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while those of the Batti Schorigenam are ovate and shaped like 
a wedge towards the footstalk. Neither does Linnæus quote 
for his plant the Katschambali, but the Watuhahambilya. 
Now the Watuhahambilya is the second plant of Burman, 
quoted by Linnzus for the Batti Schorigenam, that I shall 
mention. By Hermann it is called Urtica zeylanica, hortensis, 
urens, foliis cannabinis (Thes. Zeyl. 233.). lt is impossible that 
so good a botanist as Hermann would compare to the leaves of 
the Cannabis, either those of the Batti Schorigenam or of the 
Urtica fatua &c. of Burman ; and I have little doubt that Her- 
mann meant the plant now called Tragia cannabina ; and this 
the more especially, that Hermann, besides this garden plant, 
describes another Watuhahambilya, which he calls Cannabina 
indica, sylvestris, Urtice folis urentibus. Now these two plants 
I take to be what Willdenow (Sp. PL. iv. 326.) calls two varieties 
of the Tragia cannabina, represented by Plukenet (Phyt. t. 220. 
f.2; and t. 120. f.6.). These indeed have little or no resem- 
blance to the Croton hastatum B of Burman (Fl. Ind. 305. t. 63. 
f. 1.), although this also is quoted for the Tragia cannabina ; but 
Burman by mistake added the figure to the plant of Plukenet, 
which Linnzus no doubt meant (foliis trilobo-hastatis lanceo- 
latis dentatis). Linnæus however was probably misled by Bur- 
man's figure into the mistake of supposing the stem erect; for a 
plant which I have no doubt is that of Plukenet, is certainly a 
climber. The Croton hastatum B is however the plant now 
called Tragia cannabina in the Hortus Kewensis (v. 256.), al- 
though I have no doubt that M. Lamarck is right in consider- 
ing it as not a Tragia, but as a Croton very nearly allied to 
the C. tinctorium. Perhaps he rather erred in considering it 
as a mere variety of this European plant; and both Roxburgh 
and Koenig were probably right in thinking it a distinct species, 
which they called C. asperum; although Dr. Roxburgh after- 
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