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LXXXVI. LOGANIACE^ (bAKER). 



[Strychnos, 



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****Erect spinous shrubs without tendrils. 

 Leaves acute or cuspidate. 

 Sepals linear. 



Branchlets glabrous 

 BrAnchlets pubescent . 

 Sepals lanceolate . . . . 



Sepals ovate . . . . . 



Leaves obtuse. 



Leaves small . . . . . 



Leaves larger . . . . . 



Leaves emarginate with a small mucro 



66. S. sansibarensis. 



67. S. Carralkoi. 



68. S. (jracillima. 



69. s/rolkensii. 



70. S. Minningasamha. 



71. «S. spinas a. 



72. S. emarginata. 



1. S, aculeata, Solered. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 550. A climbing shrub, 

 glabrous in all its parts ; stems 15-20 ft. long, armed with many minute 

 prickles on the long internodes, glabrous, furnished with peduneled 

 binate stout tendrils. Leaves oblong, acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 

 »']-6 in. long, triplinerved from the base to above the middle ; petiole very 

 short. Flowers many, in copiously compound axillary cymes, on short 

 ascending peduncles ; pedicels very short, glabrous. Calyx ~ in. long ; 

 segments 4, suborbicular. Corolla ^ in. long ; segments longer than the 

 tube. Fruit unknown. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 175 ! Sierra Leone : Bagru Eiver, 

 Mann^ 853 ! 



2, S, Dinklageiy Gily in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 121. A sarmentose 

 shrub ; tendrils not seen ; branchlets black, acutely tetragonal. Leaves 



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