SPECIES OF MONNINA WITH NAMES FIRST PUBLISHED BY BONPLAND IN HEBEANDRA (POLYGALACEAE)

Due to a misunderstanding new species of Monnina collected by Humboldt and Bonpland were described twice and under different generic names. In 1808 Bonpland described the genus Hebeandra to accomodate 16 new sp ecies collected by Humboldt and himself in Central and South America, ignoring the genus Monnina established by Ruiz and Pavon ten years bef ore. Kunth, unaware of Bonpland's paper, republished the species in 18 23, based on the same collections, but under Monnina. The epithets wer e partly those used by Bonpland, partly his own. This paper reviews th e resulting nomenclatural chaos. Typification of the names involved is discussed, and lectotypes are designated when appropriate. Six tradit ionally accepted specific names will change unless conservation, propo sed elsewhere, is granted.