HORTUS MALABARICUS 



VOL. V. 



Tab. 1. Vitexalata. Roxb. 



Quoted by Sir J. E. Smith for V. altissimus of the Supplementum Plantarum, 

 and, as he says that the footstalks of that species are sometime winged, it is 

 probably nothing more than a variety, though Roxburgh has placed them 

 separate. Linnaeus has defined V. altissimus ' foliis integerimis ;' and of the 

 leaves of this plant Rheede only says ' nonnumqr.am in ambitu crenata.' It is 

 quoted with a query by Dennstedt for the V.pubescens of Vahl. 



2. Vitex latifolia. Lam. 



3. Parilia raalabarica. Denn. 



From Dr. Hamilton's remarks in Lin. Trans, xvii. p. 237, it may be inferred 

 that he considered this to be the female of some dioecious tree allied to 

 Oka dioica, but the fruit is different ; and, as was suggested to me by Pro- 

 fessor Don, it is more likely to be a Premna. I apprehend that the genus 

 Parilia has been wholly founded on Rheede's description. 



4. Cyminosma pedunculata. W. fy A. 



Drs. Wight and Arnott, whose opinions are entitled to great deference, say 

 that no dependance is lo be placed on the shape of the fruit, and that this and 

 table 15 are the same species. It is misquoted by Burman for a variety of 

 his Croton racemosum. 



5. Usteria racemosa. Denn. 



Quoted by Burman for a variety of his Acalypha spicijlora; and as it cannot be 

 an Usteria either of Cavanilles or Willdeoow, I suppose that Dennstedt must 

 have coined a third genus, with the same name from this description of 

 Rheede's. Poiret suspected that it is allied to Ceanothus ; and, on the other 

 hand, Dr. Hamilton considered it to be one of the Caprifoliacese, and to be at 

 the least nearly allied to the genus Schoepfia. Professor Don, however, 

 thinks that what the Doctor considered to be a calyx is nothing more than the 

 involvucre a little exaggerated, and that it may belong to Acalypha. 



6. Hosea malabarica. Denn. 



Dr. Hamilton has suggested that this may be a species of Tetracera j and, on 

 the contrary, Professor Don thinks that it is an Antidesma, but Rheede's 

 description as well as figure differs more from both these genera than can be 

 fairly attributed to accident or inadvertence. 



7. Croton castaneifolium. Burman. Schinza inconspicua. 



Denn. 



The Linnean C. castaneifolium is quite different, and may probably be the Her- 

 mesia castaneifolia of Humboldt and Bonpland. 



