330  ONIMPERFECTLY KNOWN INDIAN TERNSTR(OMIACE X. 
it seems probable that they are the same as those to which the 
Committee of Tea-culture refer. 
In the Kew Herbarium the lithographed label from Dr. Wal- 
lich’s catalogue belonging to Camellia? Scottiana is affixed to a 
sheet on which are specimens of Adinandra dumosa. This is of 
course the result of accident; but Choisy, without looking any 
further into the matter, published Camellia? Scottiana as a syno- 
nym of that plant. It is remarkable also that Dr. Seemann, in 
his paper on the genera Camellia and Thea*, which contains evi- 
deuce of his having consulted Dr. Wallich’s herbarium, is yet 
satisfied with remarking that Camellia Scottiana “is held to be 
Adinandra dumosa, Jack." I am sure that no person, botanist or 
not, comparing the leaves of these two plants, could acquiesce in 
their identity. 
Ternstremia? coriacea, Wall. Cat. 1453. 
On p. 158 of Dr. Wallich’s catalogue, Camellia axillaris, Roxb., 
is given as a synonym of this plant, on the strength of a specimen 
labelled with that name in Dr. Roxburgh’s handwriting. On the 
other hand, the plant now known as Gordonia anomala, Spreng., 18 
figured in the ‘ Bot. Reg.’ t. 349, as Camellia axillaris, Roxb., and 
in the text a brief diagnosis, stated to have been taken from a 
MS. of Roxburgh’s in the Banksian collection, describes Rox- 
burgh’s plant as having serrulate leaves and asilky calyx. Ihave 
tried to trace this MS.in the Banksian Library, but without success. 
It is clear, however, that the plant from Roxburgh’s herbarium, 
having entire leaves and a smooth calyx, cannot be the plant he in- 
tended for Camellia axillaris. What that really was, there is perhaps 
now no material for certainly knowing. If it was identical with 
Gordonia anomala (which is not improbable), there must have been 
some mistake as to its original source of introduction into the 
Calcutta Botanic Garden. For the latter plant is only known from 
South China ; and if, as stated in the ‘ Bot. Reg., it was obtained 
from Penang, it can only have been from a garden. Don placed 
the plant figured in the ‘ Bot. Reg.’ in his genus Polyspora; and 
Choisy, guided apparently merely by the synonyms, and evidently 
without comparing the plants, determined Zernstramia ? coriacea, 
Wall., to be the same as Polyspora axillaris, Don. Now, whatever 
doubt there might be as to Roxburgh’s plant, there can be none as 
to Don's; and therefore this determination of Choisy's is certainly 
* Trans, Linn. Soc. vol. xxii, 
