THE HEKBARIUM AMBOINENSE. 
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Caput LXI. 
Gnemon domestica mas^ p. 181, t. 71. 
Gnemoii domestica femiiia, p. 181, t. 72. 
Botanists have usually quoted these as forming only one 
species ; and, as the tree is cultivated, and thence probably 
assumes different appearances, this may be the case, the 
male and female kinds, as Kumphius calls them, being 
what recent botanists call varieties : for they are not, as 
Jussieu supposed, the male and female of a dioicious plant, 
as both produce fruit. Burman, in his observation on this 
plant, has confounded it with the Mala elengi of the Hor- 
tus Malabaricus (v. t. 55), which I consider as being a 
Chionanthus. Linnaeus, taking Gnemon for a specific ap- 
pellation, called it Gnetum, in which he has been followed 
by subsequent writers, although I am at a loss to know 
from whence he took the word. The synonyma quoted by 
Rumphius himself are more correct than those given since, 
this plant having been brought early into notice by Sir 
Francis Drake, who found it on the island Beretina, from 
whence it was called Fructus heretinus. It was afterwards 
introduced into the botanical system by C. Bauhin, under 
the name of Laurifolia terenatensis ; and it seems surpris- 
ing that these synonyma should not have been quoted by 
moderns. 
Caput LXII. 
Gnemon silvestris, p, 183, t. 73. 
This is the Gnetum ovalifolium of the Encyclopedia 
(Sup. ii. 810). The plant of the Hortus Malabaricus (v. 51, 
t. 26) called Mail Ombi or Kombi, which Burman thought 
the same with this, is probably an Antidesma. 
