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COMMENTARY ON 
Jambo d'Agoa Kosada, p. 123. 
This, as I have mentioned in the Commentary on the 
Hortus Malabaricus (1. c), seems to me the Eugenia Jam- 
hoSj the Portuguese name being a mere translation of Gu- 
lab Jamba, the Hindwi name of this fine tree. Burman's 
observation on the Jambosa domestica (p. 124) is full of 
errors, mentioned in my Commentary on the Hortus Ma- 
labaricus, Part i. p, 27- 
Caput XXXIII. 
Jambosa nigra, p. 125, t. 38, f. 1. 
This is quoted by Willdenow (Sp. PI. ii. 959), along 
with the former, for the Eugenia Malaccensis ; but it 
seems a distinct species, and, without being certain, I be- 
lieve that it is the Eugenia purpurea of the Hortus Ben- 
galensis (p. 35), introduced there by Mr Colebrooke, who, 
I suppose, gave it this name, which I find in no botanical 
writer. The plant of Rumphius is not, however, quoted 
in the Hortus Bengalensis. The observation of the elder 
Burman, at the end of this chapter, is, in my opinion, to- 
tally erroneous, no one of the plants quoted being the same. 
Caput XXXIV. 
Jambosa aquea, p. 126, t. 38, f. 2. 
In the Encyclopedic (iii. 200) this is quoted with doubt 
for the Eugenia Java7iica ; but as the fruit of the latter 
has not been described, nothing certain concerning this 
question can be determined. In the Hortus Bengalensis 
(37), without quoting Rumphius, this elegant species has 
been called Eugenia aquea. It was brought, along with the 
preceding, by the fleet of Admiral Raynier, after the cap- 
ture of Amboina ; and, in the year 1800, I saw both in the 
