on the Hortiis Malabaricus, Part IF. 165 



individuals would appear to be entirely female, as that described by Rheede, 

 who does not mention any stamina. Both circumstances are incompatible 

 with its being an Eugenia. 



Plukenet was as unfortunate as Commeline in comparing this plant to his 

 Arbor Ind'ica Pi/ri densioribus et subrotimdli folds, fructu Nucis Moschatae 

 magnitudine summo vertice coronato (Mant. 23. pi. 3. t. 336.), which is pretty 

 evidently a Gardenia, and quite different from the Malta Katou Tsjambou. 



The elder Burman, in his observations on Rumphius {Herb. Amb. i. 128.), 

 thinks that this is the Jambosa xilvestris alba, which again he considers as a 

 variety, or rather as the female plant, of the Malacca Schambu, that is, of the 

 Eugenia Jambos. In both opinions he is probably wrong ; for the E. Jambos 

 has no flowers merely female, nor is the Jambosa silvestris alba the same with 

 the Malacca Schambu, as I have endeavoured to show {Linn. Trans, xiii. 482.). 

 It is, however, very possible that the Malta Katou Tsjambou, as the same 

 Burman in another place alleges {Thes. Zeyl. 125), may be his lambos sylves- 

 tris et montana fructu Cerasi magnitudine, which is the Maharatambola of the 

 Ceylonese ; but it cannot be the Jambosa silvestris parvifolia of Rumphius 

 {Herb. Amb. i. 129.; ii. t. 40.), with which Burman there joins it, because that 

 is a real Eugenia with hermaphrodite flowers ; and the Malta Katou Tsjambou, 

 or Maharatambola, on account of its dioecious flowers, terminal panicles, and 

 trifid style, notwithstanding the authority of Linnaeus {Ft. Zeyl. 501.), I 

 cannot consider as belonging to this genus. It seems, indeed, to have a 

 greater resemblance to the genus Scopolia of Forster, as described in the En- 

 cyclopedic M^thodique (vii. 14.; ///. Gen. t. 860.). 



Katou Tsjeroe, seu Cattu Tsjeru, seu C. Cheru, p. 19. tab. 9. 



Katou and Rana, the specific names used by the vulgar and learned of 

 Malabar, have the same meaning, that is, signify anything wild or unculti- 

 vated ; while a species that is planted round the corn-fields, and described in 

 page 20, is considered the prototype of the genus called Tsjeroe or Cheru by 

 the vulgar, and Bibo by the learned. It seems to be from a very considerable 

 aflinitv between this tree and the Anacardium occidentale that the natives of 

 India, according to Clusius {Enc. Me'th. Suppl. i. 753.), gave to the latter the 

 name of Bybo, evidently the same with Bibo, used by the Brahmans of Malabar. 



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