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from Ceylon, from which island an example of this species is 

 extant at Kew, duly referred to -G. salvifolia Heyne ex Koth in a 

 pencil note hy Planchon. Although Gaertner had only the fruit 

 of " G. Damine" before him, his description, framed to distinguish 

 it from his G. Mallococca, taken with the figure, is sufficient for 

 the identification of the species. The specific name is based on a 

 vernacular title given comprehensively to different Grewias from 

 ancient uses of their wood in making bows, spearshafts, and the 

 like ; in North India it is usually applied in the form "dhamman " 

 (pronounced " dhummun ") to G. oiypositifolia Roxb., or to G. elas- 

 tica Royle. 



The next species of the Flora Inclica — No. 6, G. orientalis 

 Willd. — requires a notice to itself ; all that can be said here is 

 that while Roxburgh was justified in citing Rheede's figure of 

 " Pai-paroe" for his own " orient alls " (leaving Willdenow for the 

 moment out of consideration), the original citation of the same 

 figure in Sp. PI. ii. 964 was entirely misleading, for Linn6 ex- 

 pressly based his "orientalis" on types that are to be seen in 

 Hermann's Herbarium, three of which are G. colunmaris Smith, 

 while one is G. emarginata Wight & Aniott ; none of the four 

 represent the plant of the Hortus Malaharicus or even faintly 

 resemble it. Rheede's "Pai-paroe" was in all likelihood the 

 species that was sent by Roxburgh to Smith as " G. Microcos," 

 which is the type of Roxburgh's (not Linn^'s) " G. orientalist 



Smith was well aware of the trap thus provided for the un- 

 wary, but he deliberately left it open, and even added a lure by 

 suggesting in his own herbarium and in that of Linnieus that a 

 plant which is most likely the " commutata " of De Candolle 

 (Prodr. i. 511, no. 32) was " Greivia jnlosa." G. pilosa Roxburgh 

 and a host of futile synonyms are the fruit of this regrettable 

 proceeding, but the original ''pilosa" of Lamarck (Poiret in 

 Encyclopedie, iii. 43 (1789) ) is a mere synonym of the true orientalis 

 of Linne, founded on an error which was tacitly admitted and 

 substantially, though not avowedly, corrected by Poiret in 1811 

 (Suppl. ii. 845). 



G. pilosa Roxburgh will have to be discussed later on, but, in 

 any case, the name ''pilosa" should be finally excluded from use 

 under this genus. 



This brings us to the seventh species of the Flora Inclica, 

 G. asiatica, which is happy in having no pre-Linnean history. 

 The type was gathered in a garden at Surat by Christian Henrik 

 Braad (1728-1781), a supercargo in the service of the Royal 

 Swedish East India Company, a correspondent of Linnaeus, and 

 probably a member of the Kongl. (pr. Svenska) Academie of 

 Stockholm, to the Transactions of which he contributed two 

 papers, one " On the Coffee Plantations and Commerce of Yemen 

 or Arabia Felix " (Handlingar, 1761, pt. iv. p. 252) ; the other 

 " On the Sago Palm and the food prepared therefrom " (Hand- 

 lingar, 1775). Braad's label is attached to the Linnean specimen; 

 the upper part is manifestly in his handwriting, and runs, "No. 1. 

 bar smil roda sura bar, hvad kallas det efter species plant." The 



