on the IlorttiH Malaharicus, Part II. i\ 285 



had always considered the Elo Colli as the E. neriifolia ; for it forms 

 one of the most common hedges in India, and on that account 

 the natives call it simply Sij, while they give specific names to 

 the less common kinds. Thus the Ligularia is called Pangc/i 

 Sij or Five-sided Euphorbia or Mansa Sij, because it is dedicated 

 to Mansa, the deity presiding over serpents ; and thus the E. an- 

 tiquorum is called Nara Sij. Dr. Roxburgh, I believe, conti- 

 nued all his days to call {Hort. Beng. 36.) the Ela Calli by the 

 name E. neriifolia, while he gave the name E. Ligularia to the 

 plant so called by Rumphius, considering it a new species ; al- 

 though, as I have said before, it is pretty certainly the E. nerii- 

 folia of Linnaeus and his successors. In order to avoid ambi- 

 guity, as the term 'Neriifolia has been employed for a species so 

 ill-defined, it perhaps should be altogether abandoned ; espe- 

 cially as it is not happily chosen for either species ; and then, 

 leaving the excellent name Ligularia with the species to which 

 it has been given by Rumphius, and borrowing from the Brah- 

 mans of Malabar, we may take Nivulia for the Ela Calli ; and 

 thus we shall have the two species properly discriminated. 



1. Euphorbia Ligularia (seminuda, aculeis stipularibus gemina- 



tis, angulis ramorum quinis spiralibus, foliis oblongis). 



Hort. Beng. 36. 

 Euphorbia Neriifolia. Hort. KezoAi. 157. Willd.Sp. PI. ii.885. 



Enc.Meth.ii. 415; etBurm. Fl.Ind. 111. exclus.var.syn. 

 Ligularia. Herb. Amh. iv. 88. ^.40. ;:t 



Tithymalus aizoides, arborescens, spinosus, caule angulari 



Neriifolio Commelini apud Burnt. Thes. Zeyl. 96. 

 Euphorbium angulosum, foliis Nerii latioribus Boerhaavii 



apud Burm. I. c. 

 Pangch Sij vel Mansa Sij Bengalensium. 

 Habitat in sylvis et ad templa Bengalae orientalis. 



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