60 HORT. MAL. VOL. XI. 



has repeated an observation of Commelines, ' Experientia enim nos docuit, 

 quam plurimas ludise orientalis Plantas etiam in America reperiri/ and this 

 opinion has been often acted on without sufficient care. It is a curious coin- 

 cidence that Pistia has been accidentally omitted in the Index to the Species 

 Plantarum, and that the genus is wholly unnoticed by Steudel. 



Tab. 33. Trapa bispinosa. Roxb. 



Linnaeus, Willdenow, and Lamarck have quoted this figure for the European 

 T. natans, and it is more nearly allied to T. bicornis of the Supplementum 

 Plantarum. The description of the latter has been obviously taken from a 

 plant mentioned in Osbeck's Voyages, which he gathered in China, and the 

 reference to Plumier is copied from a quotation of Osbeck's, and is probably 

 erroneous. 



34. Phrynium capitatum. Willd. Phyllodes placentaria. Lour. 



Pontaderia ovata. Lin. 



By the younger Linnaeus this figure has been referred to for Myrosma cann&folia, 

 by other authors for Maranta attovia, and by Gmelin for both of these, and for 

 Potitaderia ovata also ! 



35. Geodorum dilatatum. Lindley. Malaxis cernua. Willd. 



Limodorum dcnsiflorum. Lam. Limodorum nutans. 

 Roxb. Cistella cernua. Blume. 



36. Wolfia spectabilis. Denn. 



I have not met with any reference besides Dennstedt's to this figure, and it may 

 probably belong to the Scltamineae. 



37. Pardanthus Chinensis. Blume. Moraea Chinensis. Willd. 



Ixia Chinensis. Lin. 



38. Crinum defixum. Ker. C. asiaticum Var. Burman. 



Amaryllis vivipara. Lam. Bulbine asiatica. Gcert. 



Though Linnaeus in the Mantissa has added this figure to the synonyms of 

 C. asiatica, yet the Radix toxicaria of Rumphius, which is quoted in the 

 Species Plantarum, is more properly the Linnean species. Roxburgh has 

 however retained the name of C. asiatica for the present plant, and given that 

 of C. toxicaria to the latter. 



39. Crinum latifolium. Lin. Amaryllis latifolia. Lam. 



40. Pancratium verecundum. Ker. 



Misquoted by Linnaeus, and in the Encyclopedic Methodique for P. zeylanicum, 

 and the figure answers better to Ker's description in the Transactions of the 

 Horticultural Society, but has the segments of the corol more ovate than is 

 usual in P. verecundum. By Steudel it is erroneously said that P. verecundum 

 and the Linnean P. maritimum are the same. 



41. Kaempferia Galanga. Lin. Alpinia sessilis. Retz. 



42. Sanseviera lanuginosa~ Willd.. Salmia ebracteata. Cav. 



Aletris Zeylanica Var. Lam. 



Quoted with a mark of doubt by Linnaeus for Aletris hyacinthoides, and by Rox- 

 burgh for Sanseviera zeylanica, which is another name for the same species ; 

 nor has the claim of S. lanuginosa to be placed separate been at all satisfac- 

 torily established. 



