248 LXXXI. APOCYNES. 
suberect ; seeds subcompressed, comose at the scar.—D0C. 
Prod. viii. p. 424. 
Fleshy, small shrubs, with immense tuberous roots, and twin-thorns on 
the branches, in the position of stipules. Leaves one to each pair of 
thorns. Flowers rosy or white toward the end of the branches.—2 or 3? 
species, natives of the Karroo plains, etc. Scarcely distinct from Adenium, 
Orper LXXXII. LOGANIACE. 
Calyx free, 5—-4-lobed or parted. Corolla regular, rarely 
irregular, hypogynous, 5-4- or several-lobed, valvate, twisted 
or imbricate in bud. Stamens on the corolla-tube, commonly 
as many as the lobes, rarely fewer or more numerous. Ovary 
2-celled or rarely 3-1-celled ; ovules amphitropous or rarely 
anatropous; style simple ; stigma simple or 2-lobed. Fruit 
capsular or berry-like. Seeds mostly peltate, albuminous.— 
Shrubs, trees, rarely herbs, with opposite, entire leaves, and 
interpetiolar stipules, or at least a stipular line connecting the 
bases of the leaves. 
Tribe 1. StrRycHNEm. Corolla valvate in bud. Fruit a pulpy berry. 
Stamens in the throat, exserted; anthers separate; 
calyx short . .>. . 1. SrrycHnos. 
Stamens in base of tube, included , "anthers united by 
interwoven hairs; calyx-lobes slender, longer than 
corolla. ve sig. Bi ee . . . . 2 BREaMra. 
Tribe 2. BUDDLEIER. Gai sistent in bud. Fruit a dry, septi- 
cidal capsule. 
Stamens much exserted. 
Corolla, after opening, splitting across above the base 3. Nuxta. 
Corolla not splitting above the base . . . . 4, CHIDIANTHUS. 
Stamens included or just Faget se the throat of corolla- 
aeons ere wre. Rae 28. «2 8 Sei 
Triste 1. Srrrcunen. (Gen. 1-2.) 
1. STRYCHNOS, Linn. 
Calyx 5-lobed, short. Corolla salver- or funnel-shaped ; 
the throat nude or bearded; limb 5-parted, lobes spreading, 
valvate in bud. Stamens 5, inserted in the throat of the 
corolla; filaments short; anthers more or less exserted. 
Ovary 2-celled; style filiform, continuous with the ovary ; 
ovules many or few. Berry with a rind, 1-celled, many- or 
few- or 1-seeded; seeds lying in pulp, discoid, with a ventral 
sear, velvety or smooth.—DC. Prod. ix. p. 12; Thes. Cap. t. 
164. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing, chiefly tropical. Leaves 3—5-nerved ; 
cymes axillary or terminal.—4 or 5 species, from Eastern frontier and 
Natal. 
