on the Hart us Malabaricut, Part I. 5\\ 



that it is erroneous, unless the plant of Egypt has some other 

 mark, besides the want of thorns, to distinguish it from the Mail 

 ansc/ii. Indeed, the genus Lazcsonia properly consists of only 

 one species, the A cr onychia appearing to be a different genus ; 



and as the names spinosa and incrmis will thus be laid aside, we 

 should have Cyprus or Cypros (Pliny uses both) for a specific 

 appellation, the name by which the plant has been known to tin 

 learned in Europe since the time of Dioscorides. 



Cumbulu, p. 75. Jig. 41. 



Linnams (Sp. PI.) and Burman (PL Ind. 131.) took this to be 

 the Bignonia Catalpa, a plant which is not found spontaneous in 

 India; but this has been abandoned. Gnertner (i. 2690 1|,M 

 pointed out that it was a real species of Gmclina, but gave it no 

 name, nor did he describe it. Neither Willdcnou . however, nor 

 the Encyclopedic Methodiqae mention it as a Gmclina, the latter 

 (ii. 224.) comparing it with the Clerodcndrum, the Tittius of 

 Rumphius, and the Cyrtandra of Forster. It is a very common 

 tree in India, the Gumbhari or Gutnhar of the natives, and in 

 the Ilortus Bengalensis (46.) is called Gmclina arborea. The 

 Bignonia Catalpa of Burman is no doubt the same plant. 



Drupa magnitudine pruni minoris, oblique-subrotunda, lareruin 

 uno convexiore, basi tecta calyce parvo subpentagono, 

 apice retusa, glabra, pulpa crassa ad putamen adha3rente 

 succulenta : succus flavo tingens. Nux dura, crassa, ob- 

 ovata, lsevis, e basi antro magno obliquo ad apicem fere 

 pertusa, bilocularis. Receptaculum carnosum, antrum nu- 

 cis implens. Semina solitaria. 



Nux secundum Rheedium rugosa. In germine paulo aucto, sunt 

 rudimenta seminum quatuor circa corpusculum centrale. 

 Seminum duobus abortientibus corpusculum centrale fit an- 

 trum nucis cum receptaculo. 



3 u 2 Cakschi, 



