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In 1812, Robert Brown described a new species, Iberis violacea, based on a specimen which had been grown at the Lee & Kennedy Nursery, Hammersmith, Middlesex, England, in 1782. Although the name was widely used in British horticultural literature for over a hundred years and the type material has been available at BM since before 1812, I. violacea has been neglected in continental Europe since 1821. It proves to be conspecific with I. pruitii Tineo (1817), which name must now give way to it.