on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 297 



Frutex pedes duos altus, diffusus, ramosissimus. Rami alterni, 

 pilosi, tetragoni, laterum duobus concavis, duobiis striatis. 

 Folia opposita, subsessilia, ovalia, integerrima, spina mucro- 

 nata, supra scabra, subtus pilosa, internodiis breviora, sti- 

 pulis nuda. Flores axillares, alterni, solitarii, folio multo • 

 ties longiores, nunc sessiles, tunc pedunculo brevi insi- 

 dentes, rubri, ad basin bracteati spinis duabus rectis diver- 

 gentibus pilosis. Calycis quadripartiti laciniae duae exte- 

 riores ellipticae, venosa?, integerrimai ; interiores rainimae. 

 CorollcB tubus calyce multo longior, rectiusculus : limbus 

 patens, subaequalis, quinquepartitus, laciniis quatuor ob- 

 ovatis, quinta acuta minore. Filamenta e tubi medio quin- 

 que, quorum tria brevissima antheris sterilibus ; duo elon- 

 gata antheris incumbentibus, sagittatis. Germen ovatum, 

 superum. Stylus filiformis, staminibus longior. Stigma 

 acutum, aduncum. Capsula elliptica, tetragona, compressa, 

 calyce longior, bivalvis. Valvula naviculares, medio septi- 

 ferae. Semina solitaria, villosa, compressa. 



Pain A Schulli, p. 93. /. 48. 



Commeline compares this to the Rtiscus sylvestris, an old 

 name for what is now called Ilex aquifolium ; and the resem- 

 blance is so striking, especially in the living plant, that I do not 

 wonder at Plukenet calling it Aquifolia facie arbor malabarica, , 

 Acanthii jiore albo cucullato {Aim. 38. ; Phyt. t. 26l.f. 4.) ; and 

 although it is not a tree but a small bush, and the flowers, 

 so far as I have seen, are always blue, as Rheede describes, 

 yet there can be no doubt of the plant's being the same ; 

 and Plukenet's comparison of its form to the Acanthus is quite 

 correct. 



Although not so fortunately classed as by Plukenet, there can 

 be no doubt also, that the Paina Schulli is the Eryngium indicum, 



aqiiaticum. 



