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broadly ovate-acute, rounded or slightly cuneate at the base and 
the flowers, much decayed, appear to have the corolla lobes rather 
longer than the tube. In the other specimen on the same sheet 
the leaves are elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, acute, ovate- 
cuneate at the base ; the flowers have lost their corollas. In both 
the stems are sharply 4-angled with angular ridges and the leaves 
are trinerved and have the margins entire. 
The other sheet, Wallich, 2838, bearing the label Chondro- 
spermum ? coriaceum, Wall., from Taong Dong Avae, and referred 
doubtfully by Blume to his Myzopyrum coriaceum, proves to be a 
species of Strychnos. As far as can be determined in the absence of 
flowers, the large broadly ovate, triplinerved leaves with five nerves 
and the smooth yellow stem suggest that this specimen should 
probably be referred to Strychnos Nux-vomica. Mr. Boodle, who has 
kindly examined the anatomy of this specimen in the Laboratory, 
informs me that the vascular structure agrees with that of the 
genus Strychnos and that the subsidiary cells of the stomata shew 
cuticular striations similar to those shewn in S. Nuz-vomica. 
The Leiden herbarium contains the type specimen of Myzopyrum 
nervosum from Salak, Java, together with other Javanese and 
Sumatran specimens; a specimen of Myzxopyrum coriaceum, BI., 
rom Borneo, collected by Korthals, which appears to be the type of 
Blume’s species and is quoted as the type by Miquel, Flor. Ned. 
Ind. ii., p. 550, and a specimen from New Guinea labelled M. 
smilacifolium, Bl. The latter unfortunately has neither flowers nor 
its, but in the texture and shape of its leaves it is quite distinct 
from the Indo-Malayan specimens of M. smilacifolium. Mr. Boodle 
informs me that the anatomical structure of this specimen shews 
considerable agreement with M. smilacifolium, Bl., but differs in 
several details and that it is probably a different species of (or near) 
the same genus. Miquel in Flor. Ned. Ind., vol. ii., p. 1081 refers 
to this actual specimen as follows “ Myzxopyrum smilacifolium, 
specimen e Nova Guinedi Herb. L. Bat. dubium videtur, quippe 
foliis ellipticis vel elliptico-oblongis saepe obtusis, subintegerrimis, 
haud valide tri- vel subtriplinervis.” 
Miquel, l.c. p. 550, at the end of the short diagnosis of M. smilact- 
folium states that probably it does not differ from the preceding 
species M. nervosum, despite the marked difference in 
descriptions of the flowers. In the Utrecht herbarium there are 
only three specimens of this genus belonging to M. nervosum, and 
M. coriaceum ; two of these are evidently fragments from Leiden, 
but there is one specimen of M. nervosum from Java (?), which 
appears to be one of Blume’s specimens, a fragment of which is also 
at Leiden. 
From an examination of the available material it appears that 
ten species of the genus Myzxopyrum may now be recognised. Of 
three of these, material is very scanty, but an anatomical examina- 
tion establishes them as species of the genus. 
_ The geo phical distribution of the genus is of interest, extend- 
ing from Southern India, Sikkim and Assam, through Burma to 
Malaya and the Andaman Islands, and thence to Sumatra, Java, 
Borneo, New Guinea, the Kei Islands and the Admiralty Islands 
in the Bismarck Archipelago. 
