302 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



punctato truncata, quadrilocularis, ad latera indeterminate 

 dehiscens, septis e medio laterum receptaculi centralis qua- 

 drangularis prodeuntibus. Semina plurima, parva, angulis 

 receptaculi insidentia, conferta. 



Under the name of Ludwigia perennisy no doubt given to it by 

 Linnaeus, I sent specimens of this plant from Ava, which were 

 given to Sir Joseph Banks ; and I have since presented others to 

 the Collection of the East India Company, by the name of Lud- 

 wigia diffusa, for the name perennis can scarcely be continued 

 to an annual plant. Whether or not Dr. Roxburgh meant to 

 describe it under the name of L. parvijlora, I cannot say. He 

 quotes no synonyma (Fl. Ind. i. 440.) ; and some points of his 

 description differ from mine ; yet in most circumstances they 

 agree, and a plant so common should have been known to him. 

 That he meant this plant, is more probable from the native 

 name Bern Luhunga, which is annexed to it in the Hortus Benga- 

 lensis (11.) ; for this name signifies the Wild Clove, from the very 

 obvious similitude of its fruit. 



Cattu Carambu, p. 97. Jig- 50. 



This plant is no doubt very nearly allied to the former ; but 

 the resemblance of its fruit to the clove is less striking than in 

 the Carambu, so that Commeline is still less happy in calling it a 

 Caryophyllus. 



Linnaeus {Fl. Zeyl. 170.) joined this with an American plant, 

 which he called Jussiaa erecta florihus tetrape talis octandris sessi- 

 libus, and which had become common in European gardens ; but 

 the name is now confined to the American plant, from which 

 the Cattu Carambu is acknowledged to be different. 



The younger Burman (FL Ind. 103.) quotes the Cattu Carambu 

 for his Jussiaa suffruticosa /3, although it would appear that the 



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