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r The elder Burman, however, considered it more allied to the 

 Chamalea, now called Cneorum, and called it Chamalea Joliis 

 linearibus,flosculisspicatis, echinato fructu {T/ies. Zeyl. 59- t. 25.); 

 but his figure is not so good as that in the Hortus Malabaricus, 

 the stem being represented too slender, and the leaves too thickly 

 set : — the principal defect in the figure of the Hort. Mai., as 

 Burman justly remarks, being in the edges of the leaves, which 

 are represented as too deeply indented. Burman, although his 

 figure does not represent it, describes the edges well, " in am- 

 bitu levissimis et tenuissimis dentibus seu crenulis serrata ; " so 

 that, notwithstanding the differences between his figure and that 

 of Rheede, I have little doubt that they meant the same plant : 

 although I must confess, that the term foliis LinaricB raris of 

 Hermann is little applicable to the figure of Burman. He adds 

 as synonymous an American plant of Plumier, probably quite 

 different. a 



Linnaeus in the Flor-a Zeylanica (335.) joins it in the same ge- 

 nus with the Pee Cupameni {Hort. Mai. x. 163. t. 82.), a plant 

 as different as well possible, both belonging to the same natural 

 order, and calls it Tragia foliis lanceolatis obtusis integerrimis. 

 Besides the Codi Avanacu and Chamcelea of Burman, Linnaeus 

 quotes as synonymous two plants of Hermann, which Burman 

 did not consider as belonging even to the same genus : the Pitta 

 Gadi glnis he considers as an Esula (Thes. Zeyl. 95.), and the 

 Dya Nelli he considers as a Tithymalus {I. c. 225.). I suspect 

 here some mistake, and that the three plants of Hermann are 

 distinct : but without examining his herbarium nothing certain 

 can be known on this subject ; nor, if it be found that Hermann 

 actually meant three different plants, can it be ascertained which 

 Linnaeus meant, without inspecting his collection. One expres- 

 sion, besides the folia integerrima, leads me to doubt of his 

 having really seen the Codi Avanacu ; for he says, " supra divi- 



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