152 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



the Guaiacance, as will appear from the following description. The natives of 

 Ava call it Kiin gri, the first word being the generic term, and gri signifying 



great. 



Arbuscuia pulchra. Folia sparsa, apices versus ramulorum congesta, basi 

 obtusa obovata, acuta, ultra pedem longa, costata, venis reticulata, nuda, 

 serrata, petiolata. 



Racemi longissimi, penduli. Flores ex albido rubicundi, magni, speciosi, caly- 

 cibus coloratis, striatis. 



Calyx foliolis concavis obtusis 2- sen 3-partitus, persistens, intus disco integro 

 mellifero ad basin vestitus. Petula 4 sen 5 patentia, obtusa, concava, 

 obliqua. Filamenta plurima filiformia, petalis longiora, basi coalita in 

 annulum discum calycis cingens. Anthera; parvae. Germen inferum tur- 

 binatum. Stylus longitudine staminum filiformis. Stigma simplex. 



Bacca molliuscula, tetragono-ovata, calyce coronata, obsolete quadrisulca, 

 unilocularis. Semen unicum, oblongum, magnum. Perispermum forma 

 seminis magnum. Embryo centralis, ovalis, dum non germinaverit abs- 

 que partium distinctione indivisus. 



TsjERiA seu Sjeria Samstravadi, p. \5. tab. 7- 



In the preceding commentary I have already made several remarks appli- 

 cable to this plant, which the Brahmans call Gove-sada-pali, using the last two 

 words as a compound generic name, and the words, therefore, should have 

 been printed Gove Sada-pali. 



Notwithstanding the utmost affinity between this and the preceding, Com- 

 meline could trace scarcely any resemblance to the Eugenia, in which, not 

 having been misled by the native nomenclature, he judged properly. Ray, 

 liowever, more consistently witli his admitting the Samstravadi to be an Eu- 

 genia or Jambos, allowed the Tsjeria Samstravadi to belong to this genus : but 

 Plukenet more cautiously called it Nuci pomifera Arbor Orientalis Castanete 

 equince foliis, fructu longo corticoso crasso, tetragono, summo apice (Pomi in 

 modum) umbilicato, nucleum nudum angulosum includente (Aim. 266.), in which 

 he entirely overlooked the leaves of this being simple, and those of the Horse 

 Chestnut being compounded. 



