on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 251 
3. Bella Modagam, remaining yet to be introduced into the modern system of 
botany. ! 
Town: TEnEGAM, p. 123. tab. 60. 
The plants composing the Malabar genus Teregam have no botanical affi- 
nity, three of them being Fici (Hort. Mal. iii. 79. 81. 83.), to which this has 
no resemblance in the eyes of a botanist; although the Brahmans also notice 
an affinity between it and the Vatti (Ficus bengalensis, Linn.), calling it by the 
generic name Kara-vatti, or Wild Banyan-tree. 
Commeline abstains altogether from classing this Teregam; nor does 
M. Poiret venture a conjecture, although he describes the tree from Rheede 
(Enc. Méth. vii. 697.), and I find no other notice taken of it by modern bo- 
tanists. In my opinion, it evidently appears to be of the same genus with the 
Illa of the Ceylonese, which is the original Tomex of Linnzeus (FU. Zeyl. 59.) ; 
for he says, “ Tota structura fructificationis ad Callicarpam accedit, neque 
repugnat facies; sed petala quatuor distincta, filamenta receptaculo inserta, 
fructus cum in hac ignotus sit, conjungere genera non audeo.” Now this 
agrees in every point with Rheede's account and figure, in which there is not 
only no appearance of a tube in the corolla, but the stamina are represented as 
remaining after the petala have fallen, which shows that they are inserted into 
the receptaculum. . The species, it must be allowed, are abundantly distinct, 
the Mla having the leaves entire, while those of the Tondi Teregam are ser- 
rated. Linnzeus, however, when he published the Mantissa, alleged that the 
Illa is a Callicarpa, having found a Callicarpa, which he took to be the same, 
and this is now generally called Callicarpa lanata (Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 620.; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 406); only the Cornutia corymbosa having been called by 
M. Lamarck (Ii. Gen. i. 293.) Callicarpa lanata, the Illa by M. Poiret has 
been called Callicarpa Tomex (Enc. Méth. Suppl. ii. 32.). Whether or not 
these changes, subsequent to the publication of the Flora Zeylanica, have been 
judicious, I cannot say. All the species of Callicarpa that I have seen have 
the corolla very decidedly monopetalous; while both Linnzeus and Rheede, in 
describing the Illa and Tondi Teregam, agree in mentioning four petala. That 
the plant now called Callicarpa lanata has really a monopetalous corolla I 
know from Dr. Roxburgh’s account, for he, describing from fresh specimens, 
may be safely trusted. He says, “tube of the corol bent to one side." This 
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