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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Taxon. both spellings as synonyms of Ramonda L. C. M. Richard.The original spelling of Jancaea in 1875 was not a typographical error by Boissier but was clearly intentional. He used Jancaea and the name of Janka, for whom the genus was named, each twice in the publication. One can only assume that Boissier used the "c" spelling because "k" was a letter rarely used in classical Latin. We do not know his reason for later revising the spelling to Jankaea, but he may have been encouraged to make plain the eponymy of the generic name.If the genus were not in cultivation or not known to growers of alpine and rock garden plants in Europe and western North America, or to collectors of living Gesneriaceae, the acceptance of the earlier and correct spelling of the name of such an apparently insignificant but endangered part of the world's flora would be unquestioned. However, because the genus is known in cultivation, and because the original author revised the spelling to reflect the name of Janka, and because the later spelling of Jankaea has persisted in horticultural and botanical literature, it would seem beneficial and appropriate to conserve the name with the later and better known spelling.

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