^24 Lxxxvi. LOGAxiACEiE (baker). [Strijchios. 



Leaves oblong, acute or subacute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 3-4 in. long, 

 triplinerved from near the base to above the middle ; petiole very 

 short. Flowers in axillary cymes on short thick peduncles. Calyx 

 minute; segments suborbicular. Corolla not seen. " Fruit fusiform, 

 glaucescent (Fo^e^)." IStrychnos sp., Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 458. 

 Upper Guiaea. Nigeria: Attah on the iuver C^uorra (Niger), Vogel, 49 ! 



17. S. acutissima, Gihj in Knyl. Jahrb. xxiii. 200. A climbing 

 shrub, glabrous in all its parts, except the inflorescence ; tendrils forked ; 

 branchiets unarmed, subtetragonal, blackish. Leaves shortly petioled, 

 ovate or oblong, li-o in. long, acuminate, rounded at the base, sub- 

 coriaceous, shining, 5-nerved from the base. Cymes short, axillary ; 

 peduncles short, slightly pilose. Flowers unknown. Berry globose, 

 J in. in diam., 1 -seeded. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzeiitis. 



18. S. lucens. Baker in KeAo Bulletin, 1895, 1)7. A climbing 

 shrub, glabrous in all its parts ; tendrils binate at the end of leafy 

 branchiets. Leaves oblong, shiny, coriaceous, obscurely triplinerved, 

 l-i-2 in. long, rounded at the base, narrowed to an obtuse point ; 

 petiole very short. Cymes lateral, shortly peduncled, few-flowered. 

 Calyx very small ; segments broad, obtuse. Corolla not seen. Fruit 

 orbicular, 1 -seeded, the size of a pea. — S. Wehvitschii, Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. VVelw. i. 708, partly. 



Ziower Guiiaea. Angola : Loanda ; by thickets in dry hilly places, Wei- 

 ivitscfi, 6015 ! 



11). S. splendens, Gily in Emjl Jahrb. xvii. 571. A climbing 

 shrub, with tendrils ; branchiets terete, blackish. Leaves shortly 

 petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, rounded or subcuneate at the base, 3-4 

 in. long, lh-2 in. broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous, shining on the upper 

 surface. Cymes axillary, distinctly peduncled, many-flowered. Flowers 

 5-merous. Berry small, 1 -seeded, greenish-yellow when dried. Seed* 

 much compressed, i in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near liayabaya, on the Hiver Scarcies, Scott- 

 Miiot^ 4292 ! and without precise locality, Afzeliiis ! 



20. S. "Weiwitschii, Gi'lg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 57 o. A climbing 

 shrub, glabrous in all its parts; branchiets leafy, ending in forked 

 tendrils. Leaves oblong, acute, glabrous, obscurely triplinerved, 1-2 

 in. long ; petiole very short. Cymes lateral, few-flowered. Calyx 

 campanulate, yV in. in diam. ; segments broad, obtuse. Corolla ^ in. 

 long ; tube cylindrical, twice as long as the calyx ; segments ovate, half 

 as long as the tube. Style long. Fruit globose, J— J in. in diam., 

 1-seeded. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 708, partly. >y. subscandens, 

 Baker in Kew Bulletin, 181)5, 9G. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; at J^oanda, Wei loitsck, 6017 I hilly rocky 

 places near Quiciixe, Welivitsch, 6018 ! 



