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and Epicarpurus to consist in the proportion of the cotyledons, I 

 fear that they must be again united : in Epicarpurus the cotyledons 

 are often thick, but they are constantly folded and crumpled. Of 

 the Trophis Americana* which is the type of the genus Tropin's, 

 I have not examined the seed, nor does M. Trecul (Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 ser. 3. vol, viii. p. 147) describe it ; but there are abundant marks 

 of distinction in the spicate inflorescence and tubular perianth. 



Trophis and Epicarpurus both belong to the Morea as charac- 

 terized by Trecul, the stamens being innexed during sestivation. 



In Trecul's memoir alluded to, an error occurs as to Trophis 

 spinosa, Roxb. This I have said is one of the thorny species of 

 Epicarpurus, and almost identical with E. Timorensis of Decaisne, 

 as every one must acknowledge who reads attentively Roxburgh's 

 description (Flor. Ind. vol. iii. p. 762) ; but Trecul refers it 

 (p. 123) to Cudrania Javanensis, a plant belonging tohis Artocarpece, 

 having the female flowers in dense capitula, arranged in umbels, 

 and with a simple style. In this he has been, perhaps, misled by 

 Blume, who, in his ' Bijdragen,' p. 489, appears to have described 

 a species of Cudrania (probably C. obovata, Tree.) under the name 

 of Trophis spinosa, Roxb. Indeed Roxburgh himself may have led 

 others astray, the plant to which he gave the manuscript name of 

 Trophis spinosa at an early period of his botanical career, and under 

 which he deposited a drawing in the E. I. C. Museum (tab. 119), 

 and which name was adopted by Willdenow, never having been 

 published by him as such : in fact, his manuscript T. spinosa, and 

 consequently the T. spinosa of Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. 735, is the 

 Batis spinosa of the e Flora Indica' (vol. iii. p. 762) ; nor is T. acu- 

 leata, Roth, Sp. Nov. p. 368, at all distinct : this, although belong- 

 ing to the More®, has the habit of Cudrania, and is the Plecosper- 

 mum spinosum, Tree. (1. c. p. 124). So far as I can ascertain, the 

 Cudrania Javanensis, Tree, was unknown to Roxburgh, although 



* Trophis Ramon from Mexico (Linnaea, vol. vi. p. 357) is scarcely distinct. 

 The specific name, too, is unfortunate, being obvioiisly the same as Ramoon, by 

 ■which T. Americana is known in Jamaica. Ramon is a Spanish expression for 

 small houghs or twigs, which, when broken oft, are suitable as fodder for cattle, 

 and it does not indicate the species of plant. 



