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Bauhin. Neither this, however, nor the still more simpfe 
Anoma of Loureiro, has satisfied the modern taste for ses- 
quipedalian Greek, from which Vahl and others have given 
us Hyperanthera,— a term applied by Forskal to a genus, 
which I suppose is very different, being really one of the 
liCguminosse, with a calyx of one leaf, and a fruit consist- 
ing of two valves, to one edge of which the seeds are an- 
nexed; while in the Moringa there are three valves, sup- 
porting the seeds by their middle^ Excluding the two spe« 
cies, which properly belong to the Hyperanthera of Fors- 
kal, or to the Gymnocladus of Lamarck, we shall have in 
Willdenow, as well as in Rumphius and Burman, two spe- 
cies of Moringa. Loureiro has also two species, a Moringa 
and a Morunga; but the latter, although joined by the 
Compiler of the Encyclopedic (Sup. i. 391), and by Will- 
denow, with the Morunga of Rumphius, having opposite 
leaves, must be a totally different plant. The synonyma, 
indeed, annexed to the Hyperanthera moringa by Willde- 
now, belong to four, or perhaps rather to five, different 
plants ; and those referred to the Moringa oleifera in the 
Encyclopedic (i. 398), refer to two or three ; and I find it 
impossible to say which of these plants were really meant. 
Both authors include the two species of Rumphius, to which 
the Encyclopedic adds a plant of Egypt and Arabia, the 
Balanus myrepsica^ or Glans unguenUarius of old writers 
(the Moringa aptera of Gaertner, De Sem. ii. 315) ; and 
Willdenow still farther adds, the American Lignum 'pere-- 
grinum aquam coeruleam reddens of Bauhin, by severals 
called Lignum nephriticum^ and the Anoma morunga of 
Cochinchina, described by Loureiro, and in the Encyclo- 
pedic (Sup. i. 391), as having opposite leaves. 
Now, to return to the Morunga mas et fimina of Rum- 
phius ; neither of which, I am persuaded, grows naturally 
in Egypt nor America, and which, if not distinct species. 
