Strychnos.'] lxxxvi, loganiace^ (baker). 525 



S. microcarpa. Baker (I.e. 97), appears to bo a form of the same species witliout 

 tendrils; it was collected in the province of Loanda by Wehvitsch (4765). 



2x. S. chrysophylla, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. ]19. A slirub 

 without tendrils ; branches yellowish, glabrous, unequally tetragonal. 

 Leaves shortly and stoutly petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong, 0-8 in. long, 

 narrowed to the base, conspicuously acuminate at the apex, glabrous, 

 shining, triplinerved from the base. Flowers and fruit unknown. 

 ITpper Guinea. Cameroons : Kbea Falls, Dinklage, 221. 



22 S, distichophylla, Gilg in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. (\ ?Ai). A 

 small tree ; young branchlets pubescent. Leaves ovate, subcoriaceous, 

 distichous, 1-1 J in- long, |-| in. broad, rounded at the base, gradually 

 narrowed to an acute point, triplinerved. Flowers in very compound 

 cymes at the end of the branchlets. Calyx and corolla unknown. 

 Berry oblong, orange-yellow, \ in. long, 1 -seeded. 



Mozamb. Hist. German East Africa : Uzinja ; Ivimoani V\a.fe2i\\, Stiihhnann, 

 3397. 



23, S* Schweinfurthii, Gilg hi Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 50S. Leaves 

 distichous, ovate, acute, cuoeate at the base, 3 in. long, 2 in. broad, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, greenish-yellow when dried, o-nerved from the 

 base ; petiole \-\ in. long. Flowers apparently in terminal cymes. 

 Fruit large, subglobose ; pericarp woody, green, with greenish -yellow 

 blotches. Seeds much compressed, above 1 in. long. 



Soutli Ceixtral,. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; near Munza's village, 

 Schtveiufurth, 3509. 



24, S^ omphalocarpa, Gik/ <£• Busse in Engl. Jahrh. xxxii. 181. 

 A tree, 25-30 ft. high ; branchlets pendulous, greyish-white, glabrous. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, ovate or ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, 1 1-'2\ 

 in. long, shortly and broadly acuminate, narrowed to tlie base, 5-nerved, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, shining on the upper surfaxie. Flowers unknown. 

 Fruit globose, 4 in. in diam., narrowed to a short stout stipe ; pericarp 

 very thick, bony ; pulp bitter. Seeds 10-2(1, orbicular, much compressed, 

 under 1 in. long. 



IVEoxamb. 3C»ist. German East Africa: Useguba; near Kwa ]\rdot", Busse, 

 322. 



25, S, malifoHa, Baker. An erect shrub; branchlets slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves thin but firm, ovate, acute, glabrous, 1 i-2 in. long, 

 finely 5-nerved from the base to above the middle, broadly rounded at 

 the base ; petiole short, very slender. Cymes copious, spreading, few- 

 flowered, produced from leafless nodes; peduncles very short; pedicels 

 as long as the calyx. Calyx-segments ovate, obtuse, h lin. long. Corolla- 

 tube funnel-shaped, \ in. long; throat very hairy; segments small, 

 ovate. Style long, exserted. Fruit not seen. 



]bower Cuinea. Angola: Amhv\z, Mont eiro ! 



