Profefor Gmelins Linné's Syfema Nature. 227 
the inftances he gives of thefe duplications and triplications of ge- 
. mera and fpecies, are not fo many as they would have been, if he 
had extended his refearches farther. My firft intention, on peruf- 
ing M. Lamarck's obfervations, was to leave out in this paper all 
the inftances given by him; but, confidering that our Society’s 
Tranfaétions may fall into the hands of many who have not fo 
eafy an opportunity of feeing the French Actes, i {hall purfue my 
plan in the fame manner as I have begun it, and have alfo added, 
in notes to the former part of this paper, three inftances from M. 
Lamarck, which had efcaped my obferyation. 
Gartner has made a miftake in the trivial name, this tree being a 
native of the ifland of Madeira, and not of the Bahama Iflands. 
Bacca infera given as fpecific difference to the Anguillaria zeylanica 
of Gartner, by the Editor, is fo ridiculous a miftake that I can 
no way account for it, 
Page 433. Cerbera parviflora of Forfter is the fame’ as, p. 439. 
Ocbrofia borbonica, as Y learnt by the comparifon of a fpecimen from 
Forfter in Sir Jofeph Banks's herbarium, with a fpecimen of Gom- _ 
merfon’s in the poffeffion of Mr. Viborg; but Ochrofia maculata 
of Jacquin’s Icones & Collectanea is probably a different fpecies, 
having lanceolate leaves, longer and narrower than thofeof Cerbera 
parviflora. 
Page 434 Gardenia jafminoides of Retzius, and Gardenia fcandens 
of Thunberg, are the fame. M. Lamarck makes, in his me- 
moire, an obfervation, that Gardenia fpinofa and dumetorum are 
the fame; and he is very right that G. fpinofa of Linn, Suppl. is 
Ser. the 
