190 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



Foem. Calyx et corolla maris. Stamina octo circiter sterilia. Germen supe- 

 rum, oblongum. Styli quatuor remoti, brevissimi. Stigmata simplicia. 



Drupa oblonga, compressa, punctis quatuor prope apicem notata. Nux soli- 

 taria, monosperma. 



Katou Kalesjam, seu Catu Calesjam, p. 69. tab. 33. 



Commeline considers this as having a greater resemblance to the Sorbus 

 than to the preceding plant, with which it has been arranged by the people of 

 Malabar, but in this he is I think mistaken, as this plant is one of the order 

 of Terebinthacece very nearly allied to the genus Scliimis. Ray and Plukenet, 

 however, continue (^Alm. 355.) to call this tree Sorbus spuria Malabarica, 

 Katou Kalesjam dicta ; nor do I find it mentioned in subsequent authors 

 until it was quoted in the Hortus Betigalensis (33.) for the Garuga pinnata of 

 Dr. Roxburgh, of which no description, so far as I know, has yet been pub- 

 lished. I shall therefore here describe it, premising that in 1801 I collected spe- 

 cimens in Mysore, which I gave to Sir J. E. Smith under the name of Eheberga 

 serrata, while I have since presented to the library at the India House speci- 

 mens from the North of India ; for it is one of the most generally diffused trees 

 in that country. In the Hindwi dialect of Kankana it is called Mau, a redu- 

 plication of which forms the word Moemoe used by the Brahmans of Malabar. 



Arbor mediocris. Rami succo albido scatentes, cicatricibus obcordatis exas- 

 perati. Folia decidua, alterna, conferta, cum imparl pinnata. Foliola 

 novem circiter utrinque, oblonga, latere posteriore ad basin angustiore 

 longiore obliqua, opposita, serrata, acuminata, costata, venosa, lateralibus 

 subsessilibus, imparl petiolato: insuper petiolo communi utrinque insi- 

 dunt foliola duo vel tria minuta, falcata, quorum duo infima stipulas 

 mentiuntur. Petiolus imam versus incrassatus, obsolete trigonus, foliolis 

 longior, non stipulaceus. 



Paniculce plures, patentes, congestae, terminales, ante folia prodeuntes ; ramis 

 subangulatis, pubescentibus, patentibus. Bractex squamiformes, caducse, 

 sparsae. 



Calyx deciduus, coloratus, ad basin intus disco hypogyno decemstriato vesti- 

 tus, quinquefidus laciniis erectis acutis. Petala quinque oblonga, calyce 

 paulo longiora, apice revoluta, ad calycis incisuras inserta. Filamenta 



