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I feel satisfied that the other species placed by* Roxburgh in Batis 

 (B.fruticoia) is referable to Cudrania. 



M. Trecul states that the specimens received by M. Delessert, 

 and at the Paris Museum, from Dr. Wallich, under No. 4641 of 

 his list, belong to two different genera ; M. Trecul adds however, 

 that these specimens were from Nepal. Now herein, I believe, is 

 some error ; for, although Cudrania Javanensis be found in Nepal, 

 I have reason to suppose that Plecospermum is not, and conse- 

 quently that there must have been some mixture of labels ; indeed, 

 from the rapidity with which Dr. Wallich distributed the large col- 

 lection under his charge, he could not overlook every specimen, but 

 was obliged to leave much to those friends who assisted him. As 

 M. Trecul does not state the letter attached to the specimens, I have 

 no means of checking the error, but shall here state in detail the 

 result of my own examination of most of the suite of specimens re- 

 served for the India House, and now belonging to the Linnean So- 

 ciety of London. 



4641 A, Herb. Heyne, from the Peninsula, is Plecospermum spino- 

 sum } with some specimens accidentally mixed of Pisonia 

 aculeata.* 



B, from Nepal, appears to be Cudrania Javanensis, but the 

 specimens are bad ; this species, however, is to be seen in 

 various herbaria from Nepal, collected by Dr. Wallich, in 

 1822. 



C, Rohilcund. (On this I have no notes.) 



D, from the Hort. Bot. Calc, is Cudrania Javanensis, with 

 one piece of Plecospermum spinosum. The former was in- 

 troduced from Nepal into the garden by Dr. Wallich, and 

 the latter from Coromandel by Dr. Roxburgh, in 1802 ; con- . 

 sequently both, being cultivated there, may have got mixed 

 by those who dried them ; but it rather appears to me that 



* In the Linnsean herbarium are two specimens, one marked by Linnaeus P. 

 aculeata, the other, with smaller leaves, is unnamed by him but marked by Sir J. 

 E. Smith P. mitis, L. This last agrees with the specimen mixed with Wall. L, 

 4641 A, but not with Linnseus's description of P. mitis, of which, however, he had 

 no specimen. 



