on the Hortus Malabaricus, Fart II. 205 



Supplement to the EncyclopSdie (iii. 62.) we are referred for a 

 figure of the H. Mystax to the lllustr. 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 Ilugonia with a drupa containing ten 

 seeds [Gcertn. 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 Ilugonia. 



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 Ilugonia which T have 

 seen, would appear to be what Willdenow calls a variety of the 

 Hugonia Mystax (Sp. PI. iii. 694.) ; but I doubt very much of 

 its being the same with the Modern Canni. I 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 



Ilugonia obovata inermis erecta, foliis obovatis integerrimis 



glabris, petalis oblique retusis. 

 Habitat in sylvis Cherae et Dravedae asperis. 



Arbuscula non sarmentosa. Kami inermes, teretes, rudimentis 

 petiolorum exasperati. Rarnuli pilosi. Folia sparsa, apices 

 versus ramulorum conferta, oblongo-obovata, integerrima, 

 obtusa, nitida, venosa, plana. Petioliis brevissimus, pilosus. 

 StipulcE geminae, laterales, marcescentes, subulate, erectae, 

 integerrimae, mediocres. Fedunculus axillaris, solitarius, 



2 E 2 patens. 



