2 STRYCHNOS IGNATITI. 
edition, vol. iy. A figure of the leaves, fruit, an is give 
in the unabridged edition, the leaves and fruit being reproduced in 
Bentley and Trimen’s ‘ Medicinal Plants,’ iii. t. 175 the figure 
cited of the leaves, the lateral nerves are basal in their origin, that is 
they are tri- or quinque-nerved, not tripli- or quintupli-nerved (that is, 
diverging from the midrib above the base). And it is upon this 
foliar character we are obliged to depend, for the flowers are not 
intelligibly described,* and there is reason to think the fruits of the 
two species do not materially differ. 
In Camelli’s figure of the leaves, the lateral nerves all originate at 
the base of the lamina. Now there are only two species likely to 
to about 3—5 inch above the base of the lamina. It is on this ground, 
therefore, it would seem to be more prudent to regard this plant as 
probably identical with Camelli’s, named by Bergins; while we have, 
at any rate, a sure name for the other species, viz. that given by 
Mr. Bentham, 8. multiflora, one of whose type specimens we figure 
(Pl. 2213). 
_ Owing to the confusion introduced by Linnens fil., Suppl. Plant. 
(1781) 149, who based his description of the flowers of Ignatia amara 
Ignatiana philippinica, Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790), i. 126, continues 
the muddle of the ‘ Supplementum,’ under slight modification of the 
' generic and complete change of the specific name. He adds 8. 
Ignatii, Berg., as a synonym. 
Iqnatia amara, Linn. f., is adopted by Blanco in his Flora Filip. 
(1837), 82, the description of the flowers being taken from Linn. fil. ; 
but in the second edition of this work (ed. 1845, 61), having in the mean- 
time received flowers independently from Bohol, he reverts to the genus 
Strychnos, naming the plant 9. plalippensis, and modifying the descrip- 
tion of the flowers in accordance with the new material. The same 
name is retained in the folio edition of Blanco, by Naves (1877), i. 
re with an additional note on the seeds in the ‘ Appendix ’ (1880), 
Bentley and Trimen, ‘Medicinal Plants,’ 1880, iii. 179, adopt Bergius’s 
name, and cite as synonyms Loureiro’s name and that given by Blanco in 
* *, .. florem Balaustize similem,’ 
