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from the genus and also from the family, but even from the 
Dicotyledonous plants, being a Cyperacea, viz. Scirpodendron 
costatum, Kurz. 
Scirpodendron costatum, Kurz. 
Specimen authenticum, ad nat. 
Chionanthus Ghaeri. 
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From J. Gaertner, * De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum,’ tab. xxxix. 
It is very remarkable that this plant, discovered for the first 
time in Ceylon in the year 1758, was not mentioned as an 
