Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tminiums, and lias been described by Loureiro, FI: Cochinch : Lp. 173, under the name of AGLAIA ODOR AT A. It has a five parted inferior calyx, and five petalled corolla* The stamina are five in number, and are insert¬ ed in the manner of the Meliaceae on the inside of an ovate nectarial tube, which is contracted at the mouth, and conceals the anthers. The stigma is large, sessile, simple as far as I have observed, not double as stated by Loureiro. The ovary appears to be one cell¬ ed, and to contain two pendulous ovula. It rarely ripens its fruit in these Islands, but. according to Lou¬ reiro it bears a small red one-seeded berry. The flow¬ ers are very small, yellow and fragrant, in small axilla¬ ry panicles. In the Catalogue of the Hortas Be?igalensis p, 18, this plant is specified under the name of Camunium Sincnse after Rumphius. The Murraya paniculala bove described is the true Kamuning of the Malays, and the name C. Sinense is only applied by Rumphius in the manner of the older botanical authors, as one of comparison and resemblance for want of a better of native origin ; if therefore the generic name Camu- nium is to be adopted at all, it ought to be applied to the plant to which it really belongs, and cannot be ad- E