on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 243 
only synonyma, therefore, of the Noeli Tali given by Linnzeus in the Flora 
Zeylanica, that can be admitted, are the Ambilla 26., and the Berberis Indica 
aurantii folio of Commeline, Ray, and Plukenet. It must be further observed, 
that the Antidesma of Linneus (FT. Zeyl. 357.) has five stamina, and it there- 
fore can neither be the Noeli Tali of Rheede nor the Antidesma of Burman, 
but is probably the Arbor Indica, ovali folio, flosculis plurimis in spicis summo 
ramulo dispositis, acinifera of Plukenet ; and therefore I am still by no means 
certain that Burman was mistaken in considering his Antidesma and the Noeli 
Tali as the same. 
Even after the publication of the Species Plantarum, matters were not im- 
proved in the Flora Indica of the younger Burman, for along with the pentan- 
drous Antidesma alexiteria we have the triandrous Noeli Tali and Antidesma 
of Burman conjoined with the last-mentioned tree of Plukenet, which, having 
five stamina, is probably the plant really meant. Along with these, which 
probably form three distinct species, the younger Burman quotes the * Berberi 
dumetorum, baccas similes ferens Arbor," Hermanni herb.; but I cannot trace 
any such plant in either the Thesaurus or Flora Zeylanica; nor do I know 
that any such now exists in Herman’s collection. The younger Burman, 
mixing together the two sets of synonyma that are distinguished in the Flora 
Zeylanica, quotes also for the Noeli Tali the Grossularia Zeylanica baccis mi- 
noribus acidiusculis of his father (Thes. Zeyl. 112.). Here, like Linnzeus, he 
leaves out the word albis, applied by the elder Burman to the berries of this 
plant: and we may safely reject this quotation; for Rheede says of the Noeli 
Tali, * Bacez pulchre rubentes." The 4. alexiteria, therefore, as it thus 
stands, comprehends four species, nor can I say which was really meant. 
M. Lamarck takes his account of the Æ. alexiteria entirely from Rheede, 
quoting no other authority than the Noeli Tali, nor marking that he had ever 
seen the plant. He also considers the Antidesma of Burman as quite distinct, 
calling it 4. zeylanica. The figure which he gives of the 4. alexiteria (Ill. 
Gen. t. 812. f. 1.) is taken from Geertner (De Sem. t. 39.), and is confined 
entirely to the fruit; but as Geertner quotes both the Noeli Tali and the 
Arbor Indica, ovali folio, flosculis plurimis in spicis summo ramulo dispositis, 
acinifera of Plukenet, and as these plants are quite different, it would be dif- 
ficult to say which he meant. I can only observe, that the fruit figured by 
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