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condition for determination. The specimen C. P. 187, Balah- 

 goda, is assigned to Var. angustior by Hill, but to the type by 

 Trimen ; the specimens from Ellabodakanda have long, narrow 

 leaves, and might equally be placed as angustior. But 

 Thwaites's and Trimen's Var. angustior, from Matale East and 

 Nitre Cave respectively (both the same district), has a 

 somewhat elongated lozenge -shaped leaf. 



From the herbarium specimens the type form is found in 

 the moist low-coimtry, Colombo to Galle ; var. parvifolia is 

 an up-country species common in the higher jungles ; while 

 Var. angustior is known with certainty only from the Nitre 

 Cave district. 



Strychnos trichocalyx A. W. Hill. In the cover of S. colubrina 

 in Herb. Peradeniya are (1) C. P. 2516, without locality ; (2) 

 C. P. 2516, marked Galagama, Gardner ; and Haragam, &c. ; 

 (3) C. P. 2516, Anuradhapura, Brodie ; and Haragam, June, 

 1853, April, 1854 ; (4) Dambool, July, 1887, Trimen (leaves 

 only) ; (5) Nilgala Hill, Uva, Jan., 1888, Trimen. 



Sheet ( 1 ) is ;S. trichocalyx ; the calyx hairs are well developed, 

 and the leaves rhomboidal, with a dense tuft of tomentum in 

 the axils of uppermost pair of veins ; the leaves when dry are 

 mottled green and black on the upper surface. Sheet (2) is S. 

 trichocalyx as to one specimen, but the other two pieces are 

 somewhat different, and sheet (3) has the same mixture. 

 Sheet (5) is identical with the second specimens on sheet (2). 

 These latter specimens have ovate-lanceolate leaves, acummate, 

 tapering gradually at the base, 7*5 x 3*3 cm., 5-nerved, 

 glabrous beneath ; the flower resembles that of 8. trichocalyx, 

 but the calyx is shallower and has more rounded lobes, and 

 the line of hairs on the inner side of the calyx lobes is 

 variable, being fairly well developed in some flowers and almost 

 absent in others. As far as the C. P. numbers are concerned, 

 this is probably the plant collected at Haragama, which is not 

 cited by Hill. 



S. Nux-vomica Linn. The few specimens of this common 

 species in Herb. Peradeniya are (1) C. P. 2839, Anuradha- 

 pura, Brodie ; Kurunegala, June, 1853 ; Trincomalee, Aug., 

 1859, S. 0. Glenie ; and (2) C. P. 2839, Trincomalee, Aug. 

 1859, S. 0. Glenie. 



