on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 189 



mans is a word which I cannot trace, as in Sanskrita the tree is named Jivala, 

 which the Bengalese corrupt into Jiyal ; and in the Hindwi language the name 

 is Kashmulla or Kusamhhar. 



Corameline justly remarks, that what Rheede calls the second kind of fruit 

 must be considered as an excrescence similar to the gall-nut on the Oak, that 

 is, as the work of an insect. Ray, as usual, gave this plant a new name, suit- 

 able to his ideas of arrangement ; but no subsequent author, so far as I can 

 trace, has attempted to class the Kalesjam, only M. Lamarck {Enc. M^th. 

 i. 559.) considers it allied to Briicea, Comocladia, Rhus, and other genera 

 among the Terebinthacece. In this I have no doubt of his being right ; and I 

 can scarcely think that it possesses characters sufficient to distinguish it from 

 the genus Rhus. Dr. Roxburgh however, I believe, described it under the 

 name of Odina IVoodier (Hort. Beng. 29.), although he does not quote the 

 Hortus Malabaricus ; but I know his plant, which is veiy common in Bengal, 

 and I have found it also in Kankana and in the adjacent parts of Karnata, in 

 which latter country it is called Godela, under which name I gave specimens 

 to Sir J. E. Smith, while I gave others to the library at the India House under 

 both the name used by Dr. Roxburgh, and as the Rhus Odina, which I con- 

 sider as the most proper designation. Under this I shall here give an account 

 of the tree, taken from notes made in my journey to Mysore. 



Arbor magnitudine mediocris, succo resinoso scatens. Rami cicatricibus ob- 

 cordatis exasperati. Folia decidua, alterna, cum imparl pinnata, apices 

 versus ramulorum congesta, non stipulacea. Pinnce oppositse, bi- vel tri- 

 jugse, integerrimoe, latere posteriore ad basin latiore obliquse. 



Paniculce iitriusque sexus ante folia prodeuntes e gemma terminali, at post 

 foliationem laterales, compositae ramis sparsis, patentibus, pubescentibus. 

 BractecB infra singulas paniculas, quasi petiolorum rudimenta, subulatse. 

 Flores fasciculati, parvi, intus lutei, extra rubicundi, dioeci ; sed in planta 

 foeminea flores nonnulli masculi ssepe intermixti. 



Masc. Calyx quadrifidus, parvus. Petala quatuor, margine revoluto oblonga, 

 concava, obtusa, ungui lato calyci inserta. Filamenta sex, septem vel octo 

 subulata, petalis breviora, alterna epipetala, alterna hypogj'na. Rudimen- 

 tum germinis superi minimum. Stylus brevis. Stigma quadrilobum. 



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