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Profefor Gmelins Linné’s Syflema Nature. 233 
in Hermann’s herbarium, the tickets of Madan and Ankænda had 
by fome accident been changed, and Linné thereby induced to give 
the name of Jambolifera to Ankænda, believing it to be the tree 
which bears the Jamboloins of Acofta. Dr. Koenig again, who 
Íeems to have made out the plants in Linn. Fl. Zeylan. almoft en- 
tirely by the Cingalefe names, fent this plant by the name of Myrtus 
cumini, as the name of Ankænda is in Fl. Zeylan. afcribed to Myr- 
tus, n. 185. (cumini) ; ; and hefent the Jambolana (Madan Cingal.) 
under the name of Jambolifera pedunculata. The fruit of An- 
kaenda is defcribed by Dr. Gærtner under the name of Cyminofma; 
but his firft fpecies, tab. 58. fig. a—H, cannot be the fame with Dr. 
Koenig's, as the petals are nearly of the fame length with the calyx: 
the other fpecies, which Gartner defcribes with petals three times 
nf " Mal. 5. tab. 15. Eve figure 
— s fpecimen in regard to flowers 
and leayes, and as to fruit with Gertner, tab, 58. fig 7. For further 
‘elucidation of this genus, which has been the fubject of fo much 
confufion, I take the liberty of introducing here, from Koenig's. 
manuicripts vol. 17. p. 189 (in Sir Jofeph Banks's library), his de- 
{cription of the flower, made in Ceylon from the living plant. 
** Calyx tetraphyllus : foliola orbicularia,. patentiffima, glabra, vi- 
ridia, longitudine vix bafin floris æquantia: duo minora. Petala 
quatuor, lanceolata, patenti-recurvata, canaliculata, acuta, fubun- 
guiculata, viridi-albicantia, floribus Pavettæ fimillima habitu & ` 
magnitudine. Flamenta.o&to, alterna. receptaculo, alterna petalo- 
rum bafi adnata, patentia, lanceolato-linearia, plana. bafi pilofa, 
petalis breviora.& concolora. Authere oblongz, verfatiles. Ger- 
men, ne&ario carnofo, clevato, oétangulari, piloio, luteo adnatum, 
ovatum, tomentofum, Stylus erectus, glaber, ftaminibus brevior, 
Voz. II. Hh | vuridis.. 
