on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part I. 



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Curutu Pala, p. 83. Jig. 46. 



Quoted by mistake in the letter-press as 47- 



In giving an account of the last plant, I have mentioned the 

 mistake of Burman in uniting this, which is a Tabernicniontana. 

 with the Lignum scholare, an Echites. When this error was rec- 

 tified, the Curutu Pala w T as called Tal)trnamontuna alttrni folia 

 {Hilld. Sp. PL i. 1246.), nothing being known of it except from 

 the Hortus Malabaricus, where indeed some of the leaves are 

 represented in the figure as alternate, although others are placed 

 opposite; a very great error, not uncommon in this work, as 

 may be seen in the Canschi, fig. 42. and Caniram, //>. 37. of this 

 volume. 



Mr. Brown (Prodr. Nov. Hoi. i. 468.) considers the Curutu 

 Pala as very nearly allied to his Tabernccmonlana oricntalis, and, 

 except the form of the bractes (mbulata), I see nothing in his 

 specific character to distinguish the plants. The Curutu Pain, 

 however, is so nearly allied to the single variety of the Taberna- 

 montana coronaria, that I shall only endeavour to point out in 

 what they differ ; as I shall give a full account of the T. coronaria 

 in treating of the Nandi Ervatam (Hort. Mai. ii. /. .54. and 55.), 

 only premising that, except from the smell, it would be very dif- 

 ficult to say whether the full-flowered T. coronaria belonged to 

 the Nandi Ervatam minor or to the Curutu Pala : and still I am 

 in doubt concerning this circumstance, the natives of Camrupa 

 considering: the Curutu Pala as the wild T. coronaria, while those 

 of Malabar seem to be of the contrary opinion. 



Although very unwilling to change names, I consider the 

 alternifolia so objectionable, that it cannot possibly be retained, 

 and therefore I readily adopt the name given to this plant by 

 Dr. Roxburgh. There is reason however to suspect that the 

 Ntrium divaricatum of Willdenow, with all its synonyma, should 



3x2 rather 



