141° 
S. walhchiana, Benth. and in the glabrous ovary. It is NONE a- 
new species; but I cannot deseribe it in the absence of flowers ^t 
n 
but as the material vn at hand MH only of a young barren 
p- 620) ; yet a repeated examination of the material confirmed me 
Opinion as to the systematic Minis of the plant (Pharmaceutical 
Journal, 1894, p. 660). From the material now at haad it bp that 
the plant i is Coptosapelta erga t Korth., a Rubiacea of the Cinchona 
group. Tl = 
species, C. flavescens, Korth, and C. Griffithii, Hook. fil., to which, 
however, several more might de added from the material preserved at 
Kew. The genus extends from the Malay Peninsula to the Philippines 
and New Guinea. C. flavescens ranges from the Malay Peninsula and 
Sumatra to Java and Borneo; C. Griffithii is limited to the southern 
part of the Malay Peninsula, and other species still undescribed were 
collected in Penang, Java, Sarawak zon, and New Guinea. osa 
pelta is, beside 'ymenodictyon, its nearest iei the only representa 
of the subtribe Eucinchonee in Malaya; the remainder being mostly 
natives of tropical America and éxtiictropieli South America. 
A small quantity of the root bark of Prual, from Perak, was examined 
by Dr. Ralph Stockman with r Ber ed to its physiological action on 
animals, and a short aecount of the results was published by him in 
the Pharmaceutical Journal, | 3 If this root bark was 
actually derived from the same plant from m speci- 
mens gg aan by Mr. L. Wray as Prual were ite loos Coptosa- 
ust be counted in future among the poisonous plants. Up to the 
Fait, however, Coptosapelta was not known E: erem poisonous or 
otherwise prominent chemical properties. But it may be mentioned 
that Hymenodictyon excelsum all., an allied Sin and a native of 
India, — an alkaloid ** Hymenodictyonine,” the chemical properties 
ti 
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Econ. Prod. India, iv., 319), atid the Phot bark of tnis plant has been 
Es ^ nur e Hindoos as a febrifuge and antiperiodic. 
e Kew Bulletin (1891, p. 264) reference was made a other in- 
prea sometimes mixed with the Ipoh by the Seman One of 
these was Zikir, an Aroid sent by Mr. Wray to the Catenin” Botanical 
Gardens for jdelitification: It has now been ascertained there to be 
Amorphophallus Prainii, Hook. f. 
CCCCLXIV.—DIAGNOSES AFRICANA, VI. 
bue i p. ot 
nd these are drawn up on a somewhat different plan; but it was not 
considered desirable to alter them, beyond converting the metrical 
