THE HEREAlilUM AMBOINENSE. 315 
D.r Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 25) adopted the same names, 
and is an excellent authority for placing it in the same ge- 
nus with the Corypha described by Rheede, having ex- 
amined the fructification of both palms. 
LiOiitarus sylvestris Yhur dicta, p. 54. 
This is evidently a palm, with leaves shaped like a fan, 
and which produces a sago ; but to what genus it belongs, 
no' one can say, from any thing that Rumphius states. 
Lontarus sylvestris Cabaiig, p. 55. 
This is a palm very nearly allied to the Licualia peltata, 
already described, but distinguishable by the smaller num- 
ber of sections into which its leaves are divided. It serves, 
however, similar purposes, and probably belongs to the 
same genus. 
Caput XI. 
Lontarus sylvestris altera, p. 56, t. 12. 
From the fruit containing three or four nuts, and from 
the general appearance of the plant, I consider it probable 
that this palm is a species of Borassus or Lontarus. 
Caput XII. & XIII. 
Palma indica vinaria secunda, p. 57, t. 13. 
Burman, in his Commentary, considered this is a Cha- 
maerops ; and the authors of the Encyclopedie (vi. 258), 
misled by Loureiro, looked upon it as a Borassus, which 
obtained the specific name gomutus. Both Chamasrops 
and Borassus having fan-shaped leaves, while those of the 
palm in question are pinnated, these arrangements were 
quite unnatural, no circumstance in this natural order pro- 
ducing such a change of appearance as the form of leaf. 
Dr Roxburgh, accordingly, (Hort. Beng. 68), with great 
