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The fruits, like the leaves, shew considerable variation in Size ; 
in most specimens the fruits have a slightly tuberculate pericarp 
but sometimes it is quite smooth. Two seeds seem to be the 
normal number but in the case of large seeds as many as six have 
been found. Mr, Merrill writes that the largest seeds seen by him 
were not quite mature and slightly exceeded 2°6 cm. in diameter ; 
they apparently contained but one or two seeds, 
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The flat seeds have a curiously reticulated surface and though 
hairs are present they do not cover the seed with the satin-like 
covering which is so characteristic of the seeds of S. Nux-vomica 
and other well-known species. 
Strychnos multiflora has been regarded as the species typical of 
the island of Luzon, but from the specimen erved in th 
