on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 151 
the Peralu, giving it the generic name Vodou, no doubt derived 
from the Sanscrita Vata ; but in this they have been guided by 
the form of the leaves. 
The younger Burman (F7. Ind. 227.) took up this plant by the 
name T'sjakela, joining to it the Ficus Surattensis et Malabarica, 
Mori folio of Garcin: but after this the plant seems to have 
been unnoticed until Mr. Aiton published the first edition of 
the Hortus Kewensis, when he called it Ficus venosa. Willdenow 
afterwards, in the Berlin Transactions, published an account of a 
tree which he took to be that of the Hortus Kewensis ; but when 
he published the Species Plantarum (iv. 1136.), he discovered 
that he had been mistaken. In place, however, of leaving the 
name venosd with the plant, which had been originally so called 
by Aiton, he transferred it to his new plant, and the Tyjakela he 
called Ficus infectoria, a word probably of his own coining, but 
. meant perhaps to imply its being a dye. This name, however, 
has been adopted in the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis 
(v. 485.), and by Dr. Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 60.) ; but rejected 
by M. Poiret (Enc. Meth. Sup. ii. 657.), who calls the Ficus 
venosa of Willdenow the F./eucantatoma,—rather a hard name. 
Specimens of the Tsjakela, under the name given by Willdenow, 
have been presented to the library at the India House; but I 
must observe that the specific character of the Ficus infectoria, 
given by Willdenow and copied by Aiton, is not applicable to 
the plant which I mean ; and that I judge it only to be the same, 
from the Tsjakela being quoted as synonymous. I shall there- 
fore describe it. 
Ficus venosa. Enc. Meth. Sup. ii. 657. 
Ficus infectoria. Hort. Beng. 66. Hort. Kew. v. 485. Willd. 
Sp. PI. iv. 1137, quod ad synonymon, sed non quod ad 
characterem. 
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