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some hesitation in rejecting altogether the opinion of M. La- 

 marck concerning the identity of these plants ; for the opinion 

 of so accurate a botanist concerning a plant he had seen, and 

 compared with both accounts, deserves the utmost consideration. 

 Should it be well founded, the names I. fulgens and /. longifolia 

 ought to be abandoned ; unless indeed it should appear that Sir 

 J. E. Smith had seen a plant different from the Bern Schetti, 

 whatever may be the case with the Flamma sylvarum, as no 

 one's accuracy requires greater attention. 



Nedum Sciietti, p. 9,1. Jig. 15. 



The two last plants called Schetti evidently belong to the same 

 genus, since called Ixora by Linnaeus : but this has no affinity to 

 them, being evidently a Memycelon ; and it resembles strongly 

 the Memycelon cordatum of M. Lamarck (E7ic. Meth. iv. 89.; 

 III. Gen. ^ 284. /. 2.), only the leaves are much longer, and the 

 pediinculus communis shorter than is represented in the figure of 

 the French botanist. I have not been able to discover that this 

 plant has been quoted by any subsequent author. 



SCHERUNAM CoTTAM, p. 25. Jig. \6. 



Plukenet in his Mantissa (21.) compares this to his Arbor 

 indica mali aurantii foliis obtusioribus e Maderaspatan {Phyt. 

 t. 142. /. 2.), which in the Almagestum (43.) he had compared 

 to the Akara Patsjoti {Hort. Mai. v. p. 15.), which is the Tetra- 

 cera malabarica, and seems to have very little resemblance in- 

 deed to Plukenet's figure. This, however, may represent the 

 Scheriinam Cottam, although both the drawing and description 

 are so imperfect, that nothing decisive on this point can be 

 stated. Plukenet quotes as synonymous, from the Commenta- 

 tor on the Hortus Malabaricus, the Comi sive Sorbi species of 

 Bontius. 



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