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There are two large- mipwes spegies a ees known from 
S. India; the tree S. Nua-vom and the climber S. cinnamomi- 
folia, var. Wightii, A. W. Hill. Both : Sona have long-tubed 
owers whereas the one figured by Rheede appears to have flowers 
with a short corolla tube. Rheede’s figure of Modira-Caniram 
has been cited by Roxburgh (Fl. Ind. ii. “4 264) under his S. 
colubrina which has evidently a long-tubed flower. 
Brandis in ‘‘ Indian Trees’’ p. AT 4 assigns some 
specimens collected by py tne with a very short corolla tube 
to Clarke’s S. Rheedii. Owing to the uncertainty as to A ypigind s 
figure it has seemed best to Si a these specimen a ne 
species under the name S. aenea (see p. 138), saneeallt as no 
fruits have been collected. 
With regard to the Nuz-vomica fruits and seeds of S. sia 
Burmann, in his note to Rheede’s Modira-Caniram*, says that 
the seeds both of the tree Canina (vol. i. t. 837 = S. Nuz- 
vomica) and of the ‘herb’ Modira-Caniram (vol. vill. t. 24°= 
S. Rheedit) are the true Nua-vomica of pharma vree 
The fruits of the plant figured in Hort. Malab. i. t. 37, are 
rather oval, and eight seeds are shown in the cross section of 
the fruit, but none of them are drawn separately. The fruits 
of the Travancore variety of S. cinnamomifolia are inclined to 
be ovoid so that the ones in this figure may belong to S. cinna- 
momifolia var. Wightii rather than to S. Nuz-vomica, which 
species the plate otherwise Gate represents. 
hat the somewhat similar seeds of these two S.. W. Indian 
species have been inter-mixed is also, shown by a sample of seeds 
(No. 412) in the -Sitieds Collection in the British Museum, which 
consists of a mixture of the seeds of true Nuz-vomica and 
* The following is a ae ee of Rheede Hort. eevee viii. p. 47, relating 
to Modira Caniram, tab. xxiv, including Burmann’s 
Moprra- eet Pas de 8 aie or Fao da Co - of the Portuguese: 
ees in almost every ‘shasactee with the Caniram described already, 
except that Caniram is a tree, Modira-Oaniram is a herb, the fruit of 
which has a hard greenish- tawny shell, darkening when ripe to a nut- 
brown, with a whitish oe inside, whereas the fruits of Caniram when 
ripe assume a cinnabar red tinge. It gets the name ira from its 
likeness e beard on the upper lip [mystax], for ira mM 
moustache* $ abitat is about Mangalti, Paroe and other 
places, it flowers or fruits almost all the year round. The leaves, boiled 
with ginger and milk to the consistency of an ointment, drive away 
fas which the Melabari term Vilonda; a bath made with the leaves 
as t me e igi 
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first has been described under trees, and our sag. sei is the first who has 
Prepared a true ade beat and given us a true des ene of the pen 
These seeds are quite well known in drug-stores, there they 
termed ee N — pen Kraan-oog; the wood is the paintine fii 
colubriny 
* Sir David Prain, to whom I am indebted for this translation, suggests 
that the name Modira [mystax] may have been applied to this plant 
of ite Rend pons which, as shown in Rheede plate, are not unlike 
@ curled moustache. 
