THE HEillJAlilUM AMBOINENSE. 
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doricum sylvestre secundum (Herb. Amb. iii. 184) as a 
Bassia, these also may belong to the same genus, although 
they also strongly resemble the genus Diospyros ; but to 
this subject I shall again have occasion to return. I need 
scarcely mention that Burman, in his observation on this 
plant, is totally wrong in considering it as of the same ge- 
nus with the Caniram of Rheede (Hort. Mai. i. 67, t. 37), 
which is the Strychnos mix vomica. 
Caput LVIII. 
Catappa domestica, p. 174, t. 68. 
Why Linnaeus chose to give the name Terminalia to the 
genus to which this tree belongs, Rumphius having previ- 
ously applied it to a totally different plant ; and why^ still 
farther, he did not give even the specific name catappa to 
the same tree that Rumphius called so, Ko^r i^ox^iv, I cannot 
say ; but this is not the Terminalia catappa, nor does Lin- 
naeus seem ever to have seen it. M. Lamarck (Enc. Meth. 
i. 349) seems first to have introduced it into the modern 
system of botany, under the name of Terminalia moluccana, 
a name properly retained by Willdenow (Sp. PL iv. 968), 
although Forster had called it Terminalia glahrata ; and 
Dr Roxburgh, probably in a private communication to 
Willdenow, had given it the name of Terminalia glandu- 
losa. My worthy friend, however, before his death, adopted 
the name of Lamarck (Hort. Beng. 33). 
Catappa iitorea, p. 175. 
Seems also no doubt to be a Terminalia. 
Catappa silvestris, p. 175. 
This, I have little doubt, is the Terminalia catappa of 
botanists, the Ada mar am of Rheede (Hort. Mai. iv. 5), 
