160 FETCH : 



useful character for distinguishing the species, and the 

 calyx segments are much narrower than is common in 

 allied species. 



" Wight on his label when sending the plant to Sir W. 

 Hooker under the name S. colubrina (?) suggests that it is a 

 new species, since Willdenow in contradiction to Indian 

 botanists said it was not S. Nux-vomica. Specimens 

 collected by Rottler at Palamcottah in 1795 and Ceylon 

 1796, and placed by Wallich under his number 1585 with 

 S. potatorum, also belong to this species. 



" Some references to the Ceylon specimens will be found 

 in the notes under S. micrantha Thw. There is a bottle of 

 ripe fruits with two leaves in fluid in the Kew Museum 

 bearing the label ' Strychnos near axillaris, Colombo, W. 

 Ferguson,' which apparently belong to S. lenticellata. They 

 are about 2 cm. in diameter, 2-seeded, with a fleshy pericarp 

 5 mm. thick. 



"It is unfortunate that Thwaites gave no exact localities 

 with his specimens. Trimen, under S. micrantha (with which 

 S. lenticellata is included), gives ' Low-country ' as the habitat, 

 and mentions Peradeniya, Galle, and Trincomalee as localities. 

 Whether these all refer to Thwaites 1866 as well as to the true 

 S. micrantha is uncertain. 



" Judging from the localities in which the Indian specimens 

 have been collected, S. lenticellata is a dry country plant, 

 and it would be likely to occur in similar situations in Ceylon, 

 and therefore in the northern drier portion of the Island, 

 which is in all essentials a part of India." 



" S. Benthami C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind., IV., 



p. 87 ; descr. emend, et ampl. 



" Caules quadrangulares, pubescentes. Folia ovato-lanceo- 

 lata, acuta vel acuminata, versus basin plus minusve cuneata 

 vel rotundato-cvmeata, 5* 5-7" 5 cm. longa, 2'5-3'5 cm. lata, 

 superne glabra, pagina inferiore nervo medio hirsuto, 5 nervia, 

 plus minusve triplinervia, nervis intermediis curvatis ; petioli 

 2-3 mm. longi, pubescentes. Inflorescentixsixilh,Tes, pauciflorse, 

 5-8 mm. longse ; pedunculis pedicelUsque pubescentibus. 

 Calycis segmenta 4, triangulari-orbiculata, breviter acuta. 



