We have had no opportunity of comparing our plant 
with the one to which it comes so near, but have relied 
entirely upon the judgment of Mr. Sweet in respect to the 
propriety of separating the two. 
We are not sure that our plant is not the true chinensis 
of Lamarck; which may, after all, be distinct from the 
coccinea of Curtiss Magazine and the Hortus Kewensis, 
of which it has been perhaps with too uncritical an investi- 
gation made the synonym. 
