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feminine would be Ambetti. On the Erawadi this tree is called 
Lan-bu. | 
In the same places with the Sonneratia acida I found another 
tree, which in habit so strongly resembles it, that, notwithstand- 
ing considerable differences in fructification, I think it cannot be 
separated ; and Dr. Roxburgh, to whom I showed it on my return 
from Ava in 1796, was of the same opinion. I call it Sonneratia 
apetala ; and Dr. Roxburgh has adopted the same name (Hort. 
Beng.39.); under which name I sent home specimens and a draw- | 
ing, now probably in the collection of the late Sir Joseph Banks ; 
and I have since given others to the library at the East India 
House, where also a copy of the drawing may be seen. This tree 
the Bengalese call Kheora, and the people of Pegu Kam-ba-la, 
neither acknowledging it to belong to the same genus with the - 
Sonneratia acida; Although very common among the estuaries of 
the Ganges, and very beautiful, having a general resemblance to 
the Saliz babylonica, it would seem to have escaped the notice 
of botanists; so that until my return from Ava, Dr. Roxburgh 
had not observed it, although it grows in the immediate vicinity 
of the Botanical Garden, in which, however, he had not then 
taken up his residence. | |: |... 
SER i TP Dore TT aS la wm s care Ss eae 
Habitat in Bengal et regni Peguensis ripis cænosis æstu inun- 
datis. mes 
Arbor mediocris. Radix cornicula plura emittit simillima corni- 
culorum e Sonneratia acida prodeuntium. (Vide Herb. Amb. 
iii. 112.) Rami sparsi, penduli, teretes, glabri. Ramuli 
oppositi, divaricati, glabri, filiformes. Folia opposita, pe- . 
_ tiolata, ovato-lanceolata, marginum altero gibbosiore ob- 
liqua, integerrima, sæpids obtusa, enervia, avenia, plana, 
carno- 
