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origin of this Dutch name is, I do not know. Dividing 

 the words as follows, I think their derivation becomes 

 apparent : 



Poomli-mas, 



Pumpali-mas, 



Bambuli-mas, 



Bombari-masa, 



Pampara-panasa. 



Then Bambali-naringi is merely dropping the mas of 

 Bambulimas>&h& substituting the generic name naringi. 

 Then papannas, papanas, or papanis may be a still 

 further corruption of Pompel-moes, or of only the 

 latter part of Pamparapanasa. They all probably in- 

 dicate that the introduction of the pummelo into South 

 India was owing to the Dutch.* 



Not impossibly also some ancient savant of South 

 India, who may have possessed a copy of Rumphius's 

 11 Flor. Amboin.," may have helped to give many of 

 these names their present aspect by endeavouring to 

 identify some of them with those given in Rumphius. 

 Under chap. 37, vol. ii., Lima agrestis (Lemon papedd], 

 he says : " Another variety of this species is called 

 Lemon carbou. Externally it is yellow and its pulp is 

 white and very acid, and of the size of a child's or 

 man's head." He adds, that to all large things the 

 Malays apply the name of bull or elephant, and at the 

 end of the chapter Burmann says: " It may be also 

 noted, that Lemon papeda, and Lemon carbou, is Limo 

 bubalinus a Valent. in Amboinae descript, p. 189." 

 So that not impossibly this Limo bubalinus may have 

 given origin to some of the strange names of the 



* It is curious to study the native corruptions of European names. 

 Montmorency they turn into Mackenzicmore. 



