:rJH Lxxxvi. LOGANiACEiE (baker). [Strychnos. 



base to above the middle ; petiole J- in. long. Cymes many, lateral, 

 shortly peduncled. Calyx-lobes short, broad. Corolla not seen. Fruit 

 globose, 1-seeded, J— i in. in diam. 



Upper IS-uinea. Sierra Leone: near Berrin, Scott- Ellioi, 5-131! Gold 

 Coast : Accra, Molonei/ ! SoiiLlieru Nigeria : Onitsa, Barter, 1813 ! 



36. S. henriquesiaaa. Baker in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xi. 8G. A small 

 tree ; branchiets pubescent. Leaves oblong, nearly sessile, glabrous 

 and glossy on both sides, subcoiiaceous, tripiinerved from above the 

 base, cuneate at the base, rounded and minutely mucronate at the 

 apex. Cymes dense, sessile, axillary, many-fiowered ; pedicels very 

 short, pubescent. Calyx i in. long ; lobes suborbicular, glabrous, 

 ciliate on the margin. Corolla-tube a little longer than the calyx ; 

 lobes lanceolate, nearly as long as the tube. Style ^ in. long. Fruit 

 not seen. 



^o'wer 4i»umea. Angola : Malange, Marques, 13 ! 



?)1. S. densiflora, i?rti^^. Adans. xii. 369. A shrub; branchlets 

 glabrous. Leaves oblong, acuminate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 4-0 in. 

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

 petiole very short. Cymes dense, many-fiowered, sessile in the axils of 

 the leaves ; pedicels short, glabrous. Calyx yV in. long ; segments 

 orbicular, much imbricated. Corolla yellowish, fragrant, \ in. long, 

 hairy in the throat ; tube glabrous inside ; segments ovate, half as long 

 as the cylindrical tube. Style long. Fruit not seen. — S. suaveolens, 

 Cilg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 5GG. 



Upper Cruiaea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 861 ! 



Soutii Central. Congo Free State : Monbuttu ; banks of the Gadda River, 

 Schweinfurth, 3597 ! 



The Ordeal tree of the Gaboon, mentioned in Du Chaillu's Travels, ed. 2, 256 

 8. Icaja, Baill. in Adans. xii. 368 (Native name Mboundon), judging from a specimen 

 given by the late I). Hanbury, F.R.S., to the Pharmaceutical Society, which was 

 received by him from Mr. R. B. Walker in October, 1865, does not differ from this 

 materially in habit and leaf. Its tiowers and fruit are unknown. 



38. S. Staudtii, Gilg in JSfotizhl. Konigl. Bot. Gart: Berlin, i. 

 182. An erect unarmed shrub : branches glabrous. Leaves oblong, 

 acuminate, subacute at the base, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved from 

 above the base, 5 in. long, '2h in. broad; petiole 3 lin. long. Cymes 

 axillary, 1^- in. long, many-tiowered ; branches and pedicels puberulous; 

 bracts boat-shaped, acute ; bracteoles 2, a short distance below the 

 calyx, suborbicular. Calyx 5-partite, pubescent outside, 1 lin. long ; 

 lobes rotundate. Corolla thick, glabrous outside, with a hairy ring in 

 the throat and another in the middle of the tube ; tube narrowly cam- 

 panulate, 3 lin. long; lobes 5, 2 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 slightly hooded at the apex. Stamens inserted in the corolla-throat ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers oblong, 1 lin. long. Ovary ovoid, 

 glabrous ; style subulate, slightly exserted ; stigma subcapitate. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Johann-Albrechtsholie, Siaudt, 616 ! 



