108 D/-. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



rendum propono, an Panitaj'tka-maram, i. e. Janipaba Fisonis 

 lit censet Commelinus, sit de hujus genere ( D/o^y^z/j-os nempe) 

 plantarum, vel non ;" and again, treating of the Gen/pat of the 

 Antilles, misled by the authority of Commeline, he says, " Jani- 

 paba Pisonis ab hac diversa est, et forte idem cum Panityika, 

 quai potius dc Anonarum seu Mespilorum Sappadilliœ dictorum 

 genere est, ut mecum cxistimo." Now, although he was proba- 

 bly wrong in considering the Janipaba ditiercnt from the Gen/pat, 

 because the latter is quite ditî'erent from the Panitsjika, yet he 

 pointed out an affinity in the Panitsjika to the SappadiUia or 

 Ac/iras, which, although one of Jussicu's Sapotcc, has certainly a 

 considerable affinity to the Gaajacaiuc, to which the Panitsjika 

 belongs. 



M. Desrousseaux {Enc. Meth. iii. 171-), although he acknow- 

 ledged the resemblance which this tree bears to a Diospi/ros, 

 considered its character, as given by Rheede, to point out its 

 being a Gavcinia, and accordingly calls it Garcinia malabarica. 



Grertner {De Sem. i. 145. t. 29- /"• 2.), although he did not 

 quote the Panitsjika, is generally supposed to have described it 

 under the name of Embriioptcris peregî'ina, and to have probably 

 been misled by the representation of the fruit at the bottom of 

 the plate in the llortus Malabaricus, which by some mistake is 

 drawn inverted, and by the expression in the description, Frac- 

 tiis in vertice umbilico pvcediti. Owing to these circumstances, 

 he imagined that the fruit was crowned by the calj^x, in 

 place of being contained in it; and of course could not consider 

 it as a Diospi/ros. Dr. Roxburgh, unwilling to change the ge- 

 neric name given by so good a botanist, when he published his 

 Flora Coromandcliana, although perfectly aware of the situation 

 of the calyx, called the plant Fmbrijopteris glutinifera, — a name 

 and genus continued by Willdenow {Sp. PL iv. 836.), although 

 it is by no means certain that he has not described the same 



plant 



