1 82 Dr. F rancjs II A m i i/ro n 's Commen tarij 



the Eastern Islands, and in Malabar is found only about Euro- 

 pean settlements. Much therefore of what is said by Syen, in 

 the note concerning this species, must be considered as belong- 

 ing to the Nati Schambu. This has given rise to many difficulties 

 in quoting the older accounts of the two kinds ; for, among the 

 later botanists, there can be no doubt that the Malacca Schambu 

 is the Eugenia Jambos, while the Nati Schambu is the Eugenia 

 malaccemk; which shows that Linnaeus knew the real country of 

 at least the latter plant. 



Of the synonyma quoted for the Malacca Schambu in the Flora 

 Zeylanica by Linnaeus, that of Bauh. Fin. 441. may be considered 

 as belonging to the Nati Schambu. The same may be affirmed 

 of the Jambosa domestic* of Rumphius (Herb. Amb. i. 121. /. 37), 

 first introduced by the elder Burman among the synonyma of 

 the Malacca Schambu. This was corrected by his son in the Flora 

 Tndica (114.), while he introduced another error equally great, in 

 supposing the Jambosa silvestrh alba of Rumphius to be the same 

 with the Eugenia Jambos. This error continues in Willdenow ; 

 and the authors of the Erie. Meth. (iii. 197.) do not venture 

 to reject it altogether, but consider the two plants as varieties. 

 This Malacca Schambu or Eugenia Jambos, indeed, is not at all 

 mentioned by Rumphius, except in a paragraph (iv. 123.) where 

 he says that a tree of it stood before the castle of Victoria in 

 Amboyna, where it was called by the Portuguese name Jambo 

 d'agoa rosada. From this I conclude that it was an exotic, and 

 had been introduced by the Portuguese from India Proper, 

 where it grows in abundance : although Rumphius, from the 

 name given to it by Rheede, considers it as having come from 

 Malacca. As properly synonymous with this species we may 

 add the Jambos fructu luteo, mespili forma odorata, Gambu dicta. 

 Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 125. This indeed is the only form in which 

 I have seen the tree ; and I suspect that those who describe it 



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