on the llortus Malabaricus, Part II. 177 



Linnaeus, however, misled by Burman, described the Watkakeiyn 

 of the Ceylonese as Bromelia folils margine dorsoqiie aculeatis, 

 caule fulcrato spinoso {Fl. Zeyl. 14.) ; but he gives the synonyma 

 with more care, joining the plant of Acosta and those of 

 J. Bauhin and Ray, that I have already mentioned, with the 

 Kaida (misprinted Kaidi) of the Hortus Malabaricus. With 

 respect to Plukenet, he was probably wrong, as that botanist 

 considered the Kaida Taddi to be more like his plant ; but, re- 

 specting Acosta, J. Bauhin and Ray, Linnaeus was probably right 

 in joining their plants with the Kaida. In the reference, how- 

 ever, to the plates, he has been misled by the text to consider 

 fig. 1. as representing this plant; an error that has been gene- 

 rally since followed. Linnaeus was also probably misled by 

 Burman to quote among the synonyma the Carduus brasilianus 

 sylvestris of C. Bauhin, probably the same with the Nana brava 

 of Marc grave. 



The younger Burman, although he rejected this, did not im- 

 prove the synonyma of the Bromelia sylvestris, as the plant was 

 now called {Ft. Lid. 79-) ; for he added the Pandanus verus of 

 Humphius, which, as I have said, is neither the Kaida nor Kaida 

 Taddi ; and, in imitation of Plukenet and his father, he adopted 

 the Kaida Taddi (misprinted Kauda) in preference to the Kaida 

 chosen by Linnaeus. 



Since later botanists have obtained a more perfect knowledge 

 of the fructification, and removed this plant from among the 

 Bromelias to its proper place as a distinct genus, no great im- 

 provement has taken place in the synonyma. The compiler of 

 the EncyclopSdie was perhaps justified, on account of the imper- 

 fect nature of their accounts, in leavmg out altogether the sy- 

 nonyma of older botanists : but the Pandanus odoratissimus with 

 him is both the Pandanus verus and the Kaida ; and it is also the 

 Keura odorifera of Forskahl, which, coming from Arabia, is 



probably 



