on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 151 
he properly rejects the Butonica terrestris alba as synonymous, he falls into an 
error equally great in calling it the Butonica sylvestris (terrestris) rubra (Herb. 
Amb. iii. 181. £. 115.) of Rumphius; for European botanists seem to have 
thought it necessary, as Rheede had described two Samstravadis, that these 
should be the same with the two Butonicas of Rumphius; whereas the latter 
does not describe the. Samstravadi, nor mention any plant by the name of 
Butonica sylvestris; nor does Rheede notice the Butonica terrestris rubra. 
M. Lamarck saw specimens of his plant ; and from the account which he gives 
of the calyx, it was evidently the Samstravadi of Rheede. Willdenow, on the 
contrary, says nothing to enable us to judge whether his specimens belonged 
to the Samstravadi or to the Butonica terrestris alba. 
Jussieu was the first, as far as I know, to point out a tolerably correct 
arrangement of the Samstravadi, by separating it from the Eugenia and 
placing it (Gen. Plant. 361.) in the same genus with the Butonica of Rum- 
phius and Lamarck, the Barringtonia of Forster and the younger Linnæus, 
and the Commersonza of Sonnerat, which the elder Linnzeus had placed among 
the Guttifere in the genus Mammea. Perhaps M. Jussieu should have taken 
the genus of Rumphius as it stood, and included in it not only his three Buto- 
nicas, but the two Samstravadis of Rheede; but Jussieu considered the Tsjeria 
Samstravadi and the Butonice terrestres as forming a distinct genus from the 
Butonica, and called this genus Stravadium (Gen. Plant. 361.). 
Dr. Roxburgh however (Hort. Beng. 58.), as I have above proposed, includes 
in the same genus both the Bufonicas of Rumphius and the Samstravadis of 
Rheede, calling the plant, of which I am now treating, Barringtonia racemosa ; 
but he does not quote Rheede, deterred probably by the following words in 
the description, “Arbor est vastee magnitudinis caudice crasso," while, I must 
confess, that the plant which Dr. Roxburgh and I knew, is only a small tree ; 
but I cannot on this account call it a different species. 
When I returned from Ava, I sent to England both specimens and a draw- 
ing of the Samstravadi, which were given to Sir Joseph Banks. A copy of the 
drawing has been lodged in the Library of the India House, where I have also 
placed specimens from India Proper. In deference to M. Jussieu I have classed 
it in the Catalogue with his second division of the order of Myrti; but I sus- ` 
pect that it might with more propriety be arranged with the second division of 
