on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IT. 975 
Plukenet’s specific character seem clearly to imply a twining 
plant, while the Batti Schorigenam is evidently erect, ** frutex 
ex genere Urticarum altitudine trium pedum." 
The elder Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 231. t. 110. f. 1.) without any 
discrimination quotes the Batti Schorigenam, both plants of 
Plukenet, and the Pino of Brazil, for his Urtica pilulifera, foliis 
majoribus longissimis pediculis, minoribus brevibus pediculis do- 
natis. I have little doubt that so far as relates to the Batti 
Schorigenam he is right, his figure being good, and his descrip- 
tion of the stem (caulis bipedalis) showing it to be an erect 
plant, and not a climber. With respect, however, to several of 
the other synonyma that he quotes, I am doubtful ; his admission 
of the Brasilian Pino and of the plants of Plukenet rendering his 
accuracy suspicious. The Ceylonese name according to Burman 
is Katschambali ; and if he is right in this, and quotes accurately 
the Urtica racemosa, pilulifera tricoccos of Hermann, then it is 
not an Urtica, but a Tragia or Acalypha. 
Linnzus (Fl. Zeyl. 159.) leads us into greater difficulties, 
uniting the Batti Schorigenam not only with the Lupulo vulgari 
similis of Plukenet, and the Pino of Brazil; but with no less 
.than three plants of the elder Burman, which I can see no rea- 
son for thinking the same with each other. In the first place 
he quotes the Urtica fatua spicata, foliis floribusque petiolis lon- 
gissimis donatis (Thes. Zeyl. 232. t. 110. f. 2.), adding that the 
figure is good, that is to say, resembles the plant which he meant 
to describe : but this cannot be the Batti Schorigenam, the leaves 
of which sting, while those of the Urtica fatua, as the very name 
implies, are inert. It is however very probable, on this very 
account, that the Urtica (Lin. Fl. Zeyl. 159.) is the Urtice ge- 
nus Indianum minime pungens above mentioned, as being so like 
the Batti Schorigenam as to have been taken for it by Plukenet. 
But further, the leaves of the Urtica fatua &c. are cordate, 
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