proposed by the Forsters (Blackburnia J.R. Forst. & G. Forst., Char. Gen. Pl.: 11. 1776), other orthographies include “blackburnianum” established by Schultes and his son (l.c.: 1488) in 1830, and “blackbourniana” used by Wendland (Index Palm.: 35. 1854). Sabal umbraculifera Mart. (l.c.) was long applied to a number of species of Sabal without any one opinion gaining broad acceptance although Bailey, in 1939 (l.c.: 272–275) and 1944 (l.c.: 437–442), accepted the name for what is now known as S. domingensis Becc. (in Webbia 2: 49. 1907). Martius (l.c.) listed S. blackburnia (as “blackburniana”) as a synonym of his S. umbraculifera, as was pointed out by Bailey (l.c. 1939: 275). While Zona (l.c.: 660) suggested that the Martius name was “best rejected” under Art. 69 of the Berlin Code (Greuter & al. in Regnum Veg. 118. 1988), he failed to realize that because S. blackburnia was validly published (and not a provisional name as then believed), S. umbraculifera was superfluous and illegitimate. For the record, we point out that even if S. blackburnia is rejected, S. umbraculifera remains a superfluous, illegitimate name and not available for use.