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XL— ^ Commentary on the Second Book of the 
Herbarium Amhoinense. 
By Fkancis Hamilton, M. D. 
{Read 22d Junuary 1825.) 
See Vol. V. p, 307, et seq. 
CAP. I. II. 
Caryophyllum Tomi secundi, p. 1. t. i. 
In the Hortus ClifForlianus, Linnaeus, in imitation of 
Tournefort, considered this as forming a pecuhar genus, 
Caryophyllus ; and in the Species Plantarum this kind ob- 
tained the specific name aromaticus, (Burm. Fl. Ind. 122); 
but it was erroneously placed in the class Polyandria, 
M. Jussieu (Gen. Plant. 360) gave it a proper situation 
next to the Eugenia, from which it is only distinguished 
by the more elongated form of the calyx ; but this M. La- 
marck seems to think sufficient to distinguish it from the 
Eugenia (Enc. Meth. ii. 712), pointing out, howeverj some 
errors in the generic character given by Linn^us, which, 
if it had been correct, would have made the distinction more 
necessary. Willdenow, following Thunberg, joins this ge- 
nus with the Eugenia, and gives it the specific name caryo- 
phyllata. With equal propriety he might have called the 
apple-tree Pyrus malata. If we set aside the form of the 
calyx, as insufficient for distinguishing the genus Caryo- 
