on the Horlus Malabaricus, Part II. 277 



wards took it to be the C. plicatum {Hort. Beng. 69.), as I in- 

 deed did, until I found a different plant perfectly agreeing with 

 the accounts of Willdenow, and with Burman's figure {t. 62. 

 f. 1.), which represents the C. tinctorium y of M. Lamarck. 

 The erroneous quotation of this second plant of the elder Bur- 

 man in Linnaeus, may have arisen from Burman having erro- 

 neously transferred the Ceylonese name Watuhahamhilya from 

 his Urtica fatua &c. to his Urtica zeylanica Sec. : and Linnaeus, 

 finding his Urtica interrupta in the collection of Hermann under 

 the name Watuhahamhilya , would quote for the U. interrupta 

 Burman's U. zeylanica &c., while he was sensible that the 

 figure of the U. fatua &c. represented his plant. This, how- 

 ever, is a mere conjecture. 



We have thus freed the Batti Schorigenam from two of Bur- 

 man's plants with which Linnaeus confounded it. The third 

 (Thes. Zeyl. t. 110. /. 1.), I have already said, I consider as the 

 plant of Rheede ; but as different from the Urtica of the Flora 

 Zeylanica. It is true, that Burman in describing his Urtica pilu- 

 lifera &c., which I consider as the Batti Schorigenam, calls the 

 leaves cordata ; but in looking at the figure, it is evident that 

 he employed this term in a sense different from that adopted by 

 Linnaeus. 



In the Species Plantarum, the Urtica of the Flora Zeylanica is 

 called U. interrupta, which is adopted by the younger Burman 

 (Fl. Ind. 297.)- When he published the species, the synonyma 

 had undergone some change. The Urtica fatua &c. of the 

 elder Burman (by error written U. sativa) is joined Avith the 

 Lupulo vulgari similis &c. of Plukenet, although it should pro- 

 bably have rather been joined with his Urticce genus Indianum 

 &c. ; and these are the only plants quoted for the first variety of 

 this species. It is true, that both fig. 1. and 2. in table 110 of 

 Burman are quoted ; but this also is a mere typographical error, 



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