on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. —— 261 
'The elder Burman, however, considered it more allied to the 
Chamelea, now called Cneorum, and called it Chamelea foliis 
linearibus, flosculis spicatis, echinato fructu (Thes. Zeyl. 59. t. 25.) ; 
but his figure is not so good as that in the Hortus Malabaricus, 
the stem being represented too slender, and the leaves too thickly 
set:—the principal defect in the figure of the Hort. Mal., as 
Burman justly remarks, being in the edges of the leaves, which 
are represented as too deeply indented. Burman, although his 
figure does not represent it, describes the edges well, ** in am- 
bitu levissimis et tenuissimis dentibus seu crenulis serrata ;" so 
that, notwithstanding the differences between his figure and that 
of Rheede, I have little doubt that they meant the same plant: 
although I must confess, that the term folis Linarie raris of 
Hermann is little applicable to the figure of Burman. He adds 
as synonymous an American plant of Plumier, probably quite 
different. 
Linnæus in the Flora Zeylanica (335.) joins it in the same ge- 
nus with the Pee Cupameni (Hort. Mal. x. 163. t. 82.), a plant 
as different as well possible, both belonging to the same natural 
order, and calls it Tragia foliis lanceolatis obtusis integerrimis. 
Besides the Codi Avanacu and Chamelea of Burman, Linnæus 
quotes as synonymous two plants of Hermann, which Burman 
did not consider as belonging even to the same genus: the Pitta 
Gedi ghus he considers as an Esula (Thes. Zeyl. 95.), and the 
Dya Nelli he considers as a Tithymalus (l. c. 225.). I suspect 
here some mistake, and that the three plants of Hermann are 
distinct: but without examining his herbarium nothing certain 
can be known on this subject; nor, if it be found that Hermann 
actually meant three different plants, can it be ascertained which 
Linnzus meant, without inspecting his collection. One expres- 
sion, besides the folia integerrima, leads me to doubt of his 
having really seen the Cod? Avanacu ; for he says, ** supra divi- 
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