on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IT. 183 
Baccæ plures receptaculo subrotundo pedicellis mediocri- 
bus insidunt oblongæ, utrinque obtusæ, 5- seu 6-loculares. 
Loculi monospermi, uno super alterum posito, septis trans- 
versis tenuissimis discreti. Seminum albumen rimis profun- 
dis transversis incisum. : 
Cana Nosi, p. 18, fig. 11. 
Bem Nost, p. 15, fig. 12. 
The earliest botanists, who treated of Indian plants, such as 
Acosta and Garcias ab Horto, called these shrubs by the name 
Negunda or Negundo, the origin of which is rather doubtful. 
Rheede indeed says, that it is the name given by the Brahmans 
of Malabar; but in this I suspect some mistake, as in general 
they use either Sanscrit or Hindwi names, and these plants are 
called Sindhuka and Nisinda, in the sacred and vulgar dialects 
of Gangetic India. We might, I think, agree with Rumphius 
(Herb. Amb. iv. 48.) in considering Negundo as a vulgar name, 
that is one originating in mistake, and not derived from any 
known language, unless it be a corruption of the Malay word 
Lagundi, which is not improbable, L and N being interchange- 
able letters. 
By these early writers the Negundo was divided into two 
kinds, male and female, not distinguished by the one producing 
only flowers, and the other fruit also, but from the one being 
considered most pregnant with medical virtues. The Cara Nosi 
was reckoned the male, and the Bem Nosi the female. 
Caspar Bauhin endeavoured to distinguish these two kinds by 
their size, calling the female Vitex trifolia major. 
Plukenet, in imitation of Breynius, endeavoured to distinguish 
these two kinds by the margins of their leaves, calling the female 
Vitex trifolia minor Indica, and the male Vitex trifolia minor In- 
dica serrata (Alm. 390.); but this is founded on error, as Rum- 
phius 
