on the Horlus Malabaricus, Port II. 227 



and Linnaeus actually saw some plant, which had a fructification 

 like what they described by the name of Leea ; and, although 

 Linnaeus may have afterwards by mistake added some species of 

 Aquilicin to the original l.een, that there exists such a genus as 

 he described, which is allied to the Sapotce, as Jussieu (Gew. 

 Plant. 170.) supposes. 



The Nalugu belongs no doubt to the AqulUcia of Jussieu, as 

 he justly observes (/. c. 294.) ; but its place in the natural system 

 is liable to doubt. Its chief resemblance to the MelicE, where 

 Jussieu places it, is in the tubus staminifer of the corolla ; but in 

 this there is a great difference between the Aquilicia and Melia, 

 the former having the insertion of the filaments on the outside of 

 the tubus antheriferus, while the antherae are inserted within the 

 tubus of the Melice. From the structure of the seed, well de- 

 scribed by Gartner, the Aquilicia appears also to have a consi- 

 derable affinity to the Hedera ; and the Hedera is more nearly, 

 perhaps, allied to the Aralia than to the Caprifolia ; so that Lin- 

 naeus was so far at least justified in uniting the Nalugu with the 

 Aralia, to which it has also a strong resemblance in the leaves 

 and petiolus, and in these it differs totally from the Sapofce and 

 Melice ; although the flower has a considerable affinity to the 

 former, as the tubus antheriferus may be considered as five ap- 

 pendices conjoined ; and it is in this junction that the chief dif- 

 ference between the Leea, as described by Linnaeus, and the 

 Aquilicia consists. It must however be admitted, that in both 

 Hedera and Aralia, and in all kindred plants, the germen is 

 below the calyx, while in the Aquilicia it is above. On the whole, 

 the Aquilicia is an anomalous genus, not strictly resembling any 

 other yet known. 



Among the hills near Mungger I found a plant, that in the 

 form of its leaflets bears a striking resemblance to the Nalugu, 

 which I consider to be the Leea aquata ; but in place of being a 



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