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they may be covered by an acid cortex (" sapor in cortice acidus," 

 H. M.); but in the Kadamha, which 1 take to be the Arbor Noctis, 

 there is not a vestige of capsules, and the fruit is composed of 

 berries of a soft substance througliout. Unfortunately I have not 

 seen the fruit of the Kadamha, which I think nearest allied to 

 the Katou Tsjaka, and therefore I cannot say whether, like the 

 Arbor Noctis, it is composed of berries, or whether, like the 

 Katou Tsjaka, it is composed of capsiike corticate. There is 

 one circumstance, however, which induces me to suppose that 

 this Kadamha is not the Katou Tsjaka. This in the figure of the 

 Hortus Malaharicus is represented with the stylus no longer than 

 the tube of the corolla ; but in our Kadamha it is longer than 

 the laciniœ. Although it has a similar stylus, it is quite difte- 

 rent from the Ceplialanthus chinensis {Enc. Met/i. Sup. iv. 63.), 

 which has violet-coloured flowers, a truncated calyx, and the 

 stamina included within the tube of the corolla. These diffe- 

 rences between the Kadamha and Katou Tsjaka, however, are 

 minute ; nor do I know that they are constant, even in the same 

 individual at diti'erent periods of growth ; and therefore I must 

 leave the matter to be finally determined by those who have 

 leisure to examine the plants in all their stages when culti- 

 vated. Should the fruit of both Kadambas be similar, I should 

 have no doubt that they are mere varieties ; that both should be 

 referred to the Nauclea Cadamba of Roxburgh, and to the same 

 genus with i\\e Arbor A^oci'/i of Rumphius, which I call Cadamba 

 noclurua; and that they are both different from the Katou Tsjaka, 

 which is a real Nauclea or Cephalanthus, for these genera are 

 essentially the same. In the mean time I shall give an account 

 of this Kadamha, which is most like the Katou Tsjaka, premising 

 that I am uncertain whether it be this or the other plant of the 

 same name that Dr. Roxburgh called Nauclea Cadamba. Spe- 

 cimens of the plant which I mean, are to be foimd in the collec- 

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