128 Dr. Francis Haurrrox's Commentary 
ensis (iv. 196.) this figure of Plukenet is the only authority quoted, 
we may fairly infer that the proper Bombax heptaphyllum of 
. European botanists is an American plant, and not the Moul 
Elavou, although it was probably the flowers of the latter which 
M. Cavanilles saw, and although it no doubt is the Bombar 
heptaphyllum of Dr. Roxburgh. It is certainly also one of the 
plants which must be referred to the Gossampinus of Pliny. I 
shall therefore call it 
Gossampinus rubra. 
Bombax heptaphyllum. Hort. Beng. 50. 
Bombax Ceiba. Burm. Fl. Ind. 145. (exclusis synonymis ad 
. plantam Americanam spectantibus.) 
Xylon foliis digitatis, caule aculeato. Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 221. 
(exclusis synonymis omnibus nisi RAeedii et Rai.) 
Moul Elavou. Hort. Mal. iii. 61. 1. 52. 
Arbor Lanigera sive Gossampinus Plinii. Bontius, 1.6. c.14. 
Hort. Mal. iii. 60. 
Rukta (rubra) Shimul Bengalensium. 
Habitat in India ubique vulgatissime. 
BzrurTA TsJAMPAKAM, p.63. tab. 53. 
The comparison of this by the Dutch inhabitants of Malabar 
and naturalists to the Chestnut is an attempt at classification no 
better than that of the Hindus, who class it with the Michelia 
Vatica, Ochna, &c. &c.; for the word here written Tsjampakam 
seems to be the same with what is also called Champaka, Cham- 
paca, Champacam, Changpa, and even Champa, although this last 
is applied to several of the Monocotyledones : so that the plants 
to which it is given seem to have no other general character 
than that of producing showy and odorous flowers. The name 
Naga Tampo, said to be given to this tree by the Brahmans of 
Malabar, 
