XII. A Commentary on the vx À Part of the Hortus Malaba- 
ricus. By Francis Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. and L.S. 
Read April 1, 1823. 
Karpa, p. 1, fig. 2, 3, 4, 5. 
Ix the reference to the figures prefixed to the text, the 1st plate 
is also quoted for the Kaida; but on the plate itself it is marked 
Kaida Taddi; and, that this is no mistake, is clear from the 
figure. Plate 2. represents the lower part of a branch, Pl. 3. 
represents the upper part of a branch, or young shoot, Pl. 4. 
the male flower, and Pl. 5. the female flower and fruit. 
The first four plants described in this volume form a genus of 
a singular appearance, which Rheede called Kaida, probably 
from some mistake, as Rumphius (Herb. Amb. iv. 141.) says 
that the name was unknown to such of the natives of Malabar 
as he consulted, who called these plants Dare. Kaida however 
may be derived from the Arabic Kadhi, a colony from Arabia, 
under the name of Moplay, having been very long settled in 
Malabar. 
Before the time of Rheede this singular genus was confounded 
by botanists with the 4nanas. Ray, however, seems to have 
been dissatisfied with this classification, but did not attempt to 
class it further than by calling it Frutex indicus. Plukenet at 
first (dlm. 277.) attempted another classification, calling a spe- 
cies, which he had received from Alexander Brown, Palme 
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