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Anthocleista.) LOGANTACEA (Prain and Cummins). 1049 
V. ANTHOCLEISTA, Afzel. 
Calya deeply 4-fid; tube almost obsolete; lobes very thickly 
coriaceous, orbicular, imbricate. Corolla 8-16-fid, firmly fleshy ; 
tube narrow campanulate ; lobes overlapping to right, twisted to 
left. Stamens 8-16, adnate to corolla-throat ; filaments flattened, 
below connate into a membranous ring ; anthers linear, exserted, 
erect, basifixed, sagittate ; cells distinct, parallel. Ovary 2-celled, 
or by development of placental dissepiments 4-celled, resting on a 
fleshy disk ; style short or long, slender ; stigma terminal, dilated, 
oblong-capitate or shortly cylindric ; ovules many ; placentas linear, 
involute once, or below twice, 2-fid. Fruit a globose or oblong 
4-celled berry ; pericarp thickly coriaceous, hardening when dry. 
Seeds numerous, small, invested with pulp; testa thin ; albumen 
cartilaginous ; embryo straight, shorter than albumen ; cotyledons 
semiterete. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, armed with axillary spines 
or unarmed ; leaves mostly near ends of shoots, large or very large, opposite, 
decussate, penninerved, petioled or sessile, entire ; leaf-sheaths auriculate or not, 
united by an interpetiolar ridge or connate laterally into a short sheathing cup ; 
flowers cymose ; cymes in lax terminal panicles, with thick peduncles and short 
stout pedicels ; bracts scale-like. 
Distris, Species about 20, mostly in Tropical Africa, a few in the Mascarenes ; 
one of the Tropical African species extending to South Africa. 
1. A. zambesiaca (Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 99); a tall 
unarmed little branched tree, 70 ft. high ; wood white, soft, harden- 
ing when kept; bark grey ; leaves rather crowded towards ends of 
branches, firmly herbaceous, rather pale green, glabrous on both 
surfaces, obovate-oblong, obtuse, gradually narrowed from upper 
third to base, margin throughout minutely crisply crenulate, in 
young saplings 44 ft. long, 15 in. wide, on branches of mature trees 
9-12 in. long, 4-5 in. wide; petiole very short, 3—4 lin. long, or 
obsolete ; leaf-sheath short but distinct, 6 lin. long, deep-channelled 
above, connate with opposite leaf-sheath into an ochreate cup 3—4 lin. 
deep; cymes 3-5 times 3-furcate ; main-peduncles 7-8 in. long, 
secondary 3-31 in., tertiary 1}-2 in. long, ultimate branches 6 lin. 
long; bracts orbicular, squamous, coriaceous, 3-4 lin. long; 
pedicels stout, 2-3 lin. long ; calyx 5 lin, long; tube subobsolete ; 
lobes orbicular, thickly coriaceous ; corolla yellowish-white, firmly 
fleshy, 2} in. long; tube narrowly infundibuliform-campanulate, 
13-1} in. long, mouth 4 lin, wide; lobes 12-13, narrow-oblong, 
obtuse, at length reflexed, 9 lin. long, 3-4 lin. wide ; stamens 12-13 ; 
filaments short ; anthers linear, 3 lin. long, sagittate, connective 
dorsal slightly produced, apiculus obtuse ; ovary glabrous, obovate, — 
4 lin. long ; style exserted, 14 in. long; stigma enlarged cylindric, — 
obtuse, faintly 2-lobed at apex and faintly 6-grooved laterally, 
1) lin. long; fruit ovoid subacute, 1} in. long, 9 lin. in diam., 
