‘538 LXXXVI. LOGANIACEE (BAKER). | Anthocleista. 
-cuneate ; petiole dilated at the base. Cymes terminal, trichotomous, 
usually compound ; bracts small, connate. Flowers large, white or 
-dull yellow. 
Three other species in Madagascar and one in the Comoro Isles. 
Erect trees with spinous branches. 
Calyx 3 in, long. 
Corolla 2 in. long 1, A. kamerunensis. 
Corolla about 1 in. long. 
Fruit 1 in, long 2. A. nobilis. 
Fruit 13 in. long 3. A. lanceolata. 
Calyx 4 in. long 4. A. Zenkeri. 
Calyx tin. long . . c : 5. A. parviflora. 
Erect trees with unarmed branches. 
Petiole obsolete. 
Leaves auricled at the base. 6. A. orientalis. 
Leaves not auricled at the base 7. A. pulcherrima. 
Petiole short. 
Calyx } in. long. 
Corolla-tube scarcely longer than the calyx 8. A. Kalbreyert. 
Corolla-tube much longer than the calyx . . 9. A. zambesiaca. 
Calyx } in. long. : : : : ; . 10. A, stuhlmanniana. 
Petiole 13-3 in. long. 
Upper leaves 1 ft. or more long. 
Auricles of opposite leaves free 5 : . Ll. A. liebrechtsiana. 
Aur.cles of opposite leaves connate. 
Fruit globose . : : : m . 12. A. tnermis. 
Fruit obovate-oblong . ‘ : : . 13. A. Schweinfurthit. 
Upper leaves 5-6 in. long . : : i . 14. A. magnifica. 
Climbing shrubs. : 
Cymes simple c : : : : : . 15. A. scandens. 
Cymes compound , ‘ : : 5 : . 16. A. laxiflora. 
1. A. kamerunensis, Gily in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 125. A tall 
“tree; bark grey, fissured; branches armed with a few small spines. 
Leaves crowded, long-petioled, oblong or obovate-oblong, }—1 ft. long, 
rounded at the apex, narrowed gradually to the base, glabrous. In- 
florescence lax, few-flowered; peduncle long; bracts minute; pedicels 
very short, articulated. Sepals broader than long, entire, } in. broad. 
Corolla 2 in. long ; tube cylindrical, longer than the lobes; lobes 10-12, 
lanceolate. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, Dixklage, 1361. 
2. A, nobilis, G. Don; A. DO. in DC. Prod. ix. 36. An erect tree, 
reaching a heigat of 50-60 ft. Loaves crowded at the tips of the 
-branchlets, with pungent spines between them; upper leaves of branches 
9-12 in. long, 3-4 in. broad; petiole very short ; leaves in the young 
plant reaching a length of 4-5 ft. Cymes compound, shorter than the 
leaves, Calyx } in. loag; outer lobes suborbicular, Corolla-tube half 
-as long again as the calyx; lobes about 16, $ in. long. Tube of fila- 
‘ments short ; anthers } in. long. Fruit globose, 1 in. in diam.—Benth. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 100. A. masrophylla, G. Don, lic. A. Vogelit, 
