OF THE HEUBARIUM AMBOINENSE. 
At any rate, however, we must exclude from the synony- 
ma of both the Napecas, all those given by Burman in his 
Flora Indica, and by Willdenow, and especially the Vidara 
littorea, of which we are now treating. M. Lamarck in- 
deed quotes it with doubt for his Ziz^/phus Napeca ; but I 
cannot think that it belongs even to the same genus. Its 
leaves, in place of having longitudinal nerves, have trans- 
verse ribs, and according to Rumphius, " capitula qualia 
prima sunt caryophyllorum rudimenta sese in flosculos ape- 
riunt — ex quatuor albis et oblongis petalis constantes ex- 
trorsum reflexis, interne molli lanugine obvolutis instar 
serici, stamina quaedam in centro gerentes.*" Neither does 
the description of the fruit agree well with the hard thick 
shell of the nut, and small seed of the Zizypliiis. " Pau- 
cam gerunt carnem — includentes nucleum magnum ovifor- 
mem in lignoso qui fragiii putamine continetur, estque al- 
bus— sapore et substantia Corylorum^ On the whole I 
suspect, that it is more nearly allied to the Elosagnus ori- 
entalis (Willd. Sp. PI. i. 689) than to the Zizyphus. 
Vidara littorea mitis^ p. 120. 
This probably belongs to the same genus with the pre- 
ceding, whatever that may be. 
CAP. XLVI. 
Lignum Colubrinum Timorense^ p. 121, t. 38 ? 
The first thing here to be remarked is, that the figure 
by no means can be reconciled with the description : for, 
first, it appears from the latter, that the leaves are regularly 
opposite, which is by no means the case in the figure. 
Next the fruit, according to the description, is smooth, end- 
ing above in a short but hard point ; but in the figure short 
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