184. Dr. Francis HamiLTon’s Commentary 
phius justly remarks (Herb. Amb. iv. 48.) ** Dicimus, maximam 
foliorum partem non serratam esse et semper ternatam ; si vero 
hic fruticulus sæpius detruncetur, in surculis folia non tantum 
hinc inde sunt solitaria, sed etiam ad oras parum serrata, seu 
profunde dentata, ut una eademque habeatur planta cum illa, 
quæ in aliis Indiz locis crescit, et a Portugallicis scriptoribus 
describitur folia gerere serrata." | 3 
Although Plukenet was thus unfortunate in selecting a specific 
distinction, he was perfectly right in following C. Bauhin, and 
placing the Negundos in the same genus with the Vitex or Agnus 
castus, notwithstanding an attempt made in the Medical Garden 
of Amsterdam to class it with some African plants related to the 
genus RAus (Mant. 161.). What is of more importance, he gives 
us a figure of the Negundo mas (Phyt. t. 206. f. 5.), which 
strongly resembles the Cara Nosi. 
"The elder Burman, without materially altering the synonyma, 
changed the specific distinction, calling the Cara Nosi Vitex tri- 
folia, Indica, odora, hortensis, floribus cæruleis, racemosis ; and 
= the Bem Nosi Vitex trifolia, odorata, sylvestris, Indica, (Thes. Zeyl. 
299.) ; where the real distinction is, that the one plant is culti- 
vated, and the other wild. 
Notwithstanding the example of C. Bauhin, Plukenet, and 
Burman, Linnæus, when he published the Flora Zeylanica 
(p. 413, 414.), considered the genus of these plants as doubtful; 
but mentioned them among the obscure under the names given 
by Burman, with the synonyma of preceding authors taken from 
the same source: so that in this work the only distinction is that 
the one plant is wild and the other cultivated. 
Rumphius (Herb. Amb. iv. 48, 50.), in imitation of other bo- 
tanists, describes two species, the Lagondium vulgare, and lito- 
reum ; the first analogous to the planta femina, minor, integer- 
rima. et hortensis; and the second analogous to the planta mas, 
major, 
