on the Ilortus Malabaricus, Part II. 187 



plies white, and has been given to this variety, because its leaves 

 have more of that colour (depending no doubt on more white 

 tomentum) than those of the Cava Nosi. I am inclined however 

 to believe, that Linnaeus actually saw specimens of the Lagon- 

 dium litoreum, and that this is the plant which he meant to de- 

 scribe as the V. Negundo, although he may have erred in joining 

 it with the Bern Nosi. New specific characters however are wanted 

 to distinguish these plants, those yet given being founded on 

 circumstances liable to vary even in the same individual : but I 

 am not prepared to enter on this subject, having only seen one 

 of the species. 



After all, I must however confess that the figure of the Logon- 

 dium litoreum, and that given by Plukenet {Phyt. t. 321. f. 2.) 

 of the Vitex orientalis angustis foliis, semper tripartito divisis 

 {Aim. 390.), which is quoted in the Encyclopidie as being the 

 same with the Lagondium litoreum, has a stronger resemblance 

 to the plant common about the villages of India, than the figure 

 of the Lagondium vulgare, or the figure of the Vitex trifolia mi- 

 nor of Plukenet, or than either figure in the Hortus Malabaricus. 

 Notwithstanding therefore all that I have said, I do not consider 

 that I have removed all the diflSculties on this subject. Speci- 

 mens of the plant common every where in India have been pre- 

 sented to the East India Company's collection. It is undoubt- 

 edly the V. Negundo of Dr. Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 46.) ; and 

 it must be observed, that he received from Pegu a plant, which 

 he considered as the Vitex trifolia, as agreeing with the figures 

 of the Lagondium vulgare and Cara Nosi. So far as relates to 

 the mere figures, this is agreeable to what I have last stated ; but, 

 if this should be adopted, we must transfer most of the synonyma 

 mentioned by Linnaeus in the Flora Zeylanica to the Vitex Ne- 

 gundo ; and in this case, I must confess that I have never seen 



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