Bcddleia. ] LOGANIACEJE. 69 



often panicled spikes. Calya campanlate, $•$ in. long, divided nearly 

 half-way down, lobes triangular. Corolla 'tubular, \ in. long, hairy 

 outside and in the throat, lobes obtuse. Capsule £ in. long, ovoid or 

 ellipsoid, glabrous. Seed6 minute, not tailed. 



Abundant within the area and often cultivated. Flowers during Maroh 

 and April. Distrib.' Throughout India but not in Ceylon, ascending 

 to 6.800 ft. on Himalaya and extending to Malaya and China. This 

 shrub has been recommended as a suitable one for planting on land- 

 slips. 



8. STRYCHNOS, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv, 86. 



Trees, or sometimes scandont shrubs with short axillary often 

 hooked tendrils. Leaves opposite, often coriaceous, 3-5- nerved from 

 or above the base. Flowers wmall, white or yellowish, in terminal or 

 axillary cymes. Calyx 5- or 4-partite. Corolla 5- or 4-lobed, lobes 

 valvate. Stamens 5 or 4, attached to the throat of the corolla, fila- 

 ments short, anthers dorsi fixed. Ovary 2-celled, or the upper 

 portion 1-celled, style filiform, stigma capitate or obscurely 2-lobed 

 ovules many in each cell. Fruit a globose or oblong berry with a 

 hard rind, many- or 2- or 1 -seeded. Seeds large, embedded in pulp, 

 oblong and variously compressed, albumen homy or fleshy, embryo 

 short, cotyledons foliaceou*. — Species about 100, in tropioal and sub- 

 tropical regions of both hemispheres. 



Cymes terminal, berry orange-red when ripe, 

 seeds many . . . . . . 1. 8. Nux-vomica. 



Cymes axillary, berry black when ripe, seeds 



1 or 2 . . . . . . . 2. S. potatorum. 



1. S. Nux-vomica, Linn. Sp, PI. 189 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 575; Royle III. 

 271 : Brandu For. Fl. 317 ; Ind. Trees 473 ; F. B. I. iv, 90 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 497 ; Prain Beng. PI. 704 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, iu 

 185. — Vern. Kvchla, Kaj'ra. (The strychnine tree). 



A dociduous tree, usually medium-sized, but sometimes attaining 100 ft. 

 in height, often armed with short axillary spines. Bark thin, grey, 

 smooth, or rough with lenticels. Toung shoots polished, deep green. 

 Leovts 3-6 in. long, broadly elliptic, obtuBe or acute, entire, 3-5* 

 nerved, glabrous and shining, petioles ^-£ in. long. Flowers many 

 greenish-white, in terminal sbort-peduncfed pubescent oomponnd 

 cymes _ Calyx T \j in long, hairy outside ; lobes 5, acute. Corolla less 

 than }, in. long, glabrous or nearly so outside ; tube cylindric, hairy 

 inside towards the base ; lobes 5, narrowly oblong, acute. Stamens b, 

 half-exserted from the corolla-tube, oblong, glabrous. Ovary glabroui. 

 Berry globose, 1-3 in. in diam., rough and shining, orange-red when 



