on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 165 



little attention. I have indeed found a tree which, were it not for the number 

 of stamina, and for its flowers wanting odour, I should have taken to be the 

 same with the Catu Naregam. I shall here describe it, partly in order to 

 show that this difference in number is not accompanied by any difference of 

 habit that could justify a separation of genus, and partly because this may be 

 the very plant that Plukenet and Burman took for the Catu Naregam. Spe- 

 cimens have been given to the library at the India House. 

 Randia virosa. 



Posoqueria drupacea. Gcertn. De Sent. iii. 77- t. 195.? 



Granata Malus Zeylanica, spinosa. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 111.? 



Malus Punica zeylonensium spinosa. Pluh. Aim. 240. ? 



Malus Granata zeylonensis aculeata. Plul<. Phyt. t. 98./. 6. ? 



Laurifolia minor ex Java. Pluh. Mant. 115. ad Aim. ;>. 211. /. 3. referens, 

 quae ultima tamen forte est Garcinia Mangostana, Horto Malabarico 

 perperam citato. 



Bis (virosa) Moyen Bengalensium. 

 Habitat in Indiee Gangeticse dumetis. 



Arbuscula Vanguerice facie. Rami rigidi, non pubescentes. Ramuli brevis- 

 simi, ex anni prseteriti foliorum axillis (foliis deciduis nudati), subquadri- 

 phylli. Rami nunc inermes ; tunc spinis oppositis supra ramulorum axil- 

 las enatis, rectis, ramulos longitudine aequantibus armati. Folia opposite, 

 approximate, oblongo-obovata vel cuneata, acuta, integerrima, glabra, 

 subcostata, venosa. Petiolus brevissimus, marginatus. Stipulce petioli 

 longitudine interfoliacese, ovatse, acutae, diaphanae. 



Pedunculi terminales 1 — 3, uniflori, petiolo vix longiores. Bractece vix ullae. 

 Flores mediocres, lutei, inodori. 



Calyx glaber basi longitudine tubi corollae cylindraceo ; limbo quinquepartito 

 laciniis patentibus, linearibus, acutis, corolla vix brevioribus. Corollte 

 hypocrateriformis tubus crassus, brevis, teres, ad medium intus pilis duc- 

 tus ; limbus glaber, aestivatione imbricata obliquus, quinquepartitus laci- 

 niis obovatis, acutiusculis. At^therce quinque ad corollae incisures adnatae, 

 oblongae, acutae, basi emarginatae. Germen inferum, globosum, glabrum. 

 Stylus longitudine tubi teres. Stigma exsertum, ovatum, sulcatum, bi- 



partibile. 



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