. on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 247 
Drupa nigra, sicca, magnitudine grani Piperis, ovalis vel orbiculata, compressa. 
Nux compressa, rugosa. 
In the Mathasura the leaves have often a sharp point, as represented in 
Plukenet ; but I see no other difference, and doubt of this being a circum- 
stance sufficient to distinguish them as species. 
PovmALETSJE, p. 117. tab. 57. 
Commeline considered this as a species of Ligustrum. 
Plukenet compared to it a plant, which he called * Poutaletsia Malabararum 
similis Arbuscula Maderaspatana” (Alm. 305.; Phyt. t. 54. f. 1.), which seems 
to me very different even as to genus, the corolla in Plukenet's figure being 
divided into five. ; 
The elder Burman proposed as a query, whether or not the Poutaletsje was 
the Manithonda of the Ceylonese, which he calls Ligustrum indicum s. Alcanna 
(Thes. Zeyl. 142.). This Linnzus in the Flora Zeylanica (135.) called Law- 
sonia ramis inermibus, concerning which error I had already had occasion fully 
to explain myself (Linn. Trans. xiii. 509.). 
M. Poiret (Enc. Méth. Suppl. iii. 39.) having given up the Poutaletsje as a 
Lawsonia, has been obliged to return to the opinion of Jussieu (Gen. Plant. 
222.), and adopts without reserve (Enc. Méth. Suppl. iv. 374. 546.) what the 
most distinguished botanist of France proposed merely as a query. He has not, 
however, given it a specific name nor character ; and indeed seems to think 
that the genus Pefesia (to which Jussieu referred it) should be altogether 
abandoned. With all due deference to the opinion of so great a botanist, I 
doubt of this plant belonging to the order of Rubiacew. I see no appearance 
whatever in the figure, nor the smallest hint in the description, of stipulze ; and 
if these are wanting, we may safely consider the Poutaletsje as a Callicarpa. 
Mopacam, p. 119. tab. 58. 
This and the following belong to one Malabar genus, and have a consider- 
able general resemblance; but, as Commeline remarks, they have no affinity 
in the view of European botanists. Both the vulgar and Brahmans consider 
this as the prototype of the genus, called by the latter Corotha. I cannot find 
this plant mentioned in any subsequent author. Rheede mentions a resem- 
