508 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



hiscens, tri- vel quadri-locularis, parietibus et septis duris 

 crassis. Semina, abortu forte, solitaria, meniscoidea, sub- 

 rotunda, ex apice loculi interiore apicem versus suspensa. 

 Integument um duplex : exterius molle, glutinosum ; inte- 

 rius politum. Albumen tenue. Embryo rectus, non spiralis. 

 Cotyledones plana?, crassae, laterum altero ad umbilicum 

 verso. Radkula ad extremitatem seminis pendulam posita. 



Odallam, p. 71. fig> 39- 

 Rumphius, in describing his Arbor lactaria (Herb. Amb. ii. 

 243. t. 81.), fell into the mistake of quoting the Odallam as syno- 

 nymous, in which he was followed by Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 251.), 

 who for his Manghas lactescens, Sec. quotes both with many syno- 

 nyma belonging partly to one, partly to the other, and partly 

 perhaps to neither ; for neither his drawing nor description can 

 be well reconciled with either, having sessile blunt leaves, while 

 the fruit is much smaller than that of the Odallam, and of a very 

 different shape from that of the Arbor lactaria. Although, there- 

 fore, Burman no doubt quotes many authorities referring partly 

 to the Arbor lactaria, and partly to the Odallam, I doubt much 

 of either being the plant figured and described by him : yet this 

 plant of Burman is the true original of the Cerbera Manghas of 

 Linnaeus, who in the Flora Zeylanica (106.) quotes the Odallam 

 with doubt, and does not notice the Arbor lactaria. By the 

 time, however, that the younger Burman wrote (Flor. Ind. 66.), 

 all the three plants were united, and continued to be so until 

 Gartner separated the Odallam, calling it Cerbera Odallam, with 

 a barbarous indeclinable termination, and withal mis-spelt, as 

 Rheede uses Odallam : but a typographical error in the Flora 

 Zeylanica having produced Odollam, it continued to be used by 

 almost all botanists, until corrected in the Hortus Kewensis, in 

 which work it is quoted, without synonyma, for the Cerbera 



Manghas. 



