on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IL. 191 
four species of Asiatic Irora with red flowers. For the first, 
which he calls I. coccinea, he quotes first the Schetti, stating that 
the figure is pretty good, but that the description does not well 
agree; and secondly he quotes the Jasminum flore tetrapetalo of 
Burman, the figure of which is good. This is to say that Dr. 
Roxburgh's JI. coccinea is that of Burman, but probably not the 
plant of Rheede. In this I entirely agree with my late friend. 
I have never seen this species except in the botanical garden at 
Calcutta; but the second species with a red flower, which Dr. 
Roxburgh called I. Bandhuca (Fl. Ind. i. 386.), is common 
every where almost that I have been in India, and seems to me 
to approach the nearest to the Schetti, although in the figure the 
divisions of the corolla are represented much too acute. 
The other two species of Irora with red flowers described in 
the Flora Indica are the Flamma sylvarum, and Flamma sylvarum 
peregrina, which Dr. Roxburgh called Ivora fulgens and I. stric- 
ta; but these names cannot be received, as the plants were pre- 
viously named by the most respectable botanists. ‘These four 
species however were all included among the synonyma quoted 
by Linnzus, or in authors referred to by him, for the Irora coc- 
cinea, and it is by no means clear that the Schetti is any one of 
thefour. If we thus admit five species, we shall have one for each 
of the five denominations, under which Hermann is supposed 
by Burman to have mentioned the Irora coccinea, besides the 
African tree of Plukenet. 
Bem SCHETTI, p. 19. fig. 14. 
This plant is involved in almost as great difliculty as the pre- 
ceding. Commeline in 1679 was unable to refer it to any pre- 
ceding author; but in 1696 Plukenet called it Jasminum indi- 
cum Lauri folio inodorum umbellatum floribus albicantibus (Aim. 
196. Phyt. t. 109. f. 2.), and found that it had been mentioned 
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