cm the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 153 



Although neither Rumphius, nor his editor Burman, considered either spe- 

 cies of Butonka terrestris as the same with the Tsjeria Samstravadi ; and 

 although Linnaeus in the Fbra Zeylamca (190.) quoted the latter alone, with 

 the synonynia of Ray and Plukenet, for his Eugenia folUs coronafts, peduncidis 

 fermimntihus, pomls oblongls acutanguUs ; yet in the Species Plantarum, copied 

 by the younger Burman {Fl. Ind. 114.), he introduced, as synonymous with 

 the Tsjeria Samstravadi, the Baton ica terrestris rubra, adding to Eugenia the 

 specific name acufangula. This arrangement was of course followed by Will- 

 denow (Sp. PL n. 996.). M. Lamarck, however, observing, I presume, that 

 the fruit of the Butonica terrestris rubra, as represented by Rumphius {Herb. 

 Amb. iii. /. 115.), has no great resemblance to that of the Tsjeria Samstravadi, 

 being too much attenuated at the ends, rejected this quotation, and considered 

 the Butonica terrestris alba {Herb. Amb. iii. t. 116.) as the Tsjeria Samstravadi, 

 the form of the fruit in the figures of these plants, by Rheede and Rumphius, 

 having a great resemblance. I must, however, observe, that Rheede says of 

 the Tsjeria Samstravadi, " Flores purpurei ; " and he represents the flowers as 

 disposed in racemes; while of the Butonica terrestris alba Rumphius says, 

 " petiolis (pedunculis communibu.s) insident capitula viridia sese in bina ter- 

 nave crassa petala (calycis lacinias) aperientia, in quorum centre quatuor alia 

 alba et extensa conspiciuntur petala, restans floris pars in medio repleta est 

 albis staminibus ad basin rubescentibus, antheras fuscas gerentibus." Further, 

 he not only represents the flowers and fruit as disposed in spikes, but says, 

 " pomula sessilia, quum priora (id est, fructus Butonicce terrestris rubrie) ex 

 pedunculo (pedicello) dependeant." We may safely, I think therefore, infer 

 that, notwithstanding the similarity of the fruits, the Tsjeria Samstravadi and 

 Butonica terrestris alba are not the same plant. In fact, neither species of the 

 Butonica terrestris seems to have been described by Rheede, nor either species 

 of Samstravadi to have been described by Rumphius ; as we may infer not 

 only from the circumstances above mentioned, but also from the form of the 

 leaves as represented by the two authors. 



The variations of opinion on the subject, among the best botanists, seem to 

 have deterred Dr. Roxburgh from quoting either author for his Barringtonia 

 acutangula {Hort. Beng. 52.), although I have no doubt that it is the Tsjeria 

 Samstravadi. From Ava, where it is called Kiin ngceh (little), I sent speci- 



