e. 
175 
Benth. var. nitida, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soe. i. p- 101 (non 
S. minor, Blume). S. colubrina, Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl. 
P. 201, non Linn.; S. colubrina var. zeylanica, Clarke in Hook. 
- Flor. Brit. India, iv. p. 87; Trimen, Flor. Ceylon, iii. p. 173. 
S. micrantha var. rhomboidalis, Dop in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. lvii. 
Mém. 19 (1910), p. 14, quoad spec. Zeylan. tantum. 
CEYLON. Galagoma, Thwaites 330; without precise locality, 
Thwaites 2516; Col. Walker in herb. Wight; Mrs. Genl. Valker 
in herb. Hook. (in herb. Kew); Kandy, A. Moon 346; without 
locality, Macrae 197 in herb. Mus. Brit.; Galle, Pierre (1865) in 
u : 
herb. Mus. Paris. 
<: e specimens 
at the British Museum have single tendrils so presumably the 
plant is scandent. It is distinguished from S. Benthami by 
the 5-merous flowers and by the irregular line of erect hairs 
springing from near the base of the inner surface of the calyx 
segments as well as by the leaves. . 
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 rhom- 
boidalis under S. micrantha, a distinct <tc with woolly 
corolla hairs; he also adds a plant from Cochin which proves to 
S. Dalzellii. 
The true alliance of this peculiar Ceylon species is no doubt 
with S. Daizellii, Clarke, from S. India, for not only is there 
Some general similarity in the foliage but the line of internal 
calyx hairs is found in both species—a feature not seen ina 
other easte species of Strychnos; in the corolla there is also 
close resemblance. 
According to Trimen this plant is rather common in the dry 
and intermediate regions of Ceylon. 
