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1. B. Lindleyana, Fortune; Bot.Reg.\%i.&,tA; Benth.inBO. Prod. 

 X. 446._ An erect shrub, with very little of the mealy tomentum of the genus, 

 and chiefly on the young shoots and inflorescence. Branches slender, angular. 

 Leaves from ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, 1| to 3 ii). long, narrowed 

 into a petiole of i to -I in., thin, glabrous above, pale or sligMy tomentose 

 underneath. Mowers of a dull blue, in small clusters, all turned to one side; 

 in a long terminal raceme. Calyx shortly toothed. Corolla tomentose, the 

 tube curved and full \ in. long, the lobes short and ovate. Capsule reflexed, 

 about 2| lines long. Seeds compressed, with a loose testa occasionally ex- 

 panding into a narrow wing. 



Ravines south of Victoria Peak, %re ; also on the adjacent continent, but only known 

 from S. China. It miy, however, prove to be only a variety of the B. curviflora. Hook, and 

 Arn., from loochoo. In the only specimen I have seen of the latter the branches are not 

 angiilar, the leaves much larger, the tomentum more dense, and the flowers longer and more 

 curved. 



2. B. asiatica, Zo«r., 5e«i^.m DC Pwf^. X. 446. A small tree or shrub, 

 with the young branches,- inflorescence, and under side of the leaves covered 

 with a white or yellowish tomentum, sometimes very thin and close or mealy, 

 sometimes vei'y thick and almost woolly. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, B to 6 

 in. long, entire or serrulate, on a very short petiole, usually glabrous on the 

 upper side; Flowers in dense clusters, in racemes of 3 to 8 or 10 in. long, 

 which are sometimes single and terminal, but more frequently 3 or more to- 

 gether at the ends of the branches or in the upper axils, forming a terminal 

 panicle. Calyx usually nearly 1 line long, cottony or woolly. Corolla-tube 

 shortly exceeding the calyx ; the lobes very short, obtuse or spreading. Cap- 

 sule 2 to 3 lines long, usually spreading or reflexed. 



Hongkong, Wright ; on the opposite mainland, Champion, Widely spread over the hilly 

 districts of southern Asia from the Peninsula to Nepal, Malacca, and the Archipelago. 



There are two, often very marked, varieties which I had formerly, with other botanists, 

 considered as distinct species j but we have now so many intermediate forms that we can no 

 longer separate them, especially as they appear generally to accompany' each other over the 

 same geographical range. They are — (I) the original B. asiatica, much less tomentose and 

 more slender, with flowers scarcely 1^ lines long, to which form belong the specimens gathered 

 by Champion on the mainland opposite Hongkong ; and (2) B. Neemda, Ham., Benth. in 

 DC. Prod. i. 446, which is coarser, much more tomentose, with the flowers from 2 to 2J- 

 lines long. Wright's specimen belongs to this variety, although with characters much less 

 marked than in some Indian orie'S; 



4. STRYCHNOS, Linn. 



Calyx 4- or 5-lobed. Corolla with a short or long tube, and 4 or 5 spread- 

 ing lobes, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, usually exserted. Ovaiy 2-celled, 

 with several ovules in each cell. Style simple, with a capitate or obscurely 

 2-lobed stigma. Pmit a globular indehiscent berey, with the rind usually hard. 

 Seeds imbedded in pulp, more or less compressed, and often reduced to one or 

 very few in each fruit. — Shmbs, trees, or woody climbers. Leaves opposite, 

 3-neiTed or 5-nerved at the base, with transverse reticulated veins, usually 

 coriaceous and shining when fuU-gi-own. In the climbing species there are 

 usually here and there spirally recurved hooks (abortive branches) in one of 

 the axils ; in which case the subtending leaf is usually reduced to a small 



