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1. Iozoste rotundifolia, var. oblong i folia. Nees ab Esenb. in Wall. Fl. As. Bar. 2. p. 63. — 

 Lits£ea Chinensis. Blume. 



Dioica. — Fl. Masc. Perianthium 6-partitum. Stamina 9 : filamenta pilosa, tria interiora ad basin glan- 

 dulis duabus magnis rotundis sessilibus instructa. — Wo have not yet received the female plant. 



]. Cassytha filiformis. Linn. — Boxb. Fl. Ind. 2. p. 314. Nees ab Esenb. in Wall. Fl. As. 

 Bar. 2. p. 69. — Calodium Cochinchense. Lour. Fl. Coch. 1. p. 302. — Vachell, " m." 



Ord. LXX. THYMELEiE. Juss. 

 1. Daphne Indica. Linn. — Vide in hoc Op. p. 6S. t. 15. Vachell, n. 138. 



Ord. LXXI. NEPENTHES. Link. 



1. Nepenthes Phyllamphora. Willd. Sp. PI. 4. p. 874. Sims Bot. Mag. t. 2629. Brong. 

 in Ann. Scienc. Natur. 1. p. 48. Spr. Syst. Vegct. 3. p. 84. — N. clistillatoria. Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 1017. Graham in Ed. New Phil. Jonrn. n. 6. p. 371. et n. 16. p. 379. t. 6. Hook, 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 2798. Wall? List of E. I. Plants, n. 2244. (non Linn.)— Phyllamphora 

 mirabilis. Lour. Fl. Coch. 2. p. 744. Rumph. Herb. Am. 5. t. 59. /. 2 ? Vachell, n. 74. 



Such are the only synonyms we are disposed to adduce here; almost all the others quoted in the Botanical 

 Magazine belong-to the Ceylon plant, which is that described in Fl. Zeylanica, p. 151. n. 321, consequently, we 

 presume, of Hermann's Herbarium, and therefore, the original N. distillatoria of Linnaeus. Lamarck, and, 

 following him, Brongniart, have given to this latter the name of N. Indica, a name as objectionable as that 

 bestowed by Linnaeus. The true N. distillatoria has been only met with in the island of Ceylon, and in 

 the Courtallum district, towards the south extremity of the Peninsula of India. The present species is a 

 native of China, and the mountains of Silhet, to the north-east of Bengal; but certainly not, as has been 

 inadvertently said in the Bot. Mag. under t. 2798, of the Circar mountains, which lie to the north of 

 the Peninsula. The differences between these two species are well pointed out by Brongniart, in the first 

 volume of the Amiales des Sc. Naturellcs, pp. 43 and 48. N. distillatoria has a compound raceme, 

 or rather a panicle, each partial peduncle being branched, and bearing several spreading pedicels and 

 flowers. The Chinese one, on the contrary, has a long perfectly simple raceme. Dr. Graham has ob- 

 served, that in a state of cultivation, some of the partial peduncles are occasionally bifid, or trifid, and our 

 specimens from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden exhibit the same appearance; but this seems merely to arise 

 from luxuriance ; not one of the very numerous specimens, both of the male and female, we have from time 

 to time received from Mr. Millett, principally collected in Lappas Island, presenting any such tendency. 

 We place little reliance on the leaves being petioled, nor, perhaps, ought the apparent peiiole of N. Phyl- 

 lamphora to be regarded as more than an attenuation of the base of the leaf. Rumphius' figure is very bad; 

 Loureiro's description is on the whole accurate, although the line-like parallel longitudinal veins are scarcely 

 conspicuous, and only so on the under-side of the leaf: the " spica longa, simplicissima " is very character- 

 istic: his " caulis simplicissimus " less so, unless we suppose either that he had only seen young plants, or, 

 what is more probable, taken that part of his description from Rumphius' figure: in the wild state, however, 

 the stem appears to be much more simple than when cultivated. M. Brongniart, in his memoir, above 

 quoted, places too much dependance on the ascidia being furnished with, or nearly destitute of winged longi- 

 tudinal ribs : such marks afford no character whatever, those on young plants being very largo and crest-like, 

 while the ascidia on older ones of the same species present mere ribs. Our specimen of N. distillatoria from 

 Dr. Wallich (n. '2244) has no flowers; the leaves are more sessile, and much narrower than in the Chinese 

 plant, and the crests or ridges of the ascidia are ciliated with longish hairs. We observe that Dr. Wallich's 



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