on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 151 



he properly rejects the Butonica terrestris alba as synonymous, he falls into an 

 error equally great in calling it the Butonica sylvestris {terrestris) rubra {Herb. 

 Amb. iii. 181. t. 115.) of Rumphius ; for European botanists seem to have 

 thought it necessary, as Rheede had described two Samstravadis, that these 

 should be the same with the two Butonicas of Rumphius ; whereas the latter 

 does not describe the Samstravadi, nor mention any plant by the name of 

 Butonica sylvestris; nor does Rheede notice the Butonica tei-restris rubra. 

 M. Lamarck saw specimens of his plant ; and from the account which he gives 

 of the calyx, it was evidently the Samstravadi of Rheede. Willdenow, on the 

 contrary, says nothing to enable us to judge whether his specimens belonged 

 to the Samstravadi or to the Butonica terrestris alba. 



Jussieu was the first, as far as I know, to point out a tolerably correct 

 arrangement of the Samstravadi, by separating it from the Eugenia and 

 placing it {Gen. Plant. 361.) in the same genus with the Butonica of Rum- 

 phius and Lamarck, the Barringtonia of Forster and the younger Linnjeus, 

 and the Commersonia of Sonnerat, which the elder Linnaeus had placed among 

 the Guttiferue in the genus Mammea. Perhaps M. Jussieu should have taken 

 the genus of Rumphius as it stood, and included in it not only his three Buto- 

 nicas, but the two Samstravadis of Rheede ; but Jussieu considered the Tsjeria 

 Samstravadi and the Butonicce terrestres as forming a distinct genus from the 

 Butonica, and called this genus Stravadium {Gen. Plant. 361.). 



Dr. Roxburgh however {Hart. Beng. 38.), as I have above proposed, includes 

 in the same genus both the Butonicas of Rumphius and the Samstravadis of 

 Rheede, calling the plant, of which I am now treating, Barringtonia racemosa ; 

 but he does not quote Rheede, deterred probably by the following words in 

 the description, "Arbor est vastae magnitudinis caudice crasso," while, I must 

 confess, that the plant which Dr. Roxburgh and I knew, is only a small tree ; 

 but I cannot on this account call it a different species. 



When I returned from Ava, I sent to England both specimens and a draw- 

 ing of the Samstravadi, which were given to Sir Joseph Banks. A copy of the 

 drawing has been lodged in the Library of the India House, where I have also 

 placed specimens from India Proper. In deference to M. Jussieu I have classed 

 it in the Catalogue with his second division of the order of Myrti ; but I sus- 

 pect that it might with more propriety be arranged with the second division of 



