518 LXXXVI. LOGANIACEZ (BAKER). | Strychnos. 
anthers ovate, with distinct parallel cells. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform ; 
stigma capitate or obscurely 2-lobed; ovules few or many in a cell. 
Fruit baccate, indehiscent, sometimes 1-celled. Seeds many or reduced 
to one or two, often immersed in pulp, compressed or if solitary 
globose ; albumen usually copious ; embryo short, with foliaceous coty- 
ledons and a short radicle-——Trees or shrubs, rarely spinous at the 
nodes, sometimes climbers with hooked cirrhi. Leaves opposite, entire, 
3-5-nerved from the base or a little above it. Cymes compound, 
axillary or terminal ; bracts minute. Flowers small, usually white. 
Species above 100, spread through the tropical and subtropical regions of both 
hemispheres. 
*Climbing shrubs, with tendrils, without spines. 
Internodes prickly. 3 f : ‘ . 1. 8. aculeata. 
Internodes not prickly. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate. 
Leaves triplinerved from the base . : . £2 SS. Dinklager. 
Leaves triplinerved from above the base . 38. 8. eongolana. 
Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate. 
Leaves nearly 1 ft. loug : : : . 4 S. Kipapa, 
Leaves 3-6 in. long. 
Leaves triplinerved from the base . 5. 8S. Dewevrer. 
Leaves tripliner.ed from the above base . 6. S. chlorocarpa. 
Leaves ovate, acumina'e . - 7. S. guerckeana. 
Leaves obovate or obovate-oblong. 
Inflorescence thyrsoid . : 5 e . 8. S. angolensis. 
Inflorescence dense, 
Leaves 1-1} in. long : . 3 . 9. S, zizyphoides, 
Leaves 13-3 in. long. 
Leaves 3-nerved . 2 : : _ 10. S. Afzelit. 
Leaves 5-nerved . A ‘ : . 11. S. erythrocarpa. 
Leaves oblong. 
Cymes sessile. : : : : . 12. S. Barteri. 
Cymes peduncled. 
Flowers comparatively large. , . 13. 8. nigrilana. 
Flowers small. 
Tendrils simple. 
Branchlets glabrous . ; : . 14. 8. loandensis. 
Branchlets densely pubescent. . 15. 8. malacoclados. 
Tendrils forked. 
Fruit large, pomiform : 5 . 16. 8. Vogeli. 
Fruit small, 1-seeded. 
Leaves 5-nerved from the base . 17. S. acutissima, 
Leaves obscurely 3-nerved —. . 18. S. lucens, 
Leaves distinctly 3-nerved frcm the 
base. : : ; . 19. 8. splendens. 
Leaves distinctly 3-nerved from 
above the base : : . 20. S. Welwitschit. 
**Erect shrubs with acute leaves, without spines or 
tendrils, 
Leaves ovate. 
Leaves large . E : ‘ : : . 21. 8, chrysophylla. 
Leaves smaller. 
