ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. 2$$ 



Linn.*; us, through mere inadvertence, has con- 

 founded with the Scarlet Pentapetes, described in the 

 fifty-sixth plate of the same volume. I cannot refrain 

 from adding, that no Indian god was ever named 

 Ixora ; and that Is'wara, which is indeed a title of 

 Siva, would be a very improper appellation of a 

 plant which has already a classical name. 



14. Carnica'ra : 



S y N . Drumotpala , Perivyddha. 

 V u l g . Cdncra'i Cafhachampd. 

 Linn. Indian Pavetta. 



It is wonderful that the Pandits of this province, 

 both priests and physicians, are unable to bring me the 

 flower which Ca'lida'sa mentions by the name of 

 Canuaira, and celebrates as a flame of the woods. 

 The lovely Pavetta, which botanists have sufficiently 

 described, is called by the Bengal peasants diner a y 

 whioh I should conclude to be a corruption of the 

 Sanscrit word, if a comment on the jAmaracbsh had 

 not exhibited the vulgar name Cat'ha-cliampa; which 

 raises a doubt, and almost inclines me to believe that 

 the Carnicara is one of the many flowers which the 

 natives of this country improperly called wild Cham- 

 pacs. 



15. Ma'shanpari'; 



Vulg. Masandari in Bengal \ and Bast r a in Hindustan, 

 Linn. American Callicarpus; yet a native of 



Java ? 

 Cal. Perianth one-leaved, four-parted; Divisions 



pointed, erect. 



Cor. 



