I have tried twice to address such vanity taxonomy with proposals to amend the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the second time with input from Peter Raven and Peter Goldblatt, but only the first time (1984) did I actually go ahead and submit it. Shot down. The second time, my advisers STILL didn't think the committee would vote positively in majority, and I never sent it in. Ravenna does not his send his self-published journals to any institution in the U.S., ostensibly to make it difficult for Peter Goldblatt or I to monitor his mischief. When I was in Chile, I was told that a mysterious fire had done an undetermined amount of damage to Ravenna's private herbarium, home of numerous holotypes of his taxa (he will always choose a holotype from his own specimen made from cultivation, even if there specimens available, represented by several duplicates at various herbaria, that can be assigned to the new species. Raven, before his retirement, was exploring legal action in Chile to try and get hundreds of herbarium specimens back that were loaned to Ravenna in the 70's. He also has material from NY and B. All may have been destroyed in the fire, which some botanists in Chile told me that they thought he set deliberately. In case anyone is interested, In my paper in the new book from Aarhus University Press in Denmark, "Diversity, Phylogeny, and Evolution in the Monocotyledons: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons," I present genetic evidence that there may have been early reticulation (hybridization) in the lineages of the Hippeastreae. In the same paper, Pyrolirion is shown, via both chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences to be a member of the Eustephieae (sister to the other three genera), and no immediate relative of Zephyranthes and Habranthus. Alan