on the Hortiis Malabarkus, Part III. Q5 



Nauclea orientalis. Gœrt. de Sem. i. 151. t. SO. f. 8. (exclusis 



synonymis.) 

 Thein Burmanorum. 

 Habitat ubique in Indian aridioris sylvis. 



Arbor inter elatiores recta, cortice lœvi, materia firma. Raynuli 

 nudi, tetragoni, obtusanguli. Folia opposita, basi nunc 

 acutiuscula, tunc sœpius obtusa, vel etiam retusa, apice 

 obtusiuscula, juniora subpubescentia, maturitate glabra, 

 costis parallelis approximatis lineata, integerrima. Petiolus 

 teres, canaliculatus, brevissimus, pubescens. Stipula in- 

 terfoliaceae opposite, caducœ, obovatœ, dorso carinata?, 

 petiolis longiores, nudœ, integerrima?. 



Cap«V?</w/« magnitudine Pruni terminale, subsessile. Flores odo- 

 rati, subherbacei, bracteis apice incrassato obtusissimis, 

 calyce longioribus interstincti. 



Calyx omnino truncatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, quinque- 

 fida. Antherœ ex apice tubi exsertœ, subsessiles. Stylus 

 corollœ laciniis longior. Stigma capitatum, obtusum, ob- 

 longum. 



Fructus a Gsertnero bene descriptus. 



Pela, p. 31. tab. 34. 

 Malacka Pela, /j. 33. tab. 35. 



These trees no doubt came originally from the West Indies, 

 although the second is supposed in jMalabar to have come from 

 Malacca or China, probably because it came from Mexico by 

 the route of the Philippines. The name Pela is evidently a 

 corruption of Pera, the term used by the Brahmans, which 

 again is the same with the Peyara of the Bengalese, both no 

 doubt derived from the Peera of the Portuguese. I mention 

 this, lest the word Pela (so unlike Guajava, the original name 



of 



