on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part 1I. 187 
plies white, and has been given to this variety, because its leaves 
have more of that colour (depending no doubt on more white 
tomentum) than those of the Cara Nosi. I am inclined however 
to believe, that Linnzus actually saw specimens of the Lagon- 
dium litoreum, and that this is the plant which he meant to de- 
scribe as the V. Negundo, although he may have erred in joining 
it with the Bem Nosi. New specific characters however are wanted 
to distinguish these plants, those yet given being founded on 
circumstances liable to vary even in the same individual: but I 
am not prepared to enter on this subject, having only seen one 
of the species. 
After all, I must however confess that the figure of the Lagon- 
dium litoreum, and that given by Plukenet (Phyt. t. 321. f. 2.) 
of the Vitex orientalis angustis foliis, semper tripartito divisis 
(Alm. 390.), which is quoted in the Encyclopédie as being the 
same with the Lagondium litoreum, has a stronger resemblance 
to the plant common about the villages of India, than the figure 
of the Lagondium vulgare, or the figure of the Vitex trifolia mi- 
nor of Plukenet, or than either figure in the Hortus Malabaricus. 
Notwithstanding therefore all that I have said, I do not consider 
that I have removed all the difficulties on this subject. Speci- 
mens of the plant common every where in India have been pre- 
sented to the East India Company's collection. It is undoubt- 
edly the V. Negundo of Dr. Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 46.) ; and 
it must be observed, that he received from Pegu a plant, which 
he considered as the Vitex trifolia, as agreeing with the figures 
of the Lagondium vulgare and Cara Nosi. So far as relates to 
the mere figures, this is agreeable to what I have last stated ; but, 
if this should be adopted, we must transfer most of the synonyma 
mentioned by Linnæus in the Flora Zeylanica to the Vitex Ne- 
gundo; and in this case, I must confess that I have never seen 
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