252 Dr. Francis Hamtitton on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IV. 
irregularity in the corolla leads me to suspect that the Callicarpa lanata of 
Dr. Roxburgh is in fact the Cornutia corymbosa (Enc. Méth. i. 54.), afterwards 
called by M. Lamarck (Jil. Gen. No. 1500.) Callicarpa lanata; and that the 
Callicarpa Tomex of M. Poiret, who never saw the plant, is exactly the same. 
In this case M. Lamarck is probably right in quoting the Tomex of the Flora 
Zeylanica with doubt; and I suspect that the plant described by Linnzeus in 
the Mantissa, by Vahl, by Geertner, and by Roxburgh, is not the Mla, or ori- 
ginal Tomex. Until, however, the fruit of this or of the Tondi Teregam is 
known, we had better adopt the original caution of Linnzeus, “ conjungere 
genera non audeo." 
Ramena Pu, seu Pou Maram, p. 125. tab. 61. 
I find no notice taken of this tree by any botanist, until Dr. Roxburgh 
received from Malabar a tree, which he took to be the same, and called it 
Sterculia guttata (Hort. Beng. 50.). It seems to differ very little, if anything, 
from the Clompanus minor of Rumphius (Herb. Amb. iii. 169. t. 107.), usually 
quoted for the Sterculia Balanghas (Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 872.), for which, as I 
have said (Linn. Trans. xiii. 530.), the Cavalam of Rheede is usually quoted ; 
but M. Poiret quotes both with doubt (Enc. Méth. vii. 429.). For this he 
assigns no reason, nor has he seen the plant; while Dr. Roxburgh considered 
the Cavalam as his S. Balanghas (Hort. Beng. 50.). 
From the account given by the natives to Rheede concerning the fruit of the 
Ramena Pu Maram (testantur tamen Malabarenses nonnunquam baccas ferre 
hane arborem oblongo-rotundas, flavo-purpurascentes), we may perhaps be 
induced to think that its fruit is small, and contains only a few seeds; in 
which case it is not likely to be the Clompanus minor, the fruit of which could 
never have been mistaken for a berry: but the case may be different with that 
of the Sterculia guttata; for although I did not see the fruit, I consider it as 
the * S. macrophylla capsulis dispermibus" (Enc. Méth. viii. 432.). I however 
have given specimens to the library at the India House of both the S. Balan- 
ghas and S. guttata of Dr. Roxburgh, with which the learned may satisfy 
themselves concerning the proper synonyma. 
