426 xciii. lqganiaceal [ Strychnos. 
puberulous outside, glabrous inside, a few hairs at base. Fruit 
globose, grey, with a woody rind beneath. Seeds numerous oblong, 
silvery, about 75 in. long, flat, immersed in bitter black green 
pulp, Hab. Common in forests. Singapore, Garden Jungle; 
Changi. Malacca, Batang Malacca (Derry); Sungei Hudang 
(Holmberg). Perak, Larut (Kunstler). Penang Hill (Curtis). 
Kemaman (Vaughan Stevens). Distrib. Borneo. Native names: 
Ipoh Akar; B’lay hitam (Sakai, fide Vaughan Stephens) and 
probably Legop (Cerruti, “ My Friends the Savages,” p. 212). Use: 
One of the most important ingredients in the Sakai dart poison. 
Every part of the plant is intensely bitter and the alkaloid con¬ 
tained in it has been shown to be Brucine. The Sakais make a 
decoction of the scraped bark, and add it to the latex of Antiaris, 
and I knew of one case where an attempt at criminal poisoning 
was made with the pulp of the fruit. See Agric. Bull. ser. I. vol. i. 
211. 
Insufficiently Known Species 
(12) S. rufa C. B. Clarke in Hook. fil. F.B.I. iv. 89 (not of 
King). 
Branches and leaves red-hairy, especially on nerves beneath, 
base round, 3 in. long, 2 in. wide. Berry apple-shaped, 1-5 in. 
through, with numerous flattened seeds. Distrib. Malacca 
(Maingay). 
(13) S. quadrangularis Hill , Kew Bulletin, 1917, p. 205. 
Branches 4-angled. Leaves elliptic, base rounded or cuneate, 
cuspidate, reddish beneath when dry, 3- or 4-nerved, 7 in. long, 
3 in. wide or less; petioles -i in. long. Inflorescence axillary; 
peduncles 4-angled minutely pubescent. Calyx-segments ovate- 
triangular. Fruit globose, bluish green, -5 to 1 in. through. Hab. 
Perak, Cheroh (Wray). Native name: Ipoh Akar. Use: Root 
used for arrow-poisoning. 
8 . GAERTNERA, Lam. 
Shrubs. Leaves thinly coriaceous or fleshy. Stipules connate 
into a sheath. Cymes terminal or axillary. Calyx small, funnel- 
shaped or campanulate. Corolla-tube rather long, lobes valvate, 
small, 4 to 5. Stamens adnate to tube by short filaments. Ovary 
2-celled; ovules solitary, erect; style various. Stigmas linear 
or clavate. Berry twin, oblong or globose. Species about 40, 
Asia and Africa. 
These plants may easily be taken at first sight for Psychotrias. 
Slender shrubs with cymes on the ends of main 
branches. 
Flowers 4-merous, very small . . . (1) G. viminea 
Flowers 5-merous, larger. 
Flowers sessile; calyx truncate entire . . (2) G. sessiliflora 
