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 as we can judge from the imperfect figure of the first {Fhjt. 1. 146. 



/. 1.), it has simple leaves ; and the second, from the term diphyl- 

 los, is probably equally unlike. 



Rumphius quotes the iSlalifgu for the Frutex aquosus mas {Herb. 

 Amb. iv. 102. t. 44.), the stem of which is armed with prickles 

 (trunci hinc inde spinulas quasdem gerentes, quae in ordines lo- 

 cuntur), while that of the Nalugu is unarmed. This error, 

 excusable in the blindness of the venerable Dutch Governor, 

 has led to several gross errors, some subsequent writers having 

 blindly followed his quotation. 



M. Lamarck (Enc. Meth. i. 217.) quoted the Nalugu for the 

 Aquilicia sambucina of Linnaeus (Mant. 211.), which he con- 

 siders as the same with the Staphylea indica of Burman {Fl. Ind. 

 75. t. 24. f. 2.), that is, the Gingiran of the Javanese ; and he 

 considers the Frutex aquosus femina of Rumphius (Herb. Amb. 

 iv. 103. t. 44.), or Gangiran Murra of the Javanese, as a mere 

 variety of the same species, rejecting the Frutex aquosus mas, 

 which Rumphius had held to be the Nalugu, and which Linnaeus 

 quoted for the Aquilicia sambucina : but the Aquilicia sambucina 

 of Linnaeus, the Staphylea indica of Burman, and the Frutex 

 aquosus femina of Rumphius have bipinnated leaves, while those 

 of the Nalugu are simply pinnated. It is true, that M. Lamarck 

 says, " ses feuilles sont une ou deux fois ailees : " but this de- 

 scription, I suspect, is derived from the figures of Rheede and 

 Rumphius united, and not from nature ; as he afterwards 

 (ii. 611.) calls it Gastonia Nalugu folds pinnat is folioUs serratis. 

 How he learned that it has ten stamina, on which account he 

 classed it with the Gastonia, i do not know ; and I suspect, that 

 this opinion may have merely arisen from an expression in the 

 text, which, if fully considered, will not warrant such a conclu- 

 sion. Rheede merely says, " ex medio florum eminet capitu- 

 lum album (nectarium) quod in vertice decem denticulis bre- 



vibus 



