63 
But De Candolle for the first time recognised that it really was 
a distinct species and gave it the name of (. brevispina and this 
name, which was adopted by Wight and Arnott and other 
Hook. l.c. Pl. t. 126 
Ind: i. 174. 
C. zeylanica, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2 (1763) 720; DC. Prodr. i. 
247; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 567. ©. horrida, Linn. f. Suppl. 264; 
Wight & Arn. Prodr. i. 26; Wight lc. t. 178. 
_Vioracrar.—lonidium suffruticosum, Ging. . Two forms of 
this variable plant occur in the Hermann Herbarium, the bushy 
pubescent one was called by Linnaeus Viola suffruticosa, the laxer 
and more glabrous specimens V. enneasperma, 
celata, Wight & Arn. Prodr. 1. 38 (not of Linn.) 
Polygala chinensis, L.. There can be no doubt that the 
numerous forms usually collected under this name are rightly 
associated with the specimens so named in Linnaeus’s herbarium. 
But the two erect simple plants which constitute his type have 
an abnormal appearance, owing apparently to the effect of some 
gall. The absence of a bearded crest, as described by Linnaeus, 
is probably due tc the same cause. 
Nat. Hist. ser. 1, iii. 91.—P. corymbosa, Lam. var. aurea, Wight 
Til. ii.'44 t. 110; F.B.1. i. °245; Cooke, I'l. Bombay, i. 66. 
The distinct appearance of this species has led authors to make 
strenuous efforts to find characters definite enough to separate 
it practically from the innumerable other forms of this variable 
group. There is an old. no n ene of the Kew herbarium 
ae representing it, and probably from Sir Joseph Hooker to 
a ce 
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plant from P.‘spadicea or P. corymbosa?’’ Such characters 
characters enumerated in the Key of this genus in the Flora of 
adras are sufficient to distinguish it in the field as a well- 
marked species. sie 
Etatiwacrar.—Bergia capensis, Linn. Following the Index 
Kewensis and Cooke’s Flora of Bombay (i. 74) the above name 
Which was altered by Willdenow to B. verticillata on the ground 
that the adjective capensis was inappropriate to a plant not 
native at the Cape is now, in accordance with the International 
-Tules of botanical nomenclature, restored. 
