542 LXXXVI. LOGANIACEH (BAKER). [ Anthocleista. 
12, linear, more than half as long as the tube. Cup of filaments very 
short; anthers jin. long. Fruit not seen. 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 49! 
15. A. scandens, Hook.f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 16. A woody 
climber ; stems unarmed, 30-50 ft. long; final internodes } in. long. 
Leaves obovate-cuneate, 3-4 in. long, narrowed into a short petiole 
without any auricle. Cymes simple, 3—4-flowered, shortly peduncled or 
sessile in the axil of the upper pair of leaves. Calyx } in. long; outer 
lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla-tube 1 in. long, widened at the middle ;. 
lobes about 12, oblong, more than half as long as the tube. Cup of 
filaments. very short; anthers } in. long. Dried fruit oblong, 1} 
in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, 5000 ft., Mann, 623! 
racial Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: summit of St. Thomas Peak, Mann,. 
1067 ! 
16. A. laxiflora, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 99. A climbing 
shrub; stems unarmed, terete, 15 ft. long; final internodes 1-13 
in. long. Leaves oblong, cuneate at the base, acute, 5-6 in. long, 
2 in. broad ; petiole very short, not auricled. Cymes short, compound, 
lower branches subtended by large leaves. Calyx 3? in. long; outer 
lobes ovate. Corolla and stamens not seen. Dry fruit globose, } in. 
in diam., apiculate with the persistent base of the style. 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Gaboon: Mount John, by the River Kongui,. 
Mann, 1802! 
Imperfectly known species, 
17. A. Scheffleri, Gilg ex Scheffler in Notizbl. Kinigl. Bot. Gart- 
Berlin, iii. 143 (name only). 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Scheffler. 
8. GHERTNERA, Lam.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 798. 
Calyx campanulate; teeth 5, usually very short. Corolla-tube- 
funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, oblong, valvate; stamens 5, inserted below the 
throat of the corolla-tube; filaments filiform; anther-cells parallel. 
Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, with two linear stigmatose branches ; 
ovules solitary, erect.. Fruit small, globose, indchiscent, 2-celled ;. 
pericarp thin, fleshy. Seeds solitary, copiously albuminous ; embryo 
minute, straight.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves entire, feather-veined, 
conspicuously stipulate. Inflorescence a terminal panicle with cymose 
branches. 
Species about 30, mostly East Indian and Mascarene. 
Corolla 4 in. long. 
Panicle large, lax . . ° . . : 
: 1. &. paniculata. 
Panicle moderately large, lax : : s 
Dinklagei. 
