THE HERBAllIUM AMBOINENSE. HS7 
garden of the late worthy Dr Anderson, at Madras. The 
Bengalese name given to the Jambosa aguea is perfectly 
generical, and it has been called Jamb by the gardeners, 
just as any foreign species of Quercus might by a common 
labourer be called Oak. Considering the deserved high 
authority of this work respecting the native names of plants, 
I think this explanation necessary ; as a Bengalese name 
might imply the plant being a native of that country. The 
kind with a white fruit, mentioned by Rumphius, seems a 
mere variety, the effect of cultivation. 
Caput XXXV. 
Jambosa 'Silvestris alba Utan Puti, p. 1^8, t. 39. 
In my Commentary on the Hortus Malabaricus (P. i. 
fol. 27), I have mentioned the mistake into which modern 
botanists have fallen, in quoting this for the Eugenia jam- 
bos. I have no doubt of its being a totally different species, 
which hitherto has not been properly applied to any plant 
recently described. 
Jambosa silvestris alba Biawas, p. 128. 
It is impossible to say, from any thing mentioned by 
Rumphius, whether this should be considered as a distinct 
species, or as a mere variety of the foregoing. If Burman 
was wrong in comparing these two plants to the Malacca 
Schamhu of Rheede, which is at least of the same genus, 
he erred much more in comparing them to the Catu 
Tsiamhu (Hort. Mai. iv. t. 8), which does not seem to be- 
long to the same family. 
Jambosa silvestris parvifolia, p. 129. 
In the Actuarium or Appendix to this Work (cap. 6) 
we are informed that a transposition of plates has taken 
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