Strychnos.| | LOGANIACEA (Prain and Cummins). 1051 
Corolla-throat with a ring of hairs : 
Ovary glabrous ; leaves mucronulate, not ex- 
ceeding 1} in. in length ; filaments nearly 
as long as anthers; flowers mostly 
5-merous, some 4-merous aut ... (4) pauciflora. 
Ovary pilose with silky white hairs in the 
upper half ; leaves not mucronulate, never — 
less than 1} in. in length, usually 2-3 
(sometimes 4) in. long; filaments very 
short ; flowers all 4-merous ok --» (5) Gerrardi. 
Leaves softly pubescent on both surfaces, mem- 
branous ; corolla-throat with a ring of hairs ; 
flowers 4-merous ee at sts ... (6) dysophylla. 
Cymes terminal; twigs often converted into spines ; 
calyx longer than corolla-tube ; teeth long lanceolate 
or linear or subulate ; corolla-lobes suberect ; stamens 
inserted near base of corolla-tube ; anthers united 
by an interlacing network of hairs, included and 
hidden by ring of hairs in corolla-throat ; ovary 
1-celled : 
Twigs densely pubescent ; leaves softly puberulous on 
both surfaces ; bracts and calyx-teeth pubescent ; 
corolla puberulous outside ... sas ae eg 
Twigs glabrous ; leaves glabrous or with only tufts of 
hair in the angles between the nerves beneath ; 
bracts, calyx-teeth and corolla outside glabrous .... (8) spinosa. 
(7) schumanniana. 
1. S. Atherstonei (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 41, t. 164); a tree 20-25 
ft. high, 1-14 ft. in diam.; twigs knotted; leaves coriaceous, 
glabrous, dull green, ovate or obovate, obtuse or retuse, base 
narrow-cuneate, 3-nerved from very near base, 1-1} in. long, 4—7 
lin. wide; petiole glabrous, 1-14 lin. long; cymes 3-5-flowered, 
6-8 lin. long, as much across, axillary or from older wood ; 
peduncles 3 lin. long; bracts § lin. long; pedicels 1} lin. long, 
glabrous ; calyx wide-campanulate, } lin. long ; teeth 5, triangular, 
hardly longer than tube ; corolla greenish, 3 lin. long ; tube shorter 
than lobes ; lobes 5, at length spreading, outside glabrous, within 
pubescent with long hairs except at the callous tip; stamens 5, 
adnate to corolla-throat, exserted; filaments subulate, slender, 
longer than anthers; ovary 2-celled ; ovules several in each cell ; 
berry 1-seeded, globose, 6—7 lin. in diam. ; seeds peltate, subcom- » 
pressed. Fourcade, Rep. Natal For. 1889, 115 ; Sim, For. Fl. Cap. 
273, t.111, fig. I. S. Baculum, Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 41. 8. decussata, 
Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 121. Atherstonea decussata, Pappe, 
Silva Cap. ed. 2, 29. 
Coast Recon: Port Elizabeth Div.; Kakakama, Zeyher, 3368! Alexandria 
Div. ; Olifants Hoek, Pappe! Nightingale in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr. 1000 ! Bathurst Div. ; by the Kowie River, Atherstone ! 
Easrern Region: Natal ; near ban, Gerrard and McKen, 847! Botanic 
Gardens, Wood, 1926! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 262! 
small tree ; bark corky, fissured; leaves thickly = 
