300 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Comwen^ar^ 



is evident, that the quotation from Burman should be excluded 

 from the Ludwigia of the Flora Zeylanica. 



,' This Ludzmgia of the Flora Zeylanica in the Flora Indica (37.) 

 of the younger Burman, together with the Carambu, both of 

 which have alternate leaves and four petals, and the plant of the 

 elder Burman, which has five petals, became the Ludwigia per- 

 ennis foliis oppositis ! and, what is still worse, the same Carambu 

 and plant of Burman, with the plant of Hermann, quoted as 

 above mentioned by Plukenet, which is no doubt the Carambu^ 

 is quoted for the Jussieua suffruticosa, while it is an annual 

 plant ! Such inaccuracies, copied probably from the first edition 

 of the Species Plantarum, increase very much the suspicion, that 

 it was Linnaeus, and not the elder Burman, that had fallen into 

 the error respecting the Kikirinda and Dyanilla. 



Willdenow (Sp. PL ii. 577-), perceiving the error of quoting 

 the Carambu for two plants, gives it to the Jussieua suffruticosa, 

 although I strongly suspect, that for this he ought to have quoted 

 the Cattu Carambu, next to be noticed, and which the younger 

 Burman called Jussieua suffruticosa fi {Fl. Ind. 103.), which has 

 4 petals and 8 stamina. Willdenow's meaning, however, con- 

 cerning the Jussieua suffruticosa is very diflScult to ascertain, as 

 he quotes for it Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 41., in which three plants are 

 represented, one being the Lycopodium Phlegmaria, and the other 

 two seem to be Orchidea. The Ludwigia of the Flora Zeylanica, 

 which has alternate leaves, and which, from the description, is 

 certainly the Carambu, Willdenow calls Ludwigia oppositifolia, 

 by which he no doubt means the L. perennis of Linnaeus and 

 Burman. 



M. Lamarck quotes the Carambu, and the plant of Hermann, 



cited by Plukenet as above mentioned, and no doubt the same 



with the Carambu, for his Jussicea caryophyllaa (Enc. Meth. iii. 



331.). He probably was unable in his dried specimen to observe 



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