220 Dr. Francis HAMILTON’s Commentary 
ceolata. Calyx cylindricus, pubescens, imbricatus foliolis 
linearibus, acutis, inæqualibus, erectis. Flosculi circiter 
octo, calyce duplo longiores, omnes hermaphroditi, quin- 
quefidilaciniis linearibus. Filamenta quinque ex apice tubi, 
laciniis dimidio breviora. Antheræ coalitæ. Stigmata duo. 
Receptaculum nudum. | Semina glabra. Pappus pilosus, ri- 
gidus, denticulatus, imbricatus, pilis exterioribus brevis- 
simis. | 
Ozs. Pappus ut in Suprago glauca Gzrtneri (De Sem. ii. 402.) 
t. 166. f. 5.), quæ Vernonia glauca Willdenovii (Sp. Pl. iii. 
1633.) | | 
In India I have seen several other species of the same genus ; 
but I shall'have again occasion to return to them. 
PERAGU, p.41. fig. 25. : 
Commeline gives no commentary on this plant, which Plu- 
kenet compared, although with doubt, to his Arbor baccifera 
A butili foliis lanugine ferruginea villosis Punnangannare Malabar 
(Mant. 19.) ; but of this we know nothing. 
The elder Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 66. t. 29.) described a plant, 
which he called Clerodendron folio lato et acuminato, and consi- 
dered as very nearly allied to the Peragu. By the Ceylonese this 
plant, according to Burman, is called Pinna ( fortunata); while the 
Peragu is called Pinnakola (infortunata), ** que à priore nil nisi 
folii rotundiore et magis cordata figura differt ;’ but I must also 
say, if we are to judge from the figures, that the two plants dif- 
fer also much in the form of the corolla, and in that of the calyx 
when bearing fruit; so that I have scarcely any doubt of their 
being distinct species. Burman, therefore, considers the Pe- 
ragu asthe Pinnakola of Hermann ; and he also considers it as 
the Frutex baccifer, Malabaricus, floribus pentapetalis, binis, una 
bacca 
