Siryehnos.| — LOGANTACRA (Prain and Cummins), 1055 
connected by long interwoven hairs ; ovary l-celled ; berry globose, 
3 in. in diam. ; seeds many, flat, embedded in a sour or bitter 
pulp. 
Katanari Reaion: Transvaal ; Magaliesberg Range, at Wonderboom Poort, 
5000 ft., Schlechter, 3630! Avoca, near Barberton, 1800 ft., Galpin, 895 ! 
8. S. spinosa (Lam. Ill. ii. 38); a shrub 8-10 ft. high ; twigs 
glabrous, often ending in rigid bare spines 6-8 lin. long ; leaves 
herbaceous, rather pale green and dull on both surfaces, glabrous 
above, beneath often with a patch of silky hairs in the angles 
between main-nerves and midrib, otherwise glabrous, obovate or 
suborbicular or ovate, usually rounded, sometimes acute, sometimes 
retuse at apex, almost always with a short soft mucro, base gradually 
or abruptly cuneate or rounded, usually 5-nerved, outer pair of 
nerves from near base, next pair usually closely applied to midrib 
from 2-4 lin. above base, 14-2 in. long, ?-1} in. wide ; petiole 
glabrous, 1-3 lin. long ; cymes terminal on young twigs, simple, 
3—5-flowered, or once (less often twice) branched, each branch 
3—5-flowered ; main-peduncles 2-3 lin. long, puberulous, branches 
2—I lin, long ; bracts narrow lanceolate, 1} lin. long ; pedicels very 
short ; calyx campanulate, 2 lin. long ; tube very short ; teeth 5, 
lanceolate-subulate, glabrous or puberulous ; corolla greenish-white, 
2 lin. long ; tube campanulate, as long as lobes ; lobes 5, hardly 
spreading, glabrous 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 connected by long interwoven hairs 3 Ovary 1-celled ; 
ovules many on a central placenta ; berry globose, 3-4 in. in diam., 
at first green, at length yellow ; seeds many, flat, embedded in a 
sweet pulp. Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 702; Baker in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 536 ; Sim, For. Fl. Cap. 274, t. 111, Jig. 2. 
S. Vuntac, Boj. Hort. Maurit. 205. 8S. Lokua, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 
Abyss. ii. 53. 8. laxa, Solered. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 554. Caniram 
Vontac, Thouars in Dict. Se. Nat. vi. 428. Brehmia spinosa, Harv. in 
Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot. i. (1842) 26; DC. Prodr. ix. 18 ; Baker, FI. 
Maurit. 235, 
Coast Rearon : Albany Diy., Bowker ! 
KALAHARI Reaion : Transvaal ; Crocodile Poort, near Barberton, Galpin, 1075! 
* | Eastern Recion: Pondoland; between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, 
Drige! Natal; near Durban, Plant ! Wilms, 2006! Inanda, Wood, 1084! and 
without. precise locality, Gerrard and MeKen, 591! Gerrard, 67! Delagoa Bay ; 
3 miles north-west of Lourenco Marques, Bolus, 9704! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
This species is very nearly related to the preceding. The two belong to a group 
of forms recognised by the late Dr. Harvey as constituting a distinct genus. 
Whatever rank may be assigned to this group it will be seen from their characters 
that they differ more essentially from the remaining species of Strychnos than any 
‘Species of Chilianthus does from the species included in the genus Buddleia. It is, 
| however, more convenient, in a work like the present, to leave all four groups 
ae ia, Chilianthus, Strychnos and Brehmia in the positions assigned to them in 
| ene wed Hocker enete Harter fis osealisoni 
