Stylosanthes biflora (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.

Monographie der Gattung Stylosanthes. P. Taubert. (Verhand.
Bot. Ver. Brandenburg, xxxii. Reprinted).
This is the first time since the publication of De Candolle’s
Prodromus Vol. ii, in 1825, that the species of .this Leguminous
genus have been treated of collectively. Herr Taubert now
recognizes 22. Of these two are North American: T. biflora
(L.) B. S. P. (S. elatior, Sw.; Trifolium, biflorum, L.) the bino-
mial attributed by the author to himself, probably not being in-
formed of the fact that it was used in 1888 by the authors of the
Preliminary Catalogue of Plants growing within one hundred
miles of New York, and *S. hamata (L.), Taub. (S. procumbent y
Sw. ; Hedysarum hamatum, L.), the latter a common West
Indian plant, occurring also in Florida and including, according to
him, Curtis No. 609 from Tennessee. 5. Schaffneri from Mex-
ico, *S. sympodialis from Ecuador and 5“. Pohliana from Brazil
are described as new. Of the 22 species, only five occur in the
Old World. Herr Taubert, it will be noticed, maintains the
earliest specific names.	N. L. B.
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