* on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 305 



therefore, that we may safely place the following synonyma to 

 the Nir Carambu. 



Jussiaa repens. Burm. Ind. 103. Ewe. Meth. iii. 330. 

 Jussieua repens. Willd. Sp. PL ii. 574. (exclusis synonymis 



Swartzii etBrownii), Hort. Beng. 33. 

 Jussiaea repens, floribus pentapetalis decandris, pedunculis folio 



longioribus. Linn. Fl. Zeyl. n. 169. 

 Lysimachiae species fructu caryophylloideo, Kikirindia zeylo- 



nensibus. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 146. (exclusis synonymis Sloani 



et Rumphii). 

 Lysimachia indica non papposa repens, flore pentapetalo, fructu 



caryophylloide. Commel. Malab. 164. Ed. ^vo. 

 Caryophyllus spurius malabaricus pentapetalos aquaticus repens. 



Raii Hist. 1510. 



PoNNAM Tagera scu Ponna Virem, p. \0\. fig. 52. 



Although Commeline mentions, that of the five species of Ta- 

 gera found in Malabar, two only are described by the authors of 

 the Hortus Malabaricus, yet this must only mean that they are 

 not described in this part of the work ; for the other three are to 

 be found, vi. t. 9- and 10. ; vi. t. 25. ; and ix. t. 30. ; and it 

 seems strange that Commeline should not have traced their 

 affinity to genera then well known. 



A plant very nearly allied to the Ponnam Tagera had been pre- 

 viously described under the name Sophera ; and Plukenet, think- 

 ing it the same, calls it Sena orientalis fruticosa Sophera dicta 

 {Aim. 342.) ; but joins it with a Mexican plant described by 

 Hernandez and Camerarius, that is probably different ; although 

 it must be confessed that the Cassia occidentalis of America would 

 seem to have a remarkably close resemblance to the Ponnam 



Tagera. 



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