Strychnos. | LXXXVI. LOGANIACE& (BAKER). 537 
Solered. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 554. Brehmia spinosa, Harv.; A. DC.- 
Prod. ix. 18; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 235. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 8138! French Guinea: banks of the: 
River Niger at Farana, 3200 ft., Scott-Hiliot, 5384! Lagos: Ado Ischu, Rowland, 
5! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1140! 
Nile Land. Fazoki, Cienkowsky. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 4763! 4764, 4767, 6019! 
Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 4768! 4770, 4771! 4772; Ambaca, Welwitsch, 4773. 
Mozamb. Dist. German Kast, Africa: Rovuma Bay, Kirk! Portuguese- 
Kast Africa: Zambesi Delta; Kongone River, Kirk! bank of the River Luabo,. 
Kirk, 44! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mbame Village, Kirk! Blantyre,. 
Buchanan, 34! Zomba and vicinity, 2800-3500 ft., Whyte! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan, 214! 
Also in South Africa, Madagascar and the Seychelles. 
Var. pubescens, Baker. Leaves pubescent, especially beneath, 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: near Moria on the River Scarcies, Scott- 
Elliot, 4801! Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1705! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Sochi, 3500 ft.,. 
Kirk, 129! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 47 ! 
This variety much resembles S. cocculoides, Baker. 
72. S. emarginata, Baker. An erect shrub; branchlets very 
slender, pubescent, with pungent hooked spines from the nodes.. 
Leaves obovate, emarginate, with a small mucro from the sinus, glossy, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous, 1—2 in. long, strongly 5-nerved from the base. 
Cymes dense, terminal, very compound; peduncle and very short 
pedicels pubescent. Calyx 1 in. long; tube very short; segments 5, 
lanceolate. Corolla not seen. Fruit globose, 2 in. in diam.; pericarp: 
thick, rigid ; pulp copious ; seeds large. 
Wile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1396! 
Imperfectly known species. 
73. S. Scheffleri, Gily in Notizbl. Konigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, tii.. 
84 (name only). 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Eastern Usambara, Scheffler. 
7. ANTHOCLEISTA, Afzel.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 795. 
Calyx 4-partite; lobes coriaceous, much imbricate, decussate. 
Corolla-tube funnel-shaped; lobes 12-16, linear-oblong or oblong,. 
much imbricate, contorted. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes ; 
filaments united into a short cup; anthers linear-erect. Ovary inserted 
on a fleshy disk, spuriously 4-celled; style filiform, usually curved ;. 
stigma capitate, oblong; ovules very numerous. Berry globose or 
oblong; pericarp becoming coriaceous. Seeds numerous, minute, 
embedded in the pulpy placentas; testa thin; albumen cartilaginous ; 
embryo straight.—Erect trees or scandent shrubs. Leaves obovate- 
