AND LINN EUS’S ‘FLORA ZEYLANICA.’ 135 
34. Olax zeylanica, Sp. 34........ O. zeylanica, L. 
35. Xyris indica, Sp. 42.......... No specimen. 
36. Cyperus rotundus, Sp. 45 .... C. rotundus, L. 
37. Cyperus Haspan, Sp. 45...... C. Haspan, L. 
There is a double error in the name Haspan. The word is 
properly given as “ Halpan” by Hermann (Mus. Zeyl. p. 23) ; 
but was misprinted in Burman's Thes. Zeyl. p. 108, whence 
Linneus quoted it. But the Singhalese “ Halpan ” is not this 
species of Cyperus, but Fimbristylis globulosa, Wall. 
38. Scirpus echinatus, Sp. 50 .... Cyperus umbellatus, Benth., var. 
39. Scirpus capillaris, Sp. 49...... Fimbristylis barbata, Benth. 
40. Scirpus dichotomus, Sp. 50 .. Fimbristylis diphylla, Vahl. 
The specimen is merely a young and dwarf state of Fimbri- 
stylis diphylla, and neither the F. dichotoma, Nees, nor the 
F. dichotoma, Vahl. 
4l. Bobartia indica, sp. 54 ...... Bobartia spathacea, Ker. 
This is one of the Cape plants that have unfortunately been 
enumerated among those of Ceylon. The specimens are in the 
fourth volume of the herbarium, which, as already mentioned, 
was known to Linnsus to be a mixture of plants from both 
countries ; and it is not clear why he included it in the ‘ Flora 
Zeylanica.  Botanists have been further misled by Lamarck, 
who, professing to figure Bobartia indica, has given a drawing of 
some Cyperaceous plant (Ill. i. t. 40), which Bentham (Gen. 
Plant. iii, pp. 698, 1015) and Clarke (Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxi. 
p- 111) refer to a Cyperus of the C. arenarius group and to C. pa- 
chyrhizus, Nees, respectively. But Hermann’s specimens are 
the Cape Morea spathacea, Willd., as was demonstrated and 
figured by Schumacher in Act. Soc. Nat. Scient. Hafn. iii. p. 8, 
t.1. Of course the genus Bobartia of Linn. will stand ; but his 
Specific name indica must be superseded, and the plant take 
the name of Bobartia spathacea, Ker, as Baker correctly has it 
(Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xvi. p. 114). 
. Oplismenus compositus, Roem. $ 
42. Panicum compositum, Sp. 57.. Sch 
43. Panicum arborescens, Sp. 59.. P. oval;folium, Poir. 
The specific name of Linnzus is absurd ; for P. ovalifolium is 
a humble grass; and his remark "altitudine certat cum altis- 
simis arboribus " could only apply to a Bamboo. On the confu- 
sion as to this name in Linnseus's own herbarium, see Munro ir. 
Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. vi. p. 88. 
