1054 LOGANIACE.E (Prain and Cummins). — [S/ryehnos. 
indicate that either S. Atherstonci or S. Henningsii may have been confused with 
S.. Gerrardi to which the leaves accompanying the note belong. There is no 
example of the fruit referred to in the note in the Kew Herbarium. According 
to Mr. Medley Wood the secondary branches of this Strychnos frequently grow 
vertically upwards, thus giving the tree a characteristic and readily recognisable 
appearance, 
6. 8. dysophylla (Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soe. i. 103) ; a shrub or 
low tree; bark dark brown; twigs pubescent ; leaves membranous, 
dark green pubescent above, paler densely velvety beneath, ovate or 
obovate or suborbicular, rounded at apex, base cuneate or rounded, 
distinctly 3-nerved, lateral nerves closely applied to midrib from 
2—4 lin, above base, often in addition a fairly distinct pair of nerves 
nearer the margin leave midrib close to base, 11—2 in. long, -14 in. 
wide ; petiole velvety, }—1 lin. long ; cymes 3—5-flowered, almost all 
on wood below leaves, 3-4 lin. long, as much across; peduncles 
short, velvety; bracts puberulous, } lin. long ; pedicels very short, 
velvety ; calyx campanulate, 1 lin. long; teeth 4, oblong, with 
ciliate margins and sparsely pubescent outside; corolla white, 
24 lin. long; tube rather longer than lobes; lobes 4, at length 
spreading, outside glabrous, within with a ring of hairs at throat ; 
stamens 4, adnate to corolla-throat, filaments very short ; anthers 
slightly exserted ; ovary 2-celled ; ovules several in each cell ; berry 
globose, black, ‘sweet, well-tasted” (Baines). S. randixformis, 
Baill. Bull, Soc. Linn. Par. i. 246. 
Karanart Recion : Transvaal ; on the red sand flats to the west of Blueberg 
and Hangklip Mountains, south of the Limpopo River, Baines ! 
Eastern Recion: Delagoa Bay, Forbes! Katembe, Schlechter, 4615! Natal ; 
Tugela, Gerrard, 1660! 5 
7. 8. schumanniana (Gilg in Warb. Kunene-Samb. Exped. 330) ; 
a shrub or small tree 8-25 ft. high; bark corky ; twigs densely 
pubescent, often ending in rigid bare spines 3—4 lin. long ; leaves 
herbaceous, pale green, dull and finely pubescent especially on the 
nerves on both surfaces, wide ovate, usually- rounded, sometimes 
wide acuminate, almost always with a short soft mucro, base 
rounded or abruptly cuneate, usually 5-nerved occasionally 7 -nerveil 
from near base, sometimes 5—7-plinerved with lateral nerves closely 
applied to midrib for varying and irregular distances, at times as 
much as 10-12 lin. above base, 11-3 in. long, 3—2 in. wide ; petiole 
stout, densely pubescent, 1-3 lin. long ; cymes terminal on young 
twigs, simple, 3—5-flowered, or branched, each branch 3—5-flowered ; 
main peduncles 3-5 lin. long, densely pubescent ; bracts subulate, 
| lin, long, pubescent ; calyx campanulate, 2 lin. long; tube very 
short ; teeth 5, linear, pubescent ; corolla white, 3 lin. long; tube 
_campanulate, nearly twice as long as lobes ; lobes 5, hardly spread- — 
ing, puberulous outside, within with a ring of long hairs at throat ; 
stamens 5, inserted at base of corolla-tube, included and hidden by 
the hairs on corolla-throat ; filaments filiform ; anthers laterally 
