on the Hortus Malabo ricus, Part I. 



49j 



valves. The cathartic pulp is by no means universal among 

 the species best defined as Cassias. 



BALAM PULLI,p. 39- fig- 23. 



Tamarindus indica auctorum. 



The specific name is a vile pleonasm, as being contained in the 

 generic appellation, which signifies the Date of India. 



CODDAM PULLI,_p. 41. fig. 24. 



It is now generally admitted that Linmeus was wrong in con- 

 sidering this as the tree which produces the true Gummi gutta 

 or Gamboge ; and that he was also wrong in separating it as a 

 genus from Garcinia. As he was in an error respecting the 

 Cambogia, modern botanists, in uniting the two genera, have 

 acted right in retaining the name Garcinia ; and when Willde- 

 now made the Cambogia a Garcinia, it would have been better if 

 he had not retained Cambogia as the specific name, as it still 

 leads to error ; for I believe there is no further ground for sup- 

 posing the drug called Camboge to be produced in Ceylon. 



Atty alu, ;;. A3. Jig. 25. 



In the Flora Indica of Burman (226.) this name is read Altij- 

 alu, which is retained in Willdenow, and even in the generally 

 accurate Hortus Kewensis, probably owing to the authors having 

 quoted on the authority of Burman without examining the Hor- 

 tus Malabar icus. 



The Atty-alu is usually conjoined with the Grossularia domes- 

 tica of Rumphius, and quoted for the Ficus racemosa If Hid. Sp. 

 PL iv. 1146. Enc. Meth. ii. 496. I think, however, that the 

 two plants are different ; and although the Grossularia domestica 

 is quoted in the Encyclopedic with doubt, I suspect that it is 

 the plant described in this work, especially as it quotes the 



vol. XUI. 3 k Grossularia 



