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

 which I have described under the name of 8. 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 8. 

 colubrina, bicirrhosa, minor, and malaccensis respectively. 



8. ovalifolia, Wall., and 8. Wallichiana, Steud. (8. lucida, Wall., 

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

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

 at the base of the limb in one, naked in the other. ' Of 8. acumi- 

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

 known, and there is nothing in its foliage to separate it from 8. 

 ovalifolia. 



8. Tieute, Blume, from Timor and other islands between that 

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

 unknown to me. 



8. grandis, Wall. Cat. n. 4454, from Penang, referred to 

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

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

 the same plant as the Gocculus flavicans, Wall. Cat. n. 4976 ; and, 

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

 Anisophyllum, Don, or Tetracrypta, Gardn., a curious genus re- 

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

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

 species*. 



Strychnos, n. 5500 of Wallich's Catalogue, is a very bad speci- 

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

 therefore no 8trychnos. It affords no materials to determine what 

 it may really be. 



8. oblongifolia, Hochst., mentioned in the ' Prodromus' as 



* Anisophyllum grande, sp. n., foliis'amplis qumtuplinerviis oblongo-ellipticis 

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

 Folia 8-10 poll, longa, 3-4 poll, lata, acuminata, basi obtusa, siccitate flavicantia, 

 petiolo crasso 3 lin. longo. Inflorescentia supra-axillaris ; pedunculi ssepe 

 plures suprapositi insequales, longiores 3-4-pollicares, parum ramosi, tomento 

 minuto rufescentes. Mores sessiles. Unicum examinavi ovario jam paullulum 

 aucto ovoideo 2 lin. longo. Calycis lacinise 4, brevissimae, latse, obtusee. Petala 

 jam delapsa non vidi. Stamina perpauca superfuerunt parva, anthera biloculari, 

 filamento brevi. Styli 4, divaricati, subulati, basi incrassati et pubescentes, 

 disco crassiusculo insidentes. Ovarium inferum, quadriloculare, orulis in quoque 

 loculo solitariis pendulis. 



