on the Chrysanthemum Indie um of Linnaus. 567 



Matricaria Sinensis, minore flore, petalis et umbonc ochroleu- 

 cis. Pink. Amaith, p. 142. tab. 430. Jig. 3. (erroneously 

 printed fig. 2.) 



Matricaria Sinensis. Humph. Amb. vol. v. p. 250. tab. 91. 



. fig - h 



Tsjetti-pu. Rheede Mai. vol. x. p. 87- tab. 44. 



P. Chrysanthemum Madraspatanum, oxyacantlr.o foliifl cwsiis ad 



marginem spinosis, calyce argenteo. Pluk. Aim. p. 101. 



(Phytographia) tab. 160. Jig. 6. 

 Matricaria Indica, latiore folio, More pleno. Moris. Hist. vol. iii. 



p. 33. 

 Matricaria Sinensis, flore monstroso. Vaill. Act. 1720. p. 285. 



(printed 36'8 in the Species Plant arum). Flora Zeylan. 



num. 421. 

 Matricaria Zeylanica hortensis, flore pleno. Rail Suppl. p. 224. 



I shall examine each of the above quotations and synonyms in 

 the order in which they occur. 



Plukenet's Amaltheum (his works were published some a little 

 before, and others soon after the beginning of the eighteenth 

 century,) gives no further description of his plant than appears 

 in the quotation : but from the figure it may be observed, that 

 the leaves are like those of our Chinese Chrysanthemums, though 

 but slightly indented : that the flowers are produced from the 

 sides as well as the ends of the branches ; that they are very 

 small, the rays and disc (as mentioned in the description) being 

 yellow. Although the disc is noticed in the description, in the 

 figure the flowers are represented as fully double, and conse- 

 quently without any apparent disc. 



Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense was published in the year 

 1750 by John Burmann. It is a description and account of 

 plants collected in Amboyna and the adjacent islands. The ac- 



4 d 2 count 



