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Inpo-Cuina. Annam: Prov. Nghé an; Conchank (Lat. 19°, 
Long. re oe Thanh-hoa, Lesserteur in herb. Pierre 1663 in 
herb. Mus 
Vern. name. " Hoing Nan. 
One of the earliest agrees to S. Gautheriana (Hoang Nan) 
appears to have been in ‘‘ Les Missions Catholiques’’ for 1875, 
and the following extras is taken from the Kew Report for 1877, : 
p. 31:— 
“Hoang Nan, a supposed remedy for leprosy.—Mr. Prestoe, 
Superintendent of the Trinidad Botanic Garden, has drawn m 
attention to some accounts given in ‘Les Missions Catholiques * 
for 1875, desmribing the surprising efficacy of a drug the produce 
of a plant found in Cochin-China in the treatment of leprosy and 
rabies. ‘The plant is known by the name of Hoang Nan, and the 
c oe and its bark as the efficacious portion. 
iad M. 
who first gave the virtues of the Thos Nan a wider  cblict y: 
On receipt of this information Sir Joseph Hooker appears to 
have written for specimens to M. Piatt for on June 25, 1877, 
M. Pierre wrote to Kew as follow 
*“* J’ai le regret de ne pouvoir vous ‘envoyer des apes du 
Strychnos Gautheriana de seul que je posséde, tout al 
oben est celui qui & servi a faire le dessin que 6 vous 
envo 
paraissent étre yoisines S. colubrina, mais en différer par la 
nervation et par les vr 
In the na Wesivistani there are several leafy = apres of 
Hoang Nan bearing the Herb. Pierre number 1663, and with 
them are pieces of bark, orange-coloured below the surface. This 
is undoubtedly the medicinal bark whose properties are described 
1879. Lesserteur in “ Le Hoang Nan,” published in Paris in 
It is in this publication that the first but incomplete descrip- 
tion of S. Gautheriana is given, siaae was drawn u M 
Monrouzies, a missionary of Ton 
The orange bark, more or a ‘quadrangular branches and 
sharply acuminate rufescent leaves of this plant are very 
characteristic. Mixed ed with these specimens at Paris, however, 
are two other distinct species. The one collected by Balansa in 
Tonkin has small axillary inflorescences and large Gay iy larly 
_ oval seeds, and proves t0 be 
A drawing a leaves, is — tendrils of Hoang Nan was 
una at Kew from M. Pierre in Ma: $78, and. it was on this drawing 
ey, B. Clarke made 9. Gaut ecto tha synonym of S. malaccensis (see 
Pp. . 
