OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO, 111 
FAGRÆA RACEMOSA, Jack in Rowb. Fl. Ind. ii. (1824) 35. 
Tenom, Rayoh hills, 1500", in high forest. Fl. Jan. 2871. 
Distrib. Borneo (B.N. B. North-East Coast, Creagh ; Sarawak ; D. Borneo). 
Malay Peninsula, Andamans, Java, Philippines, and New Guinea; Indo- 
China. 
A small tree, about 10 m. high, with handsome coriaceous leaves and 
light fawn-coloured flowers. Every inflorescence on this tree was infested 
with GZeophila ants which had, in many cases, fastened up the leaves, 
according to their custom, described by Beccari (18. 161), to protect the 
eggs and larvee. The two opposite leaves, which subtend the inflorescence, 
are always chosen, and even when not actually gummed together, the edges 
curl up and enclose the inflorescence, whose peduncle and cymes evidently 
become modified and congested in response to some stimulus given by the 
ants, with the result that the sessile flowers are irregularly or often spirally 
arranged on a very short thickened and often pedunculate rhachis. In some 
specimens at the British Museum from the Malay Peninsula, and in Hose’s 
1078 from Matang Hill in Sarawak, the rhachis is so much swollen that it is 
quite deformed, and the same result is seen in one of Ridley’s specimens in 
the British Museum. The calyces showed extra-floral nectaries, and in many 
of the flowers the reproductive organs had been eaten out. 
FAGRÆA CRASSIPES, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. i. (1851) 99. 
Kaningau plain, in fringing wood on Baiaio river. Fl.Jan. 2974. 
Distrib. Borneo (B. N. B. Linkabo, Labuk Bay, Ridley ; Labuan, Motley, 
Hose; Sarawak). | Philippines. 
Small tree, 10 m., with pendent inflorescences and cream-coloured flowers. 
GELSEMINUM SUMATRANUM, Gibbs, comb. nov. ; syn. Lepidopteris suma- 
tranum, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. 240, fig. 34. 
Tenom, 700'. Fl. Fr. 3130. 
Distrib. Sumatra. 
This plant was sent to me by A. B. C. Francis, Esq., Resident of the 
Interior, at Tenom, with the accompanying interesting note. 
"The native name is * Liman,” and it is the poison used by the Muruts for 
the purposes of suicide. The modus operandi is either to consume the older 
leaves mixed with other food, or to smoke the dried leaves mixed with 
tobacco, or to make an infusion and drink. As far as I can gather, the 
result is a period of drowsiness, and then unconsciousness and death after 
some hours. The plant is a small creeper, but attains sometimes to a 
considerable size." 
Solereder (Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 29) mentions that the root of (Z. elegans, 
Benth., is a favourite medium for poisoning in China. 
