on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 179 



Ray derived his " pericarpium carnosum" I cannot say, unless it was from the 

 appearance of the transverse section of the fruit in the figure of Rheede ; but 

 this merely represents an unripe fruit ; the mature one is evidently a dry cap- 

 sule, as may be seen from those parts of the figure that represent it dehiscent. 

 Ray seems to have misled Plukenet, who quotes the Katou Adamboe for his 

 "AlccECE Indicce arborecB genus peculiar e, fuliis Beidel Ossaris, Alpin't, fructu 

 intus carnoso." (^Alm. 16.) 



M. Lamarck at first {Enc. Mdth. i. 39.) considered this as a distinct species, 

 and called it Adambea hlrsuta. In this opinion Willdenow coincided ; but 

 knowing that the Adambea was of the same genus with the Lagerstroemia, he 

 called this species L. hirsnta. M. Lamarck, indeed, afterwards {Enc. Mdth. iii. 

 376.) retracted his opinion, and considered the Katou Adamboe as probably a 

 mere variety of the L. Munchhausia ; but he adds, " Nous ne pouvons I'assurer, 

 ne le connoissant pas ;" and, as I am in a similar predicament, I would willingly 

 follow his example, was not a very great difference, besides the pubescence, 

 pointed out by Rheede, who says, " flores praecedentis Adamboe {Lager- 

 strcemiae Munchhaushe) ut et Paretti {Gossypii) floribus quoque similes ; me- 

 diam tamen floris cavitatem et umbilicum quinque tantum stamina surrecta, 

 Candida rubicundis apicibus ornata occupant." 



Karin Kara, p. 49. tab. 23. 

 Commeline does not point out any plant to which this has an affinity ; nor do 

 I find that it has been mentioned by any botanist since, except by M. Poiret, 

 who properly adopts Tamagali, the name given by the Brahmans, and con- 

 siders it as having an affinity to the Geoffroea, in the flowers and fruit at least, 

 although the habit is different {Enc. Mdth. vii. 560.). Nor can I form any 

 conjecture more satisfactory, being quite unacquainted with the plant, or with 

 anything like it. The Malabar name implies an affinity with the Elceocarpus 

 {Perin Kara), both belonging to the genus Kara of the natives, but the flowers 

 seem so different, that this arrangement must be quite unnatural, although 

 adopted not only by the vulgar, but by the Brahmans, who call both this and 

 the following plant by the generic name Gale, or Gali. 



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