184 
oe partim; Cooke Fl. Bombay ii. p. 185; Dunstan & Short, 
Phar . Journ. xv. ser. iil. p. 1 et Icon.; Dop i in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
Fr. iil: Mém. 19 (1910), p. 18 spec. Birman. Anderson, Pierre 
3693 et var. grandiflora excl.; Dop in Lecomte, Flor. Gén. 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, li. p. 166; non Craib in 
Kew Bull. 1911, p. 421. S. Nua-vomica var. oligosperma, Dop 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr: lvii. Mém. 19, p. 18 et in Lecomte, Flor. 
Gén. Ind.-Chin. iv. p. 169 spec. Pierre excl. 
InptA. Madras: Travancore: Bengal. 
CryLon. 
Inpo-Cuina. Cochin-China: Pierre 3689; Lefévre 385; 
Thorel 1026 in herb. Mus. Paris; Jumelle (semina) i in herb. Kew 
Cambodia spec. ex Jumelle in herb. Kew. Laos: Thorel in herb. 
Mus. Paris. 
An examination of the rich material of S. Nuax-vomica from 
ecole ee to light the interesting fact that S. Nua- 
s confined to India and Ceylon and that the 
Tiueiiese saat hitherto referred to this species is quite distinct. 
The differences are pointed out in the note under S. Nuw«-blanda, 
A. W. Hill, w may perhaps be considered the eastern repre- 
sentative of S. Wiese, 
The fruit of the true S. Nuzx- -vomica varies in size from that 
size of the seeds is iso. a 4 being the ave rage number 
of good seeds. The circular button-like seeds with their satiny 
coats are easily distinguished from those of S. Nua-blanda. 
The seed figured in Hortus Malabaricus, viii. t. 24, is very 
like that of Nuz-vomica, and it is possible that the fruits and 
_ seeds of the three Malabar species were mixed by the early 
collectors (see under S. Rheedii, p. 208). 
Roxburgh’s note attached to S. Nuz-vomica inserted by Carey 
under the description of S. _colubrina (Fl. Ind. ii. p. 264), may 
refer either to a form of S$ . Nuz-vomica or to S. potatorum as 
these are the only two tree species of Strychnos known from the 
eastern side of India. Don (Dict. iv. p. 65), quotes Roxburgh’s 
note under S, colubrina giving the locality oromandel, no doubt 
to include Roxburgh’s unknown tree. 
As to the oecurrence of S. Nux-vomica in the wild state in 
Indo-China considerable doubt has existed and Dop’s account is 
not very helpful, especially when it is found that some of the 
+ eoaagae cited do not belong to S. Nua-vomica and that his 
variety grandiflora* must be referred to S. Nua«-blanda. 
* Dop. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. lvii, Mém. 19, p. 18. 
