Duvalia.] LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE® (BROWN). D038 
puberulous ; lobes 6-7 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, elongate-deltoid, very 
acuminate, replicate, glabrous, ciliate with vibratile clavate purple hairs 
at the base. Outer corona a subpentagonal flat rim, resting on the 
elevated disk of the corolla, glabrous ; inner coronal-lobes ovate, acute 
(probably thick and fleshy in the living state), with a dorsal obtuse pro- 
jection. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Damaraland, Zen / 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland! 30 miles N.W. of 
Kobis, Baines ! 
2. D. transvaalensis, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 
54, Stems attaining 2} in. in height, about 5 lin. thick, erect, 6-angular, 
glabrous; angles with spreading fleshy spines. Cymes few-flowered, 
arising near the base of the young shoots; pedicels } in. long, glabrous. 
Sepals 3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, very acute, glabrous. Corolla- 
lobes $ in. long, erect, ovate-triangular, acuminate, glabrous on both 
sides. Outer corona disk-like; inner coronal-lobes rhomboidal. 
Mozamb. Dist. Transvaal: sandy places near Klipdam, 4600 ft., Schlechter, 
4498, 
‘This locality is about ten miles south of the Tropic, but the plant will probably 
be found in the tropical part also, and is therefore included. I have not seen a speci- 
men, 
OrvER LXXXVI. LOGANIACEZE. (By J. G. Baker.) 
Flowers usually regular and hermaphrodite. Calyx inferior ; tube 
short; lobes usually 4-5. Corolla gamopetalous; tube various in 
shape; lobes usually 4 or 5, numerous in Anthocleista, imbricate or 
valvate. Stamens usually as many as the corolla-lobes, reduced to 1 in 
Usteria ; filaments short ; anther-cells parallel except in Vuawia. Ovary 
superior, usually 2-celled ; style simple or once or twice forked ; ovules 
one or many in a cell. Fruit capsular or indehiscent. Seeds various 
in form, albuminous; embryo usually straight; cotyledons broad or 
narrow ; radicle usually inferior—Herbs, trees, or shrubs. Leaves 
opposite, entire; stipules present or reduced to a transverse line upon 
the branchlet. Inflorescence usually a 2-3-chotomous cyme. Flowers 
various in size and colour. 
Species 400, mostly tropical, several south temperate. 
Style twice forked . : : : . ° . 1, Mostuzra. 
Style simple. Ovules many ina cell. 
Fruit capsular. 
Stamens 4-5. 
Anther-cells parallel. 
Inflorescence racemose 2. GOMPHOSTIGMA. 
Inflorescence cymose Z 4. BUDDLEIA. 
Anther-cells divaricate 8. NUXEA; 
Stamen 1 3 é . . ‘ 3 <5. USTERIA; 
Fruit indehiscent. 
Corolla-lobes 4-5 - 6. STRYCHNOS. 
Corolla-lobes 10-15 7. ANTHOCLEISTA. 
Style forked. Ovules solitary 8. GERTNERA. 
