on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 183 
Kara ANGOLAM, p. 55. tab. 26. 
Another species of Angolam, as Commeline remarks, has been already no- 
ticed (tab. 17.). It seems strange that the Brahmans of Malabar should not 
consider this as of the same genus, calling the one Angolam, and the other 
Namidou ; but here I suspect some error in Rheede, who in such matters was 
by no means careful. 
Ray, in calling this plant Prunifera Indica, threw no light on its history ; 
and, so far as I can learn, it continued unnoticed by authors until quoted by 
M. Lamarck (Enc. Méth. i. 174.), who called it Alangium hexapetalum. 
M. Poiret is of opinion that the Diatoma of Loureiro is not a different species 
(Enc. Méth. Suppl. ii. 469.; v. 551.). It must however be observed, that the 
stigma of the Diatoma is said to be divided into lobes, while that of the Kara 
Angolam is represented quite entire, which would imply a more material dif- 
ference. I have even some suspicion that the Diatoma may be the Kare Kan- 
del of the Hortus Malabaricus (v. t. 13.), to a consideration of which I shall 
have occasion again to return. 
The “ Arbor baccifera Maderaspatana Mali Citriæœ foliis, nonnihil scabris, 
fructu coronato, gemello, ad sinum foliorum, pediculis curtis insidente” of Pluke- 
net (Amalth. 24. t. 370. f. 1.), which M. Lamarck quotes, with doubt indeed, 
for his Alangium hexapetalum, cannot I think belong to this genus, the habit is 
so different, especially as Plukenet in general has a singular EY in express- 
ing this point. 
Vahl and Willdenow (Sp. Pl. ii. 1175.) take the Alangium ani from 
Lamarck. Dr. Roxburgh in the Hortus Bengalensis has an Alangium hexa- 
petalum, which he says grows there spontaneously. This, as he does not quote 
the Hortus Malabaricus, leads me to suspect that his plant may be the Dia- 
toma of Loureiro, for I have never seen the Alangium hexapetalum. The 
Alangium tomentosum (Enc. Méth. i. 174.) is indeed very common in the 
woods everywhere south from the Ganges, and I shall here describe it. In 
the Hindwi dialect it is called Dhela. 
Arbor magna. Ramuli teretes, pubescentes, brevioribus apice sæpe spinescen- 
tibus. Folia alterna, ovato-oblonga, acuta, integerrima, costata, nervis 
