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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. 
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 
LINN. JOURN.—BOTANY, YOL. XXXI. T 
