on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 93 
they may be covered by an acid cortex (“sapor in cortice acidus,” 
H. M.); but in the Kadamba, which I take to be the Arbor Noctis, 
there is not a vestige of capsules, and the fruit is composed of 
berries of a soft substance throughout. Unfortunately I have not 
seen the fruit of the Kadamba, which I think nearest allied to 
the Katou Tsjaka, and therefore I cannot say whether, like the 
Arbor Noctis, it is composed of berries, or whether, like the 
Katou Tsjaka, it is composed of capsule corticate. There is 
one circumstance, however, which induces me to suppose that 
this Kadamba is not the Katou Tsjaka. This in the figure of the 
Hortus Malabaricus is represented with the stylus no longer than 
the tube of the corolla; but in our Kadamba it is longer than 
the laciniæ. Although it has a similar stylus, it is quite diffe- 
rent from the Cephalanthus chinensis (Enc. Meth. Sup. iv. 63.), 
which has violet-coloured flowers, a truncated calyx, and the 
stamina included within the tube of the corolla. These diffe- 
rences between the Kadamba and Katou Tsjaka, however, are 
minute ; nor do I know that they are constant, even in the same 
individual at different periods of growth; and therefore I must 
leave the matter to be finally determined by those who have 
leisure to examine the plants in all their stages when culti- 
vated. Should the fruit of both Kadambas be similar, I should 
have no doubt that they are mere varieties; that both should be 
referred to the Nauclea Cadamba of Roxburgh, and to the same 
genus with the Arbor Noctis of Rumphius, which I call Cadamba 
nocturna ; and that they are both different from the Katou Tsjaka, 
which is a real Nauclea or Cephalanthus, for these genera are 
essentially the same. In the mean time I shall give an account 
of this Kadamba, which is most like the Katou Tyaka, premising 
that I am uncertain whether it be this or the other plant of the 
same name that Dr. Roxburgh called Nauclea Cadamba. Spe- 
cimens of the plant which I mean, are to be found in the collec- 
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