Sif'^cIiUOS,'] LXXVII. LOGANIACE.^. 3C9 



Flowers in corymbose cymes. Corolla-tube narrow, twice as long as 

 tlie lobes 1. ^. lucida. 



Flowers in thjrsoid panicles. Corolla-tube exceedingly short, the lobes 

 loDger .- i, S. psilosperma. 



1. S. lucida, R. Br. Prod. 469. An erect, divaricately-LrancIiccl slirub, 

 often tall, glabrous except the minutely pubescent inflorescence. Leaves 

 ovate, obtuse, obtusely acuminate or almost acute, 3- or 5-nerved, thinly 

 coriaceous, shining above, more or less glaucous underneath, 1|- to 3 in. long, 

 contracted into a very short petiole. Flowers 5-merous, in corymbose triclio- 

 touious cymes, shortly pedunculate above the last pair of leaves. Calyx- 

 lobes scarcely above \ line long, ciliolate. Corolla-tube cylindrical, about 3 

 lines long, very slightly hairy inside; lobes narrow, about l\ lines long. 

 Anthers almost sessile in the throat. Ovary glabrous, Avitlx numerous ovules 

 in each cell ; style either much shorter than the corolla-tube with a peltate 

 stifrma or nearly as long as the whole corolla with a smaller stigma. Berry 

 globular, orange-brown, 1 to 1^ in. diameter. Seeds few, flat, orbicular, 

 'it'out 5 lines diameter; testa membranous, densely silky -hairy; albumen 

 cartilaginous, splitting into 2 halves; cotyledons broadly ovate, about 1 line 

 ^ong; radicle short, at one edge of the seed.— DC. Prod. ix. 16. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Canibridge Gulf, 

 Regeut's River, and Guulburu Island, A. Cunningham ; Treachery Bay aud Victoria river, 

 i*- Mueller; N.W. coast, Marten. 



. The species is also iu Timor, if S. Ugusirina, Blume, Rumphia, i. 68. t. 25 from that 

 's'and, be really the same. F. Mueller, Fragm. iv. 44, refers the whole o S.nux-vomica 

 ^'lun., a widely-spread E. Indian species, in which he is probably right, although, as far as 1 

 <»" judge from the specimens I hive seen, the Indian tree has usually broader leaves o a 

 much longer petiole and not glaucous underneath, the corolla-tube not so slender, and tlie 

 iruit IS said to be much larger. 



2. S. psilosperma, F. Muell. Fracjm. iv. 44; vl. 131. A glabrous 

 sjnib, with weak but scarcely climbing branches (occasionally spmescent, 

 *^- Mndkr). Leaves broadly'ovate, shortly acuminate, smooth and sliimng 

 jvhen old, 3- or 5-uerved, contracted into a very short petiole, 1^ to i m. 



ong. Flowers 5-merous, in small thyrsoid or short panicles, axillary and 

 ^■•ttiinal, rarelv exceeding the leaves. Calyx minute. Corolla not 3 Ime. 

 °n?, the tnbe'very shortt lobes rather longer than the tube, broad and thick 

 ^,'^arded iudde at the base. Anthers nearly sessile m the throat. Be y 

 globular, about i in. diameter. Seeds usually solitary, orbicular, glabions, 

 not shining. 



-Queensland. Percy Island, J. Cunningham; Edgecombe Bay. Mount Archer and 

 Mouut Elliott, Bullachy. 



OiiDER LXXVIIL GENTIANE.^]. 



.C^alyx of 4 or 5. rarely more, lobes or segmeuts. . Corolla usually regular, 

 '^vth 4 or 5, rarely mor^, lobes, contorted or otherwise imbricate oi ind - 

 P ^'^ate in the bud. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes, and alternate wU 



tem, inserted in the tube. Anthers versatile, with 2 parallel cells opening 

 l^ng'tudinally or in terminal pores. Ovary 1-celled, but with 2 parietal pla- 

 centas oaen projecting into the cavity so as partially to divide it uit^o Z or 4 



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