302 Dr. Francis HAMILTON’s Commentary 
punctato truncata, quadrilocularis, ad latera indeterminate 
dehiscens, septis e medio laterum receptaculi centralis qua- 
drangularis prodeuntibus. Semina plurima, parva, angulis 
receptaculi insidentia, conferta. 
Under the name of Ludwigia perennis, no doubt given to it by 
Linnzus, I sent specimens of this plant from Ava, which were 
given to Sir Joseph Banks ; and I have since preseuted others to 
the Collection of the East India Company, by the name of Lud- 
wigia diffusa, for the name perennis can scarcely be continued 
to an annual plant. Whether or not Dr. Roxburgh meant to 
describe it under the name of L. parviflora, I cannot say. He 
quotes no synonyma (FI. Ind. i. 440.) ; and some points of his 
description differ from mine; yet in most circumstances they 
agree, and a plant so common should have been known to him. 
That he meant this plant, is more probable from the native 
name Bem Lubunga, which is annexed to it in the Hortus Benga- 
lensis (11.) ; for this name signifies the Wild Clove, from the very 
obvious similitude of its fruit. 
Carru CaRAMRBU, p. 97. fig. 50. 
This plant is no doubt very nearly allied to the former; but 
the resemblance of its fruit to the clove is less striking than in 
the Carambu, so that Commeline is still less happy in calling it a 
Caryophyllus. . 
Linnæus (Fl. Zeyl. 170.) joined this with an American plant, 
which he called Jussiæa erecta floribus tetrapetalis octandris sessi- 
libus, and which had become common in European gardens ; but 
the name is now confined to the American plant, from which 
the Cattu Carambu is acknowledged to be different. 
The younger Burman (FI. Ind. 103.) quotes the Cattu Carambu 
for his Jussiea suffruticosa B, although it would appear that the 
plant 
