RECENT REVISIONS OF CEYLON BOTANY. 153 



" Clarke placed this plant under S. colubrina, an unfortunate 

 position since it differs from that species both in the character 

 of the corolla hairs and also in its glabrous ovary. Dop, in 

 pointing out the latter difference, places it as a variety 

 rhomboidalis under S. micrantJia, a distinct species with 

 woolly corolla hairs ; he also adds a plant from Cochin , which 

 proves to be S. Dalzellii. 



" The true alliance of this peculiar Ceylon species is no doubt 

 with S. Dalzellii Clarke, from 8. India, for not only is there 

 some general similarity in the foliage, but the line of internal 

 calyx hairs is found in both species — sb feature not seen in any 

 other eastern species of Stryclinos ; in the corolla there is also 

 close resemblance. 



" According to Trimen, this plant is rather common in the 

 dry and intermediate regions of Ceylon 



" Attached to the Pierre specimen at Paris is a beautiful 

 series of drawings by E. Delpy (1903) showing the internal 

 calyx hairs of this species*' 



"S. Nux-vomica Lmn. Spec. 271 ; G. Don, Diet., IV., p. 65 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind., IV., p. 90— syn. Kurz, For. 

 Flor., II., p. 166, 8. lucida Wall. Cat. 1590 et loc. Tenasserim 

 excl. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., II., t. 243 et Brandis, Indian Trees, 

 p. 473, spec. Burm. excl. ; Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, Pt. III., p. 175 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bombay Flora, p. 155 ; Benth. in Proc. Lmn. 

 iSoc, I., p. 103, spec, ex Moluccis excl. ; Miq. Flor. Ned. Ind., 

 II., p. 378 partim ; Cooke Fl. Bombay, II. p. 185 ; Dunstan & 

 Short, Pharm. Joum. XV., ser. III., p. 1 et Icon. ; Dop in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., LVII., Mem. 19 (1910), p. 18 spec. Birman. 

 Andersoin, Pierre 3693 et var. grandiflora excl. ; Dop in 

 Lecomte, Flor. Gen. Ind. Chin., IV., p. 168 spec. Siam., spec. 

 Pierre (sub var. oligosperma), et var. grandiflora excl. ; 

 Bourdillon, Forest Trees Travancore, p. 269 ; non Kurz, 

 For. Fl. Brit. Burma, II., p. 166; non Craib in Kew Bull. 

 1911, p. 421. S. Nux-vomica var. oligosperma Dop in Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. Fr., LVII. Mem. 19, p. 18 et in Lecomte, Flor. Gen. 

 Ind. -Chin., IV., p. 169 spec. Pierre excl. 



" India. Madras ; Travancore ; Bengal. 



"Ceylon. ' ' 



