PLATE 2219. 
STRYCHNOS IGNATII, Bergius. 
LOGANIACER. 
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conspicue trinerviis, floribus brevissime pedicellatis subsessilibusve 
nai ens iy PERE ‘ 
ovato-rotundatis, corolla calyce 6-10-plo longiore extus tomentoso- 
puberula intus glabra v. parce pilosula, lobis limbi ovatis crassiusculis 
tubo 3-4-plo brevioribus, antheris fauce corolle tubi insertis sessilibus 
v. subsessilibus oblongo-ellipticis apice mucronatis, ovario ylabro in 
stylum elongatum attenuatum, bacca giobosa v. ellipsoidea * ¢. 4 poll. 
diam., polysperma.—Phil. Trans (1699) xxi. t. i. figs. 4-6. 
Has. Philippines: Mindanao and Samar, R. Bozall. 
Folia 33-6 poll. longa, 2-3} poll. lata; petiolus } poll. longus. 
Panicule cum pedunculo 1-1} poll. longs. Flores 4-2 poll. i 
limbo corolle 3-4 poll. diam. Bractee ovate acutiuscule concave, 
majores 1 lin. longw. Stylus filiformis ovario multoties longior, 
Pericarpiwm subleve olivaceum crustaceum. Semina in pulpa nidu- 
lantia ellipsoidea obtuse angulata 13-1} poll. longa, 8-10 lin. lata, 
pilis brevibus nitentibus appressis sericea. 
Mr. Boxall, the collector of the specimens, both in flower and fruit 
(the latter preserved in spirits), here figured, says that there is another 
species of Strychnos, known as St. Ignatius’s Bean, which is muc 
more plentiful than this plant, and that it is the seeds of this other 
Species which are exported as St. Ignatius’s beans. The seeds of the 
plant here figured are, however, used in medicine in the Philippines 
under the same name. ; 
Why, then, refer this plant to Strychnos Ignatii, of Bergius, rather 
than to the commoner species affording the exported seeds ? 
S. Ignatii was based by Bergius, in his ‘Materia Medica,’ i. 146 
(1778), upon the description contained in a letter from Father 
Camelli, addressed to John Ray and James Petiver, an abstract of 
* Mr. Boxall says the form of the fruit is yariable, two never precisely alike. 
