on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 285 
had always considered the Ela Calli as the E. neriifolia; for it forms 
one of the most common hedges in India, and on that account 
the natives call it simply Sij, while they give specific names to 
the less common kinds. Thus the Ligularia is called Pangch 
Sij or Five-sided Euphorbia or Mansa Sij, because it is dedicated 
to Mansa, the deity presiding over serpents ; and thus the E. aa- 
tiquorum is called Nara Sij. Dr. Roxburgh, I believe, conti- 
nued all his days to call (Hort. Beng. 36.) the Ela Calli by the 
name E. neriifolia, while he gave the name E. Ligularia to the 
plant so called by Rumphius, considering it a new species ; al- 
though, as I have said before, it is pretty certainly the Æ. nerii- 
folia of Linnæus and his successors. In order to avoid ambi- 
guity, as the term Neriifolia has been employed for a species so 
ill-defined, it perhaps should be altogether abandoned ; espe- 
cially as it is not happily chosen for either species; and then, 
leaving the excellent name Ligularia with the species to which 
it has been given by Rumphius, and borrowing from the Brah- 
mans of Malabar, we may take Nivulia for the Ela Calli; and 
thus we shall have the two species properly discriminated. 
1. Euphorbia Ligularia (seminuda, aculeis stipularibus gemina- 
tis, angulis ramorum quinis spiralibus, foliis oblongis). - 
Hort. Beng. 36. 
Euphorbia Neriifolia. Hort. Kew.ii. 157. Willd. Sp. Pl.11. 885. 
Enc. Meth. ii. 415; et Burm. Fl. Ind. 111. exclus. var. syn. 
Ligularia. Herb. Amb. iv. 88. t. 40. 
Tithymalus aizoides, arborescens, spinosus, caule angulari 
Neriifolio Commelini apud Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 96. 
Euphorbium angulosum, foliis Nerii latioribus Boerhaavii 
apud Burm. l. c. — 
Pangch Sij vel Mansa Sij Bengalensium. 
Habitat in sylvis et ad templa Bengalæ orientalis. 
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