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refers to Boym, look Macaca mentioned by tbe latter to be Macao. But 
Macacas is an ancient name for Macassar (Crawfurd Diet. Ind. isl. 90.). 
Bontius 1. c. 118 seems to confound the Durian with tbe Jack fruit, at 
least he gives Durian and Jaca as synonyms. His drawing of the fruit 
could be referred to the Jack as well as to the Durian, it does not 
represent leaves. 
17. Innominatus Fructus. Illius nominis sinici non memini. 
Vidi ilium primum in insula Hainan et postea in provineia 
Quamtum. Arbor procera, folia maxima,' quae medium 
bominem contegere possunt, producit. Hoc admirabile habet, 
quod media radice telluri inhei’eat, ex alia autem parte radicis 
patente fiores rubros et sinful fructus, similes Buropaeis ficubus 
progenerat, qui cum maturescunt, rubent paululum ; sed in¬ 
terior caro et sapor illorum figuram et saporem ficuum 
repraesentat. Julio et Augusto maturescunt. 
It would seem from this description and the drawing accompanying it, 
that Cynometra eauliflora L. is meant, a tree of the Malayan Archipelago, 
which I have seen myself in Java. The fruits of it grow on the Stem or 
about the roots. 
18. Hu cyao ^ !Piper flignim. L. (v. supra Martini 22.) 
19. Fo lim ^ Radix Sina© (v. supra Martini 41.) 
20. Tay hoam ^ ^ $Lhafo arbarum (v. s. Martini 40.) 
21. Quel pi ^ $ Cinnamomum (v. s. Martini 21.) 
22. Bern hiam Bfc H Zingiber,. 
A good drawing of Chinese Ginger is found also in Bontius l.o. 189. 
As tbe late D. Hanbury has proved in tbe introduction to 
his Notes on Chin. Materia medica, the treatise, which is 
generally quoted under the name of dLBITBIi’S 32PB©2» 
MSI MEBX€IIAE SIWS€JLB 9 published in 1682, 
consists of translations from Chinese medical works by Father 
Boym . They were only edited by Andreas Oleyer, a physician 
in the service of the Dutch B.I. Comp., well known as the first 
European botanist, who studied the Flora of Japan. One 
section of the specimen medicinae sin. of 30 pages, is entitled : 
Medicamenta simplicia quae a Ghlnensibus'ad usum medicum 
adhibenlur. It is nothing more than an enumeration of 289 
Chinese drugs, for the most part of vegetable origin, giving the 
Chinese name of each written according to the Portuguese 
orthography, without the Chinese characters. The medical 
properties of each drug according to the Chinese ideas, are 1 
explained. In some cases the author adds the European name., 
Although the greatest part of these drugs can now be ascer¬ 
tained from the Chinese names added, the treatise is altogether 
devoid of interest and may be quoted only as a bibliographical 
curiosity^ 
