106 Dr. Francis HAMILTo^'s Commentary 



feminine would be Amhetti. On the Erawadi this tree is called 

 Lan-hu. 



In the same places with the Sonnerntia ncida I found another 

 tree, which in habit so strongly resembles it, that, notwithstand- 

 ing considerable differences in fructification, I think it cannot be 

 separated ; and Dr. Roxburgh, to whom I showed it on my return 

 from Ava in 1796, was of the same opinion. I call it Soniieratia 

 apetala ; and Dr. Roxburgh has adopted the same name (Hort. 

 Beiig. 39.) ; under which name I sent home specimens and a draw- 

 ing, now probably in the collection of the late Sir Joseph Banks : 

 and I have since given others to the library at the East India 

 House, where also a copy of the drawing may be seen. This tree 

 the Bengalese call K/ieora, and the people of Pegu Kam-ba-la, 

 neither acknowledging it to belong to the same genus with the 

 Sonnerntia acida. Although very common among the estuaries of 

 the Ganges, and very beautiful, having a general resemblance to 

 the Sa/ix hahjlonica, it would seem to have escaped the notice 

 of botanists ; so that until my return from Ava, Dr. Roxburgh 

 had not observed it, although it grows in the immediate vicinity 

 of the Botanical Garden, in which, however, he had not then 

 taken up his residence. 



Sonneratia apetala. Hort. Beng. 39- 



Habitat in Bengalae et regni Peguensis ripis ca3nosis îestu inun- 

 datis. 



Arbor mediocris. Radix cornicula plura emittit simillima corni- 

 culorum e Sonneratia acida prodeuntium. (Vide Herb. Amb. 

 iii. 112.) Rami sparsi, penduli, teretes, glabri. Ramuli 

 oppositi, divaricati, glabri, filiformes. Folia opposita, pe- 

 tiolata, ovato-lanceolata, marginum altero gibbosiore ob- 

 liqua, integerrima, sœpiùs obtusa, enervia, avenia, plana, 



carno- 



