In 1987 Harold St. John published 69 names in Hawaiian Cucurbitaceae in four short papers. The nomenclature is analyzed, and the complete nomenclature of the Hawaiian species of Sicyos is presented, including 105 names. Names described by St. John in Sicyos and the segregate genus Cladocarpa were incorporated by Telford in his 1990 treatment, but those names described in the segregate genera Sarx (1 name) and Sicyocarya (14 names) were not treated and are here placed in Telford's classification. Five of the taxa described by St. John in 1987 were recognized in Telford's taxonomy (Cladocarpa herbstii [= Sicyos herbstii], Sicyos hillebrandii var. anunu [= S. anunu], S. erostratus, S. waimanaloensis, and Sicyocarya lanceoloidea [as sp. A = Sicyos lanceoloideus]). Two of these were transferred to Sicyos by Telford, and one of them is here transferred to Sicyos [Sicyocarya lanceoloidea]. All of the other taxa described by St. John are placed in the synonymy of other species. Five of the names were not validly published (Cladocarpa kawelaensis, Sicyocarya cruralis, Sicyocarya hawaiiensis, Sicyos erostratus var. kealiaensis, and Sicyos microcarpus var. kealiaensis). After the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i (Wagner et al., 1990) was sent to the publisher, St. John published a hurried series of papers, cited in Wagner et al. (1990), in which he published about 880 manuscript names that he had accumulated over his entire career of studying the Hawaiian flora. Most of the names were validly published, but some were invalid or illegitimate. Over a period of about 30 years, he had developed lengthy manuscripts with accompanying detailed illustrations for a number of genera in a style similar to his treatment of O'ahu Cyrtandra (St. John, 1966). Few of them were ever completed and even fewer published. When the Wagner et al. (1990) flora manuscript was in the final stages of being readied for the publisher, St. John published just the new taxa and combinations from all of these manuscripts in Phytologia and privately in a series of papers that provided little more than a brief Latin diagnosis and an abbreviated mention of the type. Not only were the treatments of these numerous new taxa extremely brief, they were done without rechecking specimens (unpublished obs. by WLW). This led to many errors in citation of specimens, reusing names in the same genus (often even in the same paper), and reusing the same specimen as the type of more than one name. More importantly, he did not incorporate the taxa in a carefully evaluated taxonomic system. Now, after nearly 10 years, most of the approximately 880 names (including combinations) have been analyzed. St. John names in Campanulaceae published in 1987 and 1988 have been studied by T. Lammers (see Lammers, 1998, and papers cited therein). This is the second of a series of papers analyzing the names published in 1987 and 1988 by St. John, in which the nomenclature is evaluated and the taxa incorporated in a current classification. Additional papers in this series have already dealt or will in the future deal with names in Phyllostegia (Wagner, 1999), Stenogyne (both Lamiaceae), and Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae) and the special problems of the invalid and illegitimate names. Although all names for Hawaiian angiosperms published through 1986 and a few from 1987 were included by Wagner et al. (1990) in the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, a rigorous assessment of them has never been done. In 1983, as part of the Hawaiian Flora Project at the Bishop Museum, a Hawaiian nomenclatural database was initiated. It included bibliographic and type information, and current classification. Many of the specialists contributing treatments to the Manual also completed database record forms for names based on Hawaiian specimens. Aspects of the project currently being developed include a database intended for WWW publication, a book, and several papers on specific problematic groups. In analyzing the nomenclature for the genus Sicyos (Cucurbitaceae), a number of problems were discovered. These included names not validly published or illegitimate, errors in original publications, typification problems, and the incorrect placement of one name (Sicyos microcarpus var. kealiaensis) in synonymy in the Manual treatment of Telford (1990). We here present a complete nomenclator of Hawaiian Sicyos, NovoN 9: 441-447. 1999. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.153 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 04:46:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms