292 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



2. Ruellia? vel Hygrophila ohovata. Hort. Beng. 46. 



Ruellia difFormis. Willd. Sp. Pi. iii. 374? Enc. Meth. vi. 



348? 

 Nir Schulli. Hort. Mai. ii. 89- t. 46. 

 Habitat in Tripura australe. 



Flares albidi labio inferiore purpureo. Calyx pubescens, cilia- 

 tus. Antherarum loculi paralleli lineares. Semina etiam 

 immatura Integra. 



" Capsula rotundae, superne aculeatae ac pungentes instar spina- 

 rum, in longum sex striis sulcatae." H. M. 



Cara Schulli, p. 91-^^. 47. 



In comparing this to a Capparis, Commeline is no less unfor- 

 tunate than with the two preceding species of Schulli ; yet Plu- 

 kenet followed him,, calling it Capparis forma, frutex spinosus 

 malabaricus {Aim. 80.). This accordingly led the elder Burman 

 into the gross error of quoting the Cara Schulli for his Capparis 

 spinosa foliis oblongis {Thes. Zeyl. 53.), which is not however the 

 plant which Plukenet considered the same with the Cara Schulli, 

 but the Capparis indica spinosa angustiore salicis folio {Mant. 36.), 

 and this is the Capparis zeylanica of Linnaeus {Fl. Zeyl. 210.). 



Linnaeus therefore in the Flora Zeylanica does not at all quote 

 the Ca7'a Schulli. In the Species Plantarum he afterwards joined 

 it with an American plant, spinis axillaribus soUtariis oppositis, to 

 form the Barleria buxifolia, which is accordingly said to belong 

 to both the Indies {Willd. Sp. PL iii. 377.)- M. Lamarck indeed 

 quotes the Cara Schulli for the Barleria buxifolia {Enc. Meth. i. 

 380.), and makes no mention of this plant growing in the West 

 Indies ; but Linnaeus, from the nature of the specific character, 

 probably saw only the West Indian plant; and M. Lamarck 

 himself, in the very same page, refers the Cara Schulli to the 



Barleria 



