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it with any other. The elder Burman by a very rude classifica- 
tion calls the Neli Pouli, Malus indica fructu parvo, rotundo, 
acido, striato ; and notices that the Ceylonese call it Nelli, the 
same name that is given to the PAyllanthus Emblica, a resem- 
blance to which has been already mentioned. 
Linnæus, in the F/ora Zeylanica, 179, returned to the error of 
Rheede and Ray in classing it with the Bilimbi, and called it 
Averrhoa ramis nudis fructificantibus, pomis subrotundis: and 
when he gave specific names, the Neli Pouli was called Averrhoa 
acida (Burm. Fl. Ind. 106.), although it is less acid than either 
of the other plants with which it was then classed. In the 
Mantissa, 124, Linnæus described a plant called Cicca disticha, 
which, he says, has a capsular fruit; and which therefore may 
be the plant that Plukenet compared to the Neli Pouli, —that is, 
a Bradleja ; but his son, notwithstanding this great difference, 
alleged (Suppl. 416.) that the Cicca disticha and Averrhoa acida 
are the same: and such is now the general opinion among 
botanists (Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 332. Hort. Kew. v. 258. Lamarck 
Ill. Gen. t. 757. f. 1.), although M. Lamarck (Enc. Meth. ii. 1.) 
points out the difficulty which I have mentioned. Whether or 
not deterred by this, or whether attracted by the resemblance to 
the Phyllanthus Emblica, Dr. Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 69.) quotes 
the Neti Pouli for his Phyllanthus longifolius : but I here suspect 
some mistake; for he says that its Bengalese name is Lodh, 
which is a plant used in dyeing, and never, so far as I know, 
applied to the Cheramela: besides, he has also a Phyllanthus 
Cheramela (Hort. Beng. 104.), to which, I suspect, the quotation 
from the Hortus Malabaricus should have belonged. 
In the Rungpur district I have found a plant with leaves very 
like the Neli Pouli, which I suspect belongs to the real genus 
Cicca, as described by the elder Linnæus, and to which the 
Cicca congesta of Lamarck probably should be referred, but 
which 
