Strychnos.|  LOGANTACEA (Prain and Cummins). 1055 
EASTERN Recton: Pondoland, Bachmann, 1745; Sim. Natal; Tugela River, 
Gerrard, 1917! Umcomaas, McKen, 10! Berea, near Durban, Wood, 6672! 7978, 
and without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders | 
4. 8. pauciflora (Gilgin Engl. Jahrb. xxviii, 121) ; an erect shrub ; 
twigs 4-angled; bark white; leaves chartaceous, glabrous, dark 
green shining above, paler and dull beneath, oval, subacute or 
acute, slightly softly mucronulate, base wide-cuneate or rounded, 
3-nerved from or from very near the base, Z-l4 in. long, 4-9 lin, 
wide ; petiole glabrous, }—1 lin. long; cymes simple or branched, 
3-15-flowered, axillary, 14-4 lin. long, 13-3 lin. across ; peduncles 
I lin. long, puberulous ; bracts 4 lin. long ; pedicels } lin. long, 
slender, puberulous ; calyx ovate, } lin. long ; teeth 5 or 4, ovate, 
with ciliate margins ; tube subobsolete ; corolla white, 1} lin. long ; 
tube hardly as long as lobes; lobes usually 5, sometimes 4, at 
length spreading, outside glabrous, within with a ring of hairs at 
throat ; stamens usually 5, sometimes 4, adnate to corolla-throat ; 
filaments about as long as anthers, filiform; anthers distinctly 
exserted ; ovary 2-celled and style glabrous ; ovules several in each 
cell ; fruit not seen. 
Eastern Recion: Lourenco Marques, 100 ft., Schlechter, 11682 ! 
5. 8. Gerrardi (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1896, 162); a tree 
30-40 ft. high; bark grey; leaves thinly coriaceous or almost 
chartaceous, glabrous, dark green shining above, paler and dull 
beneath, elliptic or oblong or subobovate, obtuse or rarély subacute, 
base cuneate, margin faintly crisped, distinctly 3-nerved, lateral 
nerves closely applied to midrib from 2-4 lin. above the base, 11-4 
in. long, }-1} in. wide; petiole glabrous, slender, 1-3 lin. long ; 
cymes 3—5-flowered, axillary or from wood below leaves, 4—6 lin. 
long, as much across ; peduncles 1-2 lin. long; bracts lin. long ; 
pedicels $—1} lin. long, glabrous; calyx campanulate, I lin. long ; 
teeth 4, oblong, with ciliate margins; tube subobsolete ; corolla 
white or yellow, 3 lin. long; tube as long as lobes ; lobes 4, at 
length spreading, outside glabrous, within with a ring of hairs at 
throat ; stamens 4, adnate to corolla-throat ; filaments subobsolete : 
anthers slightly exserted ; ovary 2-celled, in the upper half pilose 
like the base of the style with long white hairs; ovules several in 
each cell ; berry globose, when ripe yellow, 3 (less often 4) in. in 
diam. ; seeds few, irregularly ovoid, subcompressed, 8 lin. long, 
6 lin. wide, 4 lin. thick. Wood and Evans, Natal Plants, i. 16, t. 16. 
S. Mackenii, Harv. MSS. in Mus. Kew. ; Gerrard MSS. ex Fourcade 
in Rep. Natal For. 1889, 116. S. McKenii, Gerrard ex Wood and 
Evans, Natal Plants, i. 16. 
Eastern Reaton: Natal ; Nonoti River, Gerrard, 1421! Umcomaas, Gerrard 
and MeKen, 1422 (as to the leaves in Herb. Kew.)! near Durban, McKen, 726! 
in gardens, Wood, 1777! Berea, Wood, 5624! and without precise locality, 
Cooper! Gerrard, 774! 
"1429, in the Herbarium Priantae Row.” “This speaks of the fruit as “small” and may 
