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1. lozoste i'otundifoUa, var. oblongifolia. Nees ab Esenb. in JVall. FI. As. liar. 2. p. 63. — 
Litssea Chinensis. Blume. 
Dioica. — F l. Masc. Perianthium G-partituin. Stamina 9 : filamenta pilosa, tria interiora ad basin glan- 
dulis duabus magnis rotundis sessilibus instructa. — We have not yet received the female plant. 
1. Cassytha filiformis. Linn. — Eoxb. FL lad. 2. p. 314. Nees ab Fsenb. in Wall. Fl. As. 
Far. 2. p. 69. — Calodium Cochinchense. Lour. Fl. Coch. \. p. 302. — Vachell, “ 
Ord. LXX. THYMELEiE. Juss. 
1. Daphne Indica. Linn. — Vide in hoc Op. p. 68. t. 15. Vachell, n. 138. 
Ord. LXXI. NEPENTHEtE. Link. 
1. Nepenthes Phyllamphora. Willd. Sp. PI. 4. p. 874. Sims Bot. Mag. f. 2629. Brong. 
in Ann. Scienc. Natur. 1. p. 48. Spr. Sysf. Veget. 3. p. 84. — N. distillatoria. Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t. 1017. Graham in Ld. Neiv Phil. Journ. n. 6. p. 371. et n. 16. p. 379. t. 6. Hook, 
in Bot. Mag. t. 2798. Wall.? List of E. 1. Plants, n. 2244. (non Linn.) — Phyllamphora 
mirabilis. Lour. Fl. Coch. 2. p. 744. Ftimph. Herb. Am. 5. t. 59. f.2? Vachell, n. 74. 
Such are the only synonyms we are disposed to adduce here; almost all the others cpioted in the Botanical 
Magazine belong to the Ceylon plant, which is that described in Fl. Zeylanica,^. 151. n. 321, consequently, we 
presume, of Hermann’s Herbarium, and therefore, the original N. distillatoria of Linnaeus. Lamarck, and, 
following him, Brongniart, have given to this latter the name of N. Indica, a name as objectionable as that 
bestowed by Linnaeus. The true N. distillatoria has been only met with in the island of Ceylon, and in 
the Courtallum district, towards the south extremity of the Peninsula of India. The present species is a 
native of China, and the mountains of Silhet, to the north-east of Bengal; but certainly not, as has been 
inadvertently said in the Bot. Mag. under t. 2798, of the Circar mountains, which lie to the north of 
the Peninsula. The differences between these two species are well pointed out by Brongniart, in the first 
volume of the Annales des Sc. Naturelles, pp. 43 and 48. N. distillatoria has a compound raceme, 
or rather a panicle, each partial peduncle being branched, and bearing several spreading pedicels and 
flowers. The Chinese one, on the contrary, has a long perfectly simple raceme. Dr. Graham has ob- 
served, that in a state of cultivation, some of the partial peduncles are occasionally bifid, or trifid, and our 
specimens from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden exhibit the same appearance; but this seems merely to arise 
from luxuriance ; not one of the very numerous specimens, both of the male and female, we have from time 
to time received from Mr. Millett, principally collected in Lappas Island, presenting any such tendency. 
We place little reliance on the leaves being petioled, nor, perhaps, ought the apparent petiole of N. Phyl- 
larnphora to be regarded as more than an attenuation of the base of the leaf. Rumphius’ figure is very bad; 
Loureiro’s description is on the whole accurate, although the line-like parallel longitudinal veins are scarcely 
conspicuous, and only so on the under-side of the leaf: the “ spica longa, simplicissima ” is very character- 
istic : his “ caulis simplicissimus ” less so, unless we suppose either that he had only seen young plants, or, 
what is more probable, taken that part of his description from Rumphius’ figure : in the wild state, however, 
the stem appears to be much more simple than when cultivated. M. Brongniart, in his memoir, above 
quoted, places too much dependance on the ascidia being furnished with, or nearly destitute of winged longi- 
tudinal ribs : such marks afford no character whatever, those on young plants being very large and crest-like, 
while the ascidia on older ones of the same species present mere ribs. Our specimen of N. distillatoria from 
Dr. Wallich (n. 2244) has no flowers; the leaves are mere sessile, and much narrower than in the Chinese 
plant, and the crests or ridges of the ascidia are ciliated with longish hairs. We observe that Dr. Wallich’s 
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