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the Banksian herbarium, the other without any reference to its 

 origin, which agree in most respects with the published descrip- 

 tion of Ignatia ; and in a small capsule marked " Flos Ignatise, an 

 amarse ? ex Herb. Linn. fil. inter plantas Aubletii," is a detached 

 flower of the same plant. From these data we are forced to con- 

 clude, that Linnaeus the younger's character of Ignatia is taken 

 irom the flowers and foliage of a Guiana Posoqueria, and the seed 

 only of the true Philippine Island plant, and the genus must 

 therefore be suppressed as fictitious. The St. Ignatius's bean is 

 most probably the seed of a true Strychnos, the identification of 

 which must be reserved for futiu-e travellers. There is, indeed, 

 one species, described below under the name of 8. multiflora, 

 which must be abundant in the Philippines, as it occurs under 

 lour different numbers of Cuming's coUection, and whose foliage 

 answers to Blanco's description ; but we have it in flower only, 

 and we have |io means of ascertaining whether it be or not th^ 

 one that produces the bean. - 



I may here allude to another plant, which, on accoxmt of its 

 opposite ribbed leaves, occurs in some herbaria under Strychnos. 

 -•■his is a tall, large-leaved climber, having a wide range, from the 

 foot of the Sikkim Himalaya, Khasiya, and Chittagong to Penang 

 and the Moluccas, and has been published by Wallich and DeCan- 

 dolle in Jasminece under the name of Chondrogpemum smilaci- 

 folium, and by Blume in Oleineee under that oi Myxopyrum 

 ^rvosum. With the habit and flower and exact ovules of the 

 one, and the albuminous seeds of the other, it suggests the pro- 

 priety of reuniting the Jasminece and Ohinece as tribes of one 

 family, as established by the elder Jussieu. 



The American StrycTini show the same variations as the Asiatic 

 ones in the length and number of parts of the flower ; and, as I 

 tave already observed, there remains no character whatever to 

 distinguish Rouhamon, for the fruit in all is baccate and indehiscent, 



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[though smaller and drier in some species than in others, 

 division into erect and scandent species is fully as difficult as in 

 tbe case of the Lidian ones, as the dried specimens seldom afford 

 any evidence one way or the other. From coHectors' notes it 

 appears that 8. pseudocMna and tripUnerpia are the only two, 

 among the long-flowered ones, which are real trees. S. Gardneri, 

 described as such in the ' Prodromus,' is, according to Gardner's 

 }abel, a tall cUmber, and some of his specimens have cirrhi. It 

 is a species closely aUied to three or four others from various parts 

 of tropical America, which our specimens scarcely afford materials 



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