Re: rules etc.

Jan Schlauer (zxmsl01@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Mon, 6 Mar 1995 12:14:23 +0100

Dear Guido,

>1) Allowing changes in names and overruling the rule of
>priority because of commercial purposes is not very helpful,
>or is it?

It certainly is not. However, cps have not yet been the victim of this rule
(maybe because their commercial value is not sufficiently high), and
several people (including myself) will certainly do their best to limit
such procedures to a sustainable minimum with cps (this may be d autre
chose with e.g. orchids, where simply too much as been done and especially
written to rescue anything).

>2) Where the h.. am I supposed to have published
>Drosera exotica Hort. ex Braem ???????
>I have never published a CP, as far as I can remember

Exactly in your book. There is even a photograph! And because no author has
used this epithet before, you were the first one. Without Latin protologue
and type indication, this is a classical nomen nudum. 8-(

>but maybe you know my book better than I do???

I do not suppose so, I have only seen it.

Kind regards and a nice trip
Jan