176 Dr. Fkancis Hamilton's Commentary 



iiniloculare. Receptaculum, vel commune vel proprlum, nullum. Semen 

 putaminis lateii deraso adhaerens, forma loculi solitarium. Integumentum 

 simplex, niembranaceum. Embryo spiralis. Cotyledones crassae, carnosse, 

 involutse. Radicula infera. 

 ^'aI•ietatem in Cicata legi pedicellis multifloris, paniculis folio majoribus. 



Specimens of both varieties have been given to the library at the India House. 



From the preceding account it would appear that the Sapindus of Gsertner 

 {De Sem. i. 34 1, t. 70. f- 3.) differs very much in the structure of the nut, which 

 is said to have two cells. I suspect, however, that Gsertner has mistaken a 

 process running up between the bend in the embryo for a septum, as once 

 Iiappened to myself in examining a species of Cussamhium. The nut, it must 

 be observed, in these two genera is very much alike, as is also that called 

 Knot! by Ga^rtner {De Sem. t. 180.), so that it would be difficult to say to 

 which of the two genera the latter belonged ; yet the Sapindus and Cussam- 

 hium are not very nearly allied. 



Adamboe, seu Cadeli-poea, seu Cadeli-pua, p. 45. tab. 20, 21. 



It must be observed that there is another Adamboe (^Hort. Mai. xi. t. 56.) ; 

 but it has no sort of affinity to the plant now under examination, being a spe- 

 cies of Convolvulus. 



It is to be regretted tiiat modern botanists did not retain the fine name 

 Banava bestowed on this plant by Canielli, and consider it as a new genus. 

 Commeline classed it and the following plant with the Pariti, that is, the 

 (iossypium ; and Breynius, Ray and Plukenet considered it as an Alcea, which 

 tlie two latter called A. Indica arborea, pericarpio carnoso, in plura loculamenta 

 partita {Aim. 16.), a conjecture as unsatisfactory as that of Commeline. Her- 

 man improved nothing on his predecessors by calling it an Althcea ; nor was 

 the elder Burman more fortunate in calling it Ketmia Indica, foliis laurinis, 

 Hore violaceo, spicato (Thes. Zeyl. 137.). Linnaeus in the Flora Zeylanica (533.) 

 (lid not venture to refer it to any known genus, but placed it, as the others 

 had done, among the Malvaceae, by the Ceylonese name Mustu-ghas. 



In the Mantissa Linnaeus described a tree which he called MunchJwusia 

 speciosa; and M. Lamarck (Enc. Mdth. i. 39.), deriving his information en- 



