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detailed description. It has appeared to me to be a good species, 

 which I have described under the name of S. malaccensis. Possibly 

 this and "Wallich's latter plant may ultimately prove to be mere 

 varieties of the true colubrina, but, I repeat it, the specimens I 

 have seen in the several herbaria at Kew, London, or Paris, are 

 wholly insufficient to afford any satisfactory evidence of the real 

 value of the characters assigned by myself or others to the S. 

 colubrina, hicirrJiosa, minor, and malaccensis respectively. 



S. ovalifolia. Wall., and S. WaUicMcma, Steud. (-S*. lucida. Wall., 

 not of Brown) , are both long-flo wered climbers, differing slightly 

 trom each other in foliage, but more decidedly in the corolla, hairy 

 at the base of the limb in one, naked in the other. Of S. acumi- 

 mta, Wall., published as distinct, neither flowers nor fruit are 

 faiown, and there is nothing in its foliage to separate it from S. 



ovalifolia. 



«• Tieute, Blume, from Timor and other islands between that 

 and Java, and S. lucida, Br., from tropical Australia, are both 

 unknown to me. 



S- grandis, WaU. Cat. n. 4454, from Penang, referred to 

 ^trychnos in the haste of a first sorting, on account of its ribbed 

 leaves, must be at^ once rejected as having them alternate. It is 

 *be same plant as the Oocculus Jlamcans, Wall. Cat. n. 4976 ; and, 

 as mentioned in Hooker and Thomson's ' Flora Indica,' belongs to 

 •^isopJiyllum, Don, or Tetracrypta, Gardn., a curious genus re- 

 ferred by Gardner to SmiamelidecB, and in the ' Niger Flora ' to 



Legnotidece, in which this plant constitutes a new and very distinct 

 species*. 



^trychnos, n. 5500 of WaUich's Catalogue, is a veiy bad speci- 

 men, in fruit only, with alternate pinnately- veined leaves, and 

 therefore no Strychnos. It affords no materials to determine what 

 it may really be. 



S- ohlongifolia, Hochst., mentioned in the ' Prodromus ' as 



• Anisophyllum grande, sp. n,, foliis'amplis quintuplineiriifl oblongo-ellipticifl 

 glabris, pedunculis crassis ramosis floribusque tomentellis.— Eami adulti glabri. 

 FoUa 8-10 poU. longa, 3-4 poU. lata, acuminata, basi obtusa, siccitate flavicantia, 

 Petiolo crasso 3 lin. longo. Inflorescentia supra-aiillaris ; pedunculi ssepe 

 Plures suprapositi inaquales, longiores 3-4-pollicare8, parum ramosi, tomento 

 "linuto rufescentes. Flores sessiles. Unicum examinavi ovario jam paullulum 

 aucto ovoideo 2 lin. longo. Calycis lacinise 4^ brevissimse, latac, obtusa. Petala 

 jam delapsa non vidi. Stamina perpauca superfoerunt parra, anther^ biloculari, 

 ^amento brevi. gtyli 4, divaricate snbulaii, "basi incrassati et pubeacentes, 

 •^sco crassiusculo insidentes. Ovarium ioferam, quadriloculare, oTulis in quoquo 

 loculo soUtariis penduUs. 





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