Galeon is here the galliot of later days. See above.
"A kind of boat," is all that Crawfurd tells.—Malay Dict. s.v. ["Banting, a native sailing-vessel with two masts"—Williamson, Malay Dict.: "Bantieng, soort van boot met twee masten"—Van Eysinga, Malay-Dutch Dict.]
There is no justification for this word in the Latin.
"Rheede says: 'Etiam in sylvis et desertis reperitur' (Hort. Mal. xi. 10). But I am not aware of any botanist having found it wild. I suspect that no one has looked for it."—Sir J. D. Hooker.
Gebeli, Ar. "of the hills." Neli is also read dely, probably for d'Ely (see [DELY, MOUNT]). The Ely ginger is mentioned by Barbosa (p. 220).