538 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



coriacea. Calyx: margo superus integerrimus. Corolla in- 



fundibuliformis : tubus crassus longitudine limbi, extra vi- 



ridis, rudis ; H?nbus quinquepartitus, extr^ rudis, laciniis 



lanceolatis, acutis. Filamenta quinque brevissima. An- 



tliera lineares inclusae. Germen turbinatum, angulatum, 



inferum. Stylus filiformis, tubo paulo longior. Stigmata 



duo, exserta, antheris duplo longiora, tetragona, elongata, 



parallela. 



Appel, p. 99- fig- 53. 



European botanists have not yet placed the Appel in their 

 systems. Plukenet (Aim. 38.) considered it as the same with 

 the Tctragonia inclica of Ray, which I have no opportunity of 

 comparing. From the nature of the oil procured from the root, 

 and other sensible qualities, there can be little doubt that, al- 

 though not quoted, it is the same with the Sambucus zeylanica 

 odor at a aromatica of the elder Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 209.), exclud- 

 ing the plant of Sloane. 



The younger Burman (Ft. hid. 132. t. 41. /. 1.) joined his 

 father's Sambucus with the Cornutioides of Linnaeus (Fl. Zeyl. 

 416.), both being called Mendi by the natives of Ceylon. It is 

 true that Linnaeus describes the plant foliis integerrimis, while 

 Rheede Imsfoliorum ora, in oris superioribus, minutis et raris apici- 

 bus y alia magis alia minus eminent ia ; but his figure represents them 

 as Linnaeus described ; and I know several nearly allied plants 

 (Premnas), which on the same branch have occasionally some 

 leaves entire, and others indented. I have little doubt therefore 

 that the Appel, being the Sambucus odorata of the elder Burman, 

 has been rightly joined with the Cornutioides of Linnaeus by the 

 younger Burman, and by him called Cornutia corymbosa, but 

 afterwards by Linnaeus was made the Premna serratifolia. 



Whether or not there be in nature any plant possessed of the 

 characters attributed by Linnaeus to Premna and Cornutia, I 



know 



