176 Dr. Francis Hamiuron’s Commentary 
uniloculare. Receptaculum, vel commune vel proprium, nullum. Semen 
putaminis lateri deraso adherens, forma loculi solitarium. Integumentum 
simplex, membranaceum. Embryo spiralis. Cotyledones crassæ, carnosæ, 
involute. Radicula infera. 
Varietatem in Cicata legi pedicellis multifloris, paniculis folio majoribus. 
Specimens of both varieties have been given to the library at the India House. 
From the preceding account it would appear that the Sapindus of Geertner 
(De Sem. i. 341. t.70. f.3.) differs very much in the structure of the nut, which 
is said to have two cells. I suspect, however, that Gartner has mistaken a 
process running up between the bend in the embryo for a septum, as once 
happened to myself in examining a species of Cussambium. The nut, it must 
be observed, in these two genera is very much alike, as is also that called 
Koon by Gartner (De Sem. t. 180.), so that it would be difficult to say to 
which of the two genera the latter belonged ; yet the Sapindus and Cussam- 
bium are not very nearly allied. 
ApAMBOE, seu CADELI-POEA, seu CADELI-PUA, p. 45. tab. 20, 21. 
It must be observed that there is another ddamboe (Hort. Mal. xi. t. 56.); 
but it has no sort of affinity to the plant now under examination, being a spe- 
cies of Convolvulus. 
It is to be regretted that modern botanists did not retain the fine name 
Banava bestowed on this plant by Camelli, and consider it as a new genus. 
Commeline classed it and the following plant with the Pariti, that is, the 
Gossypium ; and Breynius, Ray and Plukenet considered it as an Alcea, which 
the two latter called 4. Indica arborea, pericarpio carnoso, in plura loculamenta 
partito (Alm. 16.), a conjecture as unsatisfactory as that of Commeline. Her- 
man improved nothing on his predecessors by calling it an Althea; nor was 
the elder Burman more fortunate in calling it Ketmia Indica, foliis laurinis, 
flore violaceo, spicato (Thes. Zeyl. 137.). Linnæus in the Flora Zeylanica (533.) 
did not venture to refer it to any known genus, but placed it, as the others 
had done, among the Malvacew, by the Ceylonese name Mustu-ghas. 
In the Mantissa Linnzeus described a tree which he called Munchhausia 
speciosa; and M. Lamarck (Enc. Méth. i. 39.), deriving his information en- 
