Strychnos. | .LXXXVI, LOGANIACEE (BAKER). 525 
S. microcarpa, Buker (l.c. 97), appears to be a form of the same species without 
tendrils ; it was collected in the province of Loanda by Welwitsch (4765). 
21. S. chrysophylia, Gilg in Lngl. Jahrb. xxviii. 119. A shrub 
without tendrils; branches yellowish, glabrous, unequally tetragonal. 
Leaves shortly and stoutly petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, 6-8 in. long, 
narrowed to the base, conspicuously acuminate at the apex, glabrous, 
shining, triplinerved from the base. Flowers and fruit unknown. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Ebea Falls, Dinklage, 221. 
22. S. distichophylla, Gilg in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. C. 310. A 
smali tree; young branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate, subcoriaceous, 
distichous, 1-1} in. long, 8—{ in. broad, rounded at the hase, gradually 
narrowed to an acute point, triplinerved. Flowers in very compound 
cymes at the end of the branchlets. Calyx and corolla unknown. 
Berry oblong, orange-yellow, } in. long, 1-seeded. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uzinja; Kimoani Plateau, Stuhlmann, 
3397. 
23. S. Schweinfurthii, (ily in Lngl. Jahrb. xvii. 568. Leaves 
distichous, ovate, acute, cuneate at the base, 3 in. long, 2 in. broad, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous, greenish-yellow when dried, 5-nerved from the 
base; petiole 4-} in. long. Flowers apparently in terminal cymes. 
Fruit large, subglobose; pericarp woody, green, with greenish-yellow 
blotches. Seeds much compressed, above I in. long. 
South Central.. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; near Munza’s viilage, 
Schweinfurth, 3509. 
24. S. omphalocarpa, Gily ¢ Busse in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 181. 
A tree, 25-30 ft. high; branchlets pendulous, greyish-white, glabrous. 
Leaves shortly petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, 14-24 
in. long, shortly and broadly acuminate, narrowed to the base, 5-nerved, 
coriaceous, glabrous, shining on the upper surface. Flowers unknown. 
Fruit globose, 4 in. in diam., narrowed to a short stout stipe ; pericarp 
very thick, bony ; pulp bitter. Seeds 10-20, orbicular, much compressed, 
under 1 in. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Useguha; near Kwa Mdoé, Busse, 
322. 
25. S. malifolia, Baker. An erect shrub; branchlets slender, 
glabrous. Leaves thin but firm, ovate, acute, glabrous, 1}—2 in. long, 
finely 5-nerved from the base to above the middle, broadly rounded at 
the base; petiole short, very slender. Cymes copious, spreading, few- 
flowered, produced from leafless nodes; peduncles very short; pedicels 
as long as the calyx. Calyx-segments ovate, obtuse, $ lin. long. Corolla- 
tube funnel-shaped, 4 in. long; throat very hairy; segments small, 
ovate. Style long, exserted. Fruit not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambriz, Monteiro! 
