1050 LOGANIACE (Prain and Cummins). | Anthocleista. 
4-celled ; seeds brown, shining ; testa finely reticulated. Baker in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 540. A. pulcherrima, Gilg in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxx. 374, t. 17; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 540. 
Eastern Recion: Swaziland; Horo Forest, 1800 ft., Zeyson in Herb. Galpin, 
1358 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
VI. STRYCHNOS, Linn. 
Calyx deeply 5- or 4-fid ; tube sometimes obsolete ; lobes ovate or 
triangular, rarely narrow-linear, imbricate. Corolla 5- or 4-fid ; 
tube hypocrateriform or rotate or subcampanulate ; lobes valvate, 
spreading or reflexed, rarely suberect. Stamens 5 or 4, usually | 
adnate to corolla-throat, rarely low down in corolla-tube ; filaments 
filiform, usually short ; anthers ovate, exserted or rarely included ; 
cells distinct, parallel. Ovary 2-celled, rarely by absorption of 
dissepiment l-celled; style straight; stigma terminal, capitate ; 
ovules usually several, rarely many, very rarely few, 2- or more- 
seriate. Fruit a globose berry, usually 2-celled, sometimes by 
absorption of partition, less often by abortion of a cell 1-celled ; 
pericarp crustaceous. Seeds usually several, rarely by abortion. 
only 2 or 1, generally variously compressed, if very few or solitary 
globose or oval, embedded in pulp ; albumen usually cartilaginous ; 
embryo straight, shorter than the albumen ; cotyledons flat, leafy, 
3—5-nerved. 
Trees or shrubs, erect (in all South African species) or climbing by hooked 
tendrils, usually glabrous, armed or unarmed ; leaves opposite, decussate, margin 
entire, 3-5- (rarely 7-) nerved, petioled ; stipules represented by an interpetiolar 
ridge or 0; flowers cymose ; cymes simple or in condensed or lax thyrsoid or 
corymbose panicles, axillary or terminal ; bracts small or very small. 
Disrrts. Species under 100; wide-spread in all tropical countries ; a few 
species also subtropical ; four of the latter endemic in South Africa. 
Cymes axillary or from old wood ; twigs never spiny ; 
calyx shorter than corolla-tube ; teeth ovate or 
triangular ; corolla-lobes spreading ; stamens inserted 
on corolla-throat ; anthers glabrous, exserted ; ovary 
2-celled : 
Corolla-lobes pubescent all over inner face, throat with 
a ring of hairs ; calyx-tube as long as the triangular 
acute lobes ; filaments longer than the anthers ; : 
flowers 5-merous ; leaves glabrous... AY ... (1) Atherstone. 
Corolla-lobes glabrous within ; calyx-tube very short 
or obsolete; lobes ovate or orbicular, obtuse, 
with ciliate margins ; filaments not longer than 
anthers : 
Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces : , 
Leaves with pungent spinous tips, rigid and thickly 
coriaceous ; bark corky ; cymes condensed ; ; “4 
towers 5-merous ; corolla-throat with a ring sae 
OR AES: 9s cicrceus we Ee Got cranes LEO 
Leaves unarmed, thinly coriaceous orchartaceous; 
bark not corky ; cymes usually rather lax: 
