on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 165 
little attention. I have indeed found a tree which, were it not for the number 
of stamina, and for its flowers wanting odour, I should have taken to be the 
same with the Catu Naregam. I shall here describe it, partly in order to 
show that this difference in number is not accompanied by any difference of 
habit that could justify a separation of genus, and partly because this may be 
the very plant that Plukenet and Burman took for the Catu Naregam. Spe- 
cimens have been given to the library at the India House. 
RANDIA VIROSA. 
Posoqueria drupacea. Geertn. De Sem. iii. 77. t. 195.? 
Granata Malus Zeylanica, spinosa. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 111.? 
Malus Punica zeylonensium spinosa. Pluk. Alm. 240. ? 
Malus Granata zeylonensis aculeata. Pluk. Phyt. t. 98. f. 6.? 
Laurifolia minor ex Java. Pluk. Mant. 115. ad Alm. p. 211. l. 3. referens, 
qua ultima tamen forte est Garcinia Mangostana, Horto Malabarico 
perperam citato. 
Bis (virosa) Moyen Bengalensium. 
Habitat in Indiz Gangeticz dumetis. 
Arbuscula Vanguerie facie. Rami rigidi, non pubescentes. Ramuli brevis- 
simi, ex anni preteriti foliorum axillis (foliis deciduis nudati), subquadri- 
phylli. Rami nunc inermes; tunc spinis oppositis supra ramulorum axil- 
las enatis, rectis, ramulos longitudine zequantibus armati. Folia opposita, 
approximata, oblongo-obovata vel cuneata, acuta, integerrima, glabra, 
subcostata, venosa.  Pefiolus brevissimus, marginatus. Stipule petioli 
longitudine interfoliacez, ovatce, acutae, diaphane. 
Pedunculi terminales 1—3, uniflori, petiolo vix longiores. Bractee vix ulle. 
Flores mediocres, lutei, inodori. | 
Calyr glaber basi longitudine tubi corollze cylindraceo; limbo quinquepartito 
laciniis patentibus, linearibus, acutis, corolla vix brevioribus. Corolle 
hypocrateriformis tubus crassus, brevis, teres, ad medium intus pilis cinc- 
tus; limbus glaber, zstivatione imbricata obliquus, quinquepartitus laci- 
niis obovatis, acutiusculis. Anthere quinque ad corollae incisuras adnate, 
oblongze, acutae, basi emarginatee. Germen inferum, globosum, glabrum. 
Stylus longitudine tubi teres. Stigma exsertum, ovatum, sulcatum, bi- 
partibile. 
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