LOGANIACE^. 287 



LOGANIACE/E. 



Leaves opposite ; flowers perfectly regular. Sepals, 

 corolla lobes, and stamens four or five. Ovary superior, 

 two-celled. Fruit a berry or dry and septicidal. Trees, 

 shrubs or herbs. 



Species about 400. 



Two species of Buddleia are cultivated in English gardens. Strych- 

 nine was prepared originally from the fruit of Strychnos nux-vomica. 



GARDNERIA. f.b.i. 96 viii. 



A genus of two or three species or perhaps one only, 

 natives of India and Japan. 



Gardncria ovata Wallich, Cat. 816 ! ; F.B.L iv 93, VIII I. 

 A very common woody climber, with yellow waxy 

 flowers in the centre of which stands a hard cone of 

 anthers ; and brilliant red berries. 



Tall climber, stem round, smooth, rather stiff, about 

 Ye inch thick. Leaves opposite connected by a line 

 across the axis : stalk % inch : blade 3 by I J^ to 4 by 2^ 

 inches, broadly elliptic or obovate, acute, coriaceous, with 

 entire waved margin, and veins impressed on the upper 

 side. Flowers in cymes of three-peduncled in the leaf- 

 axils : peduncles /^ to M inch : pedicels as long, with 

 two minute bracteoles half way up : buds 1/5 by 1/6 inch. 

 Calyx small, deeply lobed. Corolla rotate, the tube very 

 short: petals five, 1/5 by 18 inch, yellow, waxy and thick, 

 reflexed ; in bud valvate. Stamens five, attached to the 

 corolla tube, but anthers nearly sessile, opening inwards 

 and connivent to form a hard cone conspicuous in the 

 centre of the flower. Berry H inch, surmounted by the 

 i/i6-inch style, two-celled, and two-seeded. Seed com- 

 pressed parallel to the division wall, t. 192. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1313. 



