on the Hortits Malaharicus, Fart IT. 255 



the idea of its producing the Lignum moluccense, which implies 

 the plant being a tree. 



The Granum Moluccutn accordingly of Rumphius {Herb. 

 Amh. iv. 98. t. 42.), to which no doubt' the greater part of the 

 synonyma quoted by Burman belong, and which Rumphius con- 

 sidered as the Cadel Avariacu, is a small tree (arhuscida trunco 

 brachium vel pedem crasso, in pmicos divisa ramos), to which the 

 term frutex would not be very applicable ; and, speaking of 

 Rheede's account of the Cadel Avanaai, Rumphius says, " in 

 toto isto capite nil memoratur de acri atque urente ipsorum qua- 

 litate, qua3 in cunctis hujus arbusculae partibus detegitur." Fur- 

 ther, in his figure Rumphius represents the capsules ovata, while 

 in the figure of Rheede they are turbinata. These circum- 

 stances are perhaps insufficient to convince any one of a specific 

 difference between the plants of the two botanists ; although I 

 think that they give room for a suspicion that calls for further 

 examination. One circumstance may serve to throw light on the 

 subject. Rumphius speaking of the capsule says, " intus sunt 

 tres camerae, in quavis continetur ossiculum cameram non re- 

 plens." Whether or not this last circumstance be the case in the 

 Cadel Avanacii I am not sure, but Rheede gives no hint of it. 



Linnaeus in the Flora Zeylanica (343.) joins the shrubs of Bur- 

 man and Rheede, with their synonyma, to his Croton j'oliis ovatis 

 glabris acuminatis serratis, caule arboreo, which, in one respect at 

 least, would seem to have most resemblance to the Ricinoides of 

 Burman, as he says, " racemus ex divaricatione caulis." Whether, 

 however, Burman was wrong in calling the Gajapala of the Cey- 

 lonese a shrub, or whether Linna3us described the same plant 

 with Burman, I have no means of ascertaining. The former 

 does not quote Rumphius, who agrees with him respecting the 

 size of the plant. 



Burman the younger (F/. Tnd. 304.) adopts from Linnaeus the 

 specific name Croton TigUiim, defines his plant as in the Flora 



Zeylanica, 



