on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part IF. 251 



3. Bella Modagam, remaining yet to be introduced into the modern system of 



botany. 



ToNDi Teregam, p. 123. tab. 60. 



The plants composing the Malabar genus Teregam have no botanical affi- 

 nity, three of them being Fici {Hort. Mai. 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 f'atti {Ficus bengalemis, Linn.), calling it by the 

 generic name Kara-vatli, 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. Al^th. 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 

 Ilia of the Ceylonese, which is the original Tomex of Linnaeus (Fl. 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 Ilia having the leaves entire, while those of the Tot2(li Teregam are ser- 

 rated. Linnaeus, however, when he published the Mantissa, alleged that the 

 Ilia is a Callicarpa, having found a Callicarpa, which he took to be the same, 

 and this is now generally called Callicarpa lanata (^Wdld. Sp. PI. i. 620.; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. \. 406); only the Cornutia corijmbosa having been called by 

 M. Lamarck (///. Gen. i. 293.) Callicarpa lanata, the Ilia by M. Poiret has 

 been called Callicarpa Tomex [Enc. Meth. 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 Linngeus and Rheede, in 

 describing the Ilia 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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