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glandular systems both perspiratory and sebaceous. He 
found no satisfactory result with leprosy after three sfionths, nor with 
erysipelas, but it answered well for oes diseases accompanied by 
defective nutrition. He remarks that it contains Strychnine and 
Brucine, the latter in larger proportion, to which presumably the 
medicinal propertice of the bark are due. 
c 
1901, “pp. re 73: De Lanessan, Pl. ele des Colon. Franc. 
lor. Cochin. 1886, p. 767 ; Strychnos philippensis, Blanco, Flor. 
Filip. ed. 2 (1845), p. 61, 
HILIPPINE [sLANDS. Mindanao: Bozall in — Kew ; 
Lake Lanao, Clemens, 895 ; Central Mindanao, Lyc 
Samar: Catbalogan, Carrother 38, Guerrero, Cullen a 10,835. 
Mr. Merrill informs us that the plant i is said to be common in 
the Visayan Islands, especially in bayte and Samar. It is not 
known from Luzon though seeds sold in Manila have been wrongly 
quoted as coming from that island. The history of the synonymy 
and the difficulties which have attended the exact determination s 
ields the commercial soe known as St. Se beans still 
S. Gautherana roi Cochin-China are very similar, and it is 
possible that even if there is only one source of the drug in the 
Philippines, they may be mixed subsequently by the Chinese. 
oureiro* states that S. Zgnatii has been introduced into Cochin- 
China from the Philippine Islands and it is also mentioned 
se De Lanessan.f Whether this is so or not, it seems clear that 
r. Merrill has aes 2 sent ripe fruits with seeds to Kew with 
the following informatio 
* The material came “fiom the Samar exhibit at the Philippine 
* Carnival’ just closed, and was labelled ‘ Igasud,’ which appears to be 
* Loureiro, Flor. Cochin (1790), p. 
t De ree ae Pl, Utiles des Colon. ae Ae oo CE), p. 767. 
{ Through the kindness of the Bentham Trustees the P of S. Ignatii 
and 8. canter published in Hooker’s Icones are hes captbi er 
