on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 189 



denote the same plant, I cannot say, not having it in my power 

 to consult his works ; but the plant contained in his Herbarium 

 is no doubt the one which Burman described. But of this more 

 afterwards. i^ 



It is further to be remarked, that Linnaeus in his Flora Zeyla- 

 nica {p. 54.) quotes the Prodromus of Hermann alone as de- 

 scribing the same plant with the Schetti, and omits the other 

 names given by that author, considering them as not applicable ; 

 but he adds the Ratabala (Red Bala) as the Ceylonese name, 

 which no doubt belongs to the plant of Burman, although it pro- 

 bably maj'^ be applicable to any Ixora with a red flower ; for 

 Rata, corrupted from Riikta of the Sanscrit, implies this colour. 

 At any rate, Linnaeus under the denomination of Ixoi'a foliis 

 ovalibus semiamplexicauUbus comprehended at least two plants, 

 the Schetti of Rheede and the Jasminum Jiore tetrapetalo of 

 Burman. 



Burman the elder, when he published his Thesaurus Zeylanicus; 

 had quoted for his Jasminum jiore tetrapetalo the Flamma sylva- 

 rum peregrina of the Herbarium Amboinense (iv. 107, t. 47.) ; 

 but when he came to publish this work, he perceived that this 

 quotation could not be sustained, and therefore transferred his 

 Jasminum Jiore tetrapetalo to the Flamma sylvarum of Rumphius 

 {Herb. Amb. iv. 105. t. 46.), a quite different species from the 

 Flamma sylvarum peregrina, and still more different from the 

 Schetti. 



The younger Burman (F/. Ind. 34.), imitating the Species 

 Plant arum of Linnaeus, bestowed on the Ixora of the Flora Zey- 

 lanica the name Lwra coccinea, to which he annexed the syno- 

 nyma of his father and Plukenet, together with the Flamma 

 sylvarum, and the Schetti, thus including certainly two species. 

 He indeed omitted all the synonyma of Hermann and Ray quoted 

 by his father ; but he added a new plant from Plukenet {Mant. 



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