on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 231 
Sanscrita name Nimbo, or Nimba, used by Acosta, by Garcias ab Horto, and 
by John Bauhin, was not retained by moderns ; for the names Azedarach and 
Azadirachta, applied to this and another species of the same genus, are both 
corruptions of the same Persian words, signifying the tree Aza, the first cor- 
ruption having been adopted by Dodoneus, and the latter by Breynius. The 
similarity of the foliage of this tree and that of the Ash is so striking, as to 
justify C. Bauhin in having described it Fravino similis; and it is not impos- 
sible that Aza and Ash may be the same word. 
Plukenet, from a very superficial resemblance of its fruit to an Olive, calls 
the tree Olea Malabarica fraxineo folio e Maderaspatana (Alm. 269.), and gives 
a figure (Phyt. t. 247. f. 1.) representing the leaves especially, so that it cannot 
be mistaken. This plant of Plukenet, with several of the synonyma belonging 
to it, by the elder Burman was referred to his Azedarach fructu polypyreno 
(Thes. Zeyl. 40.), instead of to his Azedarach foliis falcato serratis (Thes. Zeyl. 
40. £. 15.), which he properly says is the Aria Bepou. 
Linnzeus, adhering to the resemblance between the dria Bepou and the Ash, 
has given the Greek name of the latter tree to the new genus; and the dria 
Bepou in the Flora Zeylanica (161.) is called Melia foliis pinnatis. The errors 
respecting the synonyma into which the elder Burman fell are here properly 
corrected ; but I cannot think it justifiable to give the Greek name of a well 
know European plant to an exotic genus. In the Species Plantarum the name 
Azadirachta was applied to the Aria Bepou (Burm. Fl. Ind. 101.), concerning 
which I have already given my opinion; nor has any change in name or 
synonyma since taken place. | 
I shall here give an account of a tree nearly allied to the Aria Bepou, which 
I found in moist woods both in Carnata and in the lower parts of Nepal, so 
that it probably extends all over India. Specimens from the former, with a 
drawing, were given to Sir J. E. Smith, and specimens from the latter to 
the library at the India House. As I have not seen the fruit, I cannot posi- 
tively say that it is a species of Melia; but I have called it Melia integer- 
rima, and shall describe it as observed in the Western Ghats ascending from 
Cancana. 
Arbuscula. Folia alterna, apices versus ramulorum conferta, pinnata. Foliola 
