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or at least formed part of the herbarium accumulated by that 
unfortunate traveller. Lippi accompaniec enoir Duroule 
uring ae Nong at! of the latter to the Court of Abyssinia in 
1704-5. r landing at Alexandria Lippi made various ex- 
cursions in bute Egypt before he set out on the Abyssinian 
journey, in the course of which he was murdered in 17 4. 
known that he was able to visit Rosetta, Cairo, and Assiout, and 
although we are not told that he visited Suez, we are aware 
that if he did make that particular excursion, ot if he sent a 
collector there, he could hardly have failed to find, in the neigh- 
beurhood of that town, the species attributed to ae by Isnard. 
Some twenty years later yet another species of the genus was 
collected in India by Garcin, then a surgeon in the service of 
the Netherlands East India Company. On 11th August, 1722, 
aa left Batavia in a bps boun tir Surat. Garcin ‘landed 
Saetih wrote :—‘ La Saivall ou je me * péncontiay dans Suratte 
n’estoit point gies des plantes parceque la Secherease qui 
An dea getirg roit brulé toute la Verdure.’ But further on he 
made a second voyage to Surat, noid was able to oe longer there. 
_ Among the specimens he then collected was one which he termed 
Ricinoides malabarica a A specimen of this species 
was either given or lent urmann, who figured it as a Croton 
in 1768 (Flor. Ind. t. 63, fig. 1). In the same work ; 
fig. 1) Burmann figured, also as a Croton, another specimen of 
the same species, collected by Garcin in Java. Neither of these 
specimens is to be found now in the Burmann herbarium, a 
their whereabouts, if they still exist, cannot be traced. 
species, which is that now known as ‘Chrozophora Rottleri, A. 
Juss., will be dealt with more fully when Burmann’s drawings 
of these two specimens are discussed. 
History OF THE SPECIES UNDER CROTON. 
When Linnaeus published Croton tinctorium in 1753 (Sp. Pl. 
p. 1004) he possessed only one specimen of this species. That 
specimen, which came from BLOne pert is still in his _her- 
er cite the spevies collected by Gundel in Melos or the species 
from the Red Sea littoral attributed by Isnard to Lippi, or the 
species from India collected by Garcin. In 1774, however, 
