on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 255 
the idea of its producing the Lignum moluccense, which implies 
the plant being a tree. 
The Granum Moluccum accordingly of Rumphius (Herb. 
Amb. iv. 98. t. 42.), to which no doubt the greater part of the 
synonyma quoted by Burman belong, and which Rumphius con- 
sidered as the Cadel Avanacu, is a small tree (arbuscula trunco 
brachium vel pedem crasso, in paucos divisa ramos), to which the 
term frutex would not be very applicable; and, speaking of 
Rheede’s account of the Cadel Avanacu, Rumphius says, “ in 
toto isto capite nil memoratur de acri atque urente ipsorum qua- 
litate, quæ in cunctis hujus arbuscule partibus detegitur." Fur- 
ther, in his figure Rumphius represents the capsules ovate, while 
in the figure of Rheede they are turbinatæ. These circum- 
stances are perhaps insufficient to convince any one of a specific 
difference between the plants of the two botanists ; although I 
think that they give room for a suspicion that calls for further 
examination. One circumstance may serve to throw light on the 
subject. Rumphius speaking of the capsule says, ** intus sunt 
tres camere, in quavis continetur ossiculum cameram non re- 
plens." Whether or not this last circumstance be the case in the 
Cadel Avanacu I am not sure, but Rheede gives no hint of it. 
Linnæus in the Flora Zeylanica (343.) joins the shrubs of Bur- 
man and Rheede, with their synonyma, to his Croton foliis ovatis 
glabris acuminatis serratis, caule arboreo, which, in one respect at 
least, would seem to have most resemblance to the Ricinoides of 
Burman, as he says, “‘ racemus ex divaricatione caulis." Whether, 
however, Burman was wrong in calling the Gajapala of the Cey- 
lonese a shrub, or whether Linnæus described the same plant 
with Burman, I have no means of ascertaining. ‘The former 
does not quote Rumphius, who agrees with him respecting the 
size of the plant. 
Burman the younger (FI. Ind. 304.) adopts from Linnæus the 
specific name Croton Tiglium, defines his plant as in the Flora 
Zeylanica, 
