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mens to Sir Joseph Banks under the name adopted by Dr. Roxburgh; and I 
have since given specimens to the library at the India House under Jussieu’s 
name of Stravadium acutangulum ; for, although I cannot approve of so violent 
a corruption, I must yield to his superior authority. In the dialects spoken in 
Gangetic India, where it is one of the most common trees, it is called [jal or 
Hijal. 
Arbor magnitudine mediocris. Rami petiolorum cicatricibus exasperati. Folia 
sparsa, ramulorum apices versus approximata, obovata, apice nunc obtusa 
tunc acuta, basi cuneata, nitida, nuda, costata, venis reticulata, utrinque 
viridia. Petiolus brevissimus, supra planus, glaber, non stipulaceus. 
Racemus terminalis, simplicissimus, pendulus, foliis longior, nudus, glaber. 
Flores sparsi, parvi, filamentis coccineis rubentes. 
Calyx superus, laciniis erectis obtusis zqualibus 4- seu 5-partitus. Petala 
saepius quatuor revoluta, oblonga, basi cohzerentia, ad staminum colum- 
nam adnata. Filamenta plurima, longissima, filiformia, basi coalita. 
Anthere parvae, subrotundæ. Germen inferum, tetragonum. Stylus lon- 
gitudine et figura staminum simplex. Stigma indivisum. 
Bacca sicca, oblonga, tetragona, calyce coronata. Semen unicum, maximum, 
oblongum, circinatum. : 
I have not noticed the structure of the seed, as the description was taken in 
Ava, before I had seen the work of Gærtner. 
Marta Katou Tssampou, seu M. Caru Tssambu, p. 17. tab. 8: 
Commeline joins the vulgar, Hindus, Portuguese and Dutch, in consider- 
ing this as a Jambu, or Eugenia, very nearly allied to the plants now called 
E. Jambos and E. malaccensis; while the Brahmans seem to err as much in 
calling it Mal Ambetti (montana Mangifera foemina). It must be admitted 
that the figure represents the plant less like the Eugenia than it ought, be- 
cause the leaves have been drawn as if alternate; but from the description we 
learn that this is erroneous (* Folia geminata brevibus petiolis decussato ra- 
mulis inherent”). So far, therefore, as to its leaves, it might be an Eugenia ; 
but then the flower is divided into five or six parts, the latter seeming to be 
the natural number, as the style is divided into three; and besides, some 
