Strychnos.] APOCYNER. 167 
at the throat ; berries globular, with a hard thick rind, the size of 
a billiard-ball or smaller, orange-coloured to brown, smooth, man 
seeded; seeds about 4 in. long, somewhat compressed-oblong, 
4B.—Common in the leaf-shedding forests, especially the upper mixed and 
low forests, all over Burma from Ava an artaban down to Tenasserim, up to 
2,000 ft. elevation.—F. Apr.-May ; Fr. C.S.—1,—S 2 Si : 
EMARKS.— Wood white or grey, close-grained and hard. 0'=52 pd. Used 
for ploughs, shares, cart-wheels, also for making cots and fancy cabinet work. 
The tree produces the poison nut or nux-vomica of commerce. 
4. 8. potatorum, L. f.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 163; Brand. For, 
FL St7.—A leaf-shedding tree (25—30+10—12 4 3—4), all parts 
m purplish pulp, orbicular, slightly compressed, nearly } an in. in 
diameter, shortly silky-villous. 
Haz.—Not unfrequent in the open and dry forests of the Prome district.— 
Fr, Sept.-March.—].—_ $3, —CaS. Dil. 
RKs, ood greyish pale-brown, very heavy, close-grained, hard and 
durable, takes a beautiful "ha Good for ploughshares, wheels, ete. The 
Possess the quality of purifying muddy water. 
5. §, Wallichiana, Steud.— An evergreen-tree (25—30+10—12 
+13—23), all parts glabrous ; leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate and 
elliptically lanceolate, rounded or obtuse at the base and narrowed 
ma 2-3 lin. long petiole, 23-42 in. long, acuminate or shortly 
pic 
Panicle at the end of the branchlets ; corolla tubular, with a very 
short 5-cleft limb, the tube about in. long, very slender and very 
pit? —Rare in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah. 
~<+ Apr.—s.—S$, = gis, 
THEVETIA, L. 
alyx 5-parted , with or without glands at the base inside, the 
C 
— acute. Corolla funnel-shaped, the tube inside pilose and 
tnished with 5 prominent processes (excurrent nerves) at the 
