194 Dr. Francis Hamitton’s Commentary 
really the Jasminum indicum &c. of Plukenet (Alm. 196. Phyt. 
t. 109. f. 2.), then M. Lamarck’s I. lanceolata may contain four 
different species. As I have however said, he quotes Linnæus 
with doubt, and the plant of Plukenet he considers as at least a 
remarkable variety, if it be not altogether distinct. The only 
question therefore to determine is, whether M. Lamarck actually 
meant the Bem Schetti or the Flamma sylvarum, if these be really 
different, as there is reason to suppose, and this is not easily 
done: for, although M. Lamarck had specimens of his Jzora 
lanceolata, he evidently mixes in the description of the colours 
the two accounts of Rheede and Rumphius, the colours in his 
specimen having probably faded. My good friend Dr. Wallich 
indeed, in a note on the Irora fulgens of Roxburgh's Flora In- 
dica (i. 387.), thinks that M. Lamarck meant the Flamma syl- 
varum, and that therefore the 7. fulgens, which is the Irora lon- 
gifolia of Sir J. E. Smith, is the same with the Irora lanceolata 
of Lamarck, excluding all the synonyma except the Flamma syl- 
varum. This however seems to me very doubtful ; and I think 
it probable, that M. Lamarck really saw the Bem Schetti, which 
he places first in his list of synonyma. As therefore the Flamma 
sylvarum should in propriety be called the Irora longifolia, (Sir 
J. E. Smith having published before Dr. Roxburgh,) the Bem 
Schetti should be called I. lanceolata; for the Irora alba of Lin- 
næus is probably the plant of Plukenet (Phyt. t. 109. f.2.). I 
know indeed that at one time this was Dr. Roxburgh's opinion, 
although in the Flora Indica he does not say so; but it was on 
this authority that he called the Ta-mou-tang of the Chinese the 
Irora alba (Fl. Ind. i. 389.), which induces Dr. Wallich in the 
note to state, that it is widely different from the Irora alba of 
Linnæus, meaning by this the Bem Schetti. 
Notwithstanding what I have said respecting the difference of 
colour between the Bem Schetti and Flamma sylvarum, I have still 
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