STALAGMITIS CAMBOGIOIDES, AND LAURUS CASSIA. 331 
append in his Flora Medica the name Stalagmitis to our 
(Wight and Arnott’s) character of Xanthochymus, as being the 
original and legitimate name of the genus; but, apparently 
without due consideration ; because, forgetting the rights of 
priority in the case of Cambogia Gutta of Linnzeus, he has fol- 
lowed Graham in quoting that name, without any doubt as to 
the identity of the plants, as a synonym for the very modern 
... Hebradendron Cambogioides of Graham. Upon what grounds 
this degree of favour is to be shown to Hebradendron, and 
_ Withheld from Xanthochymus, I am quite unable to discover 
. 9r even to conjecture: that Dr Graham should have inad- 
. Yertently committed such an oversight is not so much to be 
wondered at, writing as he did under*the excitement of 
having discovered the long sought Gamboge plant; but that 
D Dr Lindley should have implicitly followed him is to me 
‘Surprising, 
_ In my own and in the name of all working botanists, who 
= are daily called upon to unravel the mazes of involved and 
_ Perplexed generic appellations, I enter my protest against 
. any unnecessary changes in a science already overburthened 
With them, and one too which must in its very nature become 
More and more so every day. To have assigned the name 
—. 9f Hebradendron Cambogioides to the very plant which Lin- 
Meus called Cambogia Gutta, and then to quote the original 
Name as a synonym of the new one, without doubt or ques- 
tion as to the identity of the plants, 1 hold to be such an un- 
 Pécessary change, and therefore consider it a duty to express - 
. my sentiments regarding it; the more so, as I do not deem 
the genus itself a tenable one. To its validity, or the reverse, 
however, I should not have thought it necessary thus to ad- 
Vert, if the old name had been retained; what I object to is 
the inconsistency of setting up an inadequately defined genus 
Without a single genuine species to support it, for such I main- 
tain Stalagmitis to be, and putting down a supposed good one, 
resting on the very same foundation on which its successor is 
raised, the same species being the basis of both. In the case - 
_ of Stalagmitis, 1 demur. to the course pursued, on the ground —— 
