on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 155 
individuals would appear to be entirely female, as that described by Rheede, 
who does not mention any stamina. Both circumstances are incompatible 
with its being an Eugenia. 
Plukenet was as unfortunate as Commeline in comparing this plant to his 
Arbor Indica Pyri densioribus et subrotundis foliis, fructu Nucis Moschatce 
magnitudine summo vertice coronato (Mant. 23. pl. 3. t. 336.), which is pretty 
evidently a Gardenia, and quite different from the Malla Katou Tsjambou. 
The elder Burman, in his observations on Rumphius (Herb. Amb. i. 128.), 
thinks that this is the Jambosa silvestris alba, which again he considers as a 
variety, or rather as the female plant, of the Malacca Schambu, that is, of the 
Eugenia Jambos. In both opinions he is probably wrong; for the E. Jambos 
has no flowers merely female, nor is the Jambosa silvestris alba the same with 
the Malacca Schambu, as I have endeavoured to show (Linn. Trans. xiii. 482.). 
It is, however, very possible that the Malla Katou Tsjambou, as the same 
Burman in another place alleges (Thes. Zeyl. 125), may be his Jambos sylves- 
tris et montana fructu Cerasi magnitudine, which is the Maharatambola of the 
Ceylonese; but it cannot be the Jambosa silvestris parvifolia of Rumphius 
(Herb. Amb. i. 129.; ii. £. 40.), with which Burman there joins it, because that 
is a real Eugenia with hermaphrodite flowers ; and the Malla Katou Tsjambou, 
or Maharatambola, on account of its dicecious flowers, terminal panicles, and 
trifid style, notwithstanding the authority of Linneus (FI. Zeyl. 501.), I 
cannot consider as belonging to this genus. It seems, indeed, to have a 
greater resemblance to the genus Scopolia of Forster, as described in the En- 
cyclopédie Méthodique (vii. 14.; Ill. Gen. t. 860.). 
Karou TssEnoE, seu Carru Tsseru, seu C. Cugnvu, p. 19. fab. 9. 
Katou and Rana, the specific names used by the vulgar and learned of 
Malabar, have the same meaning, that is, signify anything wild or unculti- 
vated ; while a species that is planted round the corn-fields, and described in 
page 20, is considered the prototype of the genus called Tsjeroe or Cheru by 
the vulgar, and Bibo by the learned. It seems to be from a very considerable 
affinity between this tree and the Anacardium occidentale that the natives of 
India, according to Clusius (Enc. Méth. Suppl. i. 753.), gave to the latter the 
name of Bybo, evidently the same with Bibo, used by the Brahmans of Malabar. 
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