on the Hortus Malabaricus, Pari IF. 223 



Wadouka, p. 97. tab. 46. 



In my commentary on the Idou Moulli I have mentioned the error into 

 which Plukenet seems to have fallen concerning these plants. Commeline 

 gives no opinion concerning this tree ; nor, except the erroneous quotation of 

 it by Plukenet, do I find it noticed by any subsequent author. Its fruit, as 

 Rheede observes, has a considerable resemblance to that of the Nyalel {t. 16.); 

 but the two trees in other respects have no afiinity, and the Nyalel is as un- 

 known as the Wadouka. The description and figure of the Wadouka seem to 

 refer entirely to a female plant, which, from its habit, and from the structure 

 of its fruit, especially of its seed, would appear to have an affinity to the order 

 of Capparides, although there is no appearance of the germen being supported 

 on a pedicel. 



Rava Pou, seu Pu, p. 99. tab. 47, 48. 



Pu signifying a flower, Rava is the proper name of the plant. Neither 

 this nor the Marotina given by the Brahmans has any connexion with the 

 term tristis given by the Portuguese, and adopted by Commeline, who on this 

 account classes it most improperly with the Mania Pu Maram {Hort. Malab. 

 i. 35. tab. 21.), and places them both in the genus Jasminum, to which the 

 Rava Pou has not the smallest resemblance. 



Linnaeus having founded a genus called Nyctanthes, placed in it not only 

 both the Mania and Rava, but also some plants which have nearly the fruc- 

 tification of the Jasminum {Burm. Fl. Ind. 4.), and thus the Rava Pou was 

 called Nyctantlies hirsuta. 



M. Sonnerat, having figured a plant under the name of Cadamba, Jussieu 

 considered it as the same with the Rava Pou and as a species of Guettarda 

 {Gen. PL 230.). M. Lamarck adopted the same opinions, and considered the 

 Cadamba and Rava Pou as identically the same with the Guettarda speciosa of 

 Linnaeus (Enc. Mdth. iii. 53.). Willdenow, however, was of a contrary opi- 

 nion, and insisted not only that the Rava Pou was different from the Cadamba, 

 but that it is a. Jasminum, which he calls hirsutum (Sp. PL i. 36.), as being the 

 Nyctanthes hirsuta of Linnaeus ; for these two genera he admits to be the 

 same. He supports his opinion by referring to a figure by some person named 

 Browne ; but I see no such figiu-e quoted among the synonyma even in his 



