on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 305 
therefore, that we may safely place the sat. synonyma to 
the Nir Carambu. 
Jussica repens. Burm. Ind. 103. Enc. Meth. iii. 330. 
Jussieua repens. Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 574. (exclusis synonymis 
Swartzii et Drownii). Hort. Beng. 33. 
Jussiæa repens, floribus pentapetalis decandris, pedunculis folio 
longioribus. Linn. Fl. Zeyl. n. 169. 
Lysimachiz species fructu caryophylloideo, Kikirindia zeylo- 
nensibus. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 146. (exclusis synonymis Sloani 
et Rumphii). 
Lysimachia indica non papposa repens, flore pentapetalo, fructu 
caryophylloide. Commel. Malab. 164. Ed. 8vo. 
Caryophyllus spurius malabaricus pentapetalos aquaticus repens. 
Rai Hist. 1510. 
Ponnam TaGera seu Ponna VinzM, p. 101. fig. 52. 
Although Commeline mentions, that of the five species of Ta- 
gera found in Malabar, two only are described by the authors of 
the Hortus Malabaricus, yet this must only mean that they are 
not described in this part of the work ; for the other three are to 
be found, vi. ¢. 9. and 10. ; vi. ¢. 25.; and ix. ¢. 30.; and it 
seems strange that Commeline should not have traced their 
affinity to genera then well known. 
A plant very nearly allied to the Ponnam Tagera had been pre- 
viously described under the name Sophera ; iiid Plukenet, think- 
ing it the same, calls it Sena orientalis fruticosa Sophera dicta 
- (Alm. 342.) ; but joins it with a Mexican plant described by 
Hernandez and Camerarius, that is probably different ; although 
it must be confessed that the Cassia occidentalis of America would 
seem to have a remarkably close resemblance to the Ponnam 
Tagera. The 
