on the Horttis Malaharicus, Fart II. 193 



seem to have been the circumstance that produced this change 

 in the synonyma. 



In 1768, the younger ]3urman, copying Linnaeus, calls our 

 plant Ixora alba (Fl. hid. 34.), not a very proper name had the 

 Bern Schetti been meant; for, although Bew implies white or pale, 

 the flowers of the Bern Schetti are only " albicantes et subflavi, 

 pede autem quo calyci insidunt (corollas tubo) nonnihil quoque 

 rubescente." At this time no change was made in the synony- 

 ma ; nor did Willdenow make any material alteration, as he 

 quoted both the Bern Schetti and Plukenet, although he omitted 

 Burman and Hermann, and even the Flora Zeylanica of Linnaeus, 

 which he did probably because he considered Rheede as the best 

 authority, and his figure has certainly very little resemblance to 

 the Ixora coccinea, especially as represented by Burman {Thes. 

 Zeyl. t. 51.). 



In 17B9, M. Lamarck [Enc. Meth. iii. 343.), justly dissatisfied 

 with both name and synonyma, under the appellation of Ivor a 

 lanceolata described the Bern Schetti, to which he rejoined the 

 Flamma sylvarum, which at any rate has the strongest afiinity to 

 the plant of Rheede ; although a strong doubt is thrown on their 

 identity by the colour of its flowers (qui minii rubentis sunt 

 coloris interne, vetustique sunt sanguinei coloris, ita ut in quo- 

 vis florum corymbo bini diversi conspiciantur colores, ipsorum- 

 que suavirubentis sunt coloris. Herb. Amh. iv. 105.). We scarce- 

 ly therefore can consider the Flamma sylvarum as decidedly the 

 same with the Bern Schetti, and it is totally different from the 

 Jasminum Jlore tetrapetalo of the elder Burman {Thes. Zeyl. 125. 

 t. 57.), with which M. Lamarck joins it, thinking that the Schetti 

 was the Ixora coccinea, and perceiving that the plant of Burman 

 was different. The Ixora lanceolata therefore contains probably 

 three plants; and, as M. Lamarck besides quotes, although with 

 doubt, the Ixora alba of Linnaeus, if this great botanist meant 



really 



