528 LXXXVI, LOGANIACEA (BAKER). | Strychnos. 
base to above the middle; petiole } in. long. Cymes many, lateral, 
shortly peduncled. Calyx-lobes short, broad. Corolla not seen. Fruit 
globose, 1-seeded, 4-4 in. in diam. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Berria, Scott-Elliot, 5431! Gold 
Coast: Accra, Moloney! Southern Nigeria: Onitsa, Barter, 1813! 
36. S. henriquesiana, Baker in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xi. 86. A small 
tree; branchlets pubescent. Leaves oblong, nearly sessile, glabrous 
and glossy on both sides, subcoriaceous, triplinerved from above the 
base, cuneate at the base, rounded and minutely mucronate at the 
apex. Cymes dense, sessile, axillary, many-flowered 3 pedicels very 
short, pubescent. Calyx } in. long; lobes suborbicular, glabrous, 
ciliate on the margin. Corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx; 
lobes lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube. Style 4 in. long. Fruit 
not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Marques, 13! 
37. S. densiflora, Baill. Adans. xii, 369. A shrub; branchlets 
glabrous. Leaves oblong, acuminate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 4—6 in. 
long, distinctly triplinerved from near the base to above the middle ; 
petiole very short. Cymes dense, many-flowered, sessile in the axils of 
the leaves; pedicels short, glabrous. Calyx 4; in. long; segments 
orbicular, much imbricated. Corolla yellowish, fragrant, } in. long, 
hairy in the throat; tube glabrous inside ; segments ovate, half as long 
as the cylindrical tube. Style long. Fruit not seen.—/S. swaveolens, 
~Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 566. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 861! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; banks of the Gadda River, 
Schweinfurth, 3597 ! 
The Ordeal tree of the Gaboon, mentioned in Du Chaillu’s Travels, ed. 2, 256 
S. Icaja, Baill. in Adans. xii. 368 (Native name Méoundon), judging from a specimen 
given by the late D. Hanbury, F.R.S., to the Pharmaceutical Society, which was 
received by him from Mr. R. B. Walker in October, 1865, does not differ from this 
materially in habit and leaf. Its flowers and fruit are unknown. 
38. S. Staudtii, Gilg in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 
182. An erect unarmed shrub; branches glabrous. Leaves oblong, 
acuminate, subacute at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved from 
above the base, 5 in. long, -24 in, broad ; petiole 3 lin. long. Cymes 
axillary, 1} in. long, many-flowered ; branches and pedicels puberulous ; 
-bracts boat-shaped, acute; bracteoles 2, a short distance below the 
calyx, suborbicular, Calyx 5-partite, pubescent outside, 1 lin. long ; 
lobes rotundate. Corolla thick, glabrous outside, with a hairy ring in 
the throat and another in the middle of the tube ; tube narrowly cam- 
panulate, 3 lin. long; lobes 5, 2 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
slightly hooded at the apex. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat ; 
filaments very short; anthers oblong, 1 lin. long. Ovary ovoid, 
glabrous ; style subulate, slightly exserted ; stigma subcapitate. 
Upper Guinea, Cameroons: Johann-Albrechtshiéhe, Staudt, 616! 
