490 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



who removes this plant to a genus which he calls Malvaviscus. 

 His description of the fruit is only applicable to that of the jBm- 

 pariti, which must therefore be considered as his plant : and in 

 the Hortus Kewensis (iv. 224.) the Novella litorea is properly 

 omitted. See further under next head. 



Paiiiti seu Tali Pariti, p. 53. Jig. 30. 

 This stands nearly on the same footing with the Bupariti, want 

 of care in quoting the synonyma having rendered doubtful the 

 plant meant. Under the name Ketmia zeylanica semper virens et 

 florens, TilicE folio, flore luteo, the elder Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 136) 

 collected a number of synonyma, some of them such as the 

 Arbor solis of Herman, belonging certainly to the Bupariti, while 

 the American plant of Plumier in all probability belonged to 

 another species. Linnaeus in his Flora Zeylanica (259-) taking 

 up the plant of Burman, with the American plant of Plumier, 

 but rejecting all the other synonyma of the Thesaurus Zeylanicus, 

 added them to the Pariti, and formed the species which he 

 afterwards called Hibiscus tiliaceus. In the Species Plant arum, 

 especially as it now stands in Willdenow's edition, the synonyma 

 of the Flora Zeylanica have undergone many changes, and not all 

 for the better. To the original American plant has been added 

 another, yet both are acknowledged to want one of the chief spe- 

 cific characters. The Novella of Rumphius (Her^b. Amb. ii. 218. 

 t. 73.) is restored, although Rumphius himself considered his 

 Novella as the Bupariti of Rheede, and his Novella rubra (Herb. 

 Amb. ii. 223.) as the Pariti. With regard to the former he was 

 certainly mistaken ; but with regard to the latter he may be right. 

 Burman, however, in his notes on the Novella rubra, considers it 

 as a mere variety of Novella, which is probably the case ; and 

 the Novella has perhaps therefore been joined with propriety to 

 the Pariti, with which however the description agrees better than 



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