STRYCHNOS IGNATII. 3 
his second edition. Their description, however, of the flowers, taken 
from Blanco and Loureiro, is a compromise between that given by 
ed. ii.). 
ane XX1. (1609) i. figs. 4-6. 
Professor Fliickiger and A. Meyer, in the ‘ Pharmaceutical Journal,’ 
1881, vol. xii. (July 2), give a careful account of the fruit of S. Ignatii, 
with full detail of the histology of the seed and curious hairs of the 
testa. This agrees with our plant, so far as I can see. They also add 
copious references to the literature of the subject. 
Finally, adopting Bergius’s name, Vidal, in his Revision de Plant. 
Vase. Filip. (1886), 450, quotes Blanco’s name from his second edition, 
the names given by Linn. f. and Loureiro as synonyms, but figures, 
throat, and altogether only twice as long as the calyx, in which characters 
it agrees with S. multiflora, Benth., although he figures the leaves as 
tri-nerved, not tripli-nerved as in that species. As his bape 
m 
referred to above. From —" Set to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, by Rlokgndie Gollan, Esq., H.M. Consul at Manila, the plant is 
now in i though ‘it has not yet reached ‘the flowering stage. 
—D. Ov 
Fig. 1. Bod, 2. Corolla, laid open. 3. Anthers. 4. Pistil. 5. Fruit. 6. Seed. 
7. Longitudinal section of same, showing ovary. il enlarged. 
PP ears a manaeM I ate ONE 
* An extract received at Kew in July 1887, pp. 274-4. 
