^)2'2, Lxxxvi. LOGANiACE^ (baker). [Strijchnos. 



terminal. Corolla unknown. Berry globose, the size of a large pea, 

 1-}t in. diam., 1 -seeded. 



HCozamb. I>lst. German East Africa : Bagamoyo District ; Ucloe, Rossako, 

 SMdmann, 8053. 



8. S. angolensis, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 571. A climbing 

 shrub; branchlets pubescent; tendrils single, hooked, stout, spiral. 

 Leaves obovate, oblong or suborbicular, obtuse, very coriaceous, 

 1-1 J in. long, distinctly 5-nerved from the base to above the 

 middle, glabrous ; petiole \ in. long. Flowers in copious axillary 

 thyrsoid panicles about 1 in, long. Calyx very small ; segments broad, 

 obtuse. Corolla globose in bud, with a very short tube. Style very 

 short. Fruit not seen. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 703. 



ILower Guinea. Ans^ola : Punsro Andnnj^o ; in shady places by streams in 

 Barranco de Songue, Welwitsch, 4776, by the Kiver Tangue, Welwitsch, 4777, and 

 without precise locality, Welwitsch, 6020 ! 



9. S. zizyphoides. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 96, A much- 

 branched climbing shrub ; branchlets glabrous ; tendrils simple, 

 slender. Leaves obovate, subacute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 1-1 J in. 

 long, distinctly triplinerved from near the base to above the middle ; 

 petiole very short. Flowers in copious compound axillary cymes with 

 short ascending peduncles. Calyx very small ; segments broad, obtuse. 

 Bud globose. Style very short. Fruit globose, J in. in diam., 1 -seeded ; 

 pericarp crustaceous. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: without precise locality, Burton cf* Cameron! 



10. S. Afzeliiy Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 572. A climbing shrub ; 

 branchlets glabrous ; tendrils slender, forked. Leaves shortly petioled, 

 obovate or obovate-oblong, 2-3 in. long, acute, cuneate at the base, 

 quite glabrous, smooth, shining, triplinerved from near the base. 

 Cymes axillary, many-flowered. Flowers 5-merous. Berry very 

 small, 2-seeded, yellowish when dried ; pericarp thin, hard. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ; near the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, Scott- 

 JElliot, 4015 ! by the River Scarcies at Moria, Scott-Elliot, 4480 ! and without 

 precise locality, Afzelius ! 



11. S. erythrocarpa, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxiii. 199. A wide- 

 climbing shrub ; tendrils simple; branchlets unarmed, terete, clothed 

 with yellowish hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate or obovate- 

 oblong, 5-nerved, lJ-3 in. long by half as broad, very acute, gradually 

 narrowed to the base, shining, glabrous, chartaceous, finally coriaceous. 

 Flowers in axillary many -flowered compound cymes; peduncles 1^-2 

 in. long ; pedicels very short. Sepals 5, nearly free, ovate, acute, 

 J lin. long. Corolla yellowioh, ^ in. long ; tube very short, obconic ; 

 lobes ovate, acute, hairy inside. Stamens much longer than the 

 corolla-tube. Berry red, fleshy, laterally compressed, J-| in. long. 

 Seeds much compressed, orange-yellow, ^-^ in. thick. 



Upper Guinea. Togo, Baumann, 558. 



