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somewhat ‘ satiny’ appearance. 
Mr. Merrill has also kindly forwarded to Kew two seedlings of 
S. Ignatii received by him from Dr. G. I. Cullen, District Medical 
Officer, Catbalogan, Samar, who also writes that “The leaves of 
this plant are extensively used by chopping them up fine an 
making a sort of infusion to be used for colic or gastric indigestion ; 
it is also used as a sort of poultice for abscesses prior to the stage 
of suppuration.” The seedlings are in the cotyledon stage and have 
hypocotyls about 20 cm. long. The cotyledons are sessile, broadly 
ovate, 13 em. long, 7-7°5 em. broad, abruptly acute at the apex, 
rotund-cuneate at the base, subglabrous, dark green above, light 
green below, with seven well-marked nerves springing from the base. 
s to the exports of St. Ignatius’ beans, Mr. Merrill wrote in 
December, 1909, “Some months ago I was informed that a recent 
shipment from Laguan Samar to Manila amounted to about 
1,000 Ibs., and that this was considered to be a very large shipment. 
Strychnos Beccarii, Gilg in Notizbl. des Kgl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 
no. 8 (1897), p. 267. i 
Borneo, Beccari, 1580: Amai Ambit (Liang Kutang), Mandai 
river, 104° 8' E.,0° 40 N., Hallier, 3153, B(?). S. Tieuté, King and 
Gamble in Mat. Flor. Mal. Penins. iv, no. 19, p. 831, partim ; 
P. Dop in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. ser. 4, x, (1910) mem. 19, p. 16, non 
Poy be referred to S. Beccarii, Gilg. The leaves are rather 
arger than those of Beccari’s specimens, being as much as 10 cm, 
elongated apex. The thick-walled fruits, which are 5-6 cm. in 
diameter, with walls about 2 mm. thick, are very like those of 
1-2 cm. broad, slightly pointed at the broader end and rounded at 
the other. The ae facies and more compressed than those 
of S. Tieuté sent to Kew from Buitenzorg. _ : 
other specimen, with leaves only, received from Buitenzorg 
and collected by Hallier at Polve Lemukutan, Borneo (367 B), 
shows resemblance both to S. Tieuté and S. Beccarii, though rather 
