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proposed a specific difference, yet I find that the greater 

 number of specimens collected in Nepal in 1819, and sent 

 by Dr. Wallich to Sir Joseph Banks in the following year, 

 have the deeply divided calyx with very acute and narrow 

 segments characteristic of L. intermedia, while among the 

 specimens from Martaban, in Dr. Wallich's Indian Her- 

 barium, in the Museum of the Linnean Society, both states 

 of calyx occur. But though I am not disposed to regard 

 these differences in calyx as of specific importance, it is 

 right to state that all the specimens which I have examined 

 from Java and Timor, as well as those from Jurreepanee in 

 the collection of Dr. Royle, agree in having the broader less 

 acute and shorter segments of calyx, as represented in Mr. 

 Bauer's figure, and also in that of Dr. Wallich. 



With respect to the generic name Loxotis here adopted, 

 it is that which I first gave in my manuscripts to the plant 

 now described. This, however, I many years ago changed 

 to Antonia, in compliance with the request of my lamented 

 friend and fellow-traveller Mr. Ferdinand Bauer, to whom 

 I was indebted for the figure here published. But as that 

 name, by which it was introduced into a celebrated flower 

 piece, painted in honour of the late Baron Jacquin at 

 Vienna, and well known to the botanists of that capital, was 

 never otherwise made public, and as Antonia of Pohl since 

 published in his work on the " Plants of Brazil (vol. ii, p. 13, 

 tab. 109)" is sufficiently established as a genus, I have been 

 obliged to recur to my original name, under which indeed 

 it has already appeared in Mr. Bentham's "Essay on 

 Scrophularinse Indicse." The name Loxotis, however, may 

 now be objected to from its too close resemblance in sound 

 and identity of meaning, to Loxonia, another genus of the 

 same family, more recently established by Dr. Jack ; and 

 the specific name obliqua is hardly less exceptionable, being 

 merely a translation of that of the genus. This difficulty 

 would be easily removed were it absolutely certain that 

 Rldnchoghssvm of Dr. Blume was identical with Loxotis; 

 but from some of the characters ascribed to it I am not 

 entirely satisfied that such is the case ; and, indeed, as it is 

 arranged by its author with Rhinanthea, had I not re- 



