on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 153 
Although neither Rumphius, nor his editor Burman, considered either spe- 
cies of Butonica terrestris as the same with the Tsjeria Samstravadi; and 
although Linnzeus in the Flora Zeylanica (190.) quoted the latter alone, with 
the synonyma of Ray and Plukenet, for his Eugenia foliis coronatis, pedunculis 
terminantibus, pomis oblongis acutangulis ; yet in the Species Plantarum, copied 
| by the younger Burman (FI. Ind. 114.), he introduced, as synonymous with 
the Tsjeria Samstravadi, the Butonica terrestris rubra, adding to Eugenia the 
specific name acutangula. This arrangement was of course followed by Will- 
denow (Sp. Pl. ii. 996.). M. Lamarck, however, observing, I presume, that 
the fruit of the Butonica terrestris rubra, as represented by Rumphius (Herb. 
Amb. iii. t. 115.), has no great resemblance to that of the Tsjeria Samstravadi, 
being too much attenuated at the ends, rejected this quotation, and considered 
the Butonica terrestris alba (Herb. Amb. ii. t. 116.) as the Tsjeria Samstravadi, 
the form of the fruit in the figures of these plants, by Rheede and Rumphius, 
having a great resemblance. I must, however, observe, that Rheede says of 
the Tsjeria Samstravadi, * Flores purpurei;" and he represents the flowers as 
disposed in racemes; while of the Butonica terrestris alba Rumphius says, 
* petiolis (pedunculis communibus) insident capitula viridia sese in bina ter- 
nave crassa petala (calycis lacinias) aperientia, in quorum centro quatuor alia 
alba et extensa conspiciuntur petala, restans floris pars in medio repleta est 
albis staminibus ad basin rubescentibus, antheras fuscas gerentibus." Further, 
he not only represents the flowers and fruit as disposed in spikes, but says, 
* pomula sessilia, quum priora (id est, fructus Butonice terrestris rubra) ex 
pedunculo (pedicello) dependeant.” "We may safely, I think therefore, infer 
that, notwithstanding the similarity of the fruits, the Tsjeria Samstravadi and 
Butonica terrestris alba are not the same plant. In fact, neither species of the 
Butonica terrestris seems to have been described by Rheede, nor either species 
of Samstravadi to have been described by Rumphius; as we may infer not 
only from the circumstances above mentioned, but also from the form of the 
leaves as represented by the two authors. - 
'The variations of opinion on the subject, among the best botanists, seem to 
have deterred Dr. Roxburgh from quoting either author for his Barringtonia 
acutangula (Hort. Beng. 52.), although/I have no doubt that it is the Tsjeria 
Samstravadi. From Ava, where it is called Kiin ngæh (little), I sent speci- 
