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Tab. 49. Ludwigia diffusa. Hamilton. Jussiaea caryophyllaea. Lam. 



Quoted in the Species Plantarum both for Ludwigia perennis and for Jussitea 

 suffruticosa; but, in the Mantissa, Linnaeus has cancelled the reference to the 

 former, and it is a very uncertain species. Dr. Hamilton's definition of his 

 L. diffusa is not happily expressed ' capsulis subpedunculatis folio dimidio 

 brevioribus ;' and, from a comparison of authentic specimens, I much doubt 

 whether it is more at most than a variety of Roxburgh's L.parviflora. By 

 Sir J. E. Smith this figure is erroneously quoted for the American Jussicca erecta. 



30. Jussiaea suffruticosa of Lin. Surman. J. villosa. Lam. J. ex- 



altata. Roxb> 



As is above remarked, the Carambu, t. 49, is quoted in the Sp. Plant, both 

 for Ludwigia perennis and for J. suffruticosa, and by his erroneous reference to 

 Rumphius for the latter species in the Syst. Nat., Linnaeus has encreased the 

 confusion. The younger Burman, in the Flora Indica, has referred to this, 

 tab. 50, as a variety of/, suffruticosa, and in his Father's Index it was subse- 

 quently quoted for the alpha of that species, in which arrangement he has been 

 followed by Sir J. E. Smith and Dr. Hamilton. 



51. Jussiaea repens. Lin. 



52. Cassia Sophera. Lin. Senna Sophera. Roxb. Chamaefis- 



tula Sophera. G. Don. 



53. Cassia Tora of Lin. Var. W.fyA. C.Tagera. Lam. fy DC. 



(not Lin.) 



Linnaeus, with a query, has quoted this figure, and used Rheede's nzmc(Taycra) 

 for a very different species of Cassia, and the Linnean name has therefore 

 been changed from C. Tagera to C. ciliaris. Of Lamarck's C. Tagera and of 

 C.ciliaris, all our knowledge appears to have been derived in the former case 

 from Rheede, and in the other from a short description in the Species Plan- 

 tarum ; and Drs. Wight and Arnott, from an examination of the specimen 

 of C. Tagera, in the Linnean Herbaricum, suspect that the latter may be 

 the C. tenella of De Candolle. -See Prodromus's Floras Peninsulae Indiae 

 Orientalis, p. 291. 



54. ") Tabernaemontana coronaria. Roxb. T. divaricata. R. 8f S. 

 55. > Nerium coronarium. Willd, Nyctanthes acuminata. Bur- 

 } man. 



It has been ascertained by Mr. Brown that this is the Linnean N. divaricatum, 

 and ita mark for a biennial in the Species Plantarum must therefore be erro- 

 neous. In Don's Dictionary, this t. 54 is quoted both for T, coronaria and for 

 Wrightla Rothii. 



5G. Capsicum frutescens of Lin. R. 8f S. 



Misquoted by Burman for C. annuum, and I am ignorant of Dcnnstedt's mean- 

 ing in calling it C. Sinense of Linnaeus. This is certainly C. frutescens of the 

 Hortus Cliftbrtianus, p. 60, but Linnaeus subsequently omitted the reference 

 to Rheede in the Species Plantarum, which may have thrown some doubt 

 on his intentions. 



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