Pteridophyta of the Southern Cook Group

The fern flora of Rarotonga was exhaustively collected as long ago as 1899 by the New Zealand botanist T. F. Cheeseman (1903). A second comprehensive account appeared almost 30 years later (Wilder, 1931), and a less complete collection of ferns by Harold E. and Susan Thew Parks was reported on by Copeland (1931). Several other visitors to the island have collected ferns, Armstrong (date unknown), B. B. Given, and Mrs. Hynes each twice during the 1960s and Stoddart in 1969. The most recent collection is that made by one of us (W. R. Philipson, 1969) on the expedition organized by the Royal Society of New Zealand to commemorate Captain Cook's early explorations

A synopsis of Matthaea (Monimiaceae)

Revision of the genus which centres in the Philippines; precursor to treatment in Flora Malesiana. There is a key to the species but no descriptions. Six species are accepted, 2 names are reduced for the first time, 1 name is excluded, 1 is imperfectly known. Difference with the allied genus Steganthera is discussed

A synopsis of the Malesian species of Kibara (Monimiaceae)

Thirty-nine species are recognized of which twenty-four are described as new ( K. bullata, K. carrii, K. chimbuensis, K. ferox, K. flagelliformis, K. fragrans, K. fugax, K. hartleyi, K. karengana, K. katikii, K. kostermansii, K. latifolia, K. leachii, K. macrantha, K. nitens, K. novobritanica, K. oblongata, K. rosselensis, K. royenii, K. shungolensis, K. sleumeri, K. streimannii, K. sudestensis, and K. versteeghii) ). One new combination is made: K. oligocarpella (Kaneh. & Hatus.) Philipson, and several species are reduced to synonymy. Thirty-six species occur in New Guinea, all but three of these being endemic to that island group. A key to the species is provided and their geographical ranges are given

A revision of the Malesian species op Palmeria (Monimiaceae—Monimieae)

Twelve species are recognized of which five (P. womersleyi, P. brassii, P. hooglandii, P. schoddei. and P. clemensae) are described as new. Nine species are reduced to synonymy (P. warburgii, P. puberula, P. myriantha, P. paniculata, P. parvifolia, P. acuminata, P. habbamensis, P. pulchra and P. dallmannensis). All twelve species occur in New Guinea, only one (P. arfakiana) extending westwards into Sulawesi. P. incana, P. gracilis and P. hypargyrea may also occur in Queensland in addition to the three species already described from Australia

Nomenclatural changes in Spilanthes and Blainvillea with remarks and a key to the species of Spilanthes in the Malay Archipelago

There has been considerable confusion over the name Verbesina pseudoacmella and V. acmella published by Linnaeus in the Species Plantarum (1753, p. 901). He applied these names to definitions taken from his earlier work, Flora Zeylanica (1748, p. 144, 145, nos. 308 and 309), with only one unimportant alteration. The title page of the Flora Zeylanica shows that the book is intended as an account of Hermann’s plants, and this is confirmed for the two species concerned by the close agreement between the descriptions published and the specimens in Hermann’s Herbarium preserved in the Department of Botany of the British Museum. These two Linnean species must, therefore, be interpreted by reference to Hermann’s specimens, regardless of the fact that figures cited by Linnaeus in the synonymy of each species (viz. Seba, Thesaur. 1, t. 10, 11; Plukenet, Alm. t. 159, f. 4) are of the plant which generally has been known as Spilanthes acmella. In 1888, Trimen published notes on Hermann’s Herbarium (Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) vol. 24, p. 129); he identified the specimens representing these two species as follows: No. 308, Verbesina pseudo-acmella, as possibly a young specimen of Wedelia biflora DC.; and No. 309, Verbesina acmella, as Blainvillea latifolia DC. A drawing included in the herbarium he identified as “Spilanthes acmella”. As this drawing was not mentioned by Linnaeus, it must not be considered when interpreting the species. In his revision of the genus Spilanthes, A. H. Moore (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 42, 1907, p. 521) rejected the name Verbesina pseudoacmella L. as referring to a mixture of genera, but retained “Verbesina acmella L.” as the basis of a species of Spilanthes