299 
‘Leguminum genera,’ Tournefort* also made an attempt to 
ascertain the origin of the remarkable wood when, during the 
eighties of the seventeenth century at Cadiz, he inquired for it and 
was given a dried branch of a plant which he described but could 
not classify. The description, however, shows clearly that he was 
misled, and it was so much at variance with Hernandez’ account 
that no further notice was taken of it. More serious, however, was 
a mistaken suggestion made by Plukenet in his Almagesta,t as it 
was the origin of an erroneous identification which found its way 
into many books, even of our own day. Speaking of Moringa 
Lentisci folio (that is our Moringa pterygosperma, the Horse-radish 
tree of India) he adds: “ Coatlis (quam alii Tlapolez atlin, s, 
Medicinam sanguinis coccineam vocant) foliis Ciceris, vel Rutaceis ; 
cujus lignum est Lignum N ephriticum Hernandez, apud. Reece. 
lib. 4. c. 25. de Laet.{ Ind. Occid. lib. 5, earp. 3. Kircher. in ina 
Morinya, which he well knew came from Ceylon, is difficult to 
understand. However that may be, his suggestion of affinity was 
turned into a statement of actual identity in the third edition of 
widely accepted although Murray§ pointed out in 1776 that 
Linnaeus’ identification must be wrong. By this time the wood 
i : i his 
resinous and a gummose substance, but chiefly in ee “a si 
was the first and the last attempt in this direction, a 
Europe is concerned. 
: pournefort, Materia Medica, Ed, angl. (1708), p. 119. 
ukenet, Almag. Bot., p. 253. ae ET aera 
is quotation * giiite out of place. De Laet, aT vc Segerset salah ra 
ing ien, lib. v. cap. 3 (p. 173), speaks of a Copal ca le, and Cuitla- 
Copalquahuit! is the Nauatl word for ee cise ni dae 
Copalli, if not the same, stands for some other resin, as the 
Pr seiaae resins and gums. - jas 
I Githeee tek pee Diss. de Ligno st Colubrino et 
mine Santonico, Resp. Tal. Beer Wolff, Franct. Viadr. pp. 4, 5. 
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