OF THE IIERBAIIIUM AMBOINENSE. ^69 
pliylliis^ although adopted by the greatest luminaries of the 
science, it should be placed with the Cahjptranthes ; for 
the petala fail off united, forming a little ball, which, as 
Ilumphius expresses it, " ad unum latus vergit,'" leaving 
the stamina to form the flower. 
The elder Burman is quite correct in the synonyma 
added in his observation. To the Caryophyllus aromaticus 
the younger Burman (1. c.) joins, as a variety, the Caryo- 
phyllus Malaharicus (as he calls it) of Plukenet (Phyt. 
t. 274, f. S), which is the Calyptranthes Jamholana or 
caryophyllifblla of ^illdenow.^ — See Commentary on the 
Jambosa Cera7nica (H. A. i. 130), and Jamholana (H. A. 
i. 131), an error that escaped my notice in a former com- 
mentary. 
Ravensara, p. 10. 
Ilumphius seems to have mistaken this for a kind of 
Caryophyllum^ and gives an account from Dapper. Sub- 
sequent botanists have, however, ascertained that the plants 
have no affinity, and M. Sonnerat at first called it Raven- 
sara aromatica, a name that should be retained, as far pre- 
ferable to AgatophyJlum, or AgatJiopJiyllum^ which he after- 
wards adopted, although this has been followed by Jussieu 
(Gen. Plant. 471), Poiret (Enc. Meth. vi. 81), Willdenow 
(Sp. PL ii. 842), and Lamarck (111. Gen. t. 825); and al- 
though the latter (1. c. t. 404) had previously, by mistake, 
published a figure under the name Evodia, given to it by 
Gsertner (De Sem. ii. 100, t. 103, f. 2). But this could 
not be retained, as having been previously given by the 
younger Linnaeus to a quite different genus. 
