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Selections. 



[no. S s new seiues, 



the specimens of Plecospermum belonged to the letter E, from, 

 which packet they had dropped out, and that they were not 

 derived from the garden at all ; at the same time I may state 

 that in some herbaria specimens of Plecospermum only are to 

 be found under the letter D: it is readily recognized by the 

 paler, almost livid and obovate leaves. 



E, from the Peninsula (Herb, Wight), is Plecospermum spi- 

 nosum. 



F, from Taondong. On this I have no notes ; but if my re- 

 collection be correct, both C and F are species of Cudrania. 



I may here add that of Wallich's List, 



No. 4642, or Tropins Heyneana, is T. spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind., or T. 

 taxoides, Heyne and Roth, and is therefore a species of Epi- 

 carpurus. 



4643 A, or Batis fruticosa, is Bath fruticosa, Roxb., but is a species 

 of Cudrania. 



B seems somewhat different. 



Morus? scandens, Wall. L. n. 4652, is the same as M. Javanica, 

 Blume, Bijdr. p. 488, and Trophis scandens, Hook, et Arn. Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. p. 214, and is a species oiMalaisia, a genus of Morece, 

 closely allied to Trophis, but perhaps sufficiently distinct by the 

 number of stamens. 



To sum up these remarks : — Trophis spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 (and the only plant intended by him under this name in his 

 published works), is an Epicarpurus. T. spinosa, Roxb. MSS., and 

 of his earlier collections, as well as of Willdenow, or Batis spinosa, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind., is Plecospermum spinosum of Trecul, to which also 

 T. aculeata of Roth must be referred, which is truly a Coromandel 

 plant, and not from Nepal. T. spinosa, Wall., from Nepal, is Cu- 

 drania Javanica; to which genus Batis fruiicosa, Roxb., and several 

 species from the islands to the east of India, belong. 



I have only to add that in the fifteenth volume of the Linnsea, 

 Spanoghe, in his Catalogue of Timor plants, enumerates, at p. 355, 

 « Trophis spinosa, Roxb.," and " T. ccccinea, Zp.:" notwithstanding 



