Main | Family List (MO) | Family List (INBio) | Cutting Edge Draft Treatments | Guidelines | Checklist | Citing | Editors The Cutting Edge Volume XXV, Number 4, October 2018 News and Notes | Leaps and Bounds | Germane Literature | Season's Pick | Annotate your copy LOGANIACEAE. We have just stumbled onto the following critical reference, which ought to have been consulted for, and cited in, Manual Vol. 6 (2007): Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. 1967. Notes on American Loganiaceae I revision of Plocosperma Benth. Acta Bot. Neerl. 16: 56–61. The punctuation (or lack thereof!) of the title is the journal's, not ours. POACEAE. More evidence that no one looks at the Manual except for us: co-PI Barry Hammel happened to notice (15 years down the line!) that Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. is keyed and described as having "entrenudos [y tallos] sólidos," yet characterized in our "diagnostic statement" as recognizable by (among other things) its "entrenudos y tallos huecos." Flora mesoamericana (at least) confirms that the sp. [nowadays mostly called Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone] has solid internodes. And what were we thinking with the phrase "entrenudos y tallos"? Go figure. SABIACEAE. Manual correspondent Esteben Jiménez reports the first collection of Meliosma allenii Standl. & L. O. Williams from the Atlantic slope (of Costa Rica or anywhere), on the Llanura de San Carlos. However, our routine efforts to confirm his claim raised a red flag. We do not dispute Esteban's determination, and the Manual distribution statement for the sp. in question confirms that we were not aware of any Atlantic-slope occurrences as of 2015 (when our Sabiaceae treatment was published). But our check of relevant databases did turn up a prior record from the Atlantic slope: Aguilar & Schmidt 1053, from 450 m in the eastern Cordillera de Talamanca, determined as M. allenii by none other than Manual Sabiaceae author Francisco Morales! Said record (so determined) is present in all three of our go-to databases (TROPICOS, the Museo Nacional's ECOBIOSIS, and their presently separate "Portal Herbario" for the former INB), but somehow the specimen in question was overlooked not only for the Manual, but also in Chico's previous papers on Meliosma (cited in the Manual). We can offer no definite explanation for these oversights, though several possibilities come to mind. Whatever the case—annotate your copy! THYMELAEACEAE. In the Manual treatment of this family (2015) by Francisco Morales, Costa Rican material of Daphnopsis americana (Mill.) J. R. Johnst. was ascribed to D. a. subsp. caribaea (Griseb.) Nevling, an entity characterized as "muy variable en CR, y cuesta creer que consta de una sola sp. (mucho menos subsp.!)." Recent field work by Manual co-PI Nelson Zamora lends credence to that assessment. Nelson reports that, in his opinion, "Daphnopsis americana subsp. caribaea" comprises at least four full spp. in Costa Rica alone. Although Nelson has characterized all four and found tentative names for most, we will withhold further information until his work has been fully realized. TOP