_BUCHANAN’S AVAN PLANTS 281 
the page to each, as in Index Kewensis and elsewhere they are often 
cited from the second edition of the work. I have also added, for 
convenience of a ge pe oe number of the corresponding figure 
in the collection of drawings. With the exception of the first 
Species, all the plants are or first described :— 
oe gender Forst. (p. 478; pl. 2) = Clinogyne dicho- 
oma 
Gadatiia coronaria (p. 474 8). 
Pontederia dilatata (p. 175 ; a 52) = Monochoria hastefolia 
Presl. 
Bauhinia diphylla (p. 476 ; = 18). 
Sonneratia apetala (p. ATT 0). : 
drum moschatum (p. "178 ; pl. 84) = Dendrobium mos- 
hatum 
Agyneja coccinea (p.479; = pe = Phyllanthus coccineus M. Arg. 
Heritiera Fomes (p. 480; 44), 
name Dendrobium bandits adopted in Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 
744 for Buchanan’s plant and in Index Kewensis for D. moschatum 
Wall., must give plac e to D. moschatum Sw., which Mr. Jackson 
Symes’s book. It would appear, however, vast Nhe gave the 
same specific name, ‘thinking the plant to be at any rate, 
there is no reference to Buchanan’s plant in his pieine description. 
The nomenclature stands : 
DrEnpRo arum Sw. in Schrader Neues Journal fiir die 
Aver i, OL (1808) ; - Wall. in D. Don Fl. Nepal. 84 (1825) ; 
Index Kewensis, 7380. 
D. Calceolaria Hook.* Exot. FI. iii. t. oe fannes Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. v. 744; Index Kewensis 
nee 8 drawing has dark oran ppc rs resembling those 
would appear that Hooker was ght in connidariog this and D. 
identical with H. littoralis, and this name appears in the Herbarium 
and on the drawing of the fruit. The differentiation was due to 
Dryander, who adds to the synonym H. littor alis quoted in the MS., 
“‘ diversa species.’ 
It would probably be worth the while of some botanist well 
acquainted with Indian plants to go through this collection—the 
earliest made by Buchanan—with a view to the identification of 
the nies. as it is — that the geographical range of some would 
* The e is cited as of “ Sasiy’ s MSS.,” but it is stated sebadddentty 
that ste called it Cymbidium moschatum. 
‘‘ Lignum fomes optimus.” 
