214 Dr. Francis Hamilton's CommeiUanj 



than to join it thus with the Canthium. If howeverWilldenow had 

 rejected from his genus Wtbera the Tsjeru Kara, and the generic 

 character which he had chosen, the Citpi would have afforded a 

 well defined character for distinguishing a new genus of plants, 

 as has been done by Gaertner (De Sem. iii. 71. t- 192. /. 5.), 

 by whom the Cupi is called JVebera corymhosa. 



Cattu SciiiuAGAM, p.^9- fig- 24. 



Comraeline has not given us any opinion concerning this 

 plant. Plukenet proposes with doubt, whether it is the same 

 with his Eiipatoria Covjjzoifle.i, integro JacobecB folio, molli, et in- 

 caiio IncHa orientalis {Aim. 140. P/iyt. t. 177. /. 1.) ; but the 

 elder Burman {Thes. Ztyl. 123.) justly rejects this opinion. 

 The plant of Plukenet, with Breynius, he calls Jacea et Serra- 

 tula adfinis, capitulis Bacharidis, foliis Trachelia, Zerjlanica ; 

 while the plant of Rheede he calls Scabiosa conyzoides, foliis latis, 

 dentatis, semine amaro, lumbricos enecante {Thes. Zeyl. 210.) ; 

 and he gives a good figure {t. 95.) for the express purpose of 

 enabling the reader to compare it with the figure of Plukenet, 

 so as at once to perceive the diff'erence {p. 113.). Strange 

 however to say, along with the synonyma properly belonging to 

 this Scabiosa, he joins {p. 210.) not only the Jacece et Serratulce 

 adfinis of Breynius, but the very plant of Plukenet, which he 

 has said was different. No reliance can therefore be placed on 

 the synonyma, which he quoted for either plant, and the more 

 especially as he quotes three other figures of Plukenet {Phyt. 

 t. 87. /. 2. /. 154. /. 4. and t. 159. /• 4.), the last of which is 

 the Spilanthes Pseudo lamella of Willdenow. 



Linneeus in the Flora Zeylanica (p. 418.), not being satisfied 

 to what genus the Scabiosa of Burman should be referred, called 

 it Baccharioides ; but he did not quote the Cattu Schiragam. 

 Doubting the accuracy of Burman, but unwilling to offend him, 



he 



