220 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



ceolata. Calyx cylindricus, pubescens, imbricatus foliolis 

 linearibus, acutis, inaequalibus, erectis. Flosculi circiter 

 octo, calyce duplo longiores, omnes hermaphroditi, quin- 

 quefidi laciniis linearibus. Filamenta quinque ex apice tubi, 

 laciniis dimidio breviora, Anthera coalitse. Stigmata duo. 

 Receptaculum nudum. Semina glabra. Pappus pilosus, ri- 

 gidus, denticulatus, imbricatus, pilis exterioribus brevis- 

 simis. 

 Obs. Pappus ut in Suprago glauca Gaertneri (De Sem. ii. 402.) 

 t. 166. f. 5.), quae Vernonia glauca Willdenovii (Sp. PI. iii. 

 1633.) 



In India I have seen several other species of the same genus ; 

 but I shall have again occasion to return to them. 



Peragu, p. 41. Jig. 25. 



Commeline gives no commentary on this plant, which Plu- 

 kenet compared, although with doubt, to his Arbor haccifera 

 Abutili Joliis lanugine ftrruginea villosis P unnangannare Malabar 

 {Mant. 19-) ; but of this we know nothing. 



The elder Burman {Thes. Zeyl. 66. t. 29-) described a plant, 

 which he called Clerodendron folio lato et acuminato, and consi- 

 dered as very nearly allied to the Peragu. By the Ceylonese this 

 plant, according to Burman, is called Pinna{fortunata); while the 

 Peragu is called Pinnakola {infortimata), " quae a priore nil nisi 

 folii rotundiore et magis cordata figura diftert ;" but I must also 

 say, if we are to judge from the figures, that the two plants dif- 

 fer also much in the form of the corolla, and in that of the calyx 

 when bearing fruit ; so that I have scarcely any doubt of then* 

 being distinct species. Burman, therefore, considers the Pe- 

 ragu as the Pinnakola of Hermann ; and he also considers it as 

 the Frutex baccifer, Malabaricus, jloi'ibus pentapetalis, bitiis, una 



bacca 



