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the familiar button-shaped Nuz-vomica seeds but they are only 
slightly hairy with a rufous tomentum and S. rupicola, Dop, 
another subscandent species with immature flowers 1s evidently 
allied either to S. Nua-vomica or to S. Pierriana. 
S. Nuz-vomica also shows affinity with S. angustiflora, Benth., 
especially in its fruits and seeds and it is possible that this rela- 
tionship may be traceable to a former widespread distribution 
of a primitive species of which S. Nus-vomica in India, Ceylon 
and Cochin-China (?)—S. Nu«-blanda in Burmah and Siam, S. 
angustiflora in Hongkong, and S. ligustrina and S. lucida in 
Timor and N. Australia may be the scattered derivatives. 
Hongkong. 
Commercial Nua-vomica apparently comes almost entirely 
from India, and the following figures taken from the Account 
of the Exhibits in the Agricultural Section of the Agricultural 
products of the Madras Presidency (1917) pp. 29-80 are of 
interest :— 
Nux-vomica.—Foreign Trade.—Separate figures prior to 
1912-13 are not forthcoming. 
Figures of quantities in thousands of hundredweights—000 omitted. 
Fig ted. 
ures of value in thousands of rupees—000 omitted 
Quantity | Value in | Chief countries which take the produce 
Year. thousands | and percentage of exports (average 0 
hundred- | 6 mpees recent normal years) thereto 
weights. eo sean ; 
1912-13 29 L5i 
America (United States of America), 
er 
cent.; United Kingdom, 3 
1913-14 34 1,90 per cent.; Belgium, r cent.; 
1914-15 25 1,56 Holland, 4 per cent. 
Chief. ports of export, average proportionate share of trade, 
methods of packing and chief months of export. 
Propor- Chief months 
Port. tionate produce Methods of packing. 
share. available. 
Per cent. 
Cochin ... 28 December to April |*Single gunny bags of 140 lb. neb- 
Madras ... 27 December to June|( Single gunny bags of 164 lb. 
net. : 
Cocanada > 23 January to June... | oti Madras ships 7 
. 175 Ib. bags. 
——— 
* Trade is from various ports on the coast and proportions between ports 
fluctuate. 
