on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 227 
and Linnæus actually saw some plant, which had a fructification 
like what they described by the name of Leea; and, although 
Linnæus may have afterwards by mistake added some species of 
Aquilicia to the original Leea, that there exists such a genus as 
he described, which is allied to the Sapotæ, as Jussieu (Gen. 
Plant. 170.) supposes. 
The Nalugu belongs no doubt to the Aquilicia of Jussieu, as 
he justly observes (l. c. 294.) ; but its place in the natural system 
is liable to doubt. Its chief resemblance to the Melie, where 
Jussieu places it, is in the tubus staminifer of the corolla; but in 
this there is a great difference between the Aquilicia and Melia, 
the former having the insertion of the filaments on the outside of 
the tubus antheriferus, while the antheræ are inserted within the 
" tubus of the Melie. From the structure of the seed, well de- 
scribed by Gærtner, the Aquilicia appears also to have a consi- 
derable affinity to the Hedera; and the Hedera is more nearly, 
perhaps, allied to the Aralie than to the Caprifolie ; so that Lin- 
nius was so far at least justified in uniting the Nalugu with the 
Aralia, to which it has also a strong resemblance in the leaves 
and petiolus, and in these it differs totally from the Sapotæ and 
Melie ; although the flower has a considerable affinity to the 
former, as the tubus antheriferus may be considered as five ap- 
pendices conjoined ; and it is in this junction that the chief dif- 
ference between the Leea, as described by Linnieus, and the 
Aquilicia consists. It must however be admitted, that in. both 
Hedera and Aralia, and in all kindred plants, the germen is 
below the calyx, while in the Aquilicia itis above. On the whole, 
the Aquilicia is an anomalous genus, not strictly resembling any 
other yet known. 
Among the hills near Munzpet I found a plant, that in the 
form of its leaflets bears a striking resemblance to the Nalugu 
which I consider to be the Leea æquata ; but in place of being a 
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