92 Dr. Francis HamiLton’s Commentary 
can, with any certainty, be said to represent the Katou Tsjaka, 
both having the pedunculus much too long, and therefore both 
agreeing with M. Lamarck's figure: yet, as the second figure in 
Rumphius resembles most M. Lamarck's figure, I should quote 
for his N. orientalis the Bancalus media (Herb. Amb. iii. 84. t. 55. 
J-2.) 
When I returned from Ava to Calcutta (1796), I know that 
Dr. Roxburgh considered the Katou Tsjaka as the Nauclea ori- 
entalis, and under that name sent it to the Kew Garden, where 
it still remains (Hort. Kew. i. 366.): but Dr. Roxburgh has 
since ( Hort. Beng. 14.) left out altogether the N. orientalis and 
Katou Tsjaka ; and the plant which he and I considered as such, 
or at least one very like it, he calls Nauclea Cadamba. For this 
he may have had different reasons. In the first place, Gærtner 
(De Sem. i. 151. t. 30. f. 8.) has, I have little doubt, described 
the fruit of Dr. Roxburgh's Nauclea parvifolia (Hort. Beng. 14.) 
as that of the N. orientalis. The synonyma, however, which he 
quotes are totally erroneous : for his plant has sessile capitula ; 
but those of both Katou Tsjaka and Bancalus are pedunculated. 
In the next place, although I think it probable that the Katou 
Tsjaka is called Kadam in the vulgar, and Kadamba in the 
sacred dialect of Gangetic India ; and although, no doubt, 
Dr. Roxburgh's Cadamba is the same word, yet the same names 
. are given to what I take to be the Arbor noctis s. Bancalus femina 
et latifolia of Rumphius( Herb. Amb. iii. 84. t. 54.), which although 
very like indeed to what I consider as the Katou Tsjaka, yet has 
a fruit which can by no means be reconciled with the description 
given by Rheede, who says, “ fructus globosi virides sunt, qui 
dein rubicundi, tandemque nigricantes et fragiles evadunt ; et si 
asperius tractentur, facile solvuntur, ac in plures oblon gos virides 
nitentes folliculos secedunt.” Now I think that the folliculi 
nitentes imply capsules, such as described by Gærtner, although 
they 
