Strychnos.'] lxxxvi. logaxiace^ (baker). 535 



Leaves shortly petioied, broadly ovate, H-o in. long, \^ J. m. urojul, 

 rounded or subcordate at the base, rounded or very shortly cuspidate at 

 the apex, coriaceous, 7-uerved. Fruit globose, smooth, 'I-',\ in. in diaui., 

 green; pericarp thick ; pulp copious; seeds many. — Busse, Gilg A: Pilger 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 170. 



nXo^amb. Ulst. German East Africa: Ulielie; UcJiungwe .Mouuuius, 51KX)- 

 6000 ft., Goetze, 643. East Lugoni, Bu.'ise, 735. 



04. S. Buettnerl, Gilg in Enyl. Jahrb. xvii. 574. An erect shrub; 

 branchlets unarmed, glabrous. Lsaves suborbicuiar or orbicular-ovate, 

 3-4 in. long, nearly as broad, shortly cuspidate, glabrous on both sides, 

 cuneate at the base, tripiinerved from above the base ; petiole very 

 short. Flowers 5-merous, in many-flowered cymes from the end of the 

 branchlets; peduncle 1 in. long; pedicels l-\ in. long. (Jalyx-lobes 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, ^-J- in. long. OoroUa-tube as long as 

 the .calyx; lobes ovate, as long as the tuba. Fruit globose, :> in. in 

 diam. ; pericarp thick ; seeds many. 



Upper Guinea. Togo: near Bisiuarckburg, by Ketschertke brook, Buectner, 

 370, and by icg^c brook, Buettner. 



65. S, Fischer!, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 505. An erect tree ; 

 branchlets unarmed, clothed with yellowish tomentum. Leaves ovate 

 or orbicular-ovate, 1^-2 in. long, rigidly membranous, a-nerved from the 

 base, clothed with yellowish tomentum on both sides; petiole I -J in. long. 

 Flowers sessile, densely crowded in the axils of the leaves. Calyx j.r in. 

 long, densely tomentose ; sepals orbicular-ovate. Corolla-tube \ in. 

 long, hairy at the throat ; lobes half as long as the tube. Fruit and seeds 

 unknown. 



XVKozamb. Xlist. German East Africa: Usula-Usiha, Fischer, '600. 



Q>Q. S. sansibariensis, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 124. An 

 erect shrub ; branches terete, glabrous, brown-black, armed with 

 slender axillary slightly recurved spines. Laaves oblong orovate-obiong, 

 1-^-2 in. long, cuneate or rather rounded at the base, cuspidate at the 

 apex, 5-nerved. Cymes 7-18-flo wared, terminal on the young branches ; 

 pedicels short, clothed with short yellowish hairs. Sepals linear, very 

 acute, y^-J in. long. Corolla as long as the calyx ; tube urceolate ; 

 lobes deltoid, \ as long as the tuba. Fruit large, many-seeded. 



IVlozaiub. :Dlst. Zanzibar, Stuhlinami, i, lOll. Cferum.n East .Vtrica: 

 Pangani, Sitihlmann, i, 161. 



67. S. Car^alhoi, Gily in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 12.'>. An erect 

 shrub ; branchlets dull yellowish, pubasceut when young, armed with 

 slender straight axillary spines. Leaves shortly petioied, obovate-obloag 

 or oblong, lJ-2 in. long, acute, cuneate at the base, shining, 5-nerved. 

 Flowers in "lax terminal cymes; peduncles and pedicels pubescent. 

 Sepals 5, linear, acute, \ in. long. Corolla not longer th;in the calyx ; 

 tuba urceolate , lobes deltoid, \ as long as the tube. Fruit unknown. 



