THE HERBARIUM AMBOFNENSE. 875 
Caput LXV. 
Olus album domesticum, p. 191? t. 78. 
Burman (Obs. p. 192) seems quite right in considering 
this as the same with the Bern moenja of Rheede (Hort. 
Mai. V. 113, t. 57). The name Naravolo, which, according 
to this author, the Brahmans of Malabar give to this tree, 
I found to be the name given in Carnata to a species of 
Cordia, called angustjfoUa by Dr Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 
17) ; but the two plants seem to have no affinity. It is 
singular that neither of our two great Indian botanists saw 
either flower or fruit of this tree. The leaf seems to have 
some resemblance to the Acacias Jblio conjugato pinnato ; 
but this is all the resemblance that I can trace ; and the 
Compiler of the Encyclopedie, who mentions Rheede's ac- 
count (Sup. i. 613), gives no -conjecture concerning its affi- 
nities. Neither is Plukenet, who mentions the tree (Aim, 
66), more explicit ; and he quotes Ray, who also describes 
it as producing neither flower nor fruit : but this excellent 
botanist, in calling the leaves alata, supports the opinion of 
its being an Acacia ; although what I shall observe on the 
following plant seems to contradict this opinion beyond & 
doubt 
Caput "LXVI. 
Oius album insulare, p. 193? t. 79, f. 1. 
The leaf of this has still more resemblance to that of an 
Acacia than that of the preceding plant, there being evi- 
dently a large gland on the common petiolus ; but the de- 
scription of the flower and fruit seems irreconcileable with 
this opinion, and the description of Rumphius would seem 
to imply, in the Linnsean phraseology, " calyx superus, 
quinquifidus. Petala alba. Stamina octo vel decern. Drupa 
sicca, ovata, pilosa, venosa." 
