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belonging to the same genus with the Anavinga, and which he called by this 
name. The plant of Rheede he has introduced from that author's description, 
and called Anavinga ovata (Enc. Méth. i. 148.). Jussieu, although he con- 
siders this genus as the same with the Casearia of Jacquin, prefers the name 
Anavinga ; but Willdenow prefers Casearia, probably thinking that Jacquin, 
having preceded Lamarck, had the best title to give a name; but he should 
perhaps have recollected that Rheede preceded Jacquin. By Willdenow the 
Anavinga of Rheede is called Casearia ovata (Sp. Pl. ii. 629.) ; but neither he 
nor any recent botanist seems to have seen the plant. 
In the woods of Gangetic India I have indeed found a tree nearly resembling 
the Anavinga, and in the Bengalese dialect called Kanjial. I have presented 
specimens of this to the library at the India House under the name of Samyda 
Canziala; for, until the fructification of all the species constituting the genera 
Samyda, Casearia, Anavinga, Pitumba, Iroucana, Athencea, Melistaurum, Gui- 
donia, Letia, Chetocrater, and Clasta are more fully ascertained, I think it 
most prudent to include all under the Linnzan name Samyda ; and these, with 
the Aquilaria, or Agallochum, and the Gyrinops Walla of Gartner (De Sem. 
ii. 276. £. 140. f. 6.), form a very natural assemblage of plants, which Jussieu 
places among the incerte sedis ; but I think them nearly allied to the Thymelee. 
They differ, however, in the following respects: calyx abbreviatus; squame 
corolliformes ; pericarpium determinate dehiscens. I shall here describe the 
Kanjiala of the Bengalese, as observed in the Rungpur district (Camrupa). 
Frutex sex pedes altus ramulis novis teretibus pilosis. Folia alterna, oblongo- 
ovata, latere anteriore latiore plerumque obliqua, costata, venosissima, 
serrulata; adulta nuda, acuta; juniora obtusa, subtus pubescentia. Pe- 
tiolus brevissimus, depressus: adultus nudus; junior pilosus. Stipule 
geminze laterales, minimae, deciduze. 
Pedunculi plures axillares, congesti, sed sepius in ramis anni preeteriti, ob 
folia decidua nudati, quasi infrafoliacei, breves, uniflori, teretes, pubes- 
centes, squamula ad basin bracteati. Flores parvi, herbacei, extra pubes- 
centes. 
Calyx foliolis subrotundis, concavis, duobus exterioribus angustioribus, quin- 
que-partitus, fundo vestitus disco concavo, ad marginem producto in 
