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tirely from Rheede, and still adhering to the supposition of its belonging to the 

 Malvaceae, described the Adamhoe by the name of Adamhea glabra. He after- 

 wards {E)ic. MM. iii. 357.) was satisfied that the Adambea was in fact the 

 Munchhausia speciosa of Linnaeus, but belonged to the same genus with the 

 Lagerstroemia ind'ica, as Jussieu had hinted {Gen. Plant. 3G7.). He therefore 

 called it Lagerstroemia Munchhausia {Enc.Mdth. iii. 375.), which had, he alleged, 

 been described by Retzius under the name of Lagerstroemia major. He now 

 thought that this genus was more nearly allied to the Salicaricje, where it still 

 remains in the system of Jussieu {Gen. Plant. 367.), although I suspect that it 

 has a greater affinity to the Myrtece, especially to Sonneratia. 



Willdenow {Sp. PL ii. 11 79.), although he admits that the Munchhausia and 

 Lagerstroemia belong to the same genus, does not admit the Adamboe to be 

 the M. speciosa, but alleges it to be the Lagerstroemia Regince of Roxburgh, or 

 the Flos Regince of Rumphius, or the Jarul of the Bengalese, a plant with 

 which I am perfectly acquainted : the Jarul, however, is a large forest-tree, 

 while the Adamboe is but a bush, " septem circiter pedes alta ;" nor did Dr. 

 Roxburgh quote it for his plant (Hort. Beng. 38.). I am therefore persuaded, 

 that from the L. Regince of Willdenow we must remove the synonyma of 

 Lamarck, Ray and Rheede to the L. Munchhausia, as M. Lamarck has done. 



It must be observed, that in the eastern parts of Bengal, and in Ava, where 

 alone I have seen it growing spontaneously, the L. Regince has frequently on 

 its trunk and larger branches a few strong straight spines, from one to three 

 inches long. These seem to arise chiefly in old trees, growing in a favourable 

 soil, and are considered by the natives as indicating a much finer timber than 

 that produced by trees on which there are no spines. On this account the 

 Bengalese add the specific name kanta, or 'thorny'; but I do not think that 

 these thorns constitute a diflference of species in the sense adopted by botanists. 

 I have given specimens of this to the library at the India House. 



I have also given to the same collection specimens of a tree from the same 

 country, which Dr. Roxburgh called Lagerstroemia grandijlora (Hort. Beng. 

 38.), but which I consider as belonging to a distinct genus, connecting in the 

 strongest manner the Lagerstroemias with the Sonnerattas. In 1798 I sent 

 specimens of this to Sir Joseph Banks under the name oi Duabanga, to which 

 I now add the specific name Sonneratioides. In Tripura it is called Dui/a- 



