on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 97 
gave specimens and a drawing to Sir J. E. Smith, to whom also 
I at the same time gave specimens of a dwarf species of the 
same genus, which Dr. Roxburgh calls Careya herbacea, and 
specimens of the latter are also lodged in the library at the 
India House. 
The following is a description of the Pelou, which I do not 
find mentioned in any author since the time of Rheede; nor 
does Dr. Roxburgh quote it for his Careya arborea, deterred 
probably by the figure having been taken from a plant with old 
worm-eaten decayed leaves, in which the serratures are badly 
represented: but Rheede expressly says ‘‘folia in ambitu cre- 
nata;; and it must be observed, that he properly represents the 
leaves on a different branch from the flowers; for in the cool 
season the tree loses the greater part, or even the whole of its 
leaves and flowers in spring, before the fresh leaves open ; so that 
it is only a rare branch that can then be found with any leaves, 
and these generally old, withered, and gnawed by insects. 
Careya arborea. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 52. 
 Pelou. Hort. Mal. iii. 35. t. 36. 
Kumb Bengalensium. 
Kumbi Hindice. 
Cumbia Coneanæ. Buchanan’s Mysore iii. 187. 
Paylay Tamulorum. 
Gaula Carnatæ. 
Habitat ubique in Indi: sylvis. 
Arbor inter minores ligno feetido. Rami cicatricibus foliorum 
exasperati. Folia alterna, apices versus ramulorum con- 
gesta, decidua, obovata, minute serrata, nervo medio sub- 
tus carinato-costata, venosa, nuda (Rheedius habet lanugi- 
nosa). Petiolus brevissimus, trigonus, acutangulus, mar- 
ginatus, non stipulaceus. 
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