on the Hortus Malabaricus, Pint I. 505 



sule, I think that Gaertner lias done right in describing it as a 

 separate genus, under the name Emblica. Jn the Supplement to 

 the Encyclopedic (Art. Anvali) it is erroneously stated to differ 

 from the Plujllanthus in having two seeds in each cell of the 

 fruit: such is the case in every BhyUantku* that I know, al- 

 though we must allow, on the authority of Jussieu (Gen. PI, 425. ), 

 that some species of Vhyllanthufi have only three seeds in each 

 fruit. 



The name Shrubby P/n/llantlnis given in the llortns Kewtntii 

 (v. 335.) to this plant is peculiarly unfortunate, there being in 

 the genus a great many shrubs, with this only tree ; for in reality 

 it is nearly in size like the Holly, growing, when undisturbed, 

 twenty or thirty feet high ; but when young assuming the appear- 

 ance of a large bush, and in that state producing in abundance 

 both flower and fruit. The latter having been accurately de- 

 scribed by Gsertner, I shall only describe the flower, and men- 

 tion some circumstances by which the plant may be distinguished 

 from another species which I have seen, and which J shall de- 

 scribe at length, adding some account of a tree with a similar 

 fruit, but of which I have never seen the flower. 



Species 1. 

 Emblica officinalis. Gcertn. ii. 122. t. 108. f. 2. 

 Phyllanthus Emblica. Willd. Sp. PL iv. 587- Enajcl. Meth. v. 



301 ; Snpp. i. 403. Hort. Kew. v. 335. linn. Fl. Zcxjl. 333. 

 Nilacamaram. Hort. Mai. i, 69- t. 38. 

 Mirobalanus Embilica. Herb. Amb. vii. 1. t. 1. 

 Acacia zeylanica floribus luteis, &c. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. v. ; ubi 



omnia erroris plena. 

 Habitat ubique in India, siccioribus gaudens, sed humida non 



abnuens. 



Arbor erecta ramulis foliosis fasciculatis : rami basin versus sparsi, 



apicem 



