NO. 47.— 1896.] PLACE NAMES IN THE VAXXI. 



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Sinhalese. Tamil. 



Carissa spinarum ... bakaram ... karampai 



Strobilantb.es ... nelu ... nelu 



Mesua f errea ... na ... naka 



Nymphaea Lotus ... olu ... olu 



Cyperus pennatus ... ramba ... irampai 



Mischodon zeylanicus tammana ... tampanai 



Persea semecarpif olia wewarani ... yavaranai 



The following names occur both in Sinhalese and Tamil, 

 and are given in the dictionaries of both languages. I am 

 unable to say to which language they belonged originally: — 



Anthocephalus 

 amba (Miq.) 



cad- 



Sinhalt 



kadamba 



Tamil. 



kadampu 

 chamandalai 

 chavandalai 

 chamalai 



Berrya Ammonilla 



(Roxb.) ... halmilla 



Oldenlandia umbel- 



lata (L.) ... sayan saya ... chaya 



Zizyphus jujuba(Lam.) ilanda ... ilantai 



Moringa gterygos-- 



perma (Gaertn.) ... murunga ... murunkai 



Phyllanthus emblica 



(L.) ... nelli ... nelli 



(Moss) ... pasi ... pasi 



Pavetta indica (L.) ... pawatta ... pavaddai 



Hemicyclia sepiaria 



(W. & A.) ... wi'ra ... virai 



It is interesting to* note that some of the Sinhalese and 

 Tamil names of plants have been adopted, of course in a 

 Latin form, as the scientific names of the genera and species 

 to which they have been assigned. Thus we have : — 



Names of Genera* 



Alangium (Thw.) 

 Adhatoda (Nees.) 

 Basella (Linn.) 

 Canthium (Roxb.) 

 Anoda (Cav.) 

 Doona (Thw.) 

 Kokoona (Thw.) 



alinchil, T. 

 adatodai, T. 

 pasalai, T- 

 kanti, T. 

 anoda, T. 

 dun, S. 

 kokun, S. 



