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fruit, to use the vulgar nautical phrase, gives our seamen trading to India a 
devilish flux! How he fell into such a mistake I cannot say, as he might 
have read in Burman, “ Diwul notat adstrictionem gutturis quae sæpe causatur 
a fructibus immaturis. Hujus autem arboris fructus astringunt, unde in dys- 
enteria valde commendatur." It was on this quality that the genus Coru was 
founded, of which the Diwul is probably the prototype, as likely the same 
with the Bolanga (Thes. Zeyl. 31.), or Balanghas (Thes. Zeyl. 84.), that is, 
the Feronia Elephantum, which no doubt is very nearly allied to the Limonia 
acidissima ; but both are very different from the Mal Naregam, at least in their 
foliage and general appearance. The Dehi-ghaha, which by Linnzus, as I have 
mentioned, was left in the Flora Zeylanica among the Plante annihilate, he 
afterwards in the Mantissa called Limonia monophylla (Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 571.), 
while he adopted Burman's Limonia acidissima, quoting, indeed, for the latter 
the Catu Tsjeru Naregam, but evidently meaning the Tsjeru Catu Naregam, 
as he quoted the 14th and not the 12th plate. 
The Catu Tsjeru Naregam continued, therefore, really unnoticed by modern 
botanists, until it was joined by M. Lamarck (Enc. Meéth. iii. 517.) with the 
Dehi-ghaha of Burman as synonymous with the Limonia monophylla. Its 
being of the same genus, however, with the Tsjeru Catu Naregam, the true 
prototype of the genus Limonia, is extremely doubtful; for, setting aside the 
difference of habit, it would seem to have its flower divided into four petals, 
many stamina united at the base, and a berry with one seed. 
Caru seu KaArou NanEGAM, p. 29. tab. 13. 
Commeline agrees with the inhabitants of Malabar, vulgar and learned, 
native and foreign, in considering this as a species of Citrus or Limonia, than 
which I scarcely know an attempt at arrangement more rude. Plukenet seems 
to have made little improvement by comparing it with the Granata Malus Zey- 
lanica spinosa of Herman, which he calls Malus Punica Zeylonensium, spinosa 
(Alm.240.), and Malus Granata Zeylonensis aculeata (Phyt. t.98. f.6.). Whether 
or not the plant of Herman is the same with that of Plukenet I cannot say ; 
but, if it is so, I doubt very much of its being the plant of Rheede, although 
no doubt both belong to the same natural order, that is, to the Rubiacee of 
Jussieu. Plukenet, indeed, quotes the Catu Naregam with doubt, in which 
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