Hovenia, fentandriA monogynia." 415 



attached to the bottom of its cell. Style cylindric, apex three-cleft. 

 Stigmas simple. — Capsules superior, round, size of a pea, thin, smooth, 

 and brown, three-celled. The ramifications of the cyme are now, 

 when the seed are ripe, much swollen, and variously bent, as repre- 

 sented by Kaempfer, but the taste is simply astringent. — Seed solita- 

 ry. Integuments two; exterior touch, thicks hard, and highly po- 

 lished ; interior membranaceous, and covered with a brown mealy 

 substance. — Perisperni in small quantity, tough, dull, livid-white. 

 Embryo erect, yellowish. Cotyledons orbicular. Radicle oval, in- 

 ferior. 



Obs. By Dr. Buchanan dated Katumanda, 10th and 14th No- 

 vember, 1802. " Munko-khoshee.* A tree originally brought from 

 "China or some country subject to it. The fruit is a capsule, con- 

 " taming three^seeds, and resting on an enlarged pedunculus, which 

 " is soft, and contains a sweet juice. This does not come to ma* 

 " turity till after the capsules are ripe. Part of the seed now sent 

 " in this parcel was brought from China, and part has ripened here. 

 " There can be no doubt, from tiie singular nature of the peduncle, 

 "that it is an Hovenia, Thunb. but whether or not his species, I 

 "know not. It has hairy leaves and is reckoned the largest tree in i 

 "JSipaL" 



Obs. by N. TV. 

 This fine tree undoubtedly grows wild in the valley of Nipal at 



* The name here given as a Newar name is in the extract of Dr Buchanan's letter writ- 

 ten Man Kokhosee, and is one, out of hundreds which might easily be produced, of the mis- 

 takes which constantly occur when persons unacquainted, in 3ome measure at least, with 

 the lauguages, set down words from the mouth of natives Dr Buchanan spoke only Hindoo- 

 sthanee, and a Newar man gave him as a reply to a question, Munko KJiooshee, a Hindoo- 

 sthanee word which means pleasure or delight to the mind. This mio-ht be the Hindoo- 

 sthanee word by which the tree is designated by the Nipalese but it is much more probable 

 the man only intended to say it was a delightful tree. The above-mentioned circumstance, 

 and likewise the great number of native names of plants, seemingly obtained with the ut- 

 most ease by other gentlemen who have merely run through a country as collectors ; (which 

 however was not the case with Dr. Buchanan) ; added to the difficulty I have myself found 

 in obtaining names, and the uncertainty of those commonly obtained, fully dispose me to 

 ■coincide with the suggestion cf my friend Waliich in his note at the foot of page 99. Ed. 



