52 HORT. MAL. VOL. X. 



Tab. 32. Hedyotis auricularia. Lin. 



Quoted by Lamarck for //. hirsuta, i. e. Oldenlandia hirsuta of Liunaeus's Supple- 

 mentum Plantarum, and according to Wight and Arnott it is not distinct from 

 //. aujicularia, 



33. Euphorbia foliata. Ham. MS. 



Commeline's error in taking this figure for a Veronica was detected by Plukenet, 

 who referred it to Tithymalus. 



34. Hemidesmus indicus. Wight. Asclepias pseudosarsa. Roxb. 



Misquoted for the Linnean Periploca tenuifolia by Barman, which error Linnaeus 

 has adopted in his Mantissa, and by Lamarck and some others for Ceropegia 

 tenuifolia, and it seems as if Roxburgh had been led by these errors to con- 

 sider the Microloma lineare of R. Brown and this Hemidesmus to be the same 

 species. 



35. Hedyotis herbacea of Lin. Smith. H. Burmanniana. W.SfA. 



Oldenlandia herbacea. D C. 



Sir J. E. Smith, Willdenow, and De Candolle, have taken this to be the Linnean 

 H. herbacea, and it answers very nearly to the description in the Flora 

 Zeylanica. It is quoted by Burman for a Java plant, with the name of Olden- 

 landia tenuifolia, and Sir J. E. Smith considered it to be the same species. 



36. Portulaca oleracea of Lin. 



Commeline considered this to be the common Purslane, which is said by Dr. 

 Hamilton to grow plentiful in India, especially in sandy places near the sea. 

 Dr. Hamilton has found another species, the P. lavis of his Manuscript, and 

 has described it to be not unlike this figure. 



37. Gomphrena globosa. Lin. Mant. 



38. Celosia argentea of Lin. Var. Roxb. 



Quoted by Linnaeus and most other authors for C. margaritacea, which is a West 

 Indian species, and according to Roxburgh it is a variety of C. argentea, which 

 is common in the corn fields of India. He says, ' Plants from the same seed 

 have leaves of very various breadth, and are as often with as without the 

 falcate stipules.' 



39. Celosia argentea. Lin. 



Foiret has quoted tab. 38 for C, argentea, and this figure for a variety ' foliis 

 sublinearibus.' 



40. Wollastonia biflora. DC. Wedelia biflora. Wight. 



Verbesina biflora. Lin. 



41. EcliptaprostrataofLin.Mant. Roxb. Verbesina prostrata 



Var. Burman. 



Linnaeus has arranged this species as a Verbesina in the Species Plantarum, as 

 a Cotula in the Systema Naturae, and as an Eclipta in the Mantissa. Rox- 

 burgh says that Rheede's figure is ' tolerable for a young luxuriant plant,' 

 and an observation of his has misled Dr. Wight to confound the American 

 E. erecta with this species. Dennstedt, on slight grounds, has suggested 

 that it may be the Verbesina dichotoma of Willdenow. 



42. Wedelia calendulacea. D C. Verbesina calendulacea of 



Lin. Burman. 



