HORTUS MALABARICUS. 



VOL. X. 



Tab. 1. Hibiscus hirtus of Lin. Poiret. H. phoeniceus. Roxb. (not 

 Lin.) H. rosa malabaricus. Bot. Reg. 



Linnaeus has introduced much confusion in the Synonomy by quoting this 

 figure for Pentapetes phoenicea instead of Hibiscus hirtus, and it is encreased 

 in the Supplementum Plantarum, where the American H. phceniceus of Jacquin 

 is confounded with H. hirtus. The H. phceniceus of Roxburgh, for which he 

 has quoted the present figures, is H. hirtus; and by Wight and Arnott it is 

 inadvertently quoted both for H. hirtus and for Pentapetes phoenicea. 



2. Urena sinuata. Lin. 



Quoted by Burman for the Linnean U. lobata. 



3. Loranthus elasticus. Lam. Scurrula elastica. G. Don. 



4. Loranthus longifloru&. Lam. Scurrula Ion giflora. G.Don. 

 Roxburgh has not quoted this figure, but it is his L. bicolor. 



5. Loranthus Kanneli. W.fyA. 



Wight and Arnott have confirmed the suggestion of Schultes that it is distinct 

 from L.ylobosus (i. e. Elytrant he globosa of G. Don), for which it has been 

 quoted by Roxburgh and De Candolle, and all our knowledge of the species 

 is derived from Rheede ; by Dennstedt it is misquoted for the L. Buddleioides 

 of Lamarck. 



6. Limnophila gratissima. Blume. ? Ambulia aromatica. Lam. 



Gmelin has not quoted the Hortus Malabaricus, but his Ambulia monosperma, as 

 well as Lamarck's A. aromatica, appear to have been derived from this figure, 

 and though Manya~nari is Rheede 's name, yet in his Description he says that 

 the plant is called Ambuli by the Bramins. 



7. Elephantopus scaber. Lin. 



It is sufficiently shewn by the first two lines of Rheede's Description, that this 

 plant is the type of the genus Elephantopus, and it has been generally referred 

 to by other authors as well as Linnaeus for E. scaber; but, from his other 

 Synonyms and description in the Hortus Cliflbrtianus, it is probable that the 

 plant which he described may have been the E, carolinianus, or some other 

 American species. 



8. Plumbago zeylanica. Lin. 



