on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IT. 177 
Linneus, however, misled by Burman, described the Wetkakeiya 
of the Ceylonese as Bromelia foliis margine dorsoque aculeatis, 
caule fulcrato spinoso ( Fl. Zeyl. 14.) ; but he gives the synonyma 
with more care, joining the plant of Acosta and those of 
J. Bauhin and Ray, that I have already mentioned, with the 
Kaida (misprinted Kaidi) of the Hortus Malabaricus. With 
respect to Plukenet, he was probably wrong, as that botanist 
considered the Kaida Taddi to be more like his plant; but, re- 
specting Acosta, J. Bauhin and Ray, Linnæus was probably right 
in joining their plants with the Kaida. In the reference, how- 
ever, to the plates, he has been misled by the text to consider 
fig. 1. as representing this plant; an error that has been gene- 
rally since followed. Linnæus was also probably misled by 
Burman to quote among the synonyma the Carduus brasilianus 
sylvestris of C. Bauhin, probably the same with the Nana brava 
of Marcgrave. 
The younger Burman, although he rejected this, did not im- 
prove the synonyma of the Bromelia sylvestris, as the plant was 
now called (Fl. Ind. 79.) ; for he added the Pandanus verus of 
Rumphius, which, as I have said, is neither the Kaida nor Kaida 
Taddi; and, in imitation of Plukenet and his father, he adopted 
the Kaida Taddi (misprinted Kauda) in preference to the Kaida 
chosen by Linnæus. 
Since later botanists have obtained a more perfect knowledge 
of the fructification, and removed this plant from among the 
Bromelias to its proper place as a distinct genus, no great im- 
provement has taken place in the synonyma. ‘The compiler of 
the Encyclopédie was perhaps justified, on account of the imper- 
fect nature of their accounts, in leaving out altogether the sy- 
nonyma of older botanists: but the Pandanus odoratissimus with 
him is both the Pandanus verus and the Kaida; and it is also the 
Keura odorifera of Forskahl, which, coming from Arabia, is 
probably 
