4 ON TWO NEW PLANTS FOUND IN CEYLON. 
orientalis, but the embryo is described “cotyledonibus conduplicatis 
æqualibus plicatis foliaceis.” Raoul adds, “ Notre Epicarpurus micro- 
phyllus appartient bien au genre où je l'ai classé par forme de ses 
cotylédons : les Zrophis ont les cotylédons charnus et très inégaux, 
_ tandis que dans la plante qui nous occupe ils sont chiffonnés et foliacés,” 
Were the only difference between Zrophis and Zpicarpurus to consist - 
in the proportion of the cotyledons, I fear that they must be again 
united : in Zpicarpurus the cotyledons are often thick, but they are 
constantly folded and crumpled. Of the Zrophis Americana,” which is the 
type of the genus Zrophis, I have not examined the seed, nor does M. 
Trecul (Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3. vol. viii. p. 147) describe it; but there 
are abundant marks of distinction in the spicate inflorescence and 
tubular perianth. 
Trophis and Epicarpurus both belong to the Moree as characterized 
by Trecul, the stamens being inflexed during æstivation. 
In Trecul’s memoir alluded to, an error occurs as to Trophis spinosa, 
Roxb. This I have said is one of the thorny species of Æpicarpurus, 
and almost identical with E. Timorensis of Decaisne, as every one must 
acknowledge whoifeads attentively Roxburgh's description (Flor. Ind. 
vol. iii, p.762); but Treeul refers it (p. 123) to Cudrania Javanensis, 
a plant belonging to his rtocarpee, having the female flowers in dense 
eapitula, arranged in umbels, and with a simple style. — In this he has 
- been, perhaps, misled by Blume, who, in his * Bijdragen, p. 489, 
appears to have described a species of Cudra#ia (probably C. obovata, 
Trec.) under the name of Trophis spinosa, Roxb. Indeed Roxburgh 
himself may have led others astray, the plant to which he gave the 
manuscript name of Trophis spinosa at an early period of his botanical 
career, and under which he deposited a drawing in the E. I. C. Museum 
(tab. 119), and which name was adopted by Willdenow, never having 
been published by him as such: in fact, his manuscript 7. spinosa, 
and consequently the 7. spinosa of Willd. Sp, Pl. vol. iv. p. 735, is the 
Batis spinosa of the * Flora Indica’ (vol. iii. p. 762); nor is T. aculeata, 
Roth, Sp. Nov. p. 368, at all distinct: this, although belonging to the 
Morea, has the habit of Cudrania, and is the Plecospermum spinosum, 
* Trophis Ramon from Mexico (Linnea, vol. vi. p. 357) is scarcely distinct, The 
specifie name, too, is unfortunate, being obviously the same as Ramoon, by which 
T. Americana is known in Jamaica, Ramon is a Spanish expression for small 
bonghs or twigs, which, when broken off, are suitable as fodder for cattle, and it does 
not indicate the species of plant. 
