on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 205 
Supplement to the Encyclopédie (iii. 62.) we are referred for a 
figure of the H. Mysta« to the Illustr. Gen. of Lamarck (t. 572.), 
where the leaves are represented serrated ; yet this figure can- 
not represent the H. serrata of Lamarck or H. Mystax of Ca- 
vanilles, as it is a real Hugonia with a drupa containing ten 
seeds (Gaærtn. de Sem. i. 281.), while the fruit of the H. serrata 
is a berry with five cells, each consisting of two valves contain- 
ing one seed ; for I presume that it is from the description of 
this plant by Cavanilles that M. Lamarck took his character of 
the genus Hugonia. 
Willdenow made no change on the synonyma, copying from 
the younger Burman the typographical error of Modira for Mo- 
dera; and he quotes Ray in the same manner, which is probably 
therefore right. He adds in a note, ‘ Possideo varietatem e 
Zeylona foliis obovatis majoribus, ramis flavescentibus inermi- 
bus.” Now it so happens, that the only Hugonia which I have 
seen, would appear to be what Willdenow calls a variety of the 
Hugonia Mystax (Sp. Pl. iii. 694.) ; but I doubt very much of 
its being the same with the Modera Canni. 1 found it in the 
south of India, below the Ghat mountains, in 1801, and a draw- 
ing and specimen were given to Sir J. E. Smith in 1806. I 
call it 
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Hugonia obovata inermis erecta, foliis obovatis integerrimis 
glabris, petalis oblique retusis. 
Habitat in sylvis Cherz et Dravedæ asperis. 
Arbuscula non sarmentosa. Rami inermes, teretes, rudimentis 
petiolorum exasperati. Ramuli pilosi. Folia sparsa, apices 
versus ramulorum conferta, oblongo-obovata, integerrima, 
obtusa, nitida, venosa, plana. Petiolus brevissimus, pilosus. 
Stipule geminæ, laterales, marcescentes, subulatæ, erectæ, 
integerrimæ, mediocres. Pedunculus axillaris, solitarius, 
2x2 patens, 
