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LXXXVI. LOGANIACE^ (bAKER). 



\_Strych 



anthers ovate, with distinct parallel cells. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform ; 

 stigma capitate or obscurely 2-lobed ; ovules few or many in a cell. 

 Fruit baccate, indehiscent, sometimes 1 -celled. Seeds many or reduced 

 to one or two, often immersed in pulp, compressed or if solitary 

 globose ; albumen usually copious ; embryo short, with folia ceous coty- 

 ledons and a short radicle. — Trees or shrubs, rarely spinous at the 

 nodes, sometimes climbers with hooked cirrhi. Leaves opposite, entire, 

 ;3_5-nerved from the base or a little above it. Cymes compound, 

 axillary or terminal ; bracts minute. Flowers small, usually w^hite. 



Species above 100, spread through the tropical and subtropical regions of botli 

 hemispheres. 



*Climbing shrubs, with tendrils, without spines. 



Internodes prickly . . . . . . 1. S. aculeata. 



Internodes not prickly. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate. 

 Leave-i triplinei veil from the base . 

 Leaves triplinerveil irotn above the base 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, acuininate. 



Leaves nearly 1 ft. lo..g .... 



Leaves 3-6 in. long. 



Leaves triplinervid from the base 

 Le.ives trijiliner. eil fro:n the above base 

 Leaves ovate, a(-uniina e . 

 Leaves obovate or obo\ ate-obkng. 



Inflorescence thyrsuid ..... 



Inflorescence dense. 



Leaves i-lj in. long .... 



Leaves \\-6 in. long. 



Leaves 3-nei vcd ..... 



Leaves 5-nerved ..... 



Leaves oblong. 



Cymes sessile ...... 



Cymes peduncled. 



Flowers comparatively large 

 Flowers small. 

 Tendrils simple. 



Branchlets glabrous .... 



Branchlets densely pubescent 

 Tendrils forked. 



Fruit large, iwmiform 

 Fruit small, 1-seeded. 



Leaves 5-iierved fiom the base 



Leaves oi.scurely 3-neived 



Leaves di?tinctly 3-nerved fr( m the 



base . . . . . 19. aS. splendens. 



Leaves distinctly 3-nt;r\ed frcm 



above the base . . . 20. S. Welwifschii. 



14. S. luandensis. 



15. S. malacoclados. 



16. S. Vogelii. 



17. 



18. 



S. acutissima. 

 S. lucens. 



**Erect shrubs with acute leaves, without s-pines or 

 tendrils. 

 Leaves ovate. 



Leaves large ....... 



Leaves smaller. 



21. S. chrysophylla. 



