172 LoganiaceCB. [Strychnos. 



3. STRVCHNOS,^ L. 



Trees or shrubs, often more or less scandent by woody 

 hooked tendrils, which are axillary but take the place of 

 suppressed 1.; 1. opp., without stip., usually 3- or 5-nerved; fl- 

 rather small, in terminal or axillary cymes; cal. small, 4- or 

 5-toothed; cor.-lobes 4 or 5, valvate; stam. 5, inserted in cor.- 

 tube, fil. very short; ov. 2-celled, with several ovules in each 

 cell ; fruit a globose berry, with thin pericarp and several 

 (rarely i) seeds immersed in pulp; seeds large, more or less 

 compressed, embryo small, in copious horny endosperm. — 

 Sp. 60; ig in F/. B. Ind. 



Shrubs, more or less scandent by woody 

 hooked tendrils. 

 Cor.-tube not longer than lobes. 

 Cor.-lobes 5. 



Fruit ^ in. diam i. S. MICRANTHA. 



Fruit over f in. diam. 



Cor.-tube shorter than lobes . . 2. S. COLUBRINA. 

 Cor.-tube as long as lobes . . . 3. S. Beddomei. 

 Cor.-lobes 4; fruit ^-in. diam. . . ,4. S. Benthami. 

 Cor.-tube more than twice as long as lobes . 5. S. CINNAMOMIFOLIA. 

 Erect trees. 



Cor.-tube more than twice as long as lobes ; 



cymes terminal 6. S. NUX-VOMICA. 



Cor.-tube a little longer than lobes; cymes 



axillary 7. S. POTATORUM. 



I. S. znlcrantha, Thw.Enum. 425 (1864) (in part). Kachchal- 

 Tcodi, T. 



C. P. 3720, 1866 (fruit). 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 86. 



A climbing shrub, branches, rough, slightly thickened at 

 nodes, tendrils few, falcate, often in terminal pairs; 1. 2\-\\ in,, 

 oval or ovate-lanceolate, tapering at base into short petiole, 

 acuminate, acute, 3- or sub-5-nerved, firm; fl. very small, nu- 

 merous, cymes short, axillary, puberulous; cal.-segm. rounded, 

 obtuse, ciliolate; cor. villous in throat, lobes 5, longer than 

 tube; berry small, barely \ in. diam., apiculate; seeds i or 2, 

 circular, \ in., lenticular. 



Low country, rare. Near Peradeniya ; near Galle ; Trincomalie (Nevill). 

 Fl. March ; white. 

 Endemic. 



* Linnicus took up the Greek arpvKvov for this genus, but that name 

 really applied to some other poisonous plant. 



