mix 



78 MB. BEIfTHAM ON LOGANIACEjE. 



t. 25) do not in any respect difTer from a stunted state of S. nux 



vomica, which, according to Dr. Wight, is not uncommon aboui 



Madras. All writers describe the leaves and fru 



as very variable in size, DeCandoUe says, inde( 



of the fruit of 8. nux-vomica is of a brown-red, 



gustrina of a yellow-green ; but we learn from Roxburgh and 



Rheede, as well as from verbal communications of those who are 



and 



liar with the tree, that the fruit of S. nux-voinica, at first 

 ►w-green, assumes at length a rich orange-yellow. The fi. 

 .umphius, vol. ii. t. 38, quoted for the 8. ligustrma, evide 



ure 



different plant. It is without flowers, 



and 



8. coluhrina is generally supposed to be a scandent nux-vomtca 

 with simple tendrils, and is consequently placed among the long^ 

 flowered species by DeCandolle. The original must be taken to 



Modira Ccmiram from Malabar 



the 



Malabar species like it which is known has b 

 distinguished imder Leschenault's name of 8. bici? 

 the tendrils forked instead of simple as figured 



I 



same specimen 



IS as our herbaria afibrd, almost um^ 

 also met with simple ones even on the 

 nrrhosa has a very short tube to the 

 i^. coluhrina for anything in Rheede s 

 contrary, and I feel little doubt in my 



own 



Linnaeus, in quoting Rheede' s Modira Caniram, refers by mistake 

 to another plate of the ' Hortus Malabaricus,* vol. vii. t. 5, which 

 represents his Tsjeri Katu Valli Ccmiram, a smaller species from 



slands off the coast, which Rheede clearly distinguishes. 



Blumc 



and 



besides minor differences, appears to have the flowers almost uni- 

 versally tetramerous instead of pentamerous. 



Wallich has described xmder the name of 8. coluhrina a Silhet 

 species which I am unable to identify, there being no specimens 

 of it in his collections, and none answering to his description ui 

 either Griffith's, Hooker and Thomson's, or any other of our 

 Khasiya collectioria. It must be very near to the true Malabar 

 species ; Wallich does not indeed particularly describe the corolla, 

 but says generally that the flowers are small. A Malacca plant 

 in Griffith's collection agrees, however, still better with "Wallich's 



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