182 Dr. Francis Hamtiuron’s Commentary 
in his observation is so convinced of their identity, that he copies the descrip- 
tion of the Manil Kara in order to complete the defective account given by - 
Rumphius. Willdenow, however, justly separates the plants of Rumphius 
and Rheede, calling the former Mimusops Kauki (Sp. Pl. ii. 326.), and the 
latter Achras dissecta (Sp. Pl. ii. 223.), which Willdenow says is the same 
with the 4. Balata of Aublet. 
- The Manyl Kara by M. Poiret (Enc. Méth. iv. 434.) was called Imbricaria 
Malabarica ; but he remarked, that the genus Zmbricaria of Commerson could 
scarcely be considered as distinct from Mimusops. Afterwards (Enc. Méth. 
vi. 530.) he found that the Many/ Kara is not different from the Achras dis- 
secta of Willdenow, and the A. Balata of Aublet; but he prefers the name 
given by the latter. In Gangetic India I have found near towns, and probably 
exotic, what I take to be the Manil Kara, and have given a dried specimen to 
the library at the India House. This tree is called Ashirni in the Bengalese 
dialect; and Dr. Roxburgh says that the Ashirni is the Mimusops Kauki 
(Hort. Beng. 25.), but he does not quote the Hortus Malabaricus. Unless 
there be here some mistake, the Mimusops Kauki of Dr. Roxburgh is not that 
of Linnzeus, but the Achras dissecta, which is in fact a Mimusops. It is true 
that Mr. R. Brown (JVov. Holl. i. 531.) considers the Mimusops hexandra of 
Dr. Roxburgh as scarcely different from the Achras dissecta ; but in the Hor- 
tus Bengalensis we have both a Mimusops Kauki and a M. hexandra, and this 
leads to a suspicion of there being some mistake about the Ashirni. Perhaps 
the plant that was so called to me may have been the M. hexandra of Dr. Rox- 
burgh, and the name Ashirni may be applicable to both species. At any rate 
the Manil Kara cannot be the M, Kauki of Linnzeus, if that has eight stamina, 
as Mr. Brown seems to suppose. 
I must here observe, that concerning the genus Mimusops there seems to be 
a fatality of confusion ; as Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 133.) for the Kauken Indorum 
quotes the Elenzi of the Hortus Malabaricus, and Herman, (Mus. Zeyl. p. 33.), 
and says that it is the Murumal of the Ceylonese ; while Linnzeus in the Flora 
Zeylanica (137, 138.) says that both species of Mimusops are called by the 
Ceylonese Munamul, or Manghunamul, and quotes p. 23. of Herman for the 
Kauken of Burman. 
