190 Dr. Francis HaurrToN's Commentary 
20. t. 364. f. 2.), the Arbor Indica Lauri amplioribus foliis obtusis 
e regione binis, floribus Jasmini, summo ramulo umbellatim positis, 
ex Insula Johanna. Now, although Plukenet compares this to 
the Tsjovanni Amelpodi (Hort. Mal. vi. t. 47.), a plant having 
five stamina, yet there can be no doubt of its being an Irora very 
nearly allied to the Flamma sylvarum peregrina, but sufficiently 
distinct from the Schetti, the Flamma sylvarum, and the Jasminum 
flore tetrapetalo; so that botanists had now four species of Ixora 
with red flowers, all confounded under one name. 
Willdenow left matters as they stood in Burman's Flora Indica: 
but M. Lamarck (Enc. Meth. iii. 343.), leaving out the plants of 
the elder Burman, Hermann, and Rumphius, joins to the ScAetti 
the two synonyma of Ray, and the two of Plukenet. Not hav- 
ing the work of Ray, I cannot speak to that point; but M. La- 
marck thus removed two plants confounded with the Schetti, and 
as the Flamma sylvarum peregrina is different from the Jasminum 
flore tetrapetalo, he in fact freed us from three interlopers. Still 
however he retained the Arbor Indica ev Insula Johanna of Plu- 
kenet, which I think certainly different from the Jasminum indi- 
cum dc. of that author; and this last has undoubtedly the best 
claim to be considered as the same with the Schetti, although, as 
I have said, there is great room to suppose that the plants of 
Burman and Rheede are different. 
In the Hortus Kewensis (1. 244.) none of our Indian botanists 
are quoted for the Irora coccinea, owing probably to the difficulty 
which occurred in reconciling the discordant synonyma ; for it 
is not easy to say, even setting the Species Plantarum entirely 
aside, whether in the Flora Zeylanica Linnzus really meant the 
plant of Burman and Hermann, or the Schetti. The former is 
most probably the case, as it was the collection of Hermann 
which he described in the Flora Zeylanica. 
Finally, in the Flora Indica (i. 385.) Dr. Roxburgh describes 
four 
