468 (ld), 14304 (N). Copan: Hernandez M. & Her- 
nandez R. 5197 (Z). El Paraiso: Davidse & Pohl 2133 (N); Molina 
R. 14482 (N, N). Morazan: Molina R. & Molina 25766 (N). Santa 
Barbara: A. Molina R. 21980 (N). 


VITEX GEMINATA H. H. W. Pearson : 
This taxon is now treated by me as V. harveyana f. geminata 
(H. H. W. Pearson) Mold., which see. 


VITEX GIGANTEA H.B.K. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Vitex gigantea Humb. apud 
Spreng. in L., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 2: 756.1825. Vitex gigantea 
Humb. & Kunth apud D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 611. 1843. Vitex gigan- 
tea Kunth apud Goyena, Pl. Nicarag. 1: 569. 1911. Vitex gigantia 
HeB.K. ex Mold., Phytologia 23: 438, in syn. 1972. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Steud., Nom. Bot. Phan., 
ed.v1l, 865. 18213. Spreng.,\in Li, Syst. Vege; eds. 16,) 2%. 756¢ 
1625; Sweet,. Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 416.: 18303: Loud,, Hort. Beit 
ed,.(2 57-551. £6323. Sweet, Hort. Brit. , ed..3, 551. 1639: Di_ ieee 
Syne PL.» 93601643; Schau. in A. DCi ,t Prodr, 21: 686..,.caaee 
Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501. 1858; Macbr., Field Mus. 
Publ. Bot. 13 (5): 692, 694, & 696. 1960; Acosta-Solis, Divis. 
Fitogeogr. Ecuad. 27, 57, 60, & 66. 1968; Mold., Phytologia 16: 
500. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 16: 29. 1968; H. Weber in Fittkau, 
Illies, Klinge, Schwabe, & Sioli, Biogeogr. Ecol. S. Am. 2: [Van 
Oye, Monog. Biol. 19:] 488. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 137, 144, 
& 374 (1971) and 2: 717 & 925. 1971; Mold., Phytologia 23: 418 & 
438. 1972; Molina R., Ceiba 19: 96. 1975; Zimmerm. & Ziegler in 
Zimmerm. & Milburn, Transp. Pl. 1 [Pirson & Zimmerm., Encycl. Pl. 
Physiol.', ser «-25) 1}: 503.°:19753: Mold. , Phytologia 34:25), 427 
1976; Soukup, Biota 11: 20. 1976; Mold., Phytologia 36: 33 (1977) 
and 44: 412,. 1979. 

Recent collectors describe this species as a tree, 5--25 nm. 
tall, the trunk to 30 cm. in diameter, the flowers with a slight 
perfume, and the fruit at first green, finally black, edible. 
They have encountered it in dense forests, dry tropical woods, 
and wet subtropical forests, from near sealevel to 1000 m. alti- 
tude, flowering from October to December, fruiting in January, 
February, and September. The corollas are said to have been 
"light bluish-violet" on Asplund 18198 and "lilac" on Mexia 6177. 

Vernacular names recently reported for the species are "giant 
chaste-tree", "moconto", "pechicha". and "pechiche". Macbride 
(1960) says of it: "Noted by authors as a beautiful tree with 
globose crown, the wood very hard; originally from Guayaquil. 
Obviously very closely related to V. cymosa Bert. and V. flavens 
HBK.; the Peruvian specimens with young leaves are sparsely puber- 
ulent above and Moldenke thinks it is not certain that they are 
the same species". He cites only Mexia 6177 and Tessmann 4723. 
Vargas notes "frutas capsulas [surely an error in observation!], 
su madera usado en ebanisteria y su fruto en dulces". 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 493 


Mexia reports that during anthesis the tree is almost leafless, 
has "good hard wood". and is "common" in Loreto, Peru. Of his 
no. 4261 Lépez-Palacios says: "en crecimiento y esteril". Loudon 
(1832) avers that it was introduced into cultivation in England 
from Ecuador in 1826. Molina (1975) lists it as cultivated in 
Honduras. Goyena (1911) describes rather well a plant which he 
calls Vitex gigantea as growing on the Grand Sabana in Nicaragua, 
but this seems most unlikely -—- it is more likely that the plant 
which he saw was either V. cooperi Standl. or V. kuylenii Standl. 
Macbride (1960) distinguishes the Peruvian species of Vitex 
known to him as follows: 
1. Inflorescence usually a dm. long or longer and rather panicu- 
late or dichotomous-cymose. 
2. Calyx sub-bilabiate, nearly 5.5 mm. long; cymes supra-axil- 
LAL V sie w cle i sos sjeeiale, here wise We wile pda a'de.6 bles ee ee. alanine ee Pree 2 
2a. Calyx 5-dentate or -lobate, 2--3 mm. long; cymes axillary 
or also terminal. 
3. Peduncles about as long as or longer than the petioles.... 
V. compressa. 
3a. Peduncles much shorter than the petioles. 
4. Leaflets 5; petioles often ampliate at apex...V. cymosa. 
4a. Leaflets 3--7; petioles slender, not or little ampli- 
SOE. viel rd ds dy aead seen ws ane h esa ee sieeve Seu Lea. 
la. Inflorescence more or less simply cymose. 
5. Cymes mostly 3-flowered; calyx tubular-funnelform, to 2 cm. 
POM tee = ond Wile whe OS want bide kale e ae ta ald uee area ain ain jee er 
5a. Cymes at least mostly or often many-flowered; calyx small. 
6. Peduncles shorter than the petioles; calyx canescent. 
7. Leaflets long-petiolulate; calyx in fruit lax, mucro- 
CLODALC Ji ass tele 5 om ewes cw im Het saws cid kl eS 
7a. Leaflets subsessile or short-petiolulate; fruit en- 
closed in the dentate fruiting calyx......V. gigantea. 
6a. Peduncles longer than the petioles. 
8. Calyx gray, obsoletely dentate...........V. orinocensis. 
8a. Calyx flavescent, obviously dentate.........V. flavens. 
Acosta Solis (1968) cites Acosta Solis 6452, 13007, & 15821 
from Ecuador. 
Material of V. gigantea has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as V. cymosa Bert., Tabebuia sp., and Bignoniaceae. 
Additional citations: ECUADOR: El Oro: Escobar 804 (Ld). 
Guayas: A. Gentry 10034 (N). Morona Santiago: Little, Ortega U., 
Samaniego V., & Vivar C. 481 (ld). Napo: Loépez-Palacios 4261 (Ld). 
PERU: Loreto: Mexia 6177 (Au--122925, Ba). Tumbes: Vargas Alvarez 
1 (N, Ws), 32 (N, Ws). CULTIVATED: Ecuador: Asplund 18198 (Ld, N; 
W--2652444). 


VITEX GIORGII DeWild. 

Additional bibliography: H. N. & A. L. Mold., Pl. Life 2: 61. 
1948; Mold., Phytologia 15: 244. 1967; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 232 
(1971). nd 22° 925... 1971. 


VITEX GLABRATA R,. Br. 
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B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 588, in syn. 1885. 
Vitex leucoxylon Schau. ex C. B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. 
India 4: 588, in syn. 1885 [not V. leucoxylon Blanco, 1895, nor 
Le; 1829, nor L. fs, 1791, nor Naves, 1918, nor Roth, 1956, “nor 
Roxb., 1856, nor Wall., 1847, nor Willd., 1832]. Vitex leucoxylon 
F, &. © Frain, Beng. Fi. imp. 1, 833, in syd. 1903... Vitae 
glabratus R. Br. ex K. Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. 
Sidsee 370. 1905. Vitex glabratus K. Sch. ex K. Schum. & Lau- 
terb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Sitidsee 370, in syn. 1905. Vitex 
pentaphylla Merr., Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 4: 320--321. 1909 [not 
V. pentaphylla Lamb., 1940, nor Pavon, 1940, nor Sessé & Moc., 
1940]. Vitex nitida Merr., Philip. Journ. Sci. Bot. 7: 343--344. 
1912. Vitex leucoxylon Kurz ex Troup, Silvicult. Indian Trees 2: 
This am eyns: £921. 

Additional & emended bibliography: R. Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. 
Hold, tmp. LyeSlZ £1810): and iep. 2, [Tele 1619: ‘512. a8 
Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 14: 813. 1826; Wall., Numer. List 
[48], nos. 1749 & 1751. 1829; D. Dietr., Syn. Pl. 3: 61LE, 16435 
Walp., Repert. Syst. Bot. 4: 86. 1845; Schau. in A. DC., Prodr. 
11: 690--692 & 695. 1847; Buek, Gen. Spec. Syn. Candoll. 3: 501 & 
502. 1858; Benth. & Muell., Fl. Austral. 5: 31 & 68. 1870; R. 
Schomb., Fl. S. Austral. 52. 1875; Ceron, Cat. Pl. Herb. Manila 
133. 1892; Prain, Beng. Pl.,. imp. 1, 832 & 833.. 1903; K. Schum. @ 
Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Sudsee 362 & 369--370. 1905; Bran- 
dis, Indian Trees, imp. 1, 505. 1906; Fedde & Schust., Justs Bot. 
Jahresber. 40 (2): 336. 1915; Heyne, Nutt. Plant. Nederl. Ind., 
ed. 1, 4: 113--114. 1917; H. Hallier, Meded. Rijks Herb. Leid. 
37: 48 & 54. 1918; Kirtikar & Basu, Indian Med. Pl., ed. 1, 1936 
& 1941--1942. 1918; H. J. Lam in Lam & Bakh., Bull. Jard. Bot. 
Buitenz., ser. 3, 3: 49 & 50. 1921; Troup, Silvicult. Indian 
Trees 776 & 777. 1921; Gamble, Man. Indian Timb. 298 & 542. 1922; 
Haines, Bot. Bihar Orissa, ed. 1, 4: 7ilL, &.713. 19225 Ridl 7 3a 
Malay Penins. 2: 634. 1923; Janssonius, Mikrogr. Holz. 4: 754, 
758, 762--764, 767, & 824--827. 1926; Béjaud, Essenc. Forest. 
Camb. 348. 1928; Kanjilal, Das, Kanjilal, & De, Fl. Assam 3: 480, 
485, & 561. 1939; Janssonius, Key Javan Woods 54. 1952; Petelot, 
Pl. Méd. Cambod. Laos Vietn. 2 [Archiv. Recherch. Agron. Past. 
Vietn. 18]: 248 (1953) and 4: 171, 225, 257, & 289. 1954; R. Br., 
Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl., imp. 3, 512. 1960; Haines, Bot. Bihar Or- 
issa, ed. 2, 2: 745 & 747--748. 1961; Prain, Beng. Pl., imp. 2, 
2: 621, 622, & 1012. 1963; Backer & Bakh., Fl. Java 2: 604--605. 
1965; Burkill, Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. 2: 2277--2279. 
1966; Basak, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10: 256. 1968; Hocking, Ex- 
cerpt. Bot. A.13: 569. 1968; Mold., Phytologia 16: 500--502 
(1968) and 17: 8, 10, 12, 13, 21, & 32. 1968; Mold., Résumé Suppl. 
16: 9. 1968; Uphof, Bict. Econ. Pi., ed. 2, 545. 1968; Kao & Ver 
ma, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 11: 410. 1969; Sawyer & Chermsir., 
Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 23: 126. 1969; Beard, West Austr. Pl., 
ed. 12, 113. 1970; Brandis, Indian Trees, imp. 2, 505. 1971; Long 
& Lakela, Fl. Trop. Fla. 739 & 961. 1971; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 
269, 279, 284, 298, 303, 306, 318, 319, 328, 331, 333, 33e5) ee 
& 374 (1971) and 2: 603, 714, 716, 718, 720--722, 724, 725, & 925. 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 495 


1971; Rativanich & Dietrichs, Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 24: 147. 
1971; Mold., Phytologia 23: 413 & 438. 1972; Townsend, Kew Bull. 
27: 148. 1972; Meld., Phytologia 28: 445. 1974; Kooiman, Act. Bot. 
Neerl. 24: 462. 1975; Long & Lakela, Fl. Trop. Fla., ed. 2, 739 & 
961. 1976; Mold., Phytologia 34: 267. 1976; Fundter & Wisse, 
Meded. Landbowshogsch. Wagen. 77 (9): 205 & 206. 1977; Mold., 
Phytologia 44: 224 & 329. 1979. 

Backer & Bakhuizen van den Brink (1965) describe this species 
as follows: Young branches densely short-hairy; leaflets 3--5, 
rarely 6, elliptic-oblong-obovate, acuminate, glabrous on the up- 
per surface (excl. the large veins), pubescent beneath (especially 
in the primary vein-axils); median leaflet 11--31 cm. by 4--13 1/2 
cm., on a 1--3 mm. long petiolule, the other leaflets smaller, on 
shorter petiolules; petioles 7--17 cm. long; corolla-tube villous 
inside (at and above the insertion of the stamens), without a ring 
of hairs near the base, 5--7 mm. long; corolla and calyx outside 
without glands; filaments villous on their lower halves, rather 
far exserted; corolla yellowish-white; median segment of lower 
lip blue-violet; cymes solitary, 7--22 cm. long (inclusive of the 
peduncles); pedicels 1/2 -- 5 mm. long; drupes (color?) 1 1/2 -—- 

2 1/2 cm. long. They assert that in Java it occurs in mixed for- 
ests, especially in humid localities, flowering there from July to 
December. 

Troup (1921) says of Vitex glabrata: "A large deciduous tree 
with 5-foliate leaves. Bark smooth, white. Wood grey, moderately 
hard, close-grained, durable, of good quality, used for cart- 
wheels. Assam, Chittagong, Burma, Andamans; also in the Rajmahal 
hills, very local (Haines). This is a common and conspicuous tree 
in the upper mixed deciduous forests of Burma, and is also fairly 
common in certain types of lower mixed forests, preferring well- 
drained ground; it is a common companion of teak. Flowers, April- 
June; fruits, June-July. The fruit is a drupe about 0.5 in. long. 
Growth, according to Gamble, averaging 6 rings per inch of radius, 
giving a mean annual girth increment of 1.05 in." Janssonius 
(1926) describes the structure of the wood and its characters in 
great detail. The 5-foliolate form described by Troup, above, 
and other writers, is probably what I call f. bombacifolia (Wall.) 
Mold; true V. glabrata, as seen in Australia, is normally at least 
mostly 3-foliolate. 

Basak (1968) reports the species from West Bengal on the basis 
of Basak 243, stating that it occurs also in Cachar, Assam, and 
Bihar, and that Prain (1903) records it from East Bengal and Chit- 
tagong [Bangladesh]. He claims that his record is the first from 
West Bengal [India]. 

Burkill (1966) says that V. glabrata is "found from north-eastern 
India to northern Australia; in the [Malayan] Peninsula it is un- 
known south of Penang. The timber is used for cart-wheels, and de- 
serves attention for furniture and other purposes.....It is moder- 
ately hard, tough, close-grained, and grey. Indian Forest officers 
have proposed the name Yoma wood for it, for marketing purposes. 
It is sometimes used in Java, and is highly valued in Celebes....,. 
Mrs. Collins says that the fruit gathered quite ripe is eaten in 
Siam, and taste a little like dried prunes". Rativanich & Dietrichs 


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(1971) aver that in Thailand the bark is used as an astringent 
and to treat stomach disorders and diarrhea. Uphof (1968) reports 
that the "wood is much in demand by the natives [of the Malayan 
Archipelago] for the construction of houses, for boards and house- 
hold utensils". Petelot (1953) tells us that "D'aprés Béjaud.... 
au Cambodge, 1'écorce fait l'objet d'une exploitation intense. Le 
fruit et l'eCorce entrent dans la composition de masticatoires". 
He claims that the species occurs throughout southern Indochina, 
as well as in India, Malaysia, and Australia. 

Lam (1921) separates V. nitida Merr. [based on Klemme 19546 
from Mindanao] from V. glabrata R. Br. as follows: in V. nitida 
the cymes a¥Fe only in large terminal panicles, while in V. glab- 
rata they are "axillary, also in the axils of the lower leaves, 
sometimes composed to a long, interrupted, leafy, terminal pan- 
icle". It would seem that this is not a tenable distinction, 
at least at the specific level, although a varietal or form 
status may be in order. 

Most authors regard V. bombacifolia Wall. and V. pallida Wall. 
as identical to typical V. glabrata, but I regard them as probably 
worthy of at least form status and they are discussed hereinafter. 
Hallier (1918) cites for V. glabrata only Pierre 1838 from Co- 
chinchina, Merrill 9330 from Palawan, and Forbes 3784 from Timor, 
but gives the species’ overall distribution as Assam, Chittagong, 
Burma, Siam, Cochinchina, Kedah, Penang, Java, northeastern New 
Guinea, northern Australia, and Queensland. 

Clarke (1885) gives the distribution of V. glabrata as "From S. 
Assam and Cachar to Malacca, frequent". He comments that "The 
typical V. glabrata, R. Br., has leaves usually 3-foliolate and 
rounder more glabrate leaflets and fewer-flowered corymbs than 
the Indian tree; but some of the examples of V. Cunninghamii ap- 
pear identical with Silhet specimens". It should be noted that 
the name, Vitex cunninghami, was published on page 691, not "690" 
as stated by Clarke, in DeCandolle's Prodromus, volume 11 (1847) 
and is there written with a single terminal "i". 

It is also worth noting that Brown's original description 
(1810) is cited as "1827" by various authors, including Kanehira 
& Hatusima (1942), Lam (1924), Lam & Bakhuizen (1924), and in 
earlier installments of the present series by myself. This date 
is apparently erroneous. 

Schumann (1905), in describing his V. helogiton, from New 
Guinea, notes that "Ich habe diese Pflanze friiher mit V. glabratus 
R. Br. identifiziert; sie ist aber vor allem durch die Grdésse 
der Blatter, ferner durch die Gestalt derselben und die Form der 
Bliiten verschieden, wenn sie ich auch von den mir bekannten Ar- 
ten am nuchsten kommt". I am inclined to agree with him that 
V. glabrata, as currently treated in floras and manuals, in- 
cludes several quite disparate elements, including the one he has 
described, probably worthy of at least varietal or form rank in 
addition to the ones hereinafter listed. Merrill's Philippine 
material may prove the same as Schumann's New Guinean forn. 

According to Bentham, V. glabrata, at least in Australia, has 
the petioles over 2 inches long, the petiolules 1/2 to 3/4 inch 


1979 Moldenke, Notes on Vitex 497 


long, and the flowers in loose, dichotomous, axillary cymes, while 
V. acuminata R. Br. has the petioles shorter than the leaflets, 
the petiolules very short or only to 1/4 inch long, and the 
flowers in thyrsoid panicles that are terminal or in the uppermost 
axils only. 

Recent collectors have described this species as a shrub or 
low spreading to large tree, 6.5--20 m. tall, the canopy 8 n. 
wide, the bole to 8 m. tall, the trunk 23--66 cm. in diameter at 
breast height, to 90 cm. in girth, the bark hard, light-brown to 
gray, brownish-gray, or yellowish-gray, smooth or rough and flaky, 
finely and closely furrowed, peeling off in thin strips, the un- 
der bark brown, the inner bark straw-colored, the wood white or 
cream-color, the heartwood brown, the leaflets discolorous, light- 
or dark-green, shiny above, dull beneath, the stamens purple, and 
the fruit small, ovoid to more or less globular, shiny, light- 
green when young, purple or dark-purple to black when ripe, 
edible. They have found it growing in thickets, on foreshores, 
in evergreen or lowland rainforests, on sandy creekbanks, and in 
dry sclerophyll scrub, in sandy or lateritic soil, at 90--2000 m. 
altitude, flowering from April to July, as well as in October and 
November, and fruiting in June, July, September, and October. 

The corollas are said to have been "white" on Lazarides 6975 
and Phusomsaeng 238, “white with purple tinge" on Specht 1076 [and 
so described also by Beard (1970)], "white with purple hairs, base 
of upper petal-lobe yellow" on Geesink & Santisuk 4976, "creamy- 
purple" on Katik NGF.37870, and "pale-violet" on Kostermans 23907. 

Geesink & Santisuk report the species "common at evergreen for- 
est edge on hillslopes" in Thailand; Kostermans refers to it as 
"common" in Java; Sawyer & Chermsirivathana (1969) describe it as 
infrequent to common in Thailand; Specht found it in mixed open 
forests at the base of sandstone scarps in Australia. lLazarides 
avers that it “occurs on fringe of creek channels with Eucalyptus 
camaldulensis and Arundinella nepalensis", while Wilson encounter- 
ed it "on sandstone hills, mainly outcrops, with low trees of 
Owenia sp. and Terminalia sp." 

Vernacular names recently reported include "ashual", "bandi- 
kari", "bhodia", "bihbool", "cay den", "gentileng", "goda", 
"sohera", "horina", “kaping-asing", "khai-nao", "laban ketileng 
tileng", "langa-thang-thang", "ma", "pani-amora", "popoul ach sat", 
"popoul tuk", "serlung-baphang", and "xo con". 

Color slides or photographs accompany at least some herbarium 
specimens of Adams 872, Geesink & Santisuk 4976, and Lazarides 
6975. 

Schumann & Hollrung (1889) cite only Hollrung 672 & 708 from 
New Guinea and Schumann & Lauterbach (1900) cite the same collec- 
tion, describing the species as a tree 15 to 25 m. tall, with white, 
violet-veined corollas, "bisher aus Nordaustralien bekannt". 

Material of V. glabrata has been misidentified and distributed 
in some herbaria as V. acuminata R. Br., V. littoralis Decne., and 
V. quinata (Lour.) F. N. Will. On the other hand, the R. A. Perry 
1052, distributed as V. glabrata, is actually V. acuminata R. Br., 
while Béjaud 519 is V. glabrata var. poilanei Mold., M. Ramos s.n. 


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[Herb. Philip. Bur. Sci. 23485] and Sulit s.n. [Philipp Nat. Herb. 
14407] are V. quinata (Lour.) F. N. Will. and Elmer 11602 and Kane- 
hira 2022 are V. quinata var. puberula (H. J. Lam) Mold. 

Additional citations: BANGLADESH: C. B. Clarke 20089 (Pd); 
King's Collector 407 (Mu--3800). BURMA: Upper Burma: Kingdon-Ward 
22501 (Go). THAILAND: Geesink & Santisuk 4976 (Ac); Phusomsaeng 
238 (Ac). PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: Culion: S. S. Ponce s.n. [Herb. 
Philip. Forest. Bur. 28904] (W--1262380). Luzon: Ahern 110 (W-- 
445108). Mindanao: W. I. Hutchinson s.n. [Herb. Philip. Forest. 
Bur. 11245] (W--706282); D. P. Miranda s.n. [Herb. Philip. Forest. 
Bur. 20771] (W--1238733); Razon s.n. [Herb. Philip. Forest. Bur. 
23671] (W--1293392); R. S. Williams 2949 (W--708173, W--708174). 
Mindoro: M. Ramos s.n. [Herb. Philip. Bur. Sci. 39371] (W-- 
1376030). Palawan: E. D. Merrill 9330 (W--902574); Sulit s.n. 
[Philip. Nat. Herb. 12507] (W--2376198). MARIANA ISLANDS: Guam: 
Rodin 794 (W--1968684). GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS: Java: Koorders 
10129? (Pd); Kostermans 23907 (Ac). LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS: Timor: 
Herb. Neth. Ind. For. Serv. BB.23954 (N). NEW GUINEA: Papua: 
Katik NGF.37970 (Mu, W--2740694). West_Irian: Herb. Neth. Ind. 
For. Serv. BB.25755 (N). AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: Adams 
872 (Ai); Beens & Spence BS.30 (Ai--9851); Byrnes & Maconochie 
1001 [Herb. North. Terr. 24004] (Ld); Cunningham 256 (N); Lazar- 
ides 6975 (Ai); Letts 60 (Ai--8346), 8348 (Ai); Specht 1076 (W-- 
2125145); I. B. Wilson 180 (Ai). 


VITEX GLABRATA £. BOMBACIFOLIA (Wall.) Mold., Phytologia 44: 329. 
1979. 

Additional & emended synonymy: Vitex nn. 10 and 18 Hook. f. & 
Thoms. ex C. B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 588, in 
syn. 1885. Vitex leucoxylon Roth ex Mold., Phytologia 5: 382, in 
syn. 1956 [not V. leucoxylon Blanco, 1895, nor F. I., 1903, nor 
Kurz, 1921, nor L., 1829, nor L. £., 1781, nor Naves, 1918, nor 
Schau., 1893, nor Span., 1856, nor Wall., 1847, nor Willd., 1832]. 

Additional & emended bibliography: Voigt, Hort Suburb, Calc. 
469. 1845; W. Griff., Notul. 4: 740 & 764. 1854; Buek, Gen. Spec. 
Syn. Candoll. 3:'501 & 502. 1858; K. Schum, & Hollr., ¥1., Base. 
Wilhelmsl. 121. 1889; Haines, Bot. Bihar Orissa, ed. 1, 4: 713. 
1922; Petelot, Pl. Med. Cambod. Laos Vietn. 2: 248 (1954) and 4: 
171. 1954; Haines, Bot. Bihar Orissa, ed. 2, 2: 747. 19613; Mold., 
Phytologia 16: 500--502 (1968) and 17: 8, 12, 13, & 21. 1968; 
Mold., Resume Suppl. 16: 9. 1968; Mold., Fifth Summ. 1: 269, 279, 
284, 303,..& 374.(1971). and 2274, 716,720, 7254:% 925... dee 
Mold., Phytologia 23: 438 (1972) and 44: 329. 1979. 

This taxon is usually regarded as identical to typical V. gla- 
brata R. Br., but as Clarke (1885) points out: "The typical V. 
glabrata.....has leaves usually 3-foliolate and rounder more glab- 
rate leaflets and fewer-fld. corymbs....The typical V. bombaci- 
folia, Wallich (Vitex n. 18, Herb. Ind. Or. H. £. & T.)iseewenee 
the leaflets mostly 5, large and broad". He also notes that "V. 
Pallida, Wallich (Vitex n. 10, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T.), has 
smaller, more hairy leaflets, and short peduncles". 

[to be continued] 


New Names in Senna P. Mill. and Chamaecrista Moench 
(Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae) precursory to the 
Chihuahuan Desert Flora 


H. S. Irwin & R. C. Barneby 
New York Botanical Garden 


At the Legume Conference held at Kew in 1978 we proposed 
the dismemberment of Cassia sens. lat. into three genera Cassia 
L. (sens. restr.), Senna P. Mill. and Chamaecrista Moench. 
Implementing this taxonomic decision, which will entail an 
unfortunately large number of new combinations, we here transfer 
to the appropriate genus those species which will soon be 
described in the Chihuahuan Desert Flora, currently in 
preparation under the editorship of Dr. M. C. Johnston at Austin. 


SENNA P. Miller 


S. BAUHINIOIDES (A. Gray) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 
bauhinioides A. Gray, Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 180. 1850. 


S. COVESII (A. Gray) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia covesii 
A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 399. 1868. 


S. CROTALARIOIDES (Kunth) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 
crotalarioides Kunth, Mimoses pl. 40. 1822 & p. 132. 1823. 


S. DEMISSA (Rose) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia demissa 
Rose, Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 10: 97. 1906. 


S. DEMISSA (Rose) var. RADICANS (Irwin & Barneby) Irwin & 
Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia demissa var. radicans Irwin & 
Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 9. 1975. 


S. DURANGENSIS (Rose) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 
durangensis Rose, Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 10: 98. 1906. 


S. DURANGENSIS (Rose) var. ISELYI (Irwin & Barneby) Irwin & 
Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia durangensis var. iselyi Irwin 
& Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 11. 1975. 


S. HIRSUTA (Linnaeus) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 
narSita Lint.s. Sp.°Pl.. 376. 1753. 


S. HIRSUTA (Linnaeus) var. GLABERRIMA (M. E. Jones) Irwin & 
Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia leptocarpa var. glaberrima 
M. E. Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 12: 7. 1908. 


499 


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. LINDHEIMERANA (Scheele) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 


lindheimerana Scheele, Linnaea 21: 457 ('Lindheimeriana'). 
1848. 


. MENSICOLA (Irwin & Barneby) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. 


Cassia mensicola Irwin & Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 11. 1975. 


. MONOZYX (Irwin & Barneby) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 


monozyx Irwin & Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 16. 1975. 


. ORCUTTII (Britton & Rose) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. 


Peiranisia orcuttii Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23 (4): 267. 
1930. 


. PILOSIOR (Macbride) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 


bauhinioides var. pilosior B. L. Robinson ex Macbride, 
Contrib. Gray Herb. n. ser. 59: 27. 1919. C. pilosior 
(Macbride) Irwin & Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 10. 1975. 


. PUMILIO (A. Gray) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia pumilio 


A. Gray, Boston J. Nat. Hist. 6: 180. 1850. 


. RIPLEYI (Irwin & Barneby) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 


ripleyi Irwin & Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 13, fig. 1. 1975. 


. WISLIZENI (A. Gray) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia 


wislizeni A. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1: 60. 1852. 


. WISLIZENI (A. Gray) var. PAINTERI (Britton & Rose) Irwin & 


Barneby, comb. nov. Palmerocassia painteri Britton ex 
Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23 (4): 254. 1930. Cassia 
wislizeni var. painteri (Britton & Rose) Irwin & Barneby, 
Sida o (1): 16. “1975. 


. WISLIZENI var. VILLOSA (Britton & Rose) Irwin & Barneby, comb. 


nov. Palmerocassia villosa Britton ex Britton & Rose, N. 
Amer. F1l.~23 (4): 254. 1930. Cassia wislizeni var. villosa 
(Britton & Rose) Irwin & Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 16. 1975. 


CHAMAECRISTA P. Miller 


GREGGII (A. Gray) Pollard ex A. Heller var. POTOSINA 
(Britton & Rose) Irwin & Barneby, stat. nov. Ch. potosina 
Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl. 23 (5): 283. 1930. 


GLANDULOSA (Linnaeus) Greene var. PARRALENSIS (Irwin & 
Barneby) Irwin & Barneby, stat. nov. Cassia parralensis 
Irwin & Barneby, Sida 6 (1): 18. 1975. 


1979 Irwin & Barneby, New names 501 


CH. NICTITANS (Linnaeus) Greene var. MENSALIS (Greenman) 
Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia leptadenia var. mensalis 
Greenman, Proc. Amer. Acad. 41: 238. 1905. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
Our revisionary work with Leguminosae tribe Cassieae is 


Supported by National Science Foundation grant DEB 7818365 to 
New York Botanical Garden. 


CORRECTION TO MAESA (MYRSINACEAE) IN MICRONESIA 


By F. R. Fosberg and Marie-Héléne Sachet 


Due to an unfortunate editorial error in our article on 
Micronesian Maesa (Phytologia 44: 363, 1979) the texts of pages 
365 and 366 were reversed. To correct this the page numbers 365 
and 366 should be reversed. 


As the article now reads the last part of the treatment of 
Maesa canfieldiae is on page 366 instead of p. 365; the treatment 
of M. carolinensis is on p. 366 instead of 365. M. carolinensis 
var. carolinensis begins on p. 366 and continues on page 365; 

M. carolinensis var. kusaiensis is on p. 365 instead of 366; M. 
carolinensis var. subsessilis starts on p. 365 and continues on 
page 367. It seems best to cite the page numbers as actually 
published in any uses of the names as basionyms for transfers, 
but in reading the paper the page numbers should be reversed to 
avoid confusion. As printed it does not make sense. 


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Index to authors in Volume Forty-four 


Bastey, vu. EK. 129 
Barneby, R. C., 418, 499 
Barroso, G. M., 451 
cfeak, Fe Des 35L 
Fosberg, F. R., 362, 502 
Hartman, R., 313 
Hawksworth, F. G., 129 
Hocking, G. M.,. 33 
Irwin, H. S., 499 
Rages Be Moy 19, O4, BOL, B55. 
463, 466 
Btusoce, EB. A.'s F, 12S 29 
Lopez-Figueiras, M., 89 
timer, CC, A, 164 


Boluenke. A. Le, 127, F725 3153 


365, 421, 502 
Metdenke, H. N., 92, LED Te : 


Moldenke, H. N. 


cont. 1. les. 
134, 139, IAL IAs, Zee ee 
328, 329, 354.385, 433, Are 

Newline. i. Lin hae Ola See 

Miezeoda, CC. Jos 307, 317 

Oswald, F. W., 419 

Eobinson, H., 65, 70," 79, O95 
251, £210, 2a0, Jar, 300. ese 
436, 442, 451, 455, 463, 466 

Sachet, M.-H., 362, 502 

Saint John, H., 323 

Saten, LL. Bo, 233 

Steyermark, J. A., 321 

Wasshausen, D. C., 233 

Weber, W. A., 313 

Wunderiin, EK. P... 525 

Zander, R. H., 177 


Index to supraspecific scientific names in Volume Forty-four 


Abies, 130 

Abuta, 13-15 

Acacia, $3, 10/7, 116, it7, 
220, 3505,.511, 3105 “300 

Acaena, 137 

Acanthaceae, 60, 94 

Acantholippia, 328 

Acanthus, 47 

Acarospora, 172 

Acer, 55 

Aceraceae, 55 

Adenanthera,. 380 

Adenolobus, 326 

Aeginetia, 55 

Aegiphila, 215, 489 

Aesculus, 54 

Affonsea, 309, 311 

Afzelia, 474 

Agave, 43, 107 

Ageratinae, 463 

Ageratum, 36, 463 

Agnus castus, 143, 219, 225, 
339 


Agrariae, 201 


Agrianthus, 79, 451, 463 
Albizia, 307-312, 377-380 
Albizzia, 220, 309, 484 
Aleurites, 339 
Aleurotrachelus, 221 
Aleurotuberculatus, 478 
Allasia, 143 


Alliaceae, 54 
Allium, 39, 54 
Alloispermum, 270, 274, 425-428, 
430-433 
Alnus, 55 
Alsioideae, 213 
Alternanthera, 40 
Amblygonocarpus, 409 
Amelanchier, 107 
Ammiaceae, 219, 223 
Amolinia, 85 
Amphigymnia, 
Andropogon, 
Anemone, 421 
Angiospermae, 33, 34, 42, 50 


90, 91 
120 


505 


506 


Annonaceae, 310 

Anoectangium, 193 

Anomospermeae, 11 

Anomospermum, 15 

Aphelandra, 60, 61 

Apontia, 107 

Apteron, 243 

Aralia, 54 

Araliaceae, 54 

Archidendron, 311 

Arenaria, 313, 314 

Aristida, 39 

Arrabidaea, 222 

Arrojadocharis, 451, 463-465 

Arrojadoa, 463 

Arundinella, 497 

Aspidosperma, 490 

Aspilicia, 172 

Asteraceae, 65, 70, 74, 79, 80, 
BL,’ 84,°06, 25/7, 266, 270, 
274, 260, 287, 300, $25, 431, 
436, 438, 442, 451, 454, 455, 


457, 459, 463, 465, 466, 468- 


471 
Astronium, 491 
Avicennia, 315, 503 
Axillares, 219, 225 
Ayapana, 74 
Baccharis, 107 
Bacteria, 42 
Bahianthus, 79, 451 
Baitlionia, 125, 135, 137, 146 
Barbula, 177-214 
Barklya, 325 
Barleria, 93 
Bartlettina, 84-86 
Bauhinia, 220, 325, 326 
Bauhinieae, 325 
Bauhiniinae, 326 
Begonia, 55, 59, 233-256 
Begoniaceae, 55 
Begoniastrum, 243 
Bemisia, 338, 478 
Berberidaceae, 54 
Berberis, 54 
Bernardia, 107 
Betula, 55 
Betulaceae, 53, 55 
Bignoniaceae, 221-223, 359, 

412, 481 
Blumea, 302 
Boletaceae, 44 


TU2YrTOeLteectra 


Boletus, 44 

Boraginaceae, 105 

Borassus, 220 

Bouchea, 94, 102, 112-116 

Bouteloua, 94 

Bouvardia, 107 

Brachystegia, 474, 480 

Brassicaceae, 53 

Brosimum, 99, 491 

Bryoerythrophyllum, 184, 214 

Bryopsida, 177 

Bryum, 201 

Buchnera, 120 

Buddleia, 221, 333 

Buddleiaceae, 221 

Buddlejaceae, 53 

Bunaea, 478 

Bursera, 491 

Butyrospermum, 219, 220 

Byrsonima, 490 

Cadieae, 325 

Caesalpinaceae, 48 

Caesalpinia, 48 

Caesalpiniaceae, 379 

Caesalpinioideae, 325, 499 

Calceolaria, 137 

Calea, 270-279, 425-427, 432, 
433, 436-441 

Calliandra, 311 

Callicarpa, 219 

Calochortus, 39 

Calophyllum, 490 

Canna, 99 

Cannabis, 60 

Canthium, 351, 478 

Carex, 39 

Carissa, 93 

Carmichaelia, 135 

Carneorubescens, 48 

Carum, 223 

Caryomene, 11, 15 

Caryophyllaceae, 314 

Casparya, 242, 243 

Cassia, 48, 93, 499-501 

Cassieae, 501 

Cedrelinga, 311 

Celtis, 99 

Cembroides, 129 

Ceratodon, 214 

Cercideae; 325-327 

Cercidinae, 326 

Cercis, 107, 326 


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Cercospora, 221, 338 
Chamaecrista, 499-501 
Chascanum, 112-116, 333 
eniorisg, 220 
Chlorophora, 484 
Chondrodendron, 11 
Choscanum, 115 
Christisonia, 55 
Chromocystoteae, 48 
Chrysanthemum, 47 
Chrysomallum, 143, 219, 220 
Ciferriella, 220 
Cincinnobolus, 100 
Cistanche, 55 
Citharexylon, 136 
Citharexylum, 124 
Cladoxylon, 222 
Clerodendron, 318 
Clerodendrum, 221, 318, 333 
Clibadium, 280-286 
Cofassus, 401, 403 
Combretum, 220, 388 
Commelina, 54 
Commelinaceae, 54 
Commiphora, 117 
Compositae, 86, 266, 277, 283, 
302, 431, 446, 464, 469 
Convolutae, 179, 183, 192, 210 
Convolvulaceae, 140 
Corchorus, 99 
Cordia, 107 
Coreanthemum, 79 
Cornaceae, 33, 54 
Cornus, 54 
Corylus, 218 
Critoniopsis, 445 
Crossidium, 203, 204 
Crossopteryx, 388 
Croton, 107 
Crysomallum 143 
Cuneifoliae, 203 
Cupania, 381, 382 
Curarea, 11, 12 
Curatella, 490 
Cyanotis, 54 
Cymbidium, 46 
Cynareae, 445, 446 
Cynometra, 48 
Cyperaceae, 42 
Cytisus, 134 
Daniella, 474 
Dasylirion, 107 
Decachaeta, 85, 86 


Index 507 


Delonix, 48 

Dendrobium, 57 

Desmatodon, 204 

Desmodium, 100 

Detarium, 474 

Deutzia, 218 

Diacranthera, 80. 81 

Dialeurodes, 221 

Dialium, 48, 490 

Dicotyledoneae, 40 

Dicranales, 212 

Didymodon, 178. 198, 209-211 
214 

Dioscorea, 43 

Diostea, 123-126, 134-140 

Dipsaceae, 55 

Dipsacus, 55 

Dipterocypsela, 443, 444 

Dipyrema, 140 

Dipyrena, 139-141 

Disciphania, 40, 418 

Doliopygus, 483 

Doratometra, 238 

Dracula, 164, 165 

Duranta, 328 

Dyschoriste, 94 

Eitenia, 455-457, 459-462 

Elaeagnaceae, 54 

Elaeagnon, 225 

Elaeagnus, 54 

Endomycorrhiza, 409 

Enterolobium, 309, 311 

Epacridaceae, 140 

Epacris, 140 

Ephedra, 137, 333 

Ephialum, 143 

Ephielis, 143 

Epilobium, 319 

Epimedium, 54 

Equisetophyta, 39 

Eremanthus, 446 

Eremosis, 445 

Eriocaulon, 123, 134, 384 

Erythradenia, 85 

Erythrina, 19-29, 31, 32, 37 

Escherichia, 336 

Eubarbula, 182 

Eubryales, 212 

Eucalyptus, 224, 358, 390, 497 

Eupatoriaceae, 469 

Eupatorieae, 74, 79-81, 84-86, 
451, 452, 455, 459, 463; °464, 
466, 469 


508 


Eupatoriopsis, 455, 460 

Eupatorium, 80, 84-87, 451, 463 

Eupetalum, 243 

Euphorbia, 137 

Euphorbiaceae, 

Euvitex, 225 

Eysenhardtia, 107 

Fabaceae, 325 

Fabales, 327 

Fagaceae, 33 

Falconiformes, 

Fallaces, 209 

Fallaciformes, 

Ficus, 421 

Flacourtiaceae, 53 

Fungi, 38, 42 

Fuscoboletinus, 44 

Galinsoga, 425, 427-429, 431, 
434 

Galinsoginae, 425, 429, 430 

Garovaglioideae, 212 

Gaylussacia, 120 

Geissopappus, 270 

Gelala, 19 

Geunsia, 473 

Glandularia, 138 

Globimetula, 385 

Glomerulosae, 219 

Glossocalyx, 219 

Glossocarya, 221 

Gobenia, 239 

Godmania, 412, 485, 491 

Goodeniaceae, 53 

Graciles, 209, 210 

Gramineae, 42 

Griffonia, 325, 326 

Guayania, 85 

Gymnospermae, 33, 50 

Gymnostomum, 197, 211 

Haematoxylon, 48 

Harpachne, 93 

Hebeclinium, 84-86 

Hedera, 54 

Helenium, 120 

Heliantheae, 70, 74, 257, 
256, 200, 2/0, 2/4, . 2380, 
AZo, 431, 436, 430 

Helianthinae, 257 

Helianthopsis, 257-259 

Helianthus, 257-259, 262-268, 
419, 420 

Heliconia, 99 


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Helicopogon, 182 

Hemidesmus, 351 

Heterocypsela, 442-445, 447-449 

Hierobotana, 141-143 

Hilaria, 94 

Hippocastanaceae, 54 

Hippophae, 54 

Hippuridaceae, 54 

Hippuris, 54 

Holigarna, 356 

Holoschaemus, 333 

Hopea, 351 

Husnotiella, 184, 212 

Huszia, 243 

Hyalis, 139 

Hydrogonium, 178, 188, 193, 
198, 199, -2i0 

Hymenocardia, 474 

Hymenocordia, 408 

Hymenostylium, 199 

Hyophila, 200, 202 

Hyophiladelphus, 178, 201, 210 

Hyparrhenia, 219, 220 

Imeria, 79 

Indigofera, 93 

Inga, 309, 311 

Ingeae, 307, 311 

Tsoberlinia, 475 

Jatropha, 107 

Juglans, 107 

Juncus, 39 

Junellia, 141, 215 

Kingianthus, 70-75, 77, 78 

Koenigia, 52 

Labiatae, 102 

Lagerstroemia, 356 

Lamiaceae, 102 

Laniculatae, 219 

Lantana, 215, 333, 384 

Lardizabala, 137 

Larrea, 107 

Lasiolaena, 451, 466-472 

Leccinum, 44 

Leguminales, 327 

Leguminosae, 33, 310, 326, 
S27, 379, 499 

Leighia, 258, 264 

Leonotis, 93 

Lepsia, 238 

Leptobryum, 189, 192 

Leptonia; 47, 48 

Leptosphaeria, 220, 338 


1979 


Leucas, 93 

Leucodontaceae, 213 

Lichenes, 89 

Lilium, 36 

wappia, 224,-125, 1365 138, 
328, 384 

Liquidambar, 45 

Lithophyllum, 33 

Litothamnus, 79, 80, 82, 83 

Lobelia, 120 

Lobeliaceae, 120 

Lomatozoma, 457-459, 461- 
472 

Lophira, 474 

Loranthus, 477 

Luisierella, 201 

Lychnophora, 445, 446 

Lychnophorinae, 442, 443, 446 

Lychnophoropsis, 443 

Lycopodophyta, 39 

Lycurus, 94 

Lysiloma, 311, 377, 378 

Lythraceae, 53 

Maesa, 362-369, 502 

Mahonia, 54 

Mailelou, 143, 348 

Mail-elou, 348, 358 

Mail-eloa, 348 

Malachra, 99 

Malvaviscus, 99 

Manilkara, 351, 490, 491 

Martyniaceae, 53 

Masdevallia, 166-169 

Mastixia, 223 

Mastixiaceae, 223 

Matayba, 381-383 

Mattfeldanthus, 292, 292 

Meionanthera, 239 

Melampodiinae, 283 

Meliaceae, 222 

Meliola, 220, 478 

Meliosma, 54 

Menispermaceae, 11, 13, 15, 17, 
418 

Mentha, 373 

Mertzelia, 100 

Messua, 351 

Metradorea, 221 

Micrococcus, 336 

Microstemon, 487 

Mimosa, 107 

Mimosaceae, 310, 379 

Mimosoideae, 307, 310, 379 


Index 


Mischodon, 352 
Mithrudatea, 143 


Monactis, 70-78, 258, 266 


Monetes, 475 
Morinda, 403 
Morinia, 209, 214 


Morithamnus, 451, 452, 454 


463 
Mortonia, 107 
Moultonia, 358 
Muhlenbergia, 94 
Murdannia, 54 
Musci, 212-214 
Mutisieae, 445, 446 
Mycosphaerella, 220 
Myrica, 37 


Myrsinaceae, 54, 362, 369, 


502 
Nassauvia, 137 
Nectandra, 490 
Neogoniolithon, 33 
Neosparton, 136, 138 
Nephandra, 143 
Nephrandra, 143 
Nerium, 345 
Nolina, 174 
Nothofagus, 137, 319 
Ochradenus, 54 
Ocotea, 40 
Oidium, 100 
Oldfieldia, 219 
Oligomeris, 54 
Olivia, 220 
Olysnium, 40 
Opuntia, 107 


Orchidaceae, 42, 45, 57, 


164 
Ormocarpum, 93 
Orobanchaceae, 55 
Orobanche, 55 
Orthomene, 16 
Ostryopsis, 218 
Owenia, 497 
Oxalidaceae, 53 
Oxalis, 137 
Oxystegus, 209 
Pachysperma, 379 
Paepalanthus, 215, 384 
Paliurus, 333, 345 
Palmerocassia, 500 
Paludocybe, 47 
Pancratium, 421 
Paniculatae, 219, 225 


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Panicum, 220 
Panopsis, 322 
Papilionaceae, 42 
Papilionoideae, 325 
Pappea, 93 
Parinari, 475 
Parmelia, 90, 91 
Parmeliaceae, 89, 90 
Parmotrema, 89-91 
Parnassiaceae, 53 
Parthenium, 107 
Pauletia, 48 
Peiranisia, 500 
Peltophorum, 48 
Pennisetum, 93 
Pentanisia, 93 
Perezia, 107 
Perlebia, 48 
Peronema, 219 
Peteravenia, 84-86 
Petitia, 219 
Petraeovitex, 219 
Petrea, 328, 339, 396 
Phacelia, 137 
Phania, 463 
Phoma, 220, 338 
Phragmanthera, 385 
Phragmites, 319, 333 
Phryma, 102, 108 
Phrymaceae, 102, 108, 109 
Phyllachora, 398, 411, 415 
Phyllanthus, 220, 392 
Phymatotrichum, 221, 338 
Phytolacca, 53 
Pilderia, 238 
Pinaceae, 129 
Pinophyta, 39 
Pinus, 107; 129-133 
Piptocarpha, 300-306 
Piqueria, 463 
Pistaciovitex, 143 
Pisum, 107 
Pithecellobium, 308-312, 377- 
380 
Pithecoseris, 443 
Pittosporaceae, 55 
Pittosporum, 55 
Platanus, 421 
Platycarpum, 321 
Platypus, 483 
Pleurostigma, 114 
Pleurothallidinae, 164 


Pleurothallis, 170, 171 

Pleurotus, 221 

Pleuroweisieae, 214 

Pluteus, 38 

Pohlia, 214 

Polygala, 93 

Polygonaceae, 52 

Polypodiophyta, 39 

Porolithon, 33 

Porphyrellus, 44 

Potamogeton, 39, 54 

Potamogetonaceae, 53 

Pottiaceae, 212-214 

Pouteria, 491 

Praxelinae, 455 

Premna, 221, 333 

Premnobius, 478 

Pritzelia, 239 

Priva, 92-100, 140 

Prosopis, 107, 411 

Proteaceae, 321 

Pseudocarpidium, 219 

Pseudocrossidium, 177-179, 181, 
183, 185, 187, 169, 191, 
195, 197, 199, 201, ‘203—2ae 

Pseudosamanea, 309, 311, 377, 
378, 380 

Pseudostellaria, 313, 314 

Pseudostifftia, 442-447, 449, 
450 

Psilogine, 143 

Psilogyne, 143 

Psychotria, 222 

Pteridium, 292, 298 

Pteridophyta, 34, 40, 42 

Pterobryaceae, 212 

Pterocarpus, 475 

Puccinia, 100, 101 

Pucciniastrum, 221 

Pycnatmon, 483 

Pyrostoma, 219 

Quercus, 107 

Ratonia, 381 

Reedia, 490 

Reseda, 54 

Resedaceae, 54 

Revolutae, 203 

Rhizophora, 315, 503 

Rhoeo, 54 

Rhus, 107 

Rosaceae, 33 

Rossmannia, 243 


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Roupala, 321, 322 
Rubiaceae, 221, 222 
Rudbeckia, 120 
Ruellia, 490 
Ruizpavonia, 243 
Ruppia, 54 
Ruppiaceae, 54 
Rutaceae, 221 

Sabal, 174 

Sabazia, 426-431 
Sabia, 54 

Sabiaceae, 54 
Salicaceae, 33 

Salzx, 225 

Salvia, 102, 107 
Samanea, 309, 311, 378 
Sapindaceae, 381, 383 
Sapium, 220 
Sarcostephana, 418 
Sassea, 242 

Scabiosa, 55 
Scheelea, 411 
Schefflera, 54 
Scheidweileria, 238 
Sciadotenia, 11-13 
Scirpus, 39 

Scleria, 403 
Scrophulariaceae, 120 
Selloa, 431 
Semibarbula, 185, 188 
Semibegoniella, 242 
Senecio, 107 

Senna, 499, 500 
Senophyllum, 182 
Serianthes, 311 
Setcreasea, 54 
Sideroxylon, 356 
Simsia, 257, 266 
Sisyrinchium, 40, 137 
Solanum, 36, 38, 43, 107, 490 
Sophoreae, 325 
Spartium, 135 
Spermatophyta, 40, 49 
Spiranthes, 120 
Sporobolus, 100 
Stachytarpheta, 114, 473 
Staurothele, 172 
Stellaria, 313, 314, 503 
Stereosperma, 143 
Stereospermum, 223, 359 
Stevia, 107 


Stifftia, 300, 302, 445 


Index Sit 


Streblotrichum, 183, 185, 186, 
188, 194 

Strigiformes, 372 

Strophanthus, 43 

Strychnos, 1-8, 10 

Stylodon, 118-121 

Stylotrichum, 451, 463 

Svensonia, 111-117, 333 

Swietenia, 490 

Syncretocarpus, 258 

Syngonanthus, 215, 384 

Syrrhopodontales, 212 

Tabebuia, 485 

Tamarindus, 48 

Tamarix, 334 

Tamonea, 95 

Tanaecium, 413 

Teijsmanniodendron, 219, 221- 
223, 473, 487 

Telitoxicum, 13 

Terminales, 219 

Terminalia, 220, 474, 490, 497 

Tetraclea, 328 

Tetraphis, 214 

Teucrium, 102 

Thelypteris, 403 

Thymelaeaceae, 53 

Tillandsia, 107 

Tinosporeae, 418 

Tortula, 182, 185, 186, 193, 
194, 199, 201-207, 209, 212, 
214 

Trapa, 55 

Trapaceae, 55 

Tricarpha, 428 

Trichostomum, 185, 198, 200, 
209 

Triclisieae, 11 

Tridax, 425, 429-431, 435 

Tripinna, 143 

Tropaeolum, 13/7 

Tuerckheimia, 208, 209, 214 

Tulipa, 421 

Tylopilus, 44 

Ulmaceae, 33 

Umbelliferae, 53 

Unguiculatae, 182 

Uredo, 398 

Utricularia, 319 

Valeriana, 137 

Valsa, 338 

Vanda, 57 


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Vavaea, 222 Vites, 225 

Verbena, 94, 95, 101, 102, 105- Vitex, 134, 143, 145, 147, 149, 
P07 sy tle, 283.9 039) 120, See, 151, 153,155, 157, TS9o eee 
125, 134, 136=1395 242," S205 163, 216, 217-225, ‘227, 22a 
329, 473 231, 329-361, 384-417, 474- 

Verbenaceae, 53, 139, 141, 143, 492 


2k9, 333 

Verbesina, 70 

Vernonia, 65-69, 287-299, 444- 
446 

Vernonieae, 65, 287, 300, 442, 
445, 446 

Verrucaria, 172 

Vetex, 143, 348 

Viouieta, 2517, 258,, 203, 264, 


Viticeae, 219 

Viticipremna, 219, 221, 222, 
404 : 

Vitis, 218, 222, 413, 486, See 

Vizella, 221 

Wageneria, 239 

Wallaceodendron, 311 

Wallrothia, 219, 223 

Walrothia, 143 


266 
Viguieropsis, 257 
Viola, "223, 323, 324 
Violaceae, 223 
Viridiflavipes, 47 
Virulenta, 36 
Viscum, 62 
Vitaceae, 218, 222 
Viter, 143, 482 


Washingtonia, 174 . 
Wilsonia, 140, 141 
Wulffia, 280 

Yucca, 39, 40, 107, 174 
Zaluziana, 70 

Zapania, 95, 105 
Zappania, 95 

Zebrina, 54 
Zinjanthropus, 394 


Publication dates 


Volume 43, No. 5 September 6, 1979 


Volume 44, No. 1 --- August 14, 1979 


Volume 44, No. 2 --- August 25, 1979 


Volume 44, No. 3 --- September 13, 1979 
Volume 44, No. 4 --- October 9, 1979 
Volume 44, No. 5 --- October 29, 1979 


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