on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 207 
Frutex pedes duos altus, diffusus, ramosissimus. Rami alterni, 
pilosi, tetragoni, laterum duobus concavis, duobus striatis. 
Folia opposita, subsessilia, ovalia, integerrima, spina mucro- 
nata, supra scabra, subtus pilosa, internodiis breviora, sti- 
pulis nuda. Flores axillares, alterni, solitarii, folio multo- 
ties longiores, nunc sessiles, tunc pedunculo brevi insi- 
dentes, rubri, ad basin bracteati spinis duabus rectis diver- 
gentibus pilosis. Calycis quadripartiti laciniæ due exte- 
riores ellipticæ, venosæ, integerrimæ ; interiores minimse. 
Corolle tubus calyce multo longior, rectiusculus : limbus 
patens, subæqualis, quinquepartitus, laciniis quatuor ob- 
ovatis, quinta acuta minore. Filamenta e tubi medio quin- 
que, quorum tria brevissima antheris sterilibus ; duo elon- 
gata antheris incumbentibus, sagittatis. Germen ovatum, 
superum. Stylus filiformis, staminibus longior. Stigma 
acutum, aduncum. Capsula elliptica, tetragona, compressa, 
calyce longior, bivalvis. Valvule naviculares, medio septi- 
ferz. | Semina solitaria, villosa, compressa. 
Parna SCHULLI, p. 93. f. 48. 
Commeline compares this to the Ruscus sylvestris, an old 
name for what is now called Iler aquifolium; and the resem- 
blance is so striking, especially in the living plant, that I do not 
wonder at Plukenet calling it Aquifolia facie arbor malabarica, 
Acanthii flore albo cucullato (Alm. 38. ; Phyt. t. 261. f. 4.) ; and 
although it is not a tree but a small bush, and the flowers, 
so far as I have seen, are always blue, as Rheede describes, 
yet there can be no doubt of the plants being the same; 
and Plukenet's comparison of its form to the Acanthus is quite 
correct. 
Although not so fortunately classed as by Plukenet, there can 
be no doubt also, that the Paina Schulli is the Eryngium indicum, 
aquaticum, 
