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is based on a flowering specimen from Malacca, Maingay. The 
synonymy and distribution are as follows :— 
Lophopetalum reflexum, Laws., in rs Brit. Ind. i. p. 616 
(1875), King, Mat. Fl. Malay Penins. 1. p. Retin Hippocratea 
Maingayi, Laws. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind p- 625 (1878).— 
Malay Peninsula, Maingay, Kew Distrib. 3933/2, 397; Penang, 
Curtis 1502, 3607; Borneo: Sarawak, Beccari 3005. ye tee 
Strychnos angustiflora.—The button-like seeds of this Hong- 
kong Strychnos are so similar in their general appearance to those 
. Nux-vomica that it seemed desirable to have them analysed. 
Mr. Tutcher, Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Depart- 
ment, Hongkong, to whom, we are indebted for a supply of seeds, 
also informed us that he had recently received an application 
from a Chinaman to cut down all S. angustiflora plants growing 
near his house as the fruits dropped into a stream from w rhich he 
obtained his water supply and poisoned the water. 
Prot. Greenish, who has Kndty examined the seeds at the 
laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society informs us that work- 
ing by the Pharmacopeeia method the residue which would con- 
tain all the strychnine and brucine amounted to only 0028 per 
cent, and gave only a slight reaction for alkaloid. No trace of 
strychnine or brucine is present in seeds. 
The poisonous property alleged to be present in the plants grow- 
ing in Hongkong may therefore reside in the fruit or the asser- 
tion may peers to be unfounded. 
