on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 203 
Mysore, iii. 135.). There is, however, a more essential difference which really 
exists between the two trees. The Ponna forms widely extended groves or 
avenues near villages, with immense stately erect stems, as Rheede says, “ est- 
que vastz magnitudinis, altitudine nonaginta, crassitie vero duodecim pedum 
mensuram circiter equans.” The Bintangor, again, although its stem is very 
large, grows in a row along the edge of the shore, between the other trees and 
the sea, over which its stem hangs obliquely. * Arbor ipsa est vastissima, tam 
crasso constans trunco, ut fere nulla ipsi similem quoad crassitiem gerat, atque 
hic, uti dictum est, nunquam erigitur, sed semper inclinat—ut vix sub ea de- 
currere quis possit, ac superior tantum trunci pars parum sese erigit, ita ut 
ejus viridis modo coma supra aquam sese extendat." Besides, the leaves of the 
Bintangor are emarginated (* superius subrotunda ac parum fissa, seu bifida"), 
which is by no means the case with the Ponna. "The divisions of the flower 
are also more numerous, and the flowers themselves larger in the Bintangor 
than in the Ponna, being composed of nine or ten leaves, and as large as the 
flower of an Apple-tree, while the leaves in the flower of the Ponna are eight 
in number, and the flower is no larger than that of the Hepatica. 
. The elder Burman, however, both in his Commentary on Rumphius and in: 
the Thesaurus Zeylanicus (131.), had no doubt of the Bintangor maritima 
being the same with the Ponna. The synonyma, however, which he gives pro- 
bably belong to the plant of Ceylon, no doubt the same with that of Malabar, 
because he says, “arbor est inter Canelliferas frequens," that is, it grows in 
the sandy groves near the coast, like the Ponna, instead of lining the edge of 
the shore, like the Bintangor. Burman rejects the American synonyma adopted 
by Plukenet; and the only plant, except the Bintangor quoted by him, which 
seems to be different from the Ponna, is probably the Focraha of Madagascar, 
for it may be doubted whether a tree of Malabar is likely to be found in that 
island. 
Older botanists, as Vaillant, rejecting the unmeaning generic names Arbor 
Indica of Plukenet, and Prunifera seu Nucifera of Ray, had called this tree 
Kalophyllodendron ; but, this being barbarously long, Burman called the genus 
Inophyllum, and this species I. flore octofido ; but Linnzeus, with his usual spirit 
of innovation, changed the name given by his friend into Calophyllum, and in 
the Flora Zeylanica (201.) he called this species C. foliis ovalibus, omitting 
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