on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 127 
marginem crenatis, fructu conoide quinquecapsulari, lanugine leuco- 
phed referto (Alm. 172. Phyt. t. 189. f. 1.) ; but this is evidently 
an error, the leaflets of the American plant being toothed on the 
edges, while in the Indian plant they are quite entire. Rum- 
phius and his commentator Burman, as I have said, seem 
strangely to have considered the Pania and Moui Elavou as the 
same plant, but evidently described only the former. Linnæus 
(Fl. Zeyl. 221.) united a plant of America with the Mou! Elavou; 
but he does not quote Plukenet; and therefore his plant, which 
was then common in the gardens of Europe, might have the 
edges of the leaflets entire. This plant of Linnæus in the first 
edition of the Species Plantarum became Bombax Ceiba (Burm. 
Fl. Ind. 145.). In the second edition, however, the Moul Ela- 
vou having been found different from the American Ceiba de- 
scribed by Bauhin and Sloane, it was called Bombax heptaphyl- 
lum, and new synonyma were given. Among these was still an 
American plant described by Jacquin; and the Gossypium s. 
Xylon arbor orientale digitatis foliis levibus, fructu quinquecapsu- 
lari, alba et nitente lanugine farcto (Pluk. Alm. 172. t. 188. f. 4.), 
which, although said to be an Asiatic plant, cannot well, on 
account of its stamina, be considered as representing the Mou! 
Elavou. I suspect, however, that Plukenet was mistaken con- 
cerning the country from which he obtained his plant, for I have 
seen none such in India ; and his figure is quoted by all for the tree 
of the West Indies. Besides, as Cavanilles observes (Enc. Meth. 
ii. 553.), Linnæus describes the plant as having a monopetalous 
corolla, while that of the Moul Elavou has five petals; and it is 
therefore probable that the plants are different. Willdenow, 
although he quotes the Hortus Malabaricus, probably meant 
some other plant, as he calls it an American : and in the figure 
of Plukenet, which he also quotes, there is no appearance of 
prickles in even the branch. Further, as in the Hortus Kew- 
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