352 Mr. CorzBRooKE's Description 
Java, and the most deadly of the two which have been there em- 
ployed for that nefarious purpose. Neither M. Leschenault nor 
Dr. Horsfield, who has also noticed it*, saw the fructification. 
But the first of those naturalists has concluded (I presume from 
the habit) that it is a Strychnos. The plant which I take to be 
nearly allied to it, if not specifically the same, and of which I 
have examined the fruit, is an undoubted Strychnos. It grows 
in the mountains and forests north and east of Silhet in Bengal ; 
where, from numerous other instances, the flora is known to par- 
‘take largely of that which belongs to the Malayan peninsula and 
archipelago.. The mountains confining the province of Silhet 
seem to be the boundary, in the geography of plants, between 
the hither and remoter India, between the cis-gangetic and trans- 
gangetic regions. 
The specimen of this Str; ychnos was sent to me by Mr. M. R. 
Smith, who, without being himself conversant with botany, has 
laboured assiduously in advancing the science by collecting spe- 
cimens of indigenous plants from countries contiguous to that 
sequestered province, and by communicating his. ir pi to 
the botanical garden at Calcutta. — . | 
The flowers of this plant have not been seen. by n me. But the 
examination of the fruit authorized the pronouncing of it to be 
-a Strychnos; which has been verified by Dr. Wallich, the present 
superintendant of the botanical establishment at Calcutta. It 
differs from Leschenault's description and drawing, as the leaves 
are ovate, acuminate; his elliptic, acute. Dr. Horsfield desig- 
nates the leaves of the Javanese species as in pairs, or pinnate in 
two or three pairs ; egged, spear-shaped, terminating in a long 
narrow point. Nevertheless, the prominent character of the in- 
crassated tendrils, noticed by Leschenault, raises a surmise that 
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