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Transactions of the Linnea?i Society. 



[Oct. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Vol. xvii. 

 part 2d, 1835. 



[x\bout two-thirds of this volume consists of a paper entitled, " A 

 Commentary on the fourth part of the Hortua Malabaricus. By (the 

 late) Francis Hamilton, m. d. "We extract the following- remarks 

 from the Records of General Science, a publication, established in 

 London last year and edited by Dr. Robert Thomson, which may justly 

 claim a first rank in the scientific periodical literature of the day. — 

 Editor Madras Journal.'] 



The object of the commentary is to remove the discordancies in the 

 nomenclature of Indian botany, particularly with regard to the adapta- 

 tion of the native to the scientific names. The difficulties attending such 

 an attempt are very numerous and complicated ; because the native 

 names are often indiscriminately applied to various species, when the 

 latter approach each other in character or quality ; and, in the East, 

 where the vegetable kingdom is ransacked in all departments for the 

 purpose of supplying a materia medica to the native physicians, these 

 obstacles become more multifarious and perplexing than in more civi- 

 lized parts of the earth, where, however, it may be alleged that the 

 physical properties of plants are undervalued. Dr. Hamilton is in- 

 clined to consider the native names properly applied as exhibited in 

 the following columns, which we have drawn up for the benefit of our 

 friends in India, where our Journal is already perused : 



Manga domestica 



Mango Mao, or Man 



Catappa sylvestris 



Ada maram 



Myristica Malabarica 



Panem palka 



Barringtonia racemosa 



Samstravadi 



Stravadium acutangulum 



Tsjeria Samstravadi 



Holigarna longifolia 



Katou Tsjerou 



Terminalia, or ) «j, j 

 Myrobalanus £ 



Tani 



Rumphia tilicefolia 



Tsjem Tani 



Limonia monophylla ? 



Mai naregam 



Randia virosa 



Catu naregam. 



Limonia acidissima 



Tsjerou Catou naregam 



Vateria Indica. 



Paenoe, Paenu 



Lansium ? 



Nyalel 



Alangium decapetalum 



Angolam, or Alangi 



Hamiltonia ? 



Idou Moulli 



Sapindus emarginatus 



Poerinsii 



Duabanga Sonneratoides 



Duyabanga Adamboe ? 



Lagerstroemia hirsuta 



Catou Adamboe 



Eleocarpus perincara 



Perm Cara 



