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belonging to the same genus with the Anav'inga, and which he called by this 

 name. The plant of Rheede he has introduced from that author's description, 

 and called Anavinga ovata {Enc. M4th. i. 148.). Jussieu, although he con- 

 siders this genus as the same with the Casearia of Jacquin, prefers the name 

 Anavinga ; but Willdenow prefers Casearia, probably thinking that Jacquin, 

 having preceded Lamarck, had the best title to give a name ; but he should 

 perhaps have recollected that Rheede preceded Jacquin. By Willdenow the 

 Anavinga of Rheede is called Casearia ovata (^Sp. PI. ii. 629.) ; but neither he 

 nor any recent botanist seems to have seen the plant. 



In the woods of Gangetic India I have indeed found a tree nearly resembling 

 the Anavinga, and in the Bengalese dialect called Kanjial. I have presented 

 specimens of this to the library at the India House under the name of Samyda 

 Canziala ; for, until the fructification of all the species constituting the genera 

 Samyda, Casearia, Anavinga, Pituniba, Iroucana, Athencea, Melistaurum, Gui- 

 donia, Loitia, Chaitocrater, and Clasta are more fully ascertained, I think it 

 most prudent to include all under the Linn£Ean name Samyda ; and these, with 

 the Aquilaria, or Agallochum, and the Gyrinops Walla of Gsertner {De Sem. 

 ii. 276. t. 140. y. 6.), form a very natural assemblage of plants, which Jussieu 

 places among the incertce sedis ; but I think them nearly allied to the Thymelcece. 

 They differ, however, in the following respects : calyx abbreviatus ; squamae 

 corolliformes ; pericarpium determinate dehiscens. I shall here describe the 

 Kanjiala of the Bengalese, as observed in the Rungpur district (Camrupa). 



Frutex sex pedes altus ramulis novis teretibus pilosis. Folia alterna, oblongo- 

 ovata, latere anteriore latiore plerumque obliqua, costata, venosissima, 

 serrulata ; adulta nuda, acuta ; juniora obtusa, subtus pubescentia. Pe- 

 tiolus brevissimus, depressus : adultus nudus ; junior pilosus. Stipulce 

 geminse laterales, minimse, deciduae. 



Pedunculi plures axillares, congesti, sed ssepius in ramis anni prseteriti, ob 

 folia decidua nudati, quasi infrafoliacei, breves, uniflori, teretes, pubes- 

 centes, squamula ad basin bracteati. Fhres parvi, herbacei, extra pubes- 

 centes. 



Calyx foliolis subrotundis, concavis, duobus exterioribus angustioribus, quin- 

 que-partitus, fundo vestitus disco concavo, ad marginem product© in 



