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the Guaiacane, as will appear from the following description. The natives of 
Ava call it Kiin gri, the first word being the generic term, and gr DUN 
great. 
Arbuscula pulchra. Folia sparsa, apices versus ramulorum congesta, basi 
obtusa obovata, acuta, ultra pedem longa, costata, -venis reticulata, nuda, 
serrata, petiolata. 
Racemi longissimi, penduli. Flores ex albido rubicundi, magni, speciosi, caly- 
cibus coloratis, striatis. 
Calyx foliolis concavis obtusis 2- seu 2 partite, persistens, intus disco integro 
mellifero ad basin vestitus. Petala 4 seu 5 patentia, obtusa, concava, 
obliqua. Filamenta plurima filiformia, petalis longiora, basi coalita in 
annulum discum calycis cingens. Antherce parvee. Germen inferum tur- 
binatum. Stylus longitudine staminum filiformis. Stigma simplex. 
Bacca molliuscula, tetragono-ovata, calyce coronata, obsolete quadrisulca, 
unilocularis. Semen unicum, oblongum, magnum. Perispermum forma 
seminis magnum. Embryo centralis, ovalis, dum non germinaverit abs- 
que partium distinctione indivisus. 
TssEntA seu SJERIA SAMSTRAVADI, p. 15. tab. 7. 
In the preceding commentary I have already made several remarks appli- 
cable to this plant, which the Brahmans call Gove-sada-pali, using the last two 
words as a compound generic name, and the words, therefore, should have 
been printed Gove Sada-pali. | 
Notwithstanding the utmost affinity between this and the preceding, Com- 
meline could trace scarcely any resemblance to the Eugenia, in which, not 
having been misled by the native nomenclature, he judged properly. Ray, 
however, more consistently with his admitting the Samstravadi to be an Eu- 
genia or Jambos, allowed the Tsjeria Samstravadi to belong to this genus: but 
Plukenet more cautiously called it Nuci pomifera Arbor Orientalis Castaneee 
equine foliis, fructu longo corticoso crasso, tetragono, summo apice (Pomi in 
modum) umbilicato, nucleum nudum angulosum includente (Alm. 266.), in which 
he entirely overlooked the leaves of this being simple, and those of the Horse 
Chestnut being compounded. 
