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mens to Sir Joseph Banks under the name adopted by Dr. Roxburgh ; and I 

 have since given specimens to the library at the India House under Jussieu's 

 name of Stravadium acntangulum ; for, although I cannot approve of so violent 

 a corruption, I must yield to his superior authority. In the dialects spoken in 

 Gangetic India, where it is one of the most common trees, it is called Ijjal or 

 Hijjal. 



Arbor magnitudine mediocris. Rami petiolorum cicatricibus exasperati. Folia 

 sparsa, ramulorum apices versus approxiinata, obovata, apice nunc obtusa 

 tunc acuta, basi cuneata, nitida, nuda, costata, venis reticulata, utrinque 

 viridia. Petiolus brevissimus, supra planus, glaber, non stipulaceus. 



Racemus terminalis, simplicissimus, pendulus, foliis longior, nudus, glaber. 

 Flores sparsi, parvi, filamentis coccineis rubentes. 



Calyx superus, laciniis erectis obtusis eequalibus 4- seu 5-partitus. Petala 

 ssepius quatuor revoluta, oblonga, basi cohaerentia, ad staminum colum- 

 nam adnata. Filamenta plurima, longissima, filiformia, basi coalita. 

 Anthene parvae, subrotundae. Germen inferum, tetragonum. Stylus lon- 

 gitudine et figura staminum simplex. Stigma indivisum. 



Bacca sicca, oblonga, tetragona, calyce coronata. Semen unicum, maximum, 

 oblongum, circinatum. 



I have not noticed the structure of the seed, as the description was taken in 

 Ava, before I had seen the work of Gsertner. 



Malla Katou Tsjambou, seu M. Catu Tsjambu, p. 17- tab, 8. 



Commeline joins the vulgar, Hindus, Portuguese and Dutch, in consider- 

 ing this as a Jambu, or Eugenia, very nearly allied to the plants now called 

 E.Jambos and E.malaccensis; while the Brahmans seem to err as much in 

 calling it Mai Ambetti {montana Mangifera foemina) . It must be admitted 

 that the figure represents the plant less like the Eugenia than it ought, be- 

 cause the leaves have been drawn as if alternate ; but from the description we 

 learn that this is erroneous (" Folia geminata brevibus petiolis decussato ra- 

 mulis inhaerent"). So far, therefore, as to its leaves, it might be an Eugenia ; 

 but then the flower is divided into five or six parts, the latter seeming to be 

 the natural number, as the style is divided into three; and besides, some 



