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XXII. Description of select Indian Plants. By Henry Thomas 

 Colebrooke, Esq. F.R.S. ^ L.S. 



Read April 15, 1817. 



Having had the opportunity, during a long residence in India- 

 of examining some plants, which had not, so far as I know, been 

 previously described, and others which had been but incompletely 

 so, I purpose to submit to the notice of the Linnean Society, in this 

 and successive communications, such of them as appear deserving 

 of remark, either as constituting new kinds, or notable species of 

 previously settled genera. 



Under the first head is a plant of which the delineation is here 

 presented under the Indian name; as this seems not unsonorous, 

 nor otherwise objectionable. In general it is desirable to avoid the 

 coinage of new words, and to preserve existing names, whenever 

 they are not too barbarous for admission into the classical nomen- 

 clature of botanical science. I propose therefore lo retain the 

 Indian term, scarcely altered, for a denomination of the genus; 

 and accordingly to name it Sahia from the Hindi Sahja. 



Under the second head, one of the most remarkable of the 

 plants which will be here offered to the Society's consideration is 

 a species of Strychnos, which bears much resemblance to that de- 

 scribed and figured by M. Leschenault*, and by him affirmed to 

 be one of two which afford poison used to envenom weapons in 



* Ann. du Mus. 16. p. 479. pi. 23. 



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