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XXII. Dorivipiion of se indian Plants. By Henry Thomas 
Coleb ye, zajam F.R.S. 4 L.S. 
Read April 15, 1817. 
Havine had the opportunity, during a long residence in India, 
of examining some plants, which had not, so far as I know, been 
previously described, and others which had been but incompletely 
so, I purpose to submit to the notice of the Linnean Society, in this 
and successive communications, such of them as appear deserving 
of remark, either as constituting new kinds, or notable species of 
previously settled genera. 
Under the first head is a plant of which the delineation is here 
presented under the Indian name ; as this seems not unsonorous, 
nor otherwise objectionable. In general it is desirable to avoid the 
coinage of new words, and to preserve existing names, whenever 
they are not too barbarous for admission into the classical nomen- 
clature of botanical science. I propose therefore to retain the - 
Indian term, scarcely altered, for a denomination of the genus ; 
and accordingly to name it Sabia from the Hindi Sabja. 
Under the second head, one of the most remarkable of the 
plants which will be here offered to the Society's consideration is 
a species of Strychnos, which bears much resemblance to that de- 
scribed and figured by M. Leschenault*, and by him affirmed to 
be one of two which afford poison used to envenom weapons in 
* Ann, du Mus. 16, p» 479. pl. 23. 
Java, 
