287 
Miq. Flor. Ned. Ind. ii., p.378 (2). Strychnes colubrina, auct. plur. 
non Linn. nec Wight nec Van Roy. SS. muricata, Kostel in Miq. 
Flor, Ned. Ind. ii., p. 380, DC, Prodr., ix., p. 15. 
Timor. Spanoghe: Kajve Oelar (19,911. 32); Timor (Mappa 
ligustrina), Zippel; Zippel, 52; (Melicope ternata, Forst.) Herb. 
Zipp.; Timor, Teysmann, 8969 (with fruit); Coepang, R. Brown 
(Ap. 1803), in Herb. Mus. Brit. 
AVA. A specimen from the Island of Madura, in Herb. Lugd. 
Bat. collected by De Vriese, with leaves only, resembles the species 
from Timor and may belong to this species. 
ere is a specimen at Kew from the Buitenzorg gardens labelled 
S. ligustrina, Bl., and also S. Nuzx-vomica, L., and another collected 
by Horsfield—labelled S. mazima, Li. forma—at Bidar pait, Java 
(240), which both agree with a large leaf-bearing specimen at 
Utrecht labelled 8. Nuz-vomica, L. var. minor (S. ligustrina, B1.), 
collected at Bidura pait, Java. None of these specimens bear 
flowers, the leaves, however, which are broadly ovate, acute, are 
grey on the under surface like those of .S. ligustrina, and on 
differ in being rather more herbaceous and larger. It is possible, 
therefore, that S. igustrina occurs in Java as well as in Timor, 
though as in the case of S. lucida from Australia, the Javan form is 
somewhat different from the type. 
This species is a distinct and well-marked form. It was reduced 
to S. Nuzx-vomica, Linn., by Bentham in Journ. Linn. Soe.,i., p. 
(see also Flor. Brit. Ind., iv., p. 90, in note), but is not really closely 
allied to that species. It differs from S. Nuz-vomica in the con- 
sistently small leaves, the broadly triangular acute calyx segments, 
the glabrous corolla tube, the shorter sagittate anthers with longer 
filaments, the smaller fruits, and the smaller seeds, which are not 
0 
ligustrina, 
8. lucida, R. Br. Prod., p. 469; DC. Prodr., ix., p. 16; Benth. 
Flor. Aust., iv., p. 369, from the north-western Coast of Australia, 
near Port Darwin, is very closely allied to S. ligustrina, and should 
perhaps rather be regarded as a variety. The leaves are larger and 
more coriaceous, and the fruits appear to be smaller. “It is possible 
that the Australian plants have been derived in the past from 
seeds from Timor, brought over either by birds or by natives. No 
other Strychnos in Australia shows any resemblance to this plant. 
Strychnos pseudo-tieuté, A. W. Hill; species S, Beecarti, Gilg, 
valde affinis sed foliis ellipticis basi acutis floribus minoribus corollis 
intus glabris antheris brevioribus distinguenda. — a 
Frutex scandens, ramis ramulisque firmis griseo-brunneis, cirris 
i osis. Folia subcoriacea, superne vernicosa 
vel nitentia, elliptica vel elliptico-ovata, apice caudato-acuminata, 
