on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 201 



entirely different from the Vidi Maram, the divisions being still more numer- 

 ous and much smaller. Near Rungpur I met with a tree in fruit, which the 

 natives called Kusiyurl, and which had a fruit with a lentiform nut exactly as 

 represented by Gccrtner, and its foliage very much resembled figure 2. in 

 Plukenet, its leaves being round ; but I did not see the flower ; and it unfor- 

 tunately happens that I obtained no description of the fruit of the Latora, 

 Lisaura, Bahuyari, Baboyar, or Dhovoli, the plants of Gangetic India, which I 

 should have thought most likely to be the Fldi Maram, were it not for the 

 latter having six divisions in the flower. In Mysore, again, I met with a tree 

 called Jilla or Haditga, which, with a lentiform nut, had flowers divided into 

 six. This 1 take to be the Cordia ohliqua of Willdenow (Sp. PL i. 1072.), and 

 under this name I gave specimens to Sir J. E. Smith ; but from the form of 

 its nut I think it cannot be the Fidi Maram ; and from its being very hairy, it 

 cannot, I think, be the Kusiyari, which is quite smooth. 



I cannot say what plant Dr. Roxburgh called Cordia My.ra ; but as he does 

 not quote the Hortus Malabaricus {Hort. Bmg. 17.), and calls it Buhooari and 

 Lasoora, the same names with my Bahuyari and Lisaura, I think it probably 

 is one of the plants belonging to Gangetic India that I have above mentioned ; 

 but whether or not it has a lentiform nut, like the Kusiyari, I cannot say. 



In the Hortus Kewensis we have the Vidi Maram as the only authority for 

 the "Cordia Myxa corymbis lateralibus, calycibus decemstriatis," neither of 

 which characters belongs to the plant described by Rheede, nor to any other 

 Cordia that I have seen in India. In the catalogue of dried specimens pre- 

 sented to the library at the India House, I have attempted to reduce the spe- 

 cimens of the trees, called to me Latora, Lisaura, Bahuyari, Baboyar, and 

 Dhovoli, to three species, Cordia Latora, C. Baboar, and C. Lisaura ; but I 

 am very uncertain whether they are sufficiently distinct from each other, as 

 some of them I saw only in leaf, some in flower, and some in fruit. Neither 

 am I certain but that some one of them may be the Fidi Maram, while another 

 may belong to the C. Myxa of Dr. Roxburgh, if that be different from the 

 Kusiyari. 



PoNNA, seu PuNNA, p. 79- tab. 38. 



In this work Commeline does not attempt to class the Ponna. It seems 

 uncertain whether Plukenet was right in referring it to his "Arbor Indica Mali 



