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9. Folium Baggea maritmum, t. 80. (P. dubiiis, Spr. Syst. iii. 897- 

 confusus cum duhio^ Kth.) 



10. Pandamis 7*epens, (geene afb.) 



11. P.funicidaris,t.%%. Freycinettia strohilacea,^\. (Kumph.i. 156.) 



12. P. caricosus, tabula adest in ms. inedita. P. cariosus (Eumpb. Amb. 



iv. 154. Spr. Syst. iii. 897.) 

 According to some authors, the plant which Linnaeus, in his SuppL 

 p. 424, has mentioned as Pandamis odoratissmiis^ is no other than the 

 P. verm (of Humph. Amb. iv. 139. t, 74), and the same as Kaida 

 (Eumph. Mai. ii. t. 1-5), the same as Keiira odorifera (Forst. Descr. 

 172), the same, in fine^ as Atlirodactylls spinosa (Forst. Gen. No. 75). 

 It is a plant which should be met with in East India, Arabia Telix, 

 China, and the islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean (Kth.). We see 

 this opinion embraced by Roxburgh (Corom. 1. 65. t. 94-96). 



I am perhaps mistaken, but I have not been able to see on what 

 certain ground the above-mentioned and other authors, to whom Kunth 

 should be added (Enum. Plant, iii. 1841. p. 94), have adopted that sy- 

 nonym. Let what Eumph says (t. a, pi. cxli.) be just, viz. that the 

 leaves which surround the blossoms are used on account of their sweet 

 smell, wherefore the inland women lay them in their boxes with their 

 clothes, and smear these leaves with sweet-smelling oil. The drawmg 

 however affords none, and the description only very little, reason for 

 this conclusion, to which later authors have come. From the emitting 

 of smell alone, to determine on the identity of recently known plants, 

 and earlier published descriptions, is certainly rather rash, especially as 

 Eumph has mentioned several other sweet-smelling Pandani. Of his 

 P. moscJiatus {Imvk, Lou.) he says, that the leaves which surround the 

 blossom diffuse an odour, which the inhabitants compare with Castari, 

 or Musk, but which most resembles a sweet-smelling ointment. This 

 smell is so diffusive in the evening and at night, that the whole plain, 

 where the tree grows, is filled with it as soon as the anthers are 

 opened ; but if this flower is let stand a little longer, the perfume goes 

 off; it therefore must be cut, as soon as the smell is perceived. 



An opportunity has been afforded at Amsterdam to make observa- 

 tions on the male blossoms of P. furcatus. It appeared that they 

 emitted a strong smell, resembling CotwaUaria majalis (IVIiquel). These 

 plants do this, not less in their natural situations, and original country. 

 1 advance this merely to support my own opinion, that the referring of 



