[2. bTBYCHNOS. 



Fam. 72. LOGANIACEiE. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs with opposite simple leaves with or 

 without stipules. Fls. regular, cymoso, cymes often sub-capi- 

 tate in spikes or panicled. Caly x inferior, small, 4-5-toothed 

 or lobed. Corolla gamopetalous. St. 4-5 on the tube and alter- 

 nate with the petals. Ovary free 2-celled, style simple, stigma 

 capitate or 2-partite. Ovules 1 or more in each cell^ axile 

 or basal in the inner angle. Fruit- capsular septicidal or 

 indehiscent und baccate, 1 -many-seeded. Albumen copious ; 

 embryo straight, long or short. 



Shrub. L. penni-nerved. Fr. a small capsule . . 1. Bvddleia. 



Trees. L. 3-5-nerved or sub-penni-nerved. Fr, a berry . 2. Strychnog. 



1. Buddleia, L. 



1. B. aslatica, Lour. Nimda, Beng. 



A pretty shrub 3-7 ft. clothed on the branchlets and often 

 on the leaves with a hoary or grey tomentum, with lanceo- 

 late acuminate leaves and small white flowers £- J" in small 

 cymose clusters on axillary or terminal spikes which are 

 often panicled. 



Near streams in Singbbum, not common ; Santal Parganahs, rare. 

 Fls. Dec.-Feby. Fr. March. Evergreen. 



L. 3-6" narrowed at the base into a short petiole, erstip-jlate. Spike 

 3-6". Fls. 4-merous. St. 4 on the corolla-tube, anthers sub-sessile. 

 Stigma clavate. Capsule i" reflexed when ripe, Bepticidally 2-valved. 

 SeedB very many ellipsoid. 



3. Strychnos, L 4 



Scandent shrubs or (in Chota Nagpur) trees with 3-5-basaI- 

 nerved leaves (or in S. potatorum sometimes sub-penni-nerved) 

 exstipulate, but with stipular lines. Fls. 4-5-merous in 

 terminal or lateral cymes. Petals valvate. St. 5. on the tube. 

 Berry 1-2 or many-seeded. Seeds often large, embryo small. 

 L, petioled 5-nerved, Cymes terminal . . .1. JVuac-Fomtca. 



L. Bubsessile 3ub-3-5-nerved. Cyme3 lateral . . 2 potatorum, 



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