on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 123 
is an exotic, and not common any where that I have seen. 
From the name given to it by the Brahmans of Malabar it 
would appear to have come from Malacca. 
Nezr Pour: seu BILIMBI ALTERA MINOR, p. 57. tab. 47, 48. 
The Malabar generic name is Pouli; and Neli, prefixed as a 
specific appellation, implies a resemblance to the Neli or Phyl- 
lanthus Emblica of Linnæus, a more just and striking compa- 
rison than European naturalists for a long time pointed out; for 
they copied the error of Rheede in considering it as of the same 
genus with the Bilimbi. Pouli, as a generic name, seems also 
to be used in the Carca-puli, which is mentioned in the first 
part of the Hortus Malabaricus, p. 42, as belonging to what is 
now called an Ozycarpus. The chief resemblance here is, 
that the fruits of the two trees are nearly of the same size, 
colour, and taste. Rheede’s classing it with the Bilimbi is very 
little if at all better. "Ihe name Anwallis, which he says is used 
by the Brahmans of Malabar, is probably derived from the 
Arabic Ambela (for the tree is no doubt an exotic in India Pro- 
per), and was probably introduced from the Eastern islands by 
the Arabs of Malabar, who traded to that quarter long before 
the arrival of Europeans. 
Plukenet (Alm. 45.) thought that the Neli Pouli might be his 
Arbor Malabarica Fraxini ferè folio, ossiculo fructus octangulari 
(Phyt. t. 269. f. 2.), which would appear to be a Bradleja, and 
therefore to be at least of the same natural order; but it cer- 
tainly is a different plant: and he is the less excusable in this 
error, because he had described the real Ne/i Pouli under the 
name of Cheramei Acostæ folio Pyri (Mant. 45.), a name that had 
been given to it by John Bauhin. 
Rumphius (Herb. Amb. vii. 33. t. 17.) gives an excellent ac- 
count of the tree under the name Cheramela, but does not class 
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