on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 95 
Nauclea orientalis. Gert. de Sem. i. 151. t. 30. f. 8. (exclusis | 
synonymis.) 
Thein Burmanorum. 
Habitat ubique in Indiæ aridioris sylvis. 
Arbor inter elatiores recta, cortice levi, materia firma.  Ramuli 
nudi, tetragoni, obtusanguli. Folia opposita, basi nunc 
acutiuscula, tunc sepius obtusa, vel etiam retusa, apice 
obtusiuscula, juniora subpubescentia, maturitate glabra, 
costis parallelis approximatis lineata; integerrima. Petiolus 
teres, canaliculatus, brevissimus, pubescens. Stipule in- 
terfoliaceæ opposite, caducæ, obovate, dorso carinatæ, 
petiolis longiores, nudæ, integerrimæ. 
Capitulum magnitudine Pruni terminale, subsessile. Flores odo- 
rati, subherbacei, bracteis apice incrassato obtusissimis, 
calyce longioribus interstincti. | 
Calyx omnino truncatus.. Corolla infundibuliformis, quinque- 
fida. Antheræ ex apice tubi exsertæ, subsessiles. Stylus 
corolle laciniis longior. Stigma capitatum, obtusum, ob- 
longum. 
Fructus a Gærtnero bene ADEE. 
PELA, p. 31. tab. 34. 
MarackA PELA, p. 33. tab. 35. 
These trees no doubt came originally from the West Indies, 
although the second is supposed in Malabar to have come from 
Malacca or China, probably because it came from Mexico by 
the route of the Philippines. The name Pe/a is evidently a 
corruption of Pera, the term used by the Brahmans, which 
again is the same with the Peyara of the Bengalese, both no 
doubt derived from the Peera of the Portuguese. I mention 
this, lest the word Pe/a (so unlike Guajava, the original name 
of 
