536 LXXXVI. LOGANIACEZ (BAKER). [ Strychnos. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique; between Mussoril 
and Cabeceira, Carvalho. 
68. S. gracillima, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 573, An erect 
shrub, with slender branchlets and copious hooked spines from the 
nodes. Leaves ovate or oblong, acute, cuneate at the base, glabrous, | in. 
long, triplinerved from the base ; lateral veins short ; petiole very short. 
Cymes dense, compressed, terminal ; peduncle and pedicels short. Calyx 
din. long; tube very short; lobes 5, lanceolate. Bud greenish, globose ; 
corolla-tube very short; segments ovate. Fruit globose, 2 in. in diam. ;. 
pericarp woody. Seeds many, $ in. long. 
Nile Land. Jur: near Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1344; between Dimo and 
Axem, Schweinfurth, 1573 ! 
69. S. VWolkensii, Gilg in Engl. Pf. Ost-Ajfr. C. 311. A 
tree 30-40 ft. high; branchlets armed with curved pungent spines at 
the nodes. Leaves oblong or oblong-ovate, 14-2 in. long by half as 
broad, glabrous, narrowed gradually to the base, subacute, 5-nerved ; 
petiole 4-1 as long as the blade. Cymes lax, many-flowered, from the 
tip of the branchlets; bracts minute, triangular, acute. Sepals ovate. 
acuminate, less than half as long as the corolla. Corolla } in. long ; lobes. 
ovate, rather longer than the campanulate tube. Fruit shaped like an 
orange, with edible pulp.—Gilg in Notizbl. Kénigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, }. 
76; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 702. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; forests at the base of Alto Queta,. 
Welwitsch, 4769, and at Dalatanda, Welwitsch, 4775. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Tanga, Holst, 2095 |. 
Volkens, 103, Amboni, Helst, 2670! 
70. S. Miniungansamba, Gilg in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. 
Berlin, i. 77. An erect shrub, with recurved axillary spines. Leaves 
obovate, about 1 in. long, rounded at the apex, narrowed to the base,. 
glabrous, 5-nerved from the base; petiole } in. long. Flowers in 
racemes at the apex of the branchlets. Sepals linear, ciliolate, 4-} 
in. long. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; tube ureeolate;, 
lobes 5, ovate, less than half as long as the tube. Fruit unknown. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Kahingula, Buchner, 617. 
71. S. spinosa, Zam. Jil. ii. 38. A low tree; branchlets. 
horizontal, slender, virgate, armed with pungent spines from the nodes. 
Leaves obovate or suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, cuneate at the 
base, 2-3 in, long, subcoriaceous, 5-nerved from near the base, glabrous ; 
petiole very short. Cymes short, dense, terminal, very compound ;. 
peduncles and short pedicels pubescent. Calyx } in. long; tube very 
short; segments linear. Corolla greenish, not longer than the calyx; 
tube short, campanulate; lobes usually 5, ovate. Fruit the size and. 
colour of an orange ; pericarp coriaceous ; pulp abundant, edible; seeds 
large.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 702. S. Vuntac, Bojer, Hort. 
Maur. 205. S. Lokua, A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. ii. 53. S. lawa, 
