19, 8 Merrill: Burman’s Flora Indica 367 
Burman’s species is identical with Bombaz gossypium Linn., 
which was published one year earlier. 
VIOLACEAE 
IONIDIUM Ventenat 
IONIDIUM SUFFRUTICOSUM (Linn.) Ging. in DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 311. 
Viola suffruticosa Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 987. 
Polygala thea Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 154, excl. var. 8. 
Polygala theezans Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 260. 
No definite locality is given, but the species is based on two 
Ceylon references, one Javan, and perhaps one Japanese, and 
is unquestionably a mixture. If typified by the first and only 
illustrations cited, Polygala frutescens, lavandulae folio, flore 
caeruleo. Burm. zeyl. 195, t. 85, it is a synonym of Ionidium 
suffruticosum (Linn.) Ging., which is perhaps the best dis- 
position of it. The native name kimelala, representing the va- 
riety 8, Kimelala Javanis, quae foliis ovalibus triplo majoribus, 
is unquestionably Polygala glomerata Lour., now known in Java 
as malela; it is not the type of Burman’s species. Polygala 
theezans Linn. Mant. 2 (1771) 260 is a new name for Polygala 
thea Burm. f. and should go with Jonidiwm suffruticosum (Linn.) 
Ging. as a synonym. 
FLACOURTIACEAE 
FLACOURTIA L’Héritier 
FLACOURTIA INDICA (Burm. f.) Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 877. 
Gmelina indica Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 132, t. 39, f. 5. “Habitat in 
Java.” 
Flacourtia sepiaria Roxb. Pl. Coromandel 1 (1795) 48, t. 68. 
Flacourtia ramontchi L’Hérit. Stirp. Nov. (1784-85) 59, t. 30, $1. 
A common species in the Indo-Malayan region, for which 
Burman’s binomial supplies the oldest valid specific name. 
THYMELAEACEAE 
PHALERIA Jack 
PHALERIA OCTANDRA (Linn.) Baill. in Adansonia 11 (1876) 321. 
Dais octandra Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 69. : 
Dais octandra Burm. f. Fl. Ind. (1768) 104, t. $2, f. 2. “Habitat in 
Java.” 
Drimyspermum burmanni Decne. in Ann. Sci. Nat. II 19 (1848) 40. 
A well-known Javan species, both Burman’s and Linnaeus’s 
descriptions doubtless being based on material of similar origin. 
