212 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Comme7itary 



call this plant a Glycyrrhiza, seems very remarkable, and I sus- 

 pect some error in his being quoted. 



In the llortits Kezaensis (iii. 32.) the author returns to the 

 opinion of the elder Burman, and considers the Bonducella as 

 the same with the Bonduc, quoting for his plant, which he calls 

 G. Bonduc, the Globuli majores of Rumphius, and omitting the 

 Caretti, which I consider the same on account of the lower leaf- 

 lets resembling stipulffi, which is not the case in the G. Bonduc 

 of Linnffius, that is, the Frutex' glohulorum, a plant which, it 

 would seem, the author of the Hortus Kewensis had not seen, 

 and which is indeed rare in India proper, if it be found there at 

 all. 



Dr. Roxburgh received the G. Bonduc from Sumatra, and 

 returned to the first opinion of Linnaeus, calling it a Ccesalpinia; 

 but then he transferred along with it the Bonducella or Caretti, 

 and I must confess, that, upon a full examination of a good 

 many species, I can observe no other distinction between the 

 leguminous Guilandinas and the Ccesalpinias than a prickly and 

 smooth legumen ; and even this distinction is rendered less 

 striking from the fruit of the Ccesalpinia Mimosoides, which is not 

 indeed prickly, but is covered with hairy tubercles, so that it 

 cannot be called smooth : but to this I shall have occasion 

 to return, when I treat of the Kal Todd a Vadi. If all the 

 leguminous Guilandinas were with Dr. Roxburgh joined with 

 the Ccesalpinias, the name Guilandina could with propriety be 

 reserved for the species with capsules, and we might thus be rid 

 of the modern Greek Hyper anthera, which, if it has any mean- 

 ing, implies nimisjtoridus, a term by no means applicable to the 

 genus. Even admitting the botanical anthera to be convertible 

 into the Greek av6n^og, Hyperanthera would imply occupying the 

 higher part of the anthera as vxe^oixog implies occupying the higher 



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