Nusxia. | LOGANIACEZ (Prain and Cummins). 1039 
lobes imbricate, spreading, obtuse or acute. Stamens 4, adnate to 
corolla-throat ; filaments filiform ; anthers ovate or oblong, exserted ; 
cells confluent at apex, divaricate. Ovary 2-celled, ovoid, usually 
silky; style filiform; stigma terminal, minute; ovules many, 
several-seriate ; placentas linear or ovate. Capsule ovoid, obovoid 
or oblong, hardly exserted from calyx, dehiscence septicidal ; 
valves splitting at apex, separating from and liberating the 
placentas. Seeds oblong; albumen fleshy; embryo straight with 
semiterete cotyledons. 
Glabrous or pilose erect shrubs or small trees ; leaves penninerved, shortly or 
distinctly petioled, opposite, decussate or 3-nately whorled, subcoriaceous or 
chartaceous ; stipules 0, interpetiolar ridge obsolete; flowers cymose, cymes 
in dense or lax terminal thyrsoid panicles. . 
Disrris. Species about 30, mostly Tropical African, some in Madagascar, a few 
in South Africa, 4 of these being endemic, 
Calyx chartaceous ; tube glabrous within ; corolla in bud 
obtuse at apex ; cymes in wide lax panicles 4-8 in. 
across ; leaves 3-nate, long-petioled ... pes .»» (1) floribunda. 
Calyx coriaceous ; tube adpressed white silky within ; 
cymes in narrow usually dense panicles under 4 in. 
across ; leaves short-petioled : 
Corolla in bud rounded and obtuse at apex; lobes 
glabrous outside ; leaves opposite : 
Pedicels considerably longer than calyx... .. (2) gracilis. 
Pedicels never longer, mostly shorter than calyx ... (3) dentata. 
Corolla in bud conical and acute or, if rounded, apicu- 
late at apex ; leaves 3-nate : 
Flowers all distinctly pedicelled ; corolla-lobes silky 
outside; leaves usually more or less pubescent : 
Corolla under 2 lin. long, in bud rounded but ‘ 
apiculate at tip ; cymes dense sss wee (4) Dreviflora. 
Corolla over 2 lin. long, in bud conical and. acute 
at tip ; cymes lax i ro sae ... (5) pubescens, 
Flowers all sessile or subsessile ; corona over 2 lin. 
long, in bud conical and acute at tip; cymes 
dense : 
Leaves more or less pubescent; corolla-lobes 
almost always silky outside “a ... (6) congesta, var. 
tomentosa. 
Leaves glabrous; corolla-lobes glabrous or very 
sparingly hairy outside see vie ... (6) congesta, var. 
emarginata. 
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1. N. floribunda (Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 59); an 
erect tree 15-50 ft. high; bark pale-grey ; leaves usually in 3-nate 
whorls, firmly papery, glabrous, oblong-elliptic, acute or acuminate, 
less often obtuse, base cuneate and entire, margin elsewhere remotely 
usually obscurely toothed, 2-6 in. long, #-24 in. wide; petiole 
3-14 in. long; cymes in ample panicles repeatedly dichotomously 
branched, 4-8 in. across; bracts minute; flowers sessile or the 
central of a cyme short-pedicelled ; calyx narrow-campanulate, 
1 Tin, Iong, thinly papery ; tube outside glabrous, within sparsely 
