gjO CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



Smilax Zeylanica of Tropical Eastern Asia. Called in the environs of Bombay "gootee wail" 

 (Graham), in Burmah "ku-ku" (Mason) ; and among the natives as early perhaps as this year sub- 

 stituted for sarsaparilla : —observed by Rheede vii. pi. 31 in Malabar; by Graham, in both " Deccan 

 and Concans;" by Roxburgh, in Eastern Hindustan; by Mason v. 501, in "jungles" in Burmah, 

 "used by the natives as a medecine, to supply the place of a species of sarsaparilla, whose dried 

 roots are sold in the bazars;" the "china Amboinensis " of Rumphius v. pi. 161 is also referred 

 here by writers. 



"1637, April" (Hazard coll. i. 421, and Holmes), proclamation by king Charles, prohibiting 

 emigration', unless under a certificate of having " taken the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, and 

 conformed to the discipline of the Church of England." 



"In this year" (Spreng., and Winckl.), Wilhelra Piso, in an Expedition under Maurice of 

 Nassau, arriving in Brazil, meeting with Costus spieatus 214, Tk ilia geniculata 224, Piper caudatum 

 197, P. peiiatitm 197, P. rugosum 216, Xyris Americana 238, Cyperus Surinainaisis 238, Kyllinga 

 odorat.i 231, Dichromena ciliata 238, Spermacoce limfolia 199, Cailicocea Mntisii 231, Physalis 

 pubescens 223, Solatium Bahamease 182, 5\ paniculatiim 181,6". imnrocarpon 210, Sabicea cinerea 

 184, Plumbago scandals 200, Genipa Americana 13S, Atropa arborescens 224, Plriloxerus verinicu- 

 lar/'s 243, Hydrocotyle umbcllala 260, Bromdia acan^a 293, B. humilis 192, B. bracteata 194, Paul- 

 linia pinnata 250, Gomphia jabotapita 166, " paionariba "' 185 Cassia longisiliqua, C. sericca 185, 

 Guarea trichilioides 170, Malpighia faginca 169, " caapongo " 243 Portulaca halimoides, P. pilosa 

 244, Psidium aromaticum 15, Plinia crocea 187, Cereus fl igelliformis 1S9, C. Royeni 189, C. triangu- 

 laris 190, Opuntia Curassavica 190, Pereskia portnlacifolia 191, Lecythis parviflora 137, "ianipaba" 

 138 Acioa dulcis, Nymphaea odorata 219, Apciha tibourbou 123, liignonia chrysantha 148, B. alba 

 164, B. orbiculala 165, Jacaranda Braziliensis 165, Tanaecium jaroba 173, "murucuia" 247 Passi- 

 florafilamcntosa, P. angiislifolia 247, P. maliformis 24S, Melochia pyramidata 222, Gustavia augusta 

 172, Gossypium vitifcdium 186, Geoffraea spinosa 174, Hcdysarum supinum 201, Vernonia scabra 

 176, Eupatoriuiu ivaefolium 217, E. odoratum 218, Aristolochia ringcns 260, "aninga" 220 Arum 

 Unfit latum, Caladium arborescens 220, C. bicolor 237, Janipha Loeflingii 179, Urtica baccifera 235, 

 Cnciimis an^uiiuts 262, C. angaria 263, Dioscorea sativa 255, " pindova " Canarium accuinanum, 

 Licualia spinosa 126, Carica spinosa 160, Morns? tincioria 163, Feuillea cordifolia 259, Cecropia 

 palmata 147, and Cissampelos caapcba 261, Cnidoscolus stimulosa 79 f. 2. — He was joined by 

 Marcgrafin the following year : the Expedition returned "in 1641 ; '' Marcgraf died "in 1644," and 

 the Hist. Nat. Bras, was published by Joan de Laet " in 1648 ; " Piso published a second edition 

 "in ifjjS," and Maurice died " in 1679 " 



I'ismia guttifera of Eastern Equatorial America. A bush about ten feet high, observed by Piso 

 and Marcgraf 96. f. 1, in Brazil, — and by Aublet ii. pi. 311 in Guayana : yielding with other species 

 a purgative gum-resin resembling gamboge, and imported into Europe under the name of American 

 gamboge.* 



Mimosa asperata of Equatorial Africa. Known to grow there both in the Eastern and Western 

 portion (fl. Nigr.), and probably by European colonists carried to Tropical America; observed by 

 Piso 203 in Brazil, and called " caaco " — (Spreng.) ; was thence introduced into Jamaica according 

 to Browne, and was seen by Macfadyen in gardens only ; continues on the continent from Venezuela 

 to Brazil (Benth,. and A. Dec). Clearly by European colonists, was carried to the Mauritius Islands, 

 observed under cultivation by Bojer. 



Mucuna mens of Tropical Atlantic shores. A woody-stemmed climbing bean, its pods covered 

 with stinging hairs called cowic/i, observed by Piso 307 in Brazil — (Spreng.); by Sloane i. 79, 

 Plumier, and Jacquin, in the West Indies ; and known to grow on the neighbouring portion of South 

 America (A. Dec). Instances of its seeds carried by ocean-currents to the coast of Scotland being 



* I'andellia diffusa of Equatorial Africa and Madagascar. Probably by European colonists car- 

 ried to Tropical America; observed by Marcgraf xv. pi. 32 in Brazil, — by Aublet ii. pi. 251 in Guay- 

 ana, and known to occur " frequenlissima ad vias " as far as the West Indies and Guyaquil (Pers., 

 and A. Dec.) ; called in Amwak " haimarada," by the Dutch settlers "bitter blain," and "of great 

 value in Guayana as an antibilious emetic and febrifuge, and a most efficacious remedy in malignant 

 fevers and dysentery" (Hancock med. bot. trans. 1829). Eastward, known to grow in Guinea 

 (Hook. fl. Nigr.), and on Madagascar (Benth.) ; but possibly by European colonists, carried to the 

 Mauritius Islands (Lindl.). 



Jiemirea maritima of the Equatorial shores of the Atlantic. A reed observed by Piso 238 in 

 Brazil — (Spreng.), by Aublet pi. 16 in the maritime sands of Guayana. Known to grow also on the 

 opposite African seashore (Kunth, and Benth. fl. Nigr.), seeds doubtless transported from one conti- 

 nent to the other by ocean-currents (A. Dec). 



