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 ARRUDA's BRAZILIAN PLANTS. 247 Bertoloni's plant has already been placed by Giiike in Fl. Bras. xii. iii. 568. This, by the way, should date from 1820 (Bertol. Ex- cerpta, 13). Ipecacuanha officinalis. Ipecacuanha preta. Koster, 497. = Psyclwtria Ipecacuanha Stokes, Mat. Med. i. 365 (1812). The Index Kewensis has needlessly increased synonymy by including Arruda's vernacular names : thus — ''Branca, Arruda, Diss, ex Koster, Trav. Braz. 497 = lonidium Ipecacuanha. ''Preta, Arruda, I.e. = P. Ipecacuanha." Koanophyllon tinctoria. Anil de Pernambuco. Koster, 495. = Eupatorium Iceve DC. " This is a shrub which grows to the height of twelve feet or more. It is of the class syngenesia ; the leaves are from two to three inches in length, and of proportionate breadth ; it is enough to soak a piece of cotton cloth in its juice for it to become green, and from this colour it is changed to blue by the absorption of the oxygen of atmospheric air." — Koster, I. c. The only composite yielding blue dye mentioned in Fl. Bras, is Enjmtorium IcBve DC, of which it is said, *' foliis tincturam offert cseruleum, ei Indigofera Anilis similem " (/,. c. vi. iv. 412): and with this Arruda's description agrees. It is curious that Hahn distributed this plant (PI. de la Martinique, n. 396) as "Eupatorium tinctorium L." — a name which I do not find elsewhere. Kordelestris symphilitica. Caroha. [500. KoRDELESTRis UNDULATA. Caroba miuda, or Casco de cavallo. Koster, The former = Jacaranda procera Spreng., fide Mart. Mat. Med. Bras. 66 : the latter is transferred by Steudel to Jacaranda ; A. P. DeCandoUe (Prodr. ix. 233) says of it, " nomine tantum nota." LiNHAREA TINCTORIA. Catlnga Branca. Koster, 493. Miers (Cat. Woods) identifies this with Nectandra Gardneri Meissn. Arruda describes another species, *'Canella do Mato, IJnharia aromatica,'' which I cannot identify. The spelling Lin- harea is the correct one, as he says, "I have given the name Linharea in memory of D. Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho, Conde de Linhares, the cultivator and protector of letters " (p. 493). Meleagrinex Pernambucana. Pitombeira. " Quid? " Jacks. Index. = Sapindus esculentus St. Hil. ; fide AUemao, Brev. Not. 27 (same local name quoted), and Miers, Cat. Woods. " If turkeys eat of the kernels they die immediately; from this circumstance I took the name of the genus, of which I have only found two species." — Koster, /. c. 496. Mimosa virginalis. Barbatiinam. Koster, 500. = Stryjjhnodendron Barbatimam Mart. The local name, according to Miers and Allemao, Brev. Not., is '* Barbatimao," and this spelling is used for the specific name by Bentham in Fl. Bras. xv. ii. 284 : Martius, however, firstpublished the species as S. Barbatimam m Flora ^ XX. Beibl. ii. 17 (1837). I think Mimosa cochliacarpos B. A. Gomes,'-'
 * In Index Kewensis the name is usually spelt Gomez, but incorrectly.