Strychnot. PENTANDRIA MONOGYKIA. 2G7 



the nerves simple; beautifully reticulate with transversal, capillary, 

 paiallel veins ; the axills of the principal nerves, as also the short 

 petiols and the tendrils pubescent ; acumen very long and slender; 

 they are of pretty equal size, generally about three inches long. Ten- 

 drils alternate, invariably axillary and simple ; their curved, sub-spiral, 

 thicken d, acute end scarcely reaching beyond the middle of the 

 leaf Stipules none except a pubescent annular margin, which con- 

 nects the base of the petiols. — Fascicles crowded, round, twice as 

 long as ilie petiols. 



However much this species resembles S. Teute of M. Lesche- 

 nault de Latour, whose description and figure are now before me 

 (in Anna!, du Mus. xvi. 79- t. 23.) I cannot but consider them as 

 distinct; the tendrils in that being always opposite to and supplying 

 the place of a leaf, while in ours they occupy invariably alternate axils. 

 • — Tins is corroborated by the following extract of a letter from 

 my worthy friend, dated Madura, the 14th May, '820, in reply to one 

 in which 1 had particularly requested his opinion on the subject. — ■ 

 " Le Strychnos axillaris de M. Colebrooke me paroit identique avec 

 mon S. Tieute. Us ont ie meme port, la nieme apparence; et la 

 legcre difference, qui peut exister entre les feuilles des deux plantes, 

 quiontservi a la description de M. C. et de la mienne (difference qui 

 pent etre le resultatde l'age, du sol, ou du climat) ne peut point ba- 

 lancer le charactere tres important de vrilles epaisses (cirrhi i/icraisafi.) 

 J I y a dans le dessin que vous m'avez envoye, et dans la description de 

 M. Colebrooke un erreur remarquable, et qu'il convient de rectifier ; 

 c'estcellede vrilles axillaires. J'ai observe dans le S. Tieute, que 

 chaque vrille tenoit constamment la place d'une teniae, et etoit, par 

 consequent opposee a l'autre. S'll en etoit autrement pour le S. 

 axillaris, I'espece seroit alors bien distiucte ; mais je pense qu'il y a 

 erreur."— N. VV. 



5. S. bicirrhosa, Leschen. 



Stem climbing. Leaves elliptic, cuspidato-acute, triple-nerved. 



