on the llortus Malakariais, Pari I. 



Cada Pilava, p. 97- fig* >-• 



Besides thePada vara (Hort. Mai. vii. /. 87.), which Beams to 

 be the Morinda umbellata of Linnaeus, and to which I shall have 

 occasion to return in this Corainnitary. we have in India two 

 distinct classes of Morindas, all of which thai I h;ivc seen, one 

 excepted, answer to the specific character -iwn of the Morinda 

 citrifolia, arborea, pedunculis solitariis : but the one which T ex- 

 cepted agrees so well in every respect but size with one of the 

 classes, that it should be included ; and the specific characters of 

 Linnaeus being thus unable to distinguish them from his Morinda 

 citrifolia, I shall enter into some detail concerning the whole. 



The first division of Morindai that I have seen in India, are 

 thus to be distinguished : pedunculis terminalibus geminis, vet la* 

 teralibus solitariis oppositifoliis. 



Species 1. 



Morinda citrifolia, caule arbusculoso erecto, pedunculis nudis 



brevissimis, stipulis obtusis, baccis unitis. 

 Morinda citrifolia. Burm. hid. 58. Willd. Sp. PI. i. <V)2. En- 



cxjcl. Meth. iv. 314. 

 Morinda caule arboreo, pedunculis solitariis. Linn. 77. Ziyi. 82. 

 Cada Pilava. Hort. Mai. i. 97- t. 52. 

 Bancudus latifolia. Herb. Amb. iii. 158. t. 99. 

 Arbor conifera Macandou Javanensium Bontii. Pluk. Amalth. 



27. 

 Colitur ubique ad pagos Indiae ob fructum. 



Arbuscula (vel Frutex) magna ramulis compressiusculis, ad petio- 

 los incrassatis, glabris. Folia opposita, approximate, ellip- 

 tica, integerrima, apice acuta, basi acuminata, nitida, venosa, 

 plus quam sexpollices longa. Petiolus teres, folio utrinque 

 decurrente alatus, brevissimus, g)aber. Stipvlce interfolia- 



vol. xiii. 3 7. ceae, 



