on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 189 
mans is a word which I cannot trace, as in Sanskrita the tree is named Jivala, 
which the Bengalese corrupt into Jiyal; and in the Hindwi language the name 
is Kashmulla or Kusambhar. 
Commeline justly remarks, that what Rheede calls the second kind of fruit 
must be considered as an excrescence similar to the gall-nut on the Oak, that 
is, as the work of an insect. Ray, as usual, gave this plant a new name, suit- 
able to his ideas of arrangement ; but no subsequent author, so far as I can 
trace, has attempted to class the Kalesjam, only M. Lamarck (Enc. Méth. 
i. 559.) considers it allied to Brucea, Comocladia, Rhus, and other genera 
among the T'erebinthacece. In this I have no doubt of his being right; and I 
can scarcely think that it possesses characters sufficient to distinguish it from 
the genus Rhus. Dr. Roxburgh however, I believe, described it under the 
name of Odina Woodier (Hort. Beng. 29.), although he does not quote the 
Hortus Malabaricus ; but I know his plant, which is very common in Bengal, 
and I have found it also in Kankana and in the adjacent parts of Karnata, in 
which latter country it is called Godela, under which name I gave specimens 
to Sir J. E. Smith, while I gave others to the library at the India House under 
both the name used by Dr. Roxburgh, and as the Rhus Odina, which I con- 
sider as the most proper designation. Under this I shall here give an account 
of the tree, taken from notes made in my journey to Mysore. 
Arbor magnitudine mediocris, succo resinoso scatens. Rami cicatricibus ob- 
cordatis exasperati. Folia decidua, alterna, cum impari pinnata, apices 
versus ramulorum congesta, non stipulacea. Pinne opposite, bi- vel tri- 
juge, integerrime, latere posteriore ad basin latiore oblique. 
Panicule utriusque sexus ante folia prodeuntes e gemma terminali, at post 
foliationem laterales, compositze ramis sparsis, patentibus, pubescentibus. 
Bractec infra singulas paniculas, quasi petiolorum rudimenta, subulate. 
Flores fasciculati, parvi, intus lutei, extra rubicundi, diceci; sed in planta 
foeminea flores nonnulli masculi szepe intermixti. | 
Masc. Calyx quadrifidus, parvus. Petala quatuor, margine revoluto oblonga, 
concava, obtusa, ungui lato calyci inserta. Filamenta sex, septem vel octo 
subulata, petalis breviora, alterna epipetala, alterna hypogyna. Rudimen- 
tum germinis superi minimum. Stylus brevis. Stigma quadrilobum. 
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