368 • LxxviT. LOGANiACE^. [Fagma, 



or small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves oval-oblong or rarely ovate, shortly 

 acuininate, rounded at the base, mostly 8 in. to 1 ft. long, on petioles of from 

 :^ to 1 in., the stipules forming a short iiiterpetiolar sheath or ring. Flower? 

 of a dirty yellowish-white, in clusters or cymes along the simple rliachis of a 

 racerae-like terminal nodding panicle, which is pedunculate between the last 

 pair of leaves, and varies from 2 or 3 in. to above 1 ft. in length. Pedicels 

 thick, 2 to 3 hues long. Calyx-lobes broad, 1 to 1\ lines long. CoroUa- 

 tube about f in. long, the tliroat broadly campanulate, the lobes broad, 3 to 4 

 lines long. Ovary with 2 or rarely 3 parietal placentas, often short in the 

 bud, but meeting in the centre and completely dividing the ovary into 2 or 3 

 cells after the flowering is over. — A. DC. Prod, ix, 29 ; F. volubiUs, Jack iii 

 Koxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. ii. 36 (A. DC. Prod. ix. 30), according to Jack in 

 Mai. Misc. ii. 82 ; T. morindifolia. Blame in Runiphia ii. 33. t. 79, and 

 (analysis only) t. 73. f. 2 ; Mus. Bot. i, 169 ; A. DC. Prod. is. 29, and pro- 

 bably also several of those described as allied species by Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 

 169, 170 i F, Thicaitesii, P. Muell. Pragm. ii. 137. 



N. Australia. Providence Hill, F. Mueller. Extends over the Indian Archipela^ 

 to the Malayan Peninsula and the PLilipphie Inlands. It is probably from some accidentally 

 weak fieiuose Lraacli that F, volubilis came to be described as a twiner. All authors, in- 

 cluding Jack himself, speak of it as a shrub growing sometimes into a small tree. 



2. r. Muelleri, Be)ilh. A glabrous tree or shrub. Leaves opposite, 

 crowded at the ends of the branches, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, shortly 

 acuininate, contracted into a petiole, thick, obscurely veined except the pro- 

 minent midrib, 3 to 6 in. long. Peduncles terminal, short and apparently 

 few-flowered. Calyx-lobes orbicular, thick, rather above 1 line diameter. 

 Corolla not seen. Fruit red, under \ in. diameter, ripening 1 or 2 seeds but 

 with 6 to 8 unenlarged ovules to each cell or xA^CQiiid..—Gardneriafagr(£aceii^ 

 F. Muell. Fragm.vi. 130. 



Queensland.' Roekhampton Bay, Dallachy. Although the corolla is uukuowu, I ba« 

 ventured to remove this to Fagraa, of which it has the foliage, inflorescence, cahx. a ^ 

 fruit ; for the numher of ovules, as well as the inflorescence, show that it cannot w 

 Gardneria. 



6. STBYCHNOS, Linn. 



Calyx 4- or a-lobed. Corolla witli a short or cylindrical tube and 4 or 

 spreading lobes, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5," inserted in the tube, 

 anthers usually exserted. Ovary 2-celled, with several ovules in eac'i c^^' 

 Style simple, with a capitate or obscurely 2-lobed stigma. Fruit a gWD 

 indehisceut berry, with the rind usually hard. Seeds imbedded ui FJ^ 

 more or less compressed, and often reduced to one or two iu each trui • ^^ 

 Shrubs trees or woody climbers. Leaves opposite, 3-nerved or 5-neoe ^^ 

 the base, with transverse reticulate veinlets, often smooth and shining- 

 thechmbmg species there are usually spirally recurved hooks m ^^^^\ ., 

 axils (not observed in any Australian specimens), in which case the suoi^ 

 mg leaf is usually reduced to a small bract, whilst the opposite leal rem 

 normal. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes clusters or panicles. ^^ 



The genus is dispersed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old ^."f^; j,of 

 Australian species are both endemic, uuless one of them proves to be really a vanety . 

 a widely spread South Asiatic one. 



