__ London Div. ; Quelegha Forest, Hutchins in Herb. MacOwan, 2884! 
1052 LOGANIACE& (Prain and Cummins). — [| Strychnos. 
with a rigid spinous tip, base cuneate or rounded, 5-nerved, the outer 
nerves slender submarginal arising from base, the pair next midrib 
also from base or closely applied to midrib from }—1 lin. above base, 
14-2 in. long, 4-1} in. wide ; petiole glabrous, stout, 1 lin. long ; 
cymes 5-9-flowered, 5—7 lin. long, as much across, almost all from 
below leaves ; peduncles obsolete ; bracts } lin. long ; pedicels stout, 
4 lin. long, pubescent ; calyx ovate, $ lin. long; teeth 5, ovate, 
obtuse, with ciliate margins; tube obsolete ; corolla white, 3 lin. 
long ; tube rather longer than lobes ; lobes 5, at length spreading, 
- outside glabrous, within with a ring of hairs at throat ; stamens 5, 
adnate to corolla-throat; filaments very short ; anthers exserted ; 
ovary 2-celled ; style sparingly hairy at base ; ovules several in each 
cell; berry globose, resting on accrescent calyx-lobes, when ripe 
“as large as a cannon-ball” (Buchner); “5 in. in diam.” 
(Leendertz). Solered. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 554. 8. occidentalis, 
Solered. in Engl. und Prantl, Pfllanzenfam. iv. ii. 40. 
Katanart Recion : Transvaal ; Magaliesberg Range, Burke, 56! Zeyher, 1185 ! 
Mclea in Herb. Bolus, 5710! near Aapies River, 5300 ft., Schlechter, 3621! 
Aapies Poort, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4161! hills near Pretoria, Miss Leendert:, 
382! Jeppestown Ridge, near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 
6153! near Nylstroom, Burtt Davy, 2101! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
3. 8. Henningsii (Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 569); a tree 30-40 
ft. high; bark pale below, green above; twigs knotted ; leaves 
thinly coriaceous, glabrous, dark green shining above, paler and 
dull beneath, wide ovate, gradually narrowed in upper third to an 
obtuse or subacute tip, base wide-cuneate or rounded, usually 
gradually increasing in size upwards from base to apex of twig but 
occasionally all remaining small throughout, 3- or 5-nerved from or 
from very near the base, 1-34 in. long, 3-24 in. wide; petiole 
glabrous, 2-3 lin. long ; cymes simple, 3—5-flowered or once (some- 
times twice) decussately branched, each branch 3-5-flowered, 
axillary ; main peduncles 3-6 lin. long ; branches when present 2-3 
lin. long; bracts } lin. long; pedicels subobsolete ; calyx wide 
campanulate, } lin. long ; teeth 5, suborbicular, with ciliate margins ; 
‘tube very short; corolla white, at length becoming pale orange, 
thick, 3 lin. long ; tube hardly as long as lobes ; lobes 5, at length 
spreading, quite glabrous without and within ; stamens 5, adnate to 
corolla-throat ; filaments very short, thick; anthers exserted ; 
ovary 2-celled, and style glabrous; ovules solitary in each cell ; 
berry globose, orange-red, when ripe 6 lin. in diam., almost always 
l-seeded ; seed globose or ovoid, 3 lin. in diam. Wood, Natal 
‘Plants, iii. 24, t. 247 ; Sim, For. Fl. Cap. 273, t. 112. S. Umbanda, 
Fourcade, Rep. Natal For. 1889, 116. S. utilis, Sim ex Lister om 
Rep. Cape For. 1897, 98 ; Sim, For. Fl. Cap. 273. ao 
—Oaiany eto 979 | East 
King Williamstown Div. ; Perie Forest, Scott Elliot, 
