on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IT. 195 
some hesitation in rejecting altogether the opinion of M. La- 
marck concerning the identity of these plants; for the opinion 
of so accurate a botanist concerning a plant he had seen, and 
compared with both accounts, deserves the utmost consideration. 
Should it be well founded, the names J. fulgens and I. longifolia 
ought to be abandoned ; unless indeed it should appear that Sir 
J. E. Smith had seen a plant different from the Bem Schetti, 
whatever may be the case with the Flamma sylvarum, as no 
one's accuracy requires greater attention. 
Nepoum SCHETTI, p.21. fig. 15. 
The two last plants called Schetti evidently belong to the same 
genus, since called Irora by Linnæus : but this has no affinity to 
them, being evidently a Memycelon ; and it resembles strongly 
the Memycelon cordatum of M. Lamarck (Enc. Meth. iv. 89.; 
Ill. Gen. t. 284. f. 2.), only the leaves are much longer, and the 
pedunculus communis shorter than is represented in the figure of 
the French botanist. I have not been able to discover that this 
plant has been quoted by any subsequent author. 
Scurrunam Cortam, p. 23. fig. 16. 
Plukenet in his Mantissa (21.) compares this to his Arbor 
indica mali aurantii foliis obtusioribus e Maderaspatan (Phyt. 
t. 142. f. 2.), which in the A/magestum (43.) he had compared 
to the Akara Patsjoti (Hort. Mal. v. p. 15.), which is the Tetra- 
cera malabarica, and seems to have very little resemblance in- 
deed to Plukenet's figure. "This, however, may represent the 
Scherunam Cottam, although both the drawing and description 
are so imperfect, that nothing decisive on this point can be 
stated. Plukenet quotes as synonymous, from the Commenta- 
tor on the Hortus Malabaricus, the Corni sive Sorbi species of 
Bontius. 
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