on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part I. 543 



the Galega of Plukonct, concerning which I have already iiiven 

 my opinion/* The I. indica of the Encyclopcdie seems to be ■ spon- 

 taneous production, " elk croit matwrtllement a I'Js/c dc France* 

 d Madagascar, au Malabar, et dans I'Lidc, aux lieux incultes 

 pierreux on sabloneux." From this 1 am led to conclude, thai 

 the compiler of this most valuable work was perfectly right in 

 quoting the Ameri for it, and in quoting the Indicum of Rum- 

 phius for his 1. Anil; but then to this last he should have trans- 

 ferred the synonyma of the Bauhins, Parkinson, Morjison, llay, 

 and the elder Barman ; and I have said that the plant of Plu- 

 kenet is probably a Galega nearly allied to the tinctoria. 



The only proper synonymous plant for the Indignfera indica 

 is therefore the Ameri of Rheede, a spontaneous plant, and by 

 no means that cultivated in India. It may how <\ er be th<* l.ca- 

 rulca of Dr. Roxburgh (Ilort. Bcng. 57.), called Car Niii, 01 wild 

 Indigo, by the natives, and I believe capable of yielding an In- 

 digo, although with difficulty. Dr. Roxburgh, however, does 

 not quote the Ameri as synonymous, and had in the botanical 

 garden at Calcutta a plant, which came there by accident, and 

 which he considered as the J. Anil of Willdenow. This /. Anil 

 of Dr. Roxburgh was never cultivated for Indigo, and was pro- 

 bably indigenous in the garden, but for some time escaped the 

 notice of the superintendent ; for in such an extensive garden 

 (several hundred acres) some spontaneous productions remained 

 undescribed during the whole of his life. 



Colon 1 l, p. 103. Jig. 55. 

 Plukenet considered this as the same with his Col idea indica 

 frutescens, foliis superne glabris vircntibus, subtus sericeo nitore 

 argenteo splendentibus {Aim. 112.), and as the Nil seu Indigo spu- 

 rium of Ray. Now I think that I know the Colonil well, and it 

 will not agree with the abovementioned character of Plukenet : 



4 a 2 but 



